David Francis Readings
Posted on July 30, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars | Comments Off
The latest heads up comes from Southern California, where it never rains and the Variations are Elegant. Mark at TEV alerts us that David Francis will be doing some readings in the Bay Area for his new novel The Great Inland Sea: Book Passage in Corte Madera on Wednesday, August 3 at 1 p.m. Black [...]
Read More..>>New Pornographers Haight Amoeba In Store
Posted on July 30, 2005 - Filed Under Mark Your Calendars, Music | Comments Off
Before they are in town for their September 27 & 28 shows at Bimbo’s, BMK favorite The New Pornographers will also be doing a free in store show at the Haight Amoeba on Wednesday, August 24th at 7:00 PM. See y’all there.
Read More..>>It Takes Proust To Make A Thing Go Right
Posted on July 29, 2005 - Filed Under Books | Comments Off
Fair warning: The Proust Reading Group will be taking on In The Shadow of Young Girls In Flower. Come along, if you dare.
Read More..>>I Love The Smell of Bearclaws in the Morning, Genocide…Not So Much
Posted on July 27, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies | Comments Off
Piggy-backing on David’s post, I’ll tack on this nugget I found in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine during a recent excursion to the windy city. Published July 24, 2005 Thank you for sharing such an intriguing article about the Rwandan immigrant [accused of atrocities] who was living here in the southwestern suburbs ("The man called [...]
Read More..>>Mad as hell yet?
Posted on July 27, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies | Comments Off
The real failure has been television’s. According to monitoring by the Tyndall Report, ABC News had a total of 18 minutes of the Darfur genocide in its nightly newscasts all last year – and that turns out to be a credit to Peter Jennings. NBC had only 5 minutes of coverage all last year, and [...]
Read More..>>Schrieber Theory Test Case?
Posted on July 27, 2005 - Filed Under Film | Comments Off
At Book Expo America, Ed Champion’s cohort the "roving reporter" spent a few minutes with Chronicle book critic David Kipen to discuss David’s upcoming book from Melville House. In it, he proposes his "Schrieber Theory" as an alternative to the more prevalent auteur chatter one finds in film discussion. Instead of tracking movies by directors, [...]
Read More..>>I Was Happy Pisco Sours Were A Choice
Posted on July 26, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | 1 Comment
Robert Heinlein wrote you – your stranger in a strange land, you. Which Author’s Fiction are You? brought to you by Quizilla Via Gwenda
Read More..>>Nothing New But Bears Repeating
Posted on July 26, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Jon Carroll in SFGate: The president demands loyalty, and the president gets loyalty. Classified information gets leaked, that’s part of the game, but it’s the approved classified information. The unapproved classified information – like the data that there was never any uranium in Niger, despite the president’s claims in the State of the Union message [...]
Read More..>>Critic
Posted on July 26, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Perception | Comments Off
While being inundated with emails from Harry Potter fans with varying degrees of unhingedness ("Seriously bitch u need to watch what teh f – you say"), The Chronic’s David Kipen found a common thread among their replies. So as a service to us all, he has outlined the 3 Myths of Book Critics – in [...]
Read More..>>David Dondero
Posted on July 25, 2005 - Filed Under Music | 1 Comment
I first heard David Dondero on one of my Rhapsody radios stations, thinking it was some Bright Eyes track I didn’t know about. Apparently I wasn’t the first to make this mistake, and probably not the last. Since then, I’ve grown to be a fan of Dondero’s, and have had the pleasure of catching him [...]
Read More..>>Frisco has all the fun
Posted on July 22, 2005 - Filed Under Turf Wars | 3 Comments
Why do I live in NYC? First I have to put up with random cavity searches on my morning commute, now I learn this! The third annual Paul Reubens’ Day will be held on Saturday July 23rd, 2005 in San Francisco, California. To honor the three years of Pee-wee mayhem this year’s Paul Reubens’ Day [...]
Read More..>>Blog Battle or Scrapped Flaming Lips Album Title
Posted on July 22, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Religion | Comments Off
Mark Moford battles the Scientoligists.
Read More..>>A Tale of Two Readings
Posted on July 21, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Music, Perception | 2 Comments
I went to two readings in back-to-back nights this week – two readings I likely would not have attended without some gentle prods from Ed & Scott. Tuesday night: Jonathan Ames at Booksmith. Wednesday night: Rebecca Solnit at Cody’s. In this post, I break down the Tito Reading Experience®, in which I compare the two [...]
Read More..>>Random Judaica
Posted on July 21, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Comments Off
Squeezed beteween all Loahan, all the time, comes a nice nugget from Stereogum, a track from the forthcoming Silver Jews album. Own the whole damn thing this autumn.
Read More..>>It Was Like Woodstock, Except at A Burrito Shop and no Porto-San Janitor Remarking on His Sons, And The Only Performer Was Beck
Posted on July 20, 2005 - Filed Under Music | Comments Off
SFist brings our attention to Beck busking at Pancho Villa.
Read More..>>Without Comment or Context
Posted on July 20, 2005 - Filed Under Food, Music, Politics | Comments Off
"About nine seconds in, my arms got real tired, and I couldn’t keep a steady beat." "Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were offered a joint prize, but the offer was rescinded when the prize committee realized the two hated each so much they wouldn’t stand on the stage together."
Read More..>>Meanwhile, Patrons “Wait For The Book”
Posted on July 19, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film | Comments Off
Leah Garchik of The Chronic reports: There’s action in the aisles at Black Oak bookstore in Berkeley, where Bob Zagone is directing a feature movie, "Read You Like a Book.” Every scene but one takes place in the store, where Zagone, cast and crew have been camped out. Most of the shooting is done while [...]
Read More..>>Vonnegut Edges Redenbacher
Posted on July 19, 2005 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Comments Off
ESPN.com is polling its readers for the "best of" for the 50 states of the union (I never did quite understand what a ‘commonwealth’ is….) When asked to select the favorite Hoosier personality or historical figure, the readers have spoken: 9) Favorite personality or historical figure?45.4% David Letterman (television)23.1% John Mellencamp (musician)7.6% Michael Jackson (musician)6.6% [...]
Read More..>>How Much Would You Pay…
Posted on July 18, 2005 - Filed Under Money | 1 Comment
… to see Ed, aka Dr. Mabuse, wet himself? I open the bidding at $3.00.
Read More..>>Above The Law
Posted on July 18, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies | Comments Off
Can you tell which is the Presidential advisor? Rove photo {via}
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