dumps

Posted on August 8, 2007 - Filed Under Crime, Sports | Leave a Comment

Buddy Bell out the door… Davies for Dotel… The silence is deafening. Early warning signs?: “Toward the end of his senior season, Hand was suspended for 30 days for leaving the school campus at lunchtime to get something to eat at a local KFC.” There’s balls getting chopped in the middle west. {via}

words

Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Power Rankings | Leave a Comment

in the semi-recent past, it seems to me these words enjoyed a brief spike in usage, only to be used not-so-much nowadays. gobsmacked de rigueur detritus nonplussed In other news, I continue to subscribe to google news alerts for the words “sincerity” and “authenticity” and it still seems that most hits come from Asia. Could [...]

Mega-Powerful

Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment

“The iMac continues to sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors that can now run up to 2.8 GHZ with up to 4MB of memory and up to 1Terabyte of storage.” (I expected this typo be corrected before you ever see this, but it only fuels my speculation that Apple press releases are cut-n-paste into “news” [...]

RIP Lee Hazlewood

Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Music | 1 Comment

Met up with a friend in Vegas this weekend who told me his brother is in a phase (actually “phase” is our condescending appellation for what I’m sure he believes is a permanent state) in which he refuses to listen to anything made after 1972. I could see the merit to the position, the idea [...]

The Real Heroes: Point/Counterpoint Edition

Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under Knee Jerk Reactions, The Stage | Leave a Comment

According to a cleverly-titled conservative blog, this mundane quote can be attributed–at some unspecified time and place–to the Dubs: “As I have met the heroes, hugged the families, and looked into the tired faces of rescuers, I have stood in awe of the American people.” Meet Jeremy Hernandez, new reluctant media darling who apparently has [...]

Oregon Trail

Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment

Kite Pilot packed up all their game and headed out west to Portland, only to return to Omaha. Tim McMahan with the details1 and hints of a Saddle-Creek/Omaha “stigma”: Saddle Creek hanging over their heads? Did he mean that he feels there’s a stigma being from Omaha and not being on Creek? “That is a [...]

“continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling”

Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Philosophy, Religion | 2 Comments

A little Kierkegaard for a frame of reference: When a self becomes lost in possibility…it is not merely because of a lack of energy…. What is missing is essentially the power to obey, to submit to the necessity in one’s life, to what may be called one’s limitations. Therefore, the tragedy is not that such [...]

The Hold Steady Lollapalooza Stream

Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Mark Your Calendars, Music | Leave a Comment

The Hold Steady‘s Lollapalooza performance will be available on the interwebs at 5:30pm (CST1) Saturday August 4th. Get thee to http://attblueroom.com/events/lolla.php 1 “Omaha Time”, yo

crayons will never die

Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Kids These Days, Language | Leave a Comment

…just multiply crayons via Maud. bonus points for making me wonder if I say “cray-on” or “cran”. I think something closer to “cran”, but not quite.

money under the bridge

Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under Money, Politics | Leave a Comment

My sister (a civil engineer in Omaha), sent me this email today. True to my blogging roots, I’ve reposted it here without permission or comment. — Tito Greetings… I’m in a ranting mood today – be forewarned! :) In case you’re looking for non-network news info on the nation’s bridges… This is the website for [...]

The messy art of parsing

Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

In School of Rock, Jack Black lays out a complex diagram on rock history. Several arrows flow out of each box into the next series of boxes, and so on–so Nirvana was as much influenced by Bowie as by the Stooges, so it goes. This all came to a head recently because I tried to [...]