The Magic Number
Posted on December 27, 2006 - Filed Under
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Live music:Â Beirut at Bowery; Man Man at Spaceland; TV on the Radio at Prospect Park
Albums:Â Passover, Black Angels; Songs that you may not Like, Boat; Time without Consequence, Alexi Murdoch
Movies: Little Miss Sunshine; Stranger than Fiction; Thank you for Smoking
Trips: Skiied Whistler; Surfed Kauai;Â Trashed a rental car in LAÂ
Personal events: Got [...]
Merrier than Merrier
Posted on December 23, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’m heading back to the Big-O for a week of holiday fun with the family. My gift to you, Internet, is this photo from my neighborhood which never ceases to delight me with it’s grammatical, punctual & spelling kung fu.
Read More..>>Jurisprudence in CA
Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAccording to Lafayette, California Police Chief Mike Fisher there are not victimless crimes: “You need a victim to have a crime.“
Read More..>>Paper, Rock, Schisms
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJames Wood, reviewing Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation in The New Republic:
the jauntily unphilosophical way in which most popular atheistic writing simply ignores the Wittgensteinian dilemmas is disappointing, and explains why its explanations of the sources of religious belief are so jejune. Is there not a kind of insult to language in so [...]
First Things First
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentReading Jeff’s Death Alert, I was reminded that the first book I read myself was Tom and Jerry Have A Party. So I thought I’d put together a list of my “firsts” as best I can. This will likely be a work-in-progress as I continue to remember things.
First Book Read: Tom and Jerry Have A [...]
Read More..>>Possible blog name change
Posted on December 13, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBlack Market Kidneys may be getting a little stale. Dare I go with “The Infamous French Press Sludge”?
Read More..>>Putting Ass In The Bible? *
Posted on December 12, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentStill looking for a Christmas gift for the modern believer in your life? The New Yorker has a slideshow sampling today’s editions of the Bible found by Daniel Radosh.
* Contrary to common belief, Ass IS in the bible.
Read More..>>Like sand through the hourglass
Posted on December 8, 2006 - Filed Under
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Read More..>>when they kiss they spit
Posted on December 7, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentfrom “calm your screaming baby”, but may also work for ignoring your co-workers:
Free White Noise MP3’s
Then I infer the urine smell on the bus is agreeable
Posted on December 5, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIxnay on the MUNI Smell-vertising:
The gimmick was part of the California Milk Processor Board’s “Got Milk?” campaign. The idea was that once people got a whiff of chocolate chip cookies, they’d hanker for a glass of milk.
After The Chronicle ran a story on the promotion last week, advocates for people who are sensitive to scents [...]
I Always Wondered Where My Mandibula Was
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentVia Ed, I see the so-called top 50 commercials of the 80’s … is lacking a few crucial elements:
Though I can’t hate that long…turn it up!!
Read More..>>True Crime w/ The Hold Steady?
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIn an interview with Pitchfork, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn talks about an idea for a novel that’s been bumping around his noggin:
I don’t want to say too much, but it’s a mystery, kind of. But it’s not like a detective story; it’s about people going back into their past. It takes place around a [...]
What I Want For Christmas
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAmazon’s plot synopsis of A Time for Burning:
In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana [...]
Sounds like a Par-Tay
Posted on December 1, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBring on the clowns.
Saturday, the Omaha Public Library will pay homage to one of Nebraska’s greatest writers when it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Willa Cather Library, 1905 S. 44th St.
The public is invited to attend the celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. Cake, cookies, punch and coffee will be served. Two clowns also [...]
There can be only one
Posted on December 1, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentAnd it is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
But the question is still fun. Babies are Fireproof posed the question: What are the 10 most recognizable album covers? (Presumably of ALL TIME). I’m still undecided on mine.
But it got me thinking that records1 are unique in this regard. For the most part, each has [...]
