overhaulin’
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under Deformities, Perception | Leave a Comment
I 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.
Read More..>>There’s telemarketing going down in the middle-west
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
From 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 [...]
Read More..>>Fun with Music
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Get 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!
Read More..>>Knee Jerking: Simon Joyner
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, Music | Leave a Comment
Simon 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 [...]
Read More..>>Table Scraps
Posted on November 27, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Language, Music | Leave a Comment
Kevin Smith posts his never-published iTunes playlist, as loquacious as you’d expect. – Spurred by Thomas Pynchon (and Mark Twain), the folks at Language Log ask for your favorite prescriptivism in literature. – Gwenda leads the way to an NYT piece by Jonathan Safran Foer about the relationship he shares with his dog. Which is [...]
Read More..>>Now taking bets on…
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Death, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
… how long before Geraldo answers the call.
Read More..>>Scapegoats
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under Radio, Religion | Leave a Comment
It 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?
Read More..>>hold em’ bond?
Posted on November 19, 2006 - Filed Under Movies | Leave a Comment
We 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 Words (In Print) I Hate | 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 Books, Crime, Death, Language, Movies, Sex | Leave a Comment
Dave 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 [...]
Read More..>>It’s Just A Shot Away
Posted on November 14, 2006 - Filed Under Faith | Leave a Comment
Escaped 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 [...]
Read More..>>Terms of Endearment
Posted on November 13, 2006 - Filed Under Film | 1 Comment
So 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. Â Since you asked, here’s mine: Blazing Saddles–the mind shudders to think that Richard Pryor could’ve played [...]
Read More..>>Give ‘em Hell, Harry
Posted on November 10, 2006 - Filed Under Politics | 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 Look Away! It's My Brain | Leave a Comment
I 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). — I wish music writers would be banned from writing that Band So-And-So was “clasically trained”. — If I overhear you in conversation saying, “I didn’t even [...]
Read More..>>It Gets Really, Really Bad
Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under Caffeine, Pain, Sports | Leave a Comment
Today 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 [...]
Read More..>>Damn Yankees
Posted on November 5, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Sports | Leave a Comment
Favorite 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 Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
Here’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 [...]
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