My virtual contribution to the September CD Mix of the Month Club was Star Queen Surf Pirates.
After I brought my new laptop home yesterday, what was the first thing I had to do? Of course:
(Via ❦roadnotes.) Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes. Don't fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don't go posting an eight megapixel
It's raining fairly hard here in Chicago this morning—not like in Texas, certainly, but hard enough that there's standing water a foot deep in places on our street. Ella and I just got back from an hour-long walk in that deluge. We had a
Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker (Thanks, Gordon!)
A long but worthwhile exhortation from Craig Ferguson to study the issues and listen to yourself when you vote. Long but very worthwhile. (Via ❦parttimedriver.)
Here are a set of three very different articles, different in every way, one for each of the three beauty queens in John McCain's life: The Daily Mail on Carol McCain: "The Wife U.S. Republican John McCain Callously Left Behind" by Sharon Churcher The New
Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, and her embarrassing attempts to weasel a clue out of Charles Gibson are not even worthy of a high-school forensics student: Yes, Mrs. Palin, obviously you're ready to be President. I will sleep without nightmares knowing
NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered have begun a fascinating joint series that convenes a panel of voters from York, Pennsylvania, for a roundtable discussion of race and how it affects the 2008 election. (Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here.) Sadly, some of the
I realized an odd thing yesterday, which is only meaningful to me. September 11th very nearly and neatly bisected my time in New York. I rolled into the city for the first time in a moving truck on (I think) October 9, 1995. Just shy of six years later, well,
Three-time World Fantasy Award nominee John Klima has brought back the benefactor level subscription for his autumn Electric Velocipede subscription drive. For a mere $150, you get not just a lifetime subscription to the wonderful EV and everything else that Spilt Milk Press publishes, but you also get copies
My distraction of mind of late has been such that I haven't been able to finish reading many novels for a few months now, but for at least a year or two I haven't even attempted to read any novels of doorstop dimensions, finding them far
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