Nov
30
2007
The “November’s over already?” edition.

- Solomon Burke - [Don't Give Up On Me #03] Diamond In Your Mind
- Beirut - [Gulag Orkestar #03] Brandenburg
- John Vanderslice - [Emerald City #03] The Parade
- Maudlin of the Well - [My Fruit Psychobells #04] The Ocean, The Kingdom And The Temptation
- Ours - [Distorted Lullabies #05] Miseryhead
- Live -…
Nov
29
2007
In Don Reisinger’s case, it’s miss. I’m struck by the inanity of his recent article about Vista, even though I might agree with it in theory.
But I digress. Although Windows XP running Service Pack 3 is almost twice as fast as Windows Vista running SP1 and major hardware manufacturers are still…
Nov
28
2007
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
- Publisher: Penguin
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 224
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №56
My reading The Undertaking is all Lauren’s fault. I had, surprisingly, never heard of Lynch until she mentioned him, and then I was struck with a morbid curiosity for what a third-generation funeral director (they…
Nov
26
2007
The New Time Travelers by David Toomey
- Publisher: W.W. Norton
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 320
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №55
I’ve always been fascinated with time travel. Or time in general. When I was about 11 or 12, I wrote a series of three short stories that centered around time travel (one…
Nov
19
2007
a five-legged creature, violently still
upon a binding chord of minor keys,
befitting major locks,
has with its muted exhortations
cloven wax from wick and
rue from blight and
sea from salt.
a leaf of flesh, its tangled skein
scrying spring while lined with rime,
a piquant son of deciduity…
Nov
16
2007
The “No, seriously, TGIF” edition.

- Symphony X - [Symphony X #01] Into The Dementia
- Silverchair - [Young Modern #05] Those Thieving Birds (Part 1), Strange Behaviour, Those Thieving Birds (Part 2)
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw - [A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangar Ensemble #03] Serbian Cocek
- In Flames - [Clayman…
Nov
14
2007
Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
- Publisher: Harvest Books
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 304
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- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №54
People have done some pretty weird things in the name of science. In my wide and often random reading, I’ve already read about a couple of the experiments that Boese covers in this…
Nov
14
2007
A month late, sure, but better late than never…
Some of you remember that I joined the 9Rules network a while ago. At the beginning of October, 9Rules members got an e-mail advertising a new membership agreement.
After talking it out in Clubhouse, we made participating either in the private member area…