Earl E. Bird
Who knew my knowledge of music might be of use to the hipsters at Trader Joe's? Some time before the holidays, I was shopping at the store on Campbell when a song by Gomez started playing on their sound system. I overheard an employee asking the others if they knew what song was playing. I interjected that I didn't know the song's title, but that the band was definitely Gomez. (I later remembered the title: "How We Operate.") He must have liked the song, because he wrote down "Gomez" on some receipt paper after I told him.
I think it was Joe who first recommended Mr. Scruff to me. Ever since, I've been looking for his music whenever I'm at a CD shop or anywhere else with CDs for sale. I finally found a copy of Keep It Unreal at Zia Records, and I've been hooked on the song "Blackpool Roll" ever since. I'll have to thank Joe for leading me to him.
Originally slated for a March release, tim_wise's next book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, seems to have been given a January release date (perhaps the idea being that a release date closer to the Inauguration would help sales), but neither the publisher nor Amazon.com is giving a date more specific than "January 2009." Hopefully the wait won't be long.
I saw a Korean game called Jung Stone (if I remember correctly) when I went to Game Daze to buy my hourglasses. It looked similar to dominoes, but most of the text on the package was in Korean, so I couldn't tell if it was something that would be easy to learn and fun to play. I asked my mother (over the phone) if she had heard of it, but the name and description didn't ring a bell. Oddly enough, I couldn't find anything about it on the Internet, even though there's information about all kinds of obscure things on the Internet. I guess it will have to remain a mystery.
I think it was Joe who first recommended Mr. Scruff to me. Ever since, I've been looking for his music whenever I'm at a CD shop or anywhere else with CDs for sale. I finally found a copy of Keep It Unreal at Zia Records, and I've been hooked on the song "Blackpool Roll" ever since. I'll have to thank Joe for leading me to him.
Originally slated for a March release, tim_wise's next book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, seems to have been given a January release date (perhaps the idea being that a release date closer to the Inauguration would help sales), but neither the publisher nor Amazon.com is giving a date more specific than "January 2009." Hopefully the wait won't be long.
I saw a Korean game called Jung Stone (if I remember correctly) when I went to Game Daze to buy my hourglasses. It looked similar to dominoes, but most of the text on the package was in Korean, so I couldn't tell if it was something that would be easy to learn and fun to play. I asked my mother (over the phone) if she had heard of it, but the name and description didn't ring a bell. Oddly enough, I couldn't find anything about it on the Internet, even though there's information about all kinds of obscure things on the Internet. I guess it will have to remain a mystery.