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Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under
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WikipediaI visited BMK with IE for the first time in a bazillion years, and found it unreadable. So while I scrub the CSS and such, please bear with this stunning default-ness.
Updated: Phase 1 complete. I believe there is at least readability with IE now.
There’s telemarketing going down in the middle-west
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFrom Jeff… and what’s with quizzes giving, GIVING us crappy HTML?
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all [...]
Read More..>>Fun with Music
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGet thee to Creekside Review, where we’re treated us to 3 (THREE!!) mixes - all for the price of one, which is, free-ninety-nine. Konichiwa, bitches.
M. Ward!
Lifter Puller!
Helmet!
Public Enemy!
Ben Folds (Cure)!
Pavement!
Knee Jerking: Simon Joyner
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSimon Joyner & The Fallen Men
Skeleton Blues
Bought: 11/27/2006 @ Haight Amoeba $11.99 USD + Tax
Pre-listen thoughts:
You are here LIVE as I sit down to knee-jerk1 Simon Joyner’s latest, Skeleton Blues, This record cover has a still life painting of a flower pot featuring yellow, blue and mostly green hues. A quick glance of the track [...]
Table Scraps
Posted on November 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentKevin Smith posts his never-published iTunes playlist, as loquacious as you’d expect.
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Spurred by Thomas Pynchon (and Mark Twain), the folks at Language Log ask for your favorite prescriptivism in literature.
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Gwenda leads the way to an NYT piece by Jonathan Safran Foer about the relationship he shares with his dog. Which is as good excuse as [...]
Now taking bets on…
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment… how long before Geraldo answers the call.
Read More..>>Scapegoats
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt seems like everyone is blaming the Ipod for something…
Mushroom-hunting
Public nuisance offences
Both emanating shrill and tactical individuation
But Jihad is pushing it just a tad, no?
hold em’ bond?
Posted on November 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWe saw Casino Royale and unanimously agree it is a large step in the right direction for a long lost franchise. But what’s with the Texas Hold ‘Em? We like poker and all, but isn’t hold ‘em a little tooooo ESPN2 for double-oh-seven?
Read More..>>The Most Pointless “Commentary” Ever?
Posted on November 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“To all the moviegoers of India, I apologize for not giving you the chance to despise me. And I mean that in the best possible way.”
Read More..>>I’m In Love With The Living And The Dead
Posted on November 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDave Eggers next book: How We Have Very Low Food Security?
George Bush’s next book: How I Might Have Killed Thousands of Iraqis?
The new Bond, Daniel Craig … a British Steve McQueen?
The Tom Green / Bill Clinton defense? Prosecution of a case involving alleged sexual contact with a dead deer may hinge on the legal definition [...]
Read More..>>It’s Just A Shot Away
Posted on November 14, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentEscaped from the office for a spell the rainy last weekend and saw 4, count’ em f-o-u-r, movies. Here is what I learned.
Departed–Scorcese apparently is a Gimme Shelter fetishist
Borat–drunk frat boys don’t have a case
200 Cigarettes–If you wait till the end of the credits, Dave Chappelle instructs: “If you only remember one thing I’ve said [...]
Terms of Endearment
Posted on November 13, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentSo the Times asked 22 “funny” people the five movies they’d take with them to the obligatory deserted island, thus making me aware of my ignorance of the Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Peter Sellers.
 Since you asked, here’s mine:
Blazing Saddles–the mind shudders to think that Richard Pryor could’ve played Sheriff Bart.
Flirting [...]
Give ‘em Hell, Harry
Posted on November 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“Britney Spears,†Mr. Reid said, shaking his head. “She loses a little weight, and now she’s getting all cocky about things.†He added, “Britney has gotten her mojo back.â€
Read More..>>My Big Blog About Me
Posted on November 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI am glad that there seems to be a general decline in the usage of “I just thew up a little in my mouth” (and all its variations).
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I wish music writers would be banned from writing that Band So-And-So was “clasically trained”.
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If I overhear you in conversation saying, “I didn’t even know there WAS a [...]
It Gets Really, Really Bad
Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentToday I see in my office breakroom that the (passable) Starbucks “House Blend” has been replaced with Folgers. Joy.
Poppers pop
Breakers Break
Raiders Suck
Writers Write:
“Watching the 2006 Oakland Raiders makes me yearn to read fiction about 9/11 written with many, many adverbs.”
Well-Balanced Bastards of the Day
Tire of Nick Hornby? Why not check out what’s on A.L Kennedy’s [...]
Read More..>>Damn Yankees
Posted on November 5, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFavorite use of baseball characters in an analogy this week (so far): “to call Lakoff a Chomsky disciple is like calling Dave Winfield a disciple of George Steinbrenner.”
Read More..>>Friday tunes for November
Posted on November 3, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHere’s a little playlist that suits me. Maybe you’ll like it, too.
1. Erich Bachmann - Man O War [MP3]. From a record that gets better with each listen - highly recommended. This is probably my single favorite song of the ‘06.
like the moon doesn’t mind
if the sun doesn’t shine
the sea doesn’t care
if you’re lonesome tonight
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