New “Favorite” blog

Posted on October 22, 2007 - Filed Under

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http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

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Yeah, but even they are called the “White” Stripes

Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under

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Just in time for CMJ, Sasha Frere-Jones tells us that rock is a pastey ghost of its former self.
[I]n the past few years, I’ve spent too many evenings at indie concerts waiting in vain for vigor, for rhythm, for a musical effect that could justify all the preciousness.
How did rhythm come to be [...]

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Who Needs a wimpy 10-Day forecast?

Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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SF Gate gives us the big picture: “The rain did flood parts of the Highways 101 and 280, although they were not submerged, as Florida could be in 100 years.”

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Music from the heavens

Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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it can’t,
it won’t,
it don’t stop
On a rainy day in San Francisco, a quick scan of my iPod reveals:

A Tribe Called Quest: Go Ahead in the Rain {MP3}
Creedence: Have You Ever Seen The Rain? {MP3}
Harry Nilsson: Rainmaker {MP3}
Kate Bush: Cloudbusting {MP3}
Neko Case: Buckets of Rain {MP3}
Peter, Paul, and Mary: Early Mornin’ Rain {MP3}
Joni Mitchell: Rainy Night [...]

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better chatter?

Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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Joe Morgan or James Patterson?
I like who JP seems to follow JM’s MO of making an assertion and then following up with a question encouraging you to “stay tuned”. (Part of the blame falls on “R. Johnson:” for confusing the situation with a multi-part question)
Q: Why is it that the leading protagonist of a mystery/thriller [...]

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on the streets of san francisco

Posted on October 11, 2007 - Filed Under

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twitter making it happen. But then again, who isn’t always running into Perry Farrell?

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Power Rankings: 10 Reasons I hate a Village Voice article

Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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As Young MC once said, “break it down for me, fellas”. And so I do. If only.
Reading this piece of Village Voice “I’m slightly more aware than the supposed hipsters I’m pandering to” journalism, I struggled1 to continue to the Okkervil River payload promised in my goolge alert. But dammit. Three paragraphs of what is/is [...]

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Look out world.

Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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I’m easily one of flickr’s smaller users, refusing to pay for an upgrade, and vaguely ashamed of my dinosaur of a digital camera that was even down-market when I bought it. As such, it was with great surprise and glee to learn yesterday that the millions of strangers out there may, in fact, stumble [...]

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Power Ranking, signs of the Apocalypse

Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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Not really scandalous per se, but roadsigns reminding us of the path we’re following?
1. Last Saturday’s Times crossword puzzle–ever the standard for class and erudition–weighed in with “Screw It” as an answer for 32 across.
2. Last night’s episode of “Aliens in America” marked the first time I heard the nom de [...]

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Coffee, coffee, coffee

Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under

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Dear Ad Wizard,
Do I need a Cleveland Steamer to make Icepresso?

And that reminds me … I’m not sure I grok how a book can be frothy, but whatever. What I really want to know is who GULPS cappuccino besides the staff at Essential magazine apparently?

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how you say? …. ah yes

Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under

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I think the word the AP is struggling for is “penis”
One acrylic-on-canvas work titled “Tulip Butts” shows the red imprint of a backside representing the open petals of a tulip with an imprint between them from an adjacent body part that represents a flower’s stamen.

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words on the march

Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under

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“WBAI program director Bernard White fears that the FCC will fine the station $325,000 for every one of Ginsberg’s dirty-word bombs. If each Pacifica station that aired the poem - and possibly repeated it - were to be fined for airing “Howl,” it could mean millions of dollars in fines.”
Anywho…it will be posted on http://www.pacifica.org/.
And [...]

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