Archive
Okay, “reference post” alert, but this article by Sam Smith at jalopnik.com hits so many nails on the head that he should probably consider joining the carpenters’ union.
This video amply illustrates how ukeleles are simply stringed instruments with a constrained tonal range when compared to a more-typically “rocked out” instrument like a guitar. (If you think it’s a little too slow or whatever, wait until the middle section. This is what guitar geeks call “shredding.” ) After you’ve watched Jake Shimabukuro cover [...]
Now that the Avatar juggernaut is heading into the Oscars, I thought I’d post a quick note about two very different SF movies: Avatar and Moon. I saw Avatar the week after it opened, in 3D. Having actively avoided the 3D versions of movies the past several years, I was somewhat apprehensive about seeing this in RealD [...]
Let’s anthropomorphize a little, shall we? http://xkcd.com/695/ (Still kinda sad, though, innit?)
[...]the same woman who was skating nude near the Portland waterfront, when several complaints were made, and police told her to tone it down after some construction workers complained. [emphasis mine] I don’t recognize the world anymore. I mean, isn’t that a staple of the stereotypical construction worker life?
I know I’m about 10 days behind the curve on this, but I just had this conversation with my sister and thought it worth posting here. The title of this entry accurately reflects my reaction to news that Danica Patrick had won the IRL race at the Twin-Ring Motegi circuit in Japan. Ooh, you’re just [...]
This article at reuters.com is about a man who got in an argument with his wife and then proceeded to throw their four small children (all aged 3 or younger) off an 80 foot-high bridge. I can’t believe how often I read/hear news reports about people who either get pissed at their spouse or do a murder/suicide [...]
There’s been much fuss in the news lately about people getting scammed out of money by depositing legitimate-seeming cashier’s checks/bank drafts and “returning” some of the money by request, only to find out that Surprise! the check’s not real. These news reports even make a point about how people at the banks are fooled, too, [...]
to lose custody of your children—and young children, at that—to Kevin Federline, fer cryin’ out loud? Pretty damned bad, I’d guess. I haven’t been following Britney’s problems lately (or at all, really), so maybe there’s much more to this than it appears but, frankly, I can’t imagine how bad she has to be for Kevin Federline [...]
My daughter (she’s 4) saw either the movie “Madagascar” or a clip from it at school recently, and ever since then she’s been singing & dancing to the song “I Like To Move It” as performed in the movie. The first time she did it, I flashed back to… 10? years ago, when I used [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion that developed from a NYTimes article about a proposed code of conduct for bloggers and their commenters. Maybe I’m just too far on the fringe of all-things-blogging, but I don’t really get the point. All they’re really trying to do is deal with a problem that’s been on the [...]
Okay, not really. But another “Steve Adams” is. He doesn’t have a hope in Hell of getting elected but, then again, neither do I.
And speaking of the Oscars, this is what one commenter in the “Oscar Wrapup 2007” post at John Scalzi’s “Whatever” had to say (in part): I hope Jennifer Hudson and Al Gore both Tivo’d Helen Mirren’s acceptance speech. That’s how you do it, bitches – class without the silent Cl. (This has nothing to do with [...]
I was watching the Oscars this evening (which I don’t really do anymore) and they were showing a scene from a nominated foreign-language documentary. It was about children in China who’ve been orphaned because of AIDS, and the scene showed one very young kid—maybe 4 or 5 years old—who was also now homeless. For some [...]
Dusty Scott’s (“Mental Drippings”) recent post about Cynthia McKinney amused me and it might you, too.