I had one of those absurdist “things-I-learned-today” tidbits in my head that I meant to post, I think it was Friday night maybe? Unfortunately I don’t remember what it was now.
This is England — fantastic film, and a new addition to the list of things that anyone flirting with nativism/xenophobia should be required to [...]
Did you ever say something stupid, and then want to apologize for it, but you don’t know how to even start because it was so stupid that you really don’t even want to bring it up again? Yeah. I made a dumb joke the other day, as I’m wont to do, and it came out [...]
Well, BeerCamp was fun. At least the parts I remember were fun — I did have a little beer. OK, a lot of beer. Too much beer. Did I mention there was beer? Well, beer AND a ludicrous amount of heat, prompting rapid consumption of said beer.
I think I met a few cool people, and [...]
Kudos to Kate for the most awesome comment on Roger’s take on bad blogging.
For the record I don’t really consider myself “a blogger”. I’m just a guy who keeps a journal and happens to make it public.
All we’re doing is trying to encourage the idea that there can exist a politically radical culture within popular culture. Where Emma Goldman used a soapbox we now have TV and compact discs.
– Chumbawamba, liner-notes interview June 2, 1996
Holy shit. I’d forgotten just how good that Chumbawamba disc is. It has made an excellent soundtrack [...]
Aunt B tells us all about the latest we’re-not-racist-wink-wink immigrant hate group. Their name?
Wait for it…
…T-FIRE
Yup. Hey, I found their logo!
Well Cletus, I guess we cracked your code.
Saturday night I find myself at TPAC, enjoying the intelligent highbrow comic stylings of Paula Poundstone in a performance benefiting the Nashville Public Library.
Sunday night I find myself at the Exit/In listening to the trashy fetish-charged disco industrial of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.
Yup, I’m a study in contradictions.
Well, Miss Poundstone was fantastic, [...]
Netflix, you just lost an enormous amount of goodwill and customer satisfaction:
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Apparently Netflix only wants to serve customers who are willing to spend exorbitant amounts [...]
The other day at work the topic came around to Chumbawamba, and I mentioned the little known fact that they were actually a long established part of the British anarcho-punk scene long long before they had that big hit with the corporate gig. Well that of course got me all nostalgic for this awesome album [...]
Creeping towards contender
…with remarks about Richardson’s appeal to “independents”, which clearly in this case refers to those of us in the gray area between “low-tax liberal” and left-libertarian — you know, the group that tends to deliver Democrats a victory whenever they stoop to acknowledge us.
And speaking of his left-libertarian appeal…
… with good points on [...]
Poet, philosopher, composer, and solver of all the world's problems. Oh, and I code perl at the day gig.
