Thank you, no.
Posted on June 30, 2005 - Filed Under
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Technorati
Flickr
del.icio.us
Ice Rocket
Wikipedia(C) None of the above.
Read More..>>My New Book Reviewing Policy
Posted on June 30, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIn reaction to the apparent brou-ha-ha over anonymous reviewing and to continue my efforts to keep everything above-board, I now proclaim my Book Review Policy, effective July 9, 2005* - hopefully sufficient time to prepare for the MSM backlash sure to come. Without further delay:
Beginning July 9, 2005 I will implement "Anonymous Only" book reviews. [...]
The Tide Comes In The Tide Goes Out
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWhile I think the Sports Guy has started to lose his fastball, the annual event where he always shines came to pass last night. That event, of course, is the NBA Draft, and his ensuing NBA Draft Diary:
8:06 – Thanks to ESPN’s fun little draft fact thingie, we just learned that Felton "writes poetry in [...]
Look Out Narnia
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentMark Moford is warily awaiting Disney’s treatment of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (my first "favorite" book):
More bad news: The first "Narnia" episode (I’m assuming Disney will adapt all seven books, if this one hits big) is directed by Andrew Adamson, a guy who has directed exactly two movies prior to tackling one [...]
Will Brand Nubian Play The Opener?
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTim McMahan gives us all the gory details of Saddle-Creek Records new venture, "Slowdown" - a club/film space set for construction in the nascent NoDo* area in Omaha. On top of the label’s offices and lounge area,
The overall project includes a two-screen independent movie theater called
Filmstreams run by entrepreneur and NYU grad Rachel Jacobson, seven [...]
Are You Experienced?
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAs I wait for specific citations of Vollmann’s ‘bad writing’… I’ll throw in my two-cents worth in response to this discussion at Scott’s …
There are four commonly accepted types of experience:physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Given your own predilections, you may assign more weight or validity to one type over another. It seems to me [...]
This Is The First Day Of My Life
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA bittersweet moment - joy that I’ve finally done it, but sad that it took so long. Ladies & Gentlemen of the internet, I present my first completed Sunday Crossword. At this moment, I don’t even care if some are wrong. To paraphrase Costanza - If I believe they are correct, they are correct.
Read More..>>Sly & The Family Stone or George W. Bush?
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under
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Brothers from another mother: Sly & George W. Bush
Can you tell who said what? Be careful! Some of these are tricky! (Answers after the jump)
There’s a midget standing tall, And the giant beside him about to fall
As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then, makes [...]
In Which I Learn That Nas Mislead Me*
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentCourtesy of m-w.com’s Word-Of-The-Day email, I learn that sleep is not, in fact, the cousin of death.
thanatology \than-uh-TAH-luh-jee\ noun : the description or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for coping with them
Did you know?In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of death, the twin brother of Hypnos (Sleep). The ancient [...]
You don’t eat when you’re not hungry
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIf you love Curb Your Enthusiasm and you hate the Neo-Con death cult, then this will make you giggle and perhaps even snort.
Read More..>>I Break Down The Last 20 Years
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentChuck Klosterman ranks the 10 Greatest things of the last 20 years, including two I, in particular, can vouch for.:
10. "Paradise City," Guns N’ Roses (rock video, 1988) Dressed like a glam-metal Tom Wolfe and chucking his sunglasses at no one in particular, Axl Rose came dangerously close to making GNR the new incarnation of [...]
Paulie Shore…Still Alive
Posted on June 27, 2005 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsToday’s conspiracy alert: The voices of Tigger and Piglet are DEAD - within hours of each other. [via]
Related (maybe): Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross were born on the same day. Sha la la la.
Views on Indigenous People
Posted on June 24, 2005 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsPardon the radio silence on the WTV front - I’d been working on a now-scrapped-in-its-current form post covering Experience, Memory, Authority and Dogma with Fathers and Crows & WTV in mind. Unfortunately, it spiraled into an incoherent mess. Perhaps I will post serialized thoughts regarding these topics. But I offer you these in the meantime…Commentary [...]
Read More..>>The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - My Reaction
Posted on June 24, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaby Umberto Eco, translation by Geoffrey Brock
I do not recommend this book. While there were parts I enjoyed - the start and the finish - its shortcomings were too much for me to forgive. The middle section, in which the star, Yambo, goes over the artifacts of his childhood during [...]
Gonna Make You Sweat Till You Read
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 Comment"The best place to sell magazines could be in the gym locker room,
according to a study which found that pheromones in male sweat makes
men opt for a manly read"
Though I Suspect Lewis Miner Would Have Taken It
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment"What hurts me is they were going to get me in front of my children,
all dressed up, and hand me a candy bar, after all those promises I
made to them," she told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "You just don’t do
that to people."
Foie Gras Faus Paux/Automata For The People
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentBrooklynvegan - a site I visit regularly - has a post decrying foie gras*, in reaction to a post at Gothamist. The unintended consequence: Google’s context-sensitive advertising program has decided that the post would be an excellent place to advertise Foie Gras. A case of misguided advertising thanks to the irrefutable logic of the robot [...]
Read More..>>The Moutain Goats Will Be Coming To The Bottom of the Hill When They Come
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentRob Harvilla at The East Bay Express writes about John Darnielle, who will be in town for two nights. Tonight I roll the dice and try and land some "day of" tix, deviating from the usual channels.
"There’s some contrast, but at the same time, the whole album’s about contrast, how things aren’t unilaterally one way [...]
Proust & Eminem …
Posted on June 22, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment… two odd bedfellows, united by their membership on Noel Gallagher’s shit list.
Read More..>>It is not white hair that engenders wisdom
Posted on June 21, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentTrend watch! Female* authors and their hair:
“It’s a quiet, gentle book,†says Robinson, using her hand as she often does to push her long hair — a mix of gray and light brown — from her eyes.
…
"But I think it came easy because I didn’t think it was a novel," said Ms. Oyeyemi, a tall [...]
