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Obligatory "Look How Well-Read I Am" list for 2001

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Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon, Larry Millett

Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Bruce Campbell

Get a Life!, William Shatner

Dune, Frank Herbert

Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

**Star Trek Movie Memories, William Shatner

**The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Archangel Protocol, Lyda Morehouse

** Star Trek Memories, William Shatner

The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, Wendy Northcutt

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain

Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, Kenneth L. Feder

Mort, Terry Pratchett

Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Robert L. Park

Echo Platoon, Richard Marcinko

A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

The Big U, Neal Stephenson

Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, Larry Millett

Elric of Melniboné, Michael Moorcock

The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy

1984, George Orwell
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What The Hell is Going On with the Music Biz?!?

Gee, and I thought I was just getting old and cranky when I realized that today's "music" sucks.

On a barely related note, while I love video games and want a Playstation 2 just as much as the next guy, if you waited outside a store all night waiting to buy one, you need to get more of a life.
posted by dwinn at 6:18 PM

Teen Murdered in New Baltimore

I've kinda of distanced myself from the old home town since I came out to Ann Arbor back in '92, but it's still a sad state of affairs to read about this kind of thing happening in the place you grew up. Maybe only those who grew up in small towns can feel it -- this sense that the one place you knew was safe, that could insulate you from the things you read about in the paper or saw on TV, was no different that anywhere else.


It unnerves me. Will I be able to find a place to make safe for my family, my children, when that time comes? Does it matter if it's New Baltimore, Ann Arbor, or Detroit?
posted by dwinn at 2:50 AM

So on Sunday evening Gouin and I travelled down to the Magic Stick in downtown Detroit on Woodward to see the one and only Wesley Willis in concert! It was totally surreal -- Wesley took off his shirt and made us all rethink our thoughts on whether there truly is a divine being and whether He/She/It had forsaken us, there was a song called "Drink My Doberman's Piss", and the whole set was 8 songs in 26 minutes.

At the very end, Wesley tried to get off the stage, but the crowd kept yelling their favorite WW hits at him, causing him to have a hellride. "The Chcken Cow? That song has been done to death, MotherF*$%ers!" he yelled, and we left on a bit of a sad note. It makes me wonder how aware Wesley Willis is of what's happening around him. A lot of the crowd were just laughing at him, and were not real fans, but I guess that either doesn't bother Wesley none, he accepts it, or maybe he's the smartest man there, since he raked in the dough on CD and t-shirt sales.

Don't know who Wesley Willis is? You can get more info from his label's web site, Alternative Tentacles.
posted by dwinn at 2:45 AM

"The revolution would begin on the ice -- for hockey was the robots' greatest weakness."


I need to do some digging to see if ESPN has their commercials online somewhere.
posted by dwinn at 4:37 PM

All Flesh Must Be Eaten has piqued my interest. I feel the need for some mindless zombie killing action without all of the baggage that our recent games have provided, or just to switch to something along the lines of Settlers of Catan.
posted by dwinn at 3:57 PM

Look at this! Dann says I had to change to blogger for these posts, and it's been easy so far. Looks great.

Meanwhile, check out Ninja Burger. Join us or die!
posted by dwinn at 4:23 PM