Greetings from the Road
Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under On The Road Again | Leave a Comment
Monica and I are crashing in Brownwood, TX in preparation for out triumphant entrance to Austin. There, our couple of days of kickin’ it will be highlighted by an M. Ward show. After a brief detour (Hoover Dam was closed?!?!?) we did make it to the Grand Canyon where we stopped for 2 seconds to [...]
Read More..>>Turn Back The Clocks
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Sports, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | 1 Comment
How far behind the times is JoePa? According to research done by ESPN.com, one week apparently:
Read More..>>Knee Jerkin’ Eric Bachmann’s “To The Races”
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, Music | 1 Comment
Last night I swung by Amoeba on the way home from work to pick up some tunes for my upcoming road trip playlists. Lucky me .. I caught the second half of a Two Gallants in-store performance. At its conclusion, the only CD I walked out with was Eric Bahmann’s To The Races, which got [...]
Read More..>>Free Electronic Waste Removal
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
This weekend at PacBell SBC AT&T Park you can have your electronic waste taken off your hands for Free Ninety Nine! For many of the items being accepted there is often a “disposal” fee, so this is a great way to get rid of your Commodore 64 without releasing lead, mercury and other toxic goodies [...]
Read More..>>Fernando Meirelles to direct ‘Blindess’
Posted on September 13, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Film | 1 Comment
Fernando Meirelles, who directed City of God, will begin production of the adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindess. Apparently it took a while to convince Saramago: Fichman said in one of their early meetings with Saramago, the writer told him he believed cinema destroyed the imagination. “I paused for a second,” Fichman remembers, “and thought I [...]
Read More..>>One Republican. One Democrat. A Fair and Balanced Love Story.
Posted on September 12, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Movies | Leave a Comment
Please see this movie if you happen to be in New York from October 20 through 22.
Read More..>>Monday, Monday
Posted on September 11, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Friend o mine Ed Champion reviews Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman @ Philly.com. Last night I caught the Silver Jews in my first trip to the Mezzanine. Awesome, Awesome, Awesome … despite a boorish antic-laden performance by the opening bands singer (who came off as Iggy Pop as played by Ben Stiller — and [...]
Read More..>>Make ya Famous
Posted on September 8, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Books, Charity | Leave a Comment
To raise funds for the First Amendment Project, a number of authors are auctioning off a spot in an upcoming work for Your Name. Of course, there are disclaimers, so sucks if your name is Jane Eyre or Ben Dover. Some of those selling out are (fellow Omaha expat??) Chris Ware and the Bay Area’s [...]
Read More..>>Thursday, Thursday
Posted on September 7, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Music, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Unattributed quote of the day: “EVERYONE HAS, OR WILL, SLEEP IN TUCUMCARI AT LEAST ONE NIGHT IN HIS OR HER LIFE.” NFL Player or Dune character? {via TEV} Conor Oberst & Maria Taylor backing McCarthy Trenching in Omaha (opening for M. Ward). I’ll be seeing M. Ward in Austin as part of Honeymoon Phase II. [...]
Read More..>>Yahoo! No Google?
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I rarely spell-check, but found myself using the embedded spell-checker in Yahoo’s web email. Curiously (or not), Yahoo! did not recognize “Google”, instead thinking I meant “Go ogle”. Luckily, Yahoo was able to recognize itself as a word (even though Merriam-Webster does not, at least as a web company — “a boorish, crass, or stupid [...]
Read More..>>File under: No Shit, Sherlock
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Race | Leave a Comment
In an article about the Nebraska state trooper, Robert Henderson, who was fired (and later reinstated) for being a member of the Ku Klux Klan: According to a copy of Caffera’s ruling, the case had its origins in 2003, when Henderson’s wife left him for a Hispanic man. Henderson is white.
Read More..>>Those who can’t “analyze”
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
“While former coach Bob Davie, now a television analyst calling the game, questioned the logic behind the decision, Weis went for it.”
Read More..>>Blogging Sword
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Music, Sports | Leave a Comment
LitKicks breaks down a pantheon record – EPMD’s Strictly Business*, from the Presidents Emeritus of Braggadocio. (Though I do quibble with his assertion that Parrish could rap as well as the E-Double.) * I tend to cut Barry Bonds extra slack simply because of his regular use of songs from this album for his “at [...]
Read More..>>Sports Guy Hit-n-Run
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Money, Perception | Leave a Comment
Two things jumped out from Bill Simmons’ summer recommendations: 1. He alerts us to “Amazon Prime” in which for $80/year, supposedly you can get anything you order shipped second day air, with no minimum order price. My question: Does this include Fried Chicken?. NOTE: A quick google shows “The Perils of Amazon Prime” at the [...]
Read More..>>Why Every Blogger Should Use Firefox
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | 1 Comment
I just came across this extension for Firefox: SessionSaver .2 that loads Firefox to the same state from the last time it was running – including text you had typed into forms (like, say, a blog entry post that you hadn’t saved, but accicently closed your browswer). Just tested it out and it works as [...]
Read More..>>What’s your favorite commandment?
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Religion, Sex, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Playing the fiddle today, came across this Woody Allen interview of Billy Graham. God bless Youtube.
Read More..>>Bumbershoot
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars, Music | Leave a Comment
I won’t be making it to Bumbershoot this year — unfortunately, right now life is getting in the way of life. But if you’re making the trek to this awesome event in Seattle, consider stopping by for Laila Lalami’s reading (presumably from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits). Sunday, September 3 6:30 PM Reading with Gary [...]
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