Elect Me Now and Hear Me Later
Posted on August 29, 2006 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
“Schwarzenegger’s office said it had no official position on the bill. The governor has said he would propose solutions to the state’s health care crisis in his State of the State address next January if he is re-elected.”
Read More..>>Super-Duper Really
Posted on August 29, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Music | Leave a Comment
Too $hort: “When I make a song, I actually literally talk to one person on purpose…”
Read More..>>Two-thirds review
Posted on August 29, 2006 - Filed Under Weather | Leave a Comment
Where did my summer go? The year is 2/3 gone, and for what? Cubs are in the gutter, the planet keeps getting swampier, and it’s looking like no Christmas for me. But some good has come, so, short of a top ten list, here’s a top 6.67 list of them:
Best record of the last 8 months, [...]
Greatest Sentence Ever (Today)?
Posted on August 25, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Scatology, Television | Leave a Comment
There is often much talk of what book or record you would choose to keep you company on a deserted desert island. “F That!” we say at BMK. I would be happy to read this single sentence from Slate.
In 2002’s “Battle of the Best,” celebrity eminences Coolio and Picabo Street selected “Quad Squad,” a video [...]
NebrasKKKa Highway Patrol
Posted on August 25, 2006 - Filed Under Race | Leave a Comment
Nebraska wants to fire a Highway Patrolman because he’s a member of the KKK. Enter the lawyers.
Although it isn’t illegal to be a member of a KKK group, having a trooper belong to a white supremacist group could create questions in the minds of the public, as well as create dissention among other troopers, Tuma [...]
Timothy Hornyak – Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Posted on August 24, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I saw this in the Bookshop West Portal events announcement. Sounds right up my alley. Robots!!
TIMOTHY HORNYAK
Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
From the amazing automatons of feudal Japan to giant animated robots and the cutting-edge androids of today, Loving the Machine explores the reasons behind Japan’s [...]
Cursive “Happy Hollow” Review
Posted on August 23, 2006 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, Music | 4 Comments
Note: this is the first in an irregular series, “Knee Jerk Reactions”, in which I review records immediatly after / during the first listen. No time to check lyrics, baby!
Just picked up the new Cursive CD (Happy Hollow) today over lunch. Thought I’d blog my first listen through. So far, my only exposure to [...]
This Weekend in Brooklyn
Posted on August 18, 2006 - Filed Under Ass Cleavage | Leave a Comment
Bloggers’ territorial pissings
Watermelon and waterfight
Frank Black Attack!
Fabulous Soul Shakers
Whats, uh, the deal with Steely Dan?
Posted on August 17, 2006 - Filed Under Tempests In Teacups | Leave a Comment
First they fought about Me, You, and Dupree, and now they’re upping the ante with Wes Anderson. Â
Read More..>>Two Worlds Collide // No Surrender
Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
Does the thought of Common Culture make you scoff? Well lookey here, Proust in Time magazine. What’s next John Kruk in [uhhh, insert high-brow journal here]? Then again, maybe not: “Proust, genius as he may have been, was a bit of a whackjob”. Namby-Pamby Frenchy.
Read More..>>At The Risk of Sounding Like an MGD Commercial…
Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
Some people had been asking me if it has sunk in that I’ll be getting married / have I had any jitters / etc… No real jitters that I can think of (maybe still time for that).
But I think realizations are starting so sink in, now that I’ve just decided that it’s OK to throw [...]
Sophistry
Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Drinking, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
Americans! Don’t be drawn in by Daniel Radosh’s terrorist loving, children hating wordplay.
If somebody is selling liquid explosives at the airport newsstand, I would think the thing to do would be to make them stop, not to let people buy them as long as they don’t get on the plane. Or is the point that [...]
Funny…I think I read the same thing in Pitchfork last month.
Posted on August 10, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
“This single scientific paradigm hegemony has resulted in a privileged ‘regime of truth’ as well as ladder of success that scientists must align themselves to for industry recognition.”
Read More..>>A Denial Denial
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Television, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | 1 Comment
Despite the dreams of many, Maud confirms that AL Kennedy will not be writing un an episode of Dr. Who. But let it be known that I would happily post any Dr. Who fan-fiction that she should care to share with the world, because of my uhhhh incredible uhhh popularity…
Read More..>>Joyner on the Road
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Matt Sullivan of the Nashville Scene previews an upcoming Simon Joyner show.
SIMON JOYNER For well over a decade, Simon Joyner has been toiling away in relative obscurity within the same Omaha scene that has brought Bright Eyes, Cursive and Saddle Creek Records to the indie-rock forefront. He’s appeared on split records with Mountain Goats and [...]
If “if” was a fifth…
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Music, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
Literally: “If Stephen Hawking could play guitar, he would most definitely be a member of Omaha band Cursive.”
Read More..>>In Defense of Geeks
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Politics, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Joel Spolsky to Travelers Insurance – don’t fuck with the geeks.
I’m sorry, Travelers, maybe the current Bush presidency has given you the idea that it’s ok to make fun of the scientists, inventors, researchers and programmers who are creating the future, finding cures for your diseases, building the spreadsheets you use to figure out how [...]
Joy In Mudville
Posted on August 8, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot, Major League Baseball will not be able to ban people from playing fantasy baseball.
“The names and playing records of major league baseball players as used in CBC’s fantasy games are not copyrightable,” Medler wrote. “Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players’ claimed right [...]
That’s why I lug around “Bo Knows Bo”
Posted on August 8, 2006 - Filed Under Books | 1 Comment
Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman and Dave Eggers dined Monday at Luna Park, where King autographed a copy of “Carrie” for one of the staff members. Always amazing that a particular book is produced speedily enough for an author stopping by for a meal. Had the autograph seeker been carrying it around hoping to [...]
Read More..>>“Give It To Me Baby”
Posted on August 7, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
… are the five words describing what is on my shortlist for b-day wishes, for those scoring at home:
We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,653,070 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 times.
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