Matrix Reloaded What was good about the new Matrix sequel: 1. Cornel West playing Zion Elder Counselor West. Let’s hope his role is expanded even further in the next one. 2. Monica Bellucci. Good god! I vote her and Cornel West hook up in the final film. 3. Fighting. Kicking. Punching. Flying. Shooting. Twirling. 4. …
Monthly Archives: May 2003
How Everything on eBay is Connected to Everything ElseAfter reading bits and pieces of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means, I decided to see how far I could stretch the hard boiled logic of his ‘complexity theory’ in the big bad land of eBay. I started with …
Paranoia StrikesI had my first SARS scare yesterday. I was browsing magazines at the Borders up on Hennepin, which is attempting to unionize. I sat down with a couple titles on a little reading bench they have there next to another fellow browser. This guy immediately starts coughing these terrible little hacks that sounded like …
Living the Dream It’s my birthday today! 30! Three decades thick. Time to do a check in, eh? Let’s see here… Hair? Check. We’re good. Mostly still all there. Liver? Check. Still processing. Excellent. Let’s carry on then. The Melvins decided to come back into town and help me celebrate my birthday last night at …
Cancer Sticks and Hockey SticksThe best part of last nights game was watching a whole stadium of home town Vancouver fans go home sad. Beaten in their own backyard. See ya Bertuzzi. So long Jarkko Ruutu. Hazah! I feel it hard to write about anything else this morning as I am still high and tired …
Go Wild!!Honestly, in the world of dedicated sports viewing, it’s all about positioning. Getting the right seat at Liquor Lyle’s so that you can watch the Twins wax the Devil Rays, while at the same time catching the bruising that the Wild are handing down to the Canucks, is a strategic decision that must be …
Jau du iu Sei?Rafael Varela, Editor of a local magazine aimed at the Twin Cities growing latin community called El Pregunton, always does a language section with the goal of teaching spanish speakers a few expressions of english. I enjoy reading this section very much, mostly because of his phonetic breakdown of english expressions. Here …
Factually Accurate Portraits of Sharpness and Faith Today I was absurdly attacked by a huge bunny off Lake Street near the abandoned Edison School. Impossibly big. It’s being fed by someone or something at a gross rate. It bushy tail was almost the size of my head. I wanted to know the history of the …
Happy Cinco de MayoSpent all day yesterday getting punched in the solar plexus by Simon. His tolerance for sarcastic banter is minimal. He’s a quick kid. Smart as hell and although he doesn’t actually understand sarcasm, he knows enough to know he’s being fucked with. I guess it’s pretty natural to expect to get punched …
Bomb The Suburbs William Upski, author of the seminal Bomb The Suburbs and the multi-faceted No More Prisons will be throwing down at the Walker tonight to talk about activism, urban life, home-schooling, the Cool Rich Kid’s Movement, the prison system, community organizing, and the new Adventure Philanthropy. Check out Upski’s new project Future 500.