February 23, 2006
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"If anyone is going to eat old canned food, I would suggest they heat it thoroughly first of all, just in case to be extra safe."
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February 21, 2006
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See you there, web dorks!
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February 19, 2006
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February 15, 2006
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Wendy's actively supports Health Savings Accounts. However, I'm sure Bush speaking about health care at a fast food restaurant has less to do with that and more to do with their healthy eating choices.
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When not talking about health care from fast food restaurants, Bush is apparently getting advice on global warming from a hack science fiction writer.
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A look at Werner Herzog's personal diary. Hilarious and awesome. (Thanks, Alex)
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February 12, 2006
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Okay, maybe I did add the quotes around "accidentally."
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February 11, 2006
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Oh, John.
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February 10, 2006
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Some pretty remarkable photos here. Also - note the caveman-style clubs - I think it's the only time I've seen any outside of a cartoon.
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February 09, 2006
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HOLY CRAP.
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February 08, 2006
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Funny.
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Great guide from the always excellent Boudist, whose work is consistently fantastic. Check out his recent Iggy Pop gallery.
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These superhero-themed drink ads are grrrrreat!
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Internet, I love you: "In the future all diving has been put under a tight naval / industrial control....watch out for authoritarianism and officialdom creeping up on your favourite hobby." Be sure to check out the 3d-rendered images!
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February 06, 2006
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A guy solicits an officer. Except, it's not an undercover bust - he approached the uniformed cop while the cop was sitting in his patrol car. Wow.
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They watched Red Dawn, to help with strategies for the Red Menace, I'm sure. It pleases me to think that this increases, if only slightly, the likelihood that Reagan yelled "Wolverines!" before high-level international Cold War meetings.
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Interesting set of 80s/90s punk rock photos found in an album on the street in Philadelphia
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Nice savaging of the extended cut of lunacy that is "What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole." That film is such nonsense.
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Me me meme.
I've been tagged by Ryan Pants! (sidenote: have you been pantsified?)
Here goes:
Four jobs I've had:
- Door-to-door newspaper salesman (from 11 to 15, before I was old enough to get a "real job")
- Maintenance/clean-up at a drive-in movie theatre
- Stun-gunned, beaten, and robbed clerk at a small (read: the owner and me) music store
- Emergency phone-jockey at LifeAlert (yes, the "help, I've fallen and I can't get up" people)
Four movies I can watch over and over:
- Return of the Living Dead
- All the Real Girls
- Super Troopers
- any PT Anderson film
Four places I've lived:
- Augusta, GA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Lynnwood, WA
- Quinton, NJ
Four TV shows I love:
- Deadwood
- Project Runway
- Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (r.i.p.)
- Errol Morris' First Person (r.i.p.)
Four of my favorite dishes:
- #18 from Port of Subs
- Fried Chicken
- Rare hunks of steak
- I'll use the fourth column to delineate things I like that, if I were less honest, would make my list seem more rounded than the honest heart attack plates listed above: Chicken Tikka Masala, Sushi, a well-made Caesar salad, Chicken Pad Thai, Chicken Kiev, Chicken + anything, etc.
Four places I've vacationed (an extremely poor showing here, as I've never properly vacationed anywhere - just taken trips to visit family and friends.):
- New York (very young)
- Fort Collins, CO
- Seattle, WA
- Driving across the country x6 (taking that tip from Ryan)
Four sites I visit daily:
- Bloglines, which is really the only site I visit daily, since everything I read either comes through there, or I forget about it.
- defective yeti &/or the sneeze
- we make money not art
- [can't say. yet.]
Four places I would rather be right now:
- someplace rainy
- in the throne of my personal kingdom, preferably on a rainy island
- in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie
- in 1987
Four bloggers I'm tagging:
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February 05, 2006
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Poor Tempbot - his loneliness is heartbreaking.
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Werner Herzog, Superhero.
Two recent news stories have confirmed something I've long thought: Werner Herzog is magical, if not an outright superhero.
Exhibit A: Herzog hescued Joaquin Phoenix from his car wreck
Apparently, Joaquin was driving along a canyon road above Sunset when he overturned his car, and came to at the sound of Herzog's voice:
"I remember this knocking on the passenger window. There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the airbag, I can't see and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed. Finally, I rolled down the window and this head pops inside. And he said, 'No, you're not.' And suddenly I said to myself, 'That's Werner Herzog' There's something so calming and beautiful about Werner Herzog's voice. I felt completely fine and safe. I climbed out. I got out of the car and I said, 'Thank you,' and he was gone."
See that? Classic superhero move - leaves before he can be thanked for his selfless act of heroism.
Exhibit B: Herzog Shot During BBC Interview
Yes, Herzog was shot. That's the kind of headline that might induce panic or worry. Had this been someone like Steven Spielberg or Ridley Scott, we'd have a story about how they were whisked off to Cedars-Sinai and are currently under close watch by a team of superdoctors to ensure their recovery. But not Herzog. No, instead, Herzog chooses to complete the interview, once again exhibiting an eerie calm:
The 63-year-old was chatting with movie journalist Mark Kermode about his documentary Grizzly Man, when a sniper opened fire with an air rifle.
Kermode explains, "I thought a firecracker had gone off.
"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'
"He just carried on with the interview while bleeding quietly in his boxer shorts."
And then Herzog says this: ""It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."
Let's run these events against my "Superhero or not?" checklist:
Miraculous rescue of people in need: Check.
Uncanny knack for showing up at the right moment: Check.
Retreats before gratitude can be expressed: Check.
Makes others feel safe: Check.
Impervious to bullets: Check.
Unafraid of mortal danger: Check.
Unwilling to let villains stand in the way of his duties: Check.
Sent from a foreign land (Germany) to save us all: Check. (Thanks, Sam!)
Gives interviews in his boxer shorts: Check.
It's pretty clear: Werner Herzog is a superhero.
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February 04, 2006
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Nice design here.
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She wants better music.
A few things to know about She Wants Revenge, the trite throwback band-of-the-moment that I keep seeing press for everywhere. In interviews, they've stressed that they're just making music influenced by the bands they grew up listening to (supposedly, a list that begins with Joy Division, Bauhaus, et al):
- Their vocalist is Justin Warfield. You may have bought his poorly received hippy rap album in 1993, which came out hot on the heels of Digable Planets and Arrested Development.
- Oh, you didn't? Well, maybe you bought his poorly received alterna-take-on-Lenny-Kravitz-lite rock throwback album, which came out in 1995.
- No? Then maybe you bought a Limp Bizkit album?
Fred Durst is responsible for signing She Wants Revenge, which might have something to do with why they went from zero-to-everywhere in about a two months, on a major label. (Who listens to Fred Durst anymore? Who is paying him to sign bands?)
And that, I think, is all you need to know about She Wants Revenge.
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February 03, 2006
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An mp3 interview with the the K-Fed, wherein he proclaims everything around him to be the fiiii-ur! (That is, the "fire"). Boy, oh boy, the Federleazy sure is amusing.
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February 02, 2006
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These tiny monitors look handy, if I actually shot any video.
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"In all, more than 3,000 people are still unaccounted for, nearly five months after the storm."
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February 01, 2006
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Agreed: "'Crash' just doesn't ring true. It's less an honest and persuasive exploration of racial conflicts in America than a crude, melodramatic burlesque of inter-racial warfare pitched to a breathless level of hysteria."
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Johnny Marr and Isaac Brock are writing songs together? Weird.
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C'mon already: "Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby's request, said in a letter to Libby's lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney's office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy."
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