Somebody Hire This Guy Chicago boy seeks new job. The whole thing makes for a great Wednesday morning read. (via BoingBoing) Also a brilliant visualizer (is that a word?) of google news and it’s prioritization of articles. Axis of Aevil has a nice collecion of links to humdrum technicolor postcards.
Monthly Archives: March 2004
The Don Quixote Plunge This weekend I picked up the newly designed Penguin Classics edition of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It’s going to be a commitment but hopefully within a few months I will have crushed this tomb and come out a better man for it. I love the newly retooled Penguin Classics editions. I wish …
Friday Morning in Paris The cats and I are taking a self-styled Paris vacation this morning. We can’t actually go anywhere, and I have work to do but we’ll just pretend that we’re working from home in Paris. I will smoke my pipe and listen to Beethoven while pretending my Mac is an Underwood Standard …
Brother Can You Spare 12 Bucks? What a classic debate – libraries versus stadiums? It’s one for the centuries. This debate probably goes back to the beginning of mankind. Surely the Egyptians and the Romans squared off a time or two on this one. Caligula (a.k.a Little Boots), never met a coliseum proposal that he …
Bill Murray versus RZA From the incredible mind of Jim Jarmusch comes Coffee & Cigarettes, a movie about life’s two essential nutrients. Among all the great names associated with the film, I am esspecially looking forward to the scenes with Bill Murray and the Wu Tang’s RZA. That’s a screen pairing that’s way overdue.
It Was a Robins Egg The sun is trying to warm this place and I try in vain to encourage it with ill-fated sun dances and late night prayers. The wind is strong and defies my attempts to bring spring out from its long hibernation. A fine wood bird feeder was bought to liven up …
A Sudden Rush of Boohbah to the Head There are secret messages everywhere. I spent years on the farm trying to emulate Neil Pert beats on all the Rush albums. I even went so far as to read up on my Ayn Rand to properly understand the heavy messages the band was trying to get …
Barroom Hero
Lustron: House of the Future There was a great documentary on PBS a few weeks ago called Lustron: The House America’s Been Waiting For. The Lustron home was supposed to be the ideal home of the future in the wake of a post-WWII housing shortage. The bright idea of engineer Carl Strandlund, the homes were …
Demozilla