SubscribeAndy Rooney isn’t a bigot
My somewhat bigoted mother got an email forward from an extended family member. This particular forward (which she called “great”) purports to have been penned by Andy Rooney. Things like
I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, [...]
Muzak II
I’ve covered this before, but my music collection has increased to about 100gb, so let’s spin the wheel again! Maybe I can start another blog trend (no, not really).
Yo La Tengo • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One • Autumn Sweater
Death • Individual Thought Patterns • Out of Touch
Rachmaninov, Sergei • Symphonische [...]
Looking ahead into 2005: music
2003: how my cup runneth over. 2004: take it or leave it. Following a somewhat disappointing year for CDs, I think 2005 will have some truly excellent releases, at least from the current pillars of the musical pool.
Opeth: after a baby for lead singer Mikael and a new wife for guitarist [...]
Great moments in literature
When he finally drifted into an uneasy sleep, he did so with a feeling of shame and unworthiness gnawing at his insides. A collage of jumbled images coalesced in his mind’s eye. He saw himself at the helm of Bucephalus [a tractor -Ed.] driving a terrified pack of naked and enslaved Bakerites across [...]
xtokalon iii
a secret smuggles just a bit of daylight from the midnight hour,
where bits of shattered velvet sun reside
in carvéd hollows, despairing.
strung like spools of thread, an almost-light
drapes across boughs of coniferæ,
—spared by god from deciduity—
necks craned to watch the leaping star
spring into a nestled pose,
belying that there ever was, in all time,
such a silly [...]
Netscape: It Comes Full Circle
Mozilla was formed from the ashes of Netscape. When the browser went open-source in the late 90s, the Mozilla Foundation used it as a basis for their Mozilla Browser, which in turned spawned the Firefox that we all know and love. Now Netscape is being revitalized (AOL owns it now), but based upon [...]
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