Kitchen 2.0
Posted on April 19, 2007 - Filed Under Writers | Leave a Comment
Finally, an “Internet Appliance” for the people!
Read More..>>Young Marble Giants re-union
Posted on April 18, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Pitchfork reports that Young Marble Giants are reuniting for Hay Festival1, a Welsh music & arts festival. I’m by no means one who has been counting down the hours to a reunion, but they did make one of my all-time favorite songs, which I’ll share with you …….. now!
Final Day (Young Marble Giants) [mp3]
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Read More..>>keep your meat cold
Posted on April 17, 2007 - Filed Under Food | Leave a Comment
when making pate.
see also: “the angle of my dangle”
this just in
Posted on April 17, 2007 - Filed Under Statistics | Leave a Comment
I guess “breaking” is relative
Read More..>>bittersweet
Posted on April 16, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Film, Music | Leave a Comment
Kurt Andersen takes his Studio 360 podcast to Omaha focusing on its arts & music “scene”. On the web site, there is a marked-up google map with some extra video & audio, including this broadcast from my favorite theater from back in the day, the former Cinerama theater Indian Hills (now a parking lot). Equally [...]
Read More..>>so fucking not funny
Posted on April 16, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Television | Leave a Comment
Maybe I’m too dense, for I now see that the “sofa king” sketch from last weekend’s SNL is, in fact, funny because “Sofa King” sounds like “So Fucking”. Sweet. Then again, it’s proven and fact that I never tire of Uranus jokes. So there’s that.
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Race, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Ahhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay.
Other fun facts from the [...]
another easter come and gone
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under Mark Your Calendars, Race | Leave a Comment
another BYOBW missed. one of these years, I will remember, go, and let gravity do its best.
Read More..>>flight school
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under Movies, Music, On The Road Again | Leave a Comment
youtube & free association lead me from indian superman to 18wheel porn in 3 moves. checkmate!
Read More..>>Swann Song
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I see old boy Proust is picking up some blogmentum at Tingle Alley and Conversational Reading. Previously, I’ve been impressed with Microsoft Word’s Auto-Summarize feature. So, I’ve run the e-text of Moncrieff’s translation through the machine, and after 2 iterations, have come up with a condensed version for those who want to cut to the [...]
Read More..>>Trotsky on Baseball
Posted on April 5, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
Jon @ SFist coming correct with Leon Trotsky’s predictions for the 2007 baseball season:
“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!â€
Hey, it’s been almost seven years since the Yankees won the Series, all this despite a $200 [...]
out at the ballgame
Posted on April 3, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Sports | Leave a Comment
MTV.com has a video of The Hold Steady’s take on Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Unsurprisingly, Finn gives it a Twins slant, but still very good.
Read More..>>opening day
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
In lieu of any effort on my part, I send you off to Joe Posnanski who is live-blogging opening day in Kansas City. He’s kind enough to include some REO tour dates for those who want to keep on loving them, too.
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