First Things First
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain, Movies, Music, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Reading 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 [...]
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..>>Quick Quiz
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
via OGIC. Please jump in. Four jobs you’ve had in your life: dishwasher, telemarketer, computer programmer, referee Four movies you could watch over and over: The Karate Kid, Road House, Goodfellas, The Jerk Four places you’ve lived: Omaha, South Bend, Kansas City, San Francisco Four TV shows you love to watch: America’s Funniest Videos, King [...]
Read More..>>I’m a loner Dotty, a rebel…
Posted on November 16, 2005 - Filed Under Film, Look Away! It's My Brain | Leave a Comment
The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh. You may end up insane, but you’ll have fun on the way to the asylum. Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho If Your Life Was a Movie, [...]
Read More..>>Look into my ear and speak into my elbow
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Stickin' It To The Man, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
From boing boing – “Statistical evidence suggests the use of [aluminum] helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.”
Read More..>>Monday, 1:06 A.M. “Just Unlock The Door”
Posted on September 29, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
Exhibit A of why I do not have a podcast. I found this (kinda) old MP3 on my PC — irrefutable audio proof (ca. 1999) that I am an incoherent bumbling grog. Granted, this is likely only of interest to my sister and myself, but if I can’t blog this…then the yankees terrorists have already [...]
Read More..>>I Was Happy Pisco Sours Were A Choice
Posted on July 26, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | 1 Comment
Robert Heinlein wrote you – your stranger in a strange land, you. Which Author’s Fiction are You? brought to you by Quizilla Via Gwenda
Read More..>>I Break Down The Last 20 Years
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
Chuck Klosterman ranks the 10 Greatest things of the last 20 years, including two I, in particular, can vouch for.: 10. "Paradise City," Guns N’ Roses (rock video, 1988) Dressed like a glam-metal Tom Wolfe and chucking his sunglasses at no one in particular, Axl Rose came dangerously close to making GNR the new incarnation [...]
Read More..>>I Don’t Know What Meme Means
Posted on June 8, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
Debbie at Literaisons has tagged me with a meme. Hopefully this is not like Asian Bird Flu.Total number of books I’ve owned: A couple hundred? I have a nasty habit of giving my favorite books away. Last book I bought: Language In Thought And Action by S.I. Hayakawa – First nibbles for my hungry curiosity [...]
Read More..>>If I Were A Book…
Posted on April 19, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | 1 Comment
You’re Watership Down! by Richard Adams Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you’re actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people [...]
Read More..>>Never In Pencil
Posted on March 31, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
Though I’ve come close, I’ve yet to finish a Sunday crossword. Perhaps this is what I need: Heli-cross It’s a ten-letter word for extreme fun! Ellipses Guiding Services now provides helicopter service to remote living rooms in the mountains of Alaska, where you can solve the Sunday crossword puzzle in peace and frigid tranquility. Our [...]
Read More..>>Barometers & Separation
Posted on March 9, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain, Robot Brains | Comments Off
I have a post up in the Proust Reading Group on barometers & separation, if you want to try and wade throughthe incoherencies that bounce around my noggin.
Read More..>>I’ll Settle For Remembering My Phone Number
Posted on March 9, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
I couldn’t help but think of the time our class got to watch Dr. Kogge try and figure how far he could consciously recurse in his own mind. It was a scene simultaneously funny, frightening and awe-inspiring. He claimshe could get to seven, but my feeble, mortal cpu crapped out around two. This memory brought [...]
Read More..>>I Have My Doubts
Posted on March 2, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Religion | Comments Off
David Ian Miller at SF Gate talks to Rik Myslewski, editor for Mac Addict magazine and self-described "happy atheist".. Included was this exchange which caught my eye: That sounds a lot like you’re taking a leap of faith, the very thing that you might say about a religious person. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to [...]
Read More..>>Barfwatch 2005: Day 25
Posted on February 25, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
The barf watch marches on. I recently recommended Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato. So, I thought I’d hop on Amazon to see what others wrote about it (always a dodgy proposition, I know), and came across this nugget [emphasis mine]: The story is a war-fiction. It takes place in three parts: first is the war [...]
Read More..>>Phonetic Phone Etiquette
Posted on February 25, 2005 - Filed Under Language, Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
Like thousands before me and since, I spent many an hour as a telemarketer taking orders for just about everything you can order by phone. Along the way, I talked to people from all over the US of A. I like to think I learned a lot from these people, not to mention a thing [...]
Read More..>>Go Speed Reader, Go!
Posted on February 16, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
I’m not sure how slow a reader I am, but I always suspected it was slower than Normal. I’m good for a page every 90 seconds if I had to guess. Of course this varies with the text, and I’ve found that often (currently with Swann’s Way)I have the best time reading aloud. When in [...]
Read More..>>Recommended Reading: Night by Elie Wiesel
Posted on January 27, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain | Comments Off
As today marks the 60th anniversary of Soviet troops liberating the camps at Auschwitz, I plan on dusting off my copy of Night by Elie Wiesel — has it been 10 years since my last read? If you haven’t read this book, I urge you to. If you have, now is a good a time [...]
Read More..>>Blogging My MP3s
Posted on January 25, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Music | Comments Off
I’ve just set up an account with Audioscrobbler, which logs songs I play in my media players (WinAmp & iTunes are my players of choice). Now the whole wide world can see what songs I am playing in (almost) realtime at my audioscrobbler page. I’ve also set this as a permanent link in "Other Hangouts" [...]
Read More..>>Look No Further…
Posted on January 24, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Politics | Comments Off
I have found the No Shit Headline Of The Day© UPDATED: It looks like this headline has changed. May have to rescind this award.
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