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Summer Reading
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Radiohead podcast
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Steampunk
Whoooooah, this is cool shit:
http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml
I could see Mal from Firefly typing on one of these. -
Even the rain was the most purely beautiful thing I'd ever seen.*
Updated my knitting blog. I post more detail there about the movie, but I feel so sorry for Alan Rickman for having to be invovled with a movie like "Perfume, the Story of a Murderer". I hope they paid him a shitload of money for that role. Watched this movie on DVD at a friend's house. The women gave up taking it seriously about 10 minutes into ( Read more... ) -
"you're a fucking nutter"*
I've been reading The Places in Between by Rory Stewart. I've learned more about Afganistan and the people there from this book than any newspaper article or news analysis. It's remarkable how his simple straightforward descriptions (he's trained as an archaologist I think) tease out the character and motivations of the people he meets along the ( Read more... ) -
"It’s a birfday ’at on a cactus-needles where yer wants ears."
One of the pleasures of reading The New Yorker is the "Shouts and Murmers" humor essay in each issue. Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Andy Borowitz and other more famous comedic writers contribute, but the better ones are by authors I'm not as familiar with. Often the writer will riff off of a quote from a news article. This week's is a winner with my ( Read more... ) -
"if you're still awake in the night, it's ok to still be frightened"
Jeff Tweedy and his band, Wilco have been very open about letting fans download their music, and have offered a new song, What Light, for download (after all the tour info). Wilco falls under the "alt pop music" label, but it's got so much country, real country music as a base that it feels more real than most of the stuff on the alt rock station ( Read more... ) -
jeux du monde wintersports
OMFG! why have I not heard about this movie before! Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory...
...plays a former Olympic ice skater who, banned from competition with a fellow competitor (played by John Heder of Napoleon Dynamite fame), discovers a loophole allowing the men to compete as a pair. (as summarized by NPR) opening next Friday ( Read more... ) -
"Devotees of the pectoral, deltoid and other fine muscle groups will find much to savor..."
Bwhahah-- check out A.O. Scott's movie review of "300" for the NY Times: The Persians, pioneers in the art of facial piercing, have vastly greater numbers - including ninjas, dervishes, elephants, a charging rhino and an angry bald giant - but the Spartans clearly have superior health clubs and electrolysis facilities.Seriously hilarious, though ( Read more... )