Monday, September 10, 2001
Before the Warfield stormtroopers came through to tell us that digital cameras weren't allowed (although they had no problem with film cameras with no flash . . . huh?), I managed to get off one decent shot of Belle and Sebastian. It's a little oversaturated. Sorry. More on the shows later.
Thursday, August 30, 2001
The Annals of Improbability Research site offers up an interesting and, hopefully, true story on the reliability of the US Postal Service.
Friday, August 17, 2001
Matt at Scrubbles just brought to my attention that Salon's Table Talk section went the subscription route. What's happened, it seems, is that Table Talk has melded with The Well which Salon bought a couple of years ago. Of course this will cut into the diversity of Table Talk significantly since the only active participants will be people able to pony up $15/mo for the privilege of posting. USENET (thanks to Google for bringing back the nice web interface), continues to be free, and while lots of people have abandoned it over the past few years as spam became more prevalent (many of them going on to bigger and better things) I wouldn't be surprised to see an upswing in intelligent discourse back in what used to be the most interesting place on the internet as the community buzzword is subsumed to economic reality.
In the middle of what is still considered to be a power emergency, how come no-one is screaming about the fact that Disney has brought back the Electrical Parade at it's California Adventure Park? This is a move that has public relations blunder written all over it and yet I still haven't heard anyone complain. While I'm as dubious as the next person about the alleged shortage of electricity in the state, I'm really surprised that some blowhard like Andy Rooney hasn't taken the Mouse to task for loudly and flamboyantly dragging out the old sparkly choo-choo. It's so ballsy I almost respect Disney for it, but then I see a commercial for Atlantis toys at Burger King and that respect disintegrates pretty quickly.
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
So this is what it's come to: people cutting off their legs live on the web. Which brings me to a long standing question I've had: can you actually have elective amputation performed for no reason? I mean, if that woman can get plastic surgery to look like a cat and Jacko can do this to himself I don't see what kind of ethical code is keeping doctors from lobbing off the limbs of those with such a prediliction. Oh wait, maybe it's because of incidents such as this.
Sunday, July 29, 2001
The new Sparklehorse album is probably the best album of the year.
Thursday, July 26, 2001
Punk77 features some interesting info and some nice (though short) commentaries on seminal early UK punk bands, but the best thing about it is the lo-tech, slapped together, xerox-zine design of the site.
Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Reading between the lines: study finds that poets who kill themselves use the word "I" a whole lot. These findings wouldn't hold up as an acceptable term paper in most university English departments, but it's good enough for Reuters.
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