Another Item That Never Grows Old

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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It has been a while since I last saw this masterpiece, but recently it bubbled its way to the forefront of my consciousness. Without further ado, boom goes the dynamite.

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GoGoGo Airheart / The Joggers

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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Wed, November 30
9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30)
$8
(all ages)
GoGoGo Airheart
Joggers
The Junior Panthers
Bottom of the Hill
Tickets
I saw GoGoGo Airheart opening for Ted Leo in September. I think I was in the minority of the crowd that night as I dug them. The Joggers’ singer annoys some people, but I can overlook that for that [...]

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But Will It Play In Cleveland?

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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“He is considering introducing a much louder unit that can be switched on in emergencies with a panic button. It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as steaming“

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I See Duke People

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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See if you can spot any differences between these two photos. Look closely.

If you think you found any, you may have the eagle eye it takes to work for the NY Times.
Because of an editing error, a sports picture caption on Saturday about Duke’s 70-67 victory over Memphis for the championship of the preseason [...]

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Best Don’t Ever

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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Prove me wrong.
Shouldn’t this guy be in Iraq dying? Why have wars if you can’t use them to turn human garbage into neat stuff from other countries? This guy would look way better as one of many little white crosses all in a row beneath some heroic bronze sculpture of a soldier.
Honorable mention: story [...]

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Angry Hippies are Cute

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under

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Whiling the hours away at a computer is aided by music. I like to mix up sources, and one of these is archive.org. For instance, the Grateful Dead: nothing quite gets me through a rigorous analysis of diversity jurisdiction like St. Stephen from 1977!
Now apparently the Dead, long proponents of free [...]

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David Foster Wallace / Rick Moody

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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It was a dark and stormy night…
I was the rag part of a ragtag crew that braved the San Francisco weather for a conversation between David Foster Wallace & Rick Moody as a fundraiser for 826 Valencia, hosted by the local City Arts organization. My only previous foray into the world of City Arts was [...]

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Shout Out to The Wino Punx

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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Pun intended? “about 15 students have agreed to remove the straps, and “a handful” were suspended after refusing.”

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Insert Triumph Quote Here

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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a member of something called the Parsons Mounted Cavalry Unit at Texas A&M…decided it was a good idea to shovel horse manure onto members of the Texas marching band before the game Friday….the Parsons unit “was formed in 1973 to revive the legacy of A&M’s horse-drawn artillery program. It remains the only collegiate military cavalry [...]

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Internet Free New Orleans

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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Not that I pretend to have any grasp of The Law, The South or any of their permutations, but this note regarding a to-be-launched free city-wide wireless network in New Orleans stood out:
The system will operate at 512 kilobytes per second as long as the city remains under a state of emergency.
That will be slowed [...]

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Arts, Walls & Marts

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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A quick scan of the newspapers shows progress on the march in places I’ve been from.
In Omaha, locals aren’t sure they want a Wal-Mart on 72nd[1], though concerns reportedly are based more on increased traffic instead of egalitarian ideals. If push comes to shove, and Wal-Mart shoves in to push their wares, at least [...]

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1043 love songs

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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We were driving back to the City on Saturday and, scanning the radio stations, stumbled upon New York’s classic rock station, counting down the greatest 1043 classic rock songs ever. While we debated whether David Bowie’s Rebel Rebel (#287) was truly a love song to Mick Jagger, we generally agreed it was absurd to [...]

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Rick Moody / David Foster Wallace

Posted on November 28, 2005 - Filed Under

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Rick Moody & David Foster Wallace
Benefiting The 826 Valencia Scholarship Program
Monday, November 28, at 8PM at the Herbst Theatre
Event Info

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Failure

Posted on November 28, 2005 - Filed Under

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Following the advice of a recent interviewee at SFist, I googled “failure”.

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Buy Nothing Day

Posted on November 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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Buy Nothing Day: an idea I can get with.

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Heard your plea in the courthouse

Posted on November 22, 2005 - Filed Under

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Bush and Nixon have this, at least, in common: 2005 is the first year since 1971 that a president has nominated replacements for two Supreme Court vacancies. While I’ve never met Harriet Myers, I do have the distinction of having had cases before both Roberts and Alito this year. Roberts ended up recusing [...]

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Jerome Karabel

Posted on November 21, 2005 - Filed Under

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
7:30 PM at Cody’s Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
JEROME KARABEL looks at THE CHOSEN: The Hidden History of Admission and
Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Our top universities are the
gatekeepers, in many ways, of success and power in America, which is why the
college prep industry has exploded in recent years and why Wall Street
executives are [...]

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GZA

Posted on November 19, 2005 - Filed Under

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GZA/Genius
DJ Muggs
Swollen Members
I Self Divine
@Slim’s
Nov 19th, 9:00 PM
$23

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“Five to Ten,” said Joey

Posted on November 18, 2005 - Filed Under

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Judge says, “That’s exactly what you’ll get.”
Speaking of $400 lemons, a week ago my random ipod playlist project stopped dead in its track at 755 songs, when my ipod stopped dead on the tracks of the F train heading home.
So I’ve since learned that it’s not worth the bother of going into the apple store [...]

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Omaha Reads: To Kill A Mockingbird

Posted on November 17, 2005 - Filed Under

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One of my favorite moments in the The Hold Steady’s “Stevie Nix” is the lamentation “lord, to be sssseventeen forever” (it sounds better than it reads). True to this spirit, barring any worm holes or other leaps in the time-space continuum, Omahans have opted to relive freshman high school literature classes by choosing To Kill [...]

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