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As if last night’s Letterman wasn’t sad enough with Zevon, shortly
before the show started, we learned that Jam Master Jay had been
killed in Queens, NY. Run DMC was the first rap show I ever saw, with
Public Enemy and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince opening up. This
was back when it wasn’t 60% white kids [...]
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Halloween. Very scary. Still unsure of our plans for tonight. We could
go see Southern Culture on the Skids, or we could go to the show where
local “super groups” of folks from various bands will be playing indie
rock tributes, performing in their entirety the albums “Pinkerton” by
Weezer, “Bucky Fellini” by the Dead Milkmen and “Doolittle” by [...]
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Forwarded to me by a co-worker, more about Punch-drunk
Love, this time an article in The Daily Standard discussing
the film and Paul Thomas Anderson’s career. Interesting reading.
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I got e-mail from the guys in Maogojiatta
about the weblog entry on them a few months
back. That’s something about the google age - I’m kind of amazed
that they ever saw it. I guess that name is odd enough that you can be
assured that web searches only turn up things you want.
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SciFi Weekly has a good
interview with SF great Jack Williamson. I never interviewed
Mr. Williamson, although I did once have the great pleasure of sitting
down for a conversation with L. Sprague and Catherine de Camp. I
believe that he was the only member of the Golden Age writers I ever
interviewed.
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We had a fire drill in my office, and as I was walking up the stairs
returning to work, I heard this exchange, offered without comment:
“Everything seemed to be working out alright, until I found out that
he’d been in jail. Now I’m not so sure about him.”
“Well, if I only dated guys who have never been [...]
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From Larry Hammer on Dueling Modems:
The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most
successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a
completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial
telephone calls as a violation of privacy.
Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline
for a telephone conversation. This script creates an
imbalance in [...]
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There is some confusion over this one, an article about federal
legislators taking opposition to the General Public License. Note
that it is led by a representative with tight ties to Microsoft. As I
used to say about Louisiana politicians when I lived there “he’s so
deep in their pocket that you can see the lint stuck to his [...]
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Here’s some of the links that I’ve been hoarding. Most were ones that
someone on Dueling Modems, SFF.net or Usenet posted and I thought they
were interesting enough to save.
Here is a link to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about White
House Officials putting pressure on the intelligence community to
achieve the answers they want about Iraq.
Here [...]
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Prison
“The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the
Psychology of Imprisonment.”
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From Neil
Gaiman’s weblog:
Children’s book reviews (including Gaiman’s Coraline)
as done by John Ashcroft.
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I’ve been building up links that I wanted to put in this blog on my
Mac, but didn’t have a simple way to get them elsewhere. The easiest
way would have been to mail it to myself so I could read them on other
boxes. However, that has been problematic.
Here’s my mail system. I used to use [...]
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I saw the film Punch-drunk
Love yesterday, and without a doubt it is far and away the best
Adam Sandler movie I’ve seen. It was weird in that typical Paul Thomas
Anderson way but completely and totally satisfying. I really felt for
the lead character. Reading Roger
Ebert’s review gave me some additional insight into how one can
read this movie [...]
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I’ve been on the Body For
Life plan for a day shy of three weeks now. Yesterday was my free
day, during which I had pizza, some mini-Butterfingers and stuff like
that. Back in the saddle for six more days now. On Friday, I was down
~6 pounds, which also includes the muscle I have put on. I’m not
putting [...]
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Going through my SFF.net and Dueling Modems Newsgroups, I see there
are plenty of groups I haven’t read since late September. I tried to
sort them by priority of what I enjoy and post to, so that when time
is short I read those first. I had no idea it had been a month since
I’d gotten all the [...]
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I don’t know if the novelty of the weblog is just wearing off or
what. I find that over the last few weeks I only log about half of the
days.
I’ve been listening to Dimension X in order while I do my cardio work
at the gym. I’m up to episode 15 or so, an adaptation of [...]
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Today’s band of the day is The Flaming Lips. My wife heard
the song “Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots” on the airplane, and by
checking out the website you can hear every song on the album. I’ve
liked them for a while, since hearing them at WREK 15 years ago. I
might go see them next month, when they [...]
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So yesterday afternoon I was picking up my wife at the Atlanta
airport. As we entered the baggage claim, I noticed a limo driver
holding up a sign that said “T. Pennington.” With unusually heads up
play on my part, I pointed this out to my wife. Ty Pennington, one of
the carpenters on Trading Spaces, is supposed to [...]
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Missed a few days of the weblog. Que sera.
Saturday a WREK buddy and myself went to Little Five Points to eat,
drink and record shop. We went to Criminal Records (note the domain
name, they got in on this early). I was there to get the CD by Masters
of Reality, Welcome to the Western Lodge. They didn’t
have [...]
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One thing about Body For Life, I spend a lot of time thinking and
waiting for and anticipating the free day. It’s tomorrow, and I can’t
wait. Last week I had some candy, a braunschweiger sandwich and a big
drippy tasty burger from my neighborhood faux British pub, complete
with cheese fries. Yum. Tomorrow I’m going to drink some [...]
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