Archive for July, 2007

31
Jul

The Golden Age, by John C. Wright

Too much back-story, not enough story.

31
Jul

Why I love the Onion AV Club

Not only do they deliver great reviews, their blog is a gold mine. One of their writers went to a screening of Bratz and delivered this fantastic description in the blog:

Barbie may boast a figure out of Russ Meyer’s fevered imagination but Bratz are the first line of mass-produced dolls that’d probably go down on their owner’s dads if they bought them a mojito or two.

You may or may not want to read about the Bratz movie – I suspect I know which – but moments like that make every blog entry worth reading.

30
Jul

That Voodoo that they do so well

Big thanks to Michael* for putting me up and putting up with me for my overnight Portland visit last week, and also for his rock-solid navigation through the Byzantine streets of the city, which make downtown Seattle look like a chess board. I got to visit the much-heralded Voodoo Doughnut, and it was every bit as awesome as I had been told. Really, go check out that menu and then tell me you didn’t instantly made plans to visit. They put Tang powder on donuts, people. And breakfast cereal. And their vegan stuff is as tasty as their animal-secretion pastries. They were out of bacon-topped maple bars, but honestly, how much can one man be expected to endure?

* Sorry for the old link, but that’s as good as it gets for now. Get busy on Detournity, sir!

19
Jul

For singles who love to hate

WeNeither is a vaguely Web 2.0-ish dating site with a kickass tagline: “Meet people you like through things you don’t.” Genius? Time will tell.

18
Jul

Stevie Wonder live in the street

Sesame Street! Keep an eye out for the one kid who rocks the fuck out.

06
Jul

Good god no, not the whippet please not the whippet

Please, please, please tell me that this is a fake. Whippets already haunt my nightmares, and now they have to make trouble IRL?

05
Jul

Warren Ellis encapsulated

The briefest example of his genius:

“It’s Independence Day, yes, when we here in Great Britain celebrate our Great Project — creating an entire country for comedy purposes in the guise of ceding America its independence. Thank you for giving us literally hundreds of years of laughter.”

02
Jul

This headline tells you everything you need to know about our species

No, not that one up above: this one.




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