Truthdig – Reports – Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead Buckley was a world-class American liar on the far right who would tell any lie he thought he could get away with. Years of ass-kissing famous people in the press and elsewhere had given him, he felt, a sort of license to libelously […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Rollin' With Lester
Had a dream last night that I was riding in a convertible across an imaginary Mexico with a guy in his late 50s with a big beard, a leather jacket and an orange bandanna on his head — a guy I didn’t recognize at first, because nobody ever got to see him in his late […]
Birfday Weekend
Monday is my 30th birthday. I am not particularly happy about this. I was too busy to arrange a party, I have no money, and I’m a total loser who still lives with my parents and has yet to make a million dollars, release an album, or do anything of any real consequence for the […]
Awesome Papercraft Model Of Euclidean Geometry!
Wow. This whole papercraft thing is so awesome! It’s even more awesome that so many people have so much free time that they can figure out how to build, say, exact 1:1 scale models of the U.S.S. Annapolis, just using paper! And not just build it, but share it with the world! The Internet sure […]
I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords. And Here's Tom With The Weather.
Those cats at The Onion occasionally knock one out of the park.
A Better Idea Than The Wire
How do you top The Wire? I’m going to create a TV series myself and my show is going to last five MILLION seasons and it is going to BLOW YOUR MIND. It’s going to be set in even worse parts of Baltimore, maybe in the sewers, and it will show HBO viewers not just […]
Currently Listening To, 3-20-08
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV The Gutter Twins, Saturnalia Daniel Lanois, Here Is What Is Working For A Nuclear Free City, Working For A Nuclear Free City
A More Perfect Union
This is the finest speech I’ve ever heard given by a politician in my lifetime. I really want to believe that this speech will be remembered in the way that the Gettysburg Address is remembered, the way that Kennedy’s speeches are remembered. The way Martin Luther King’s dream is remembered. To hear a politician telling […]
Portfolio Is Up
Still needs some work (mostly technical), but it’s there. Lemme know what you think, and if you notice anything silly and obviously wrong with it. Other than the weird loading page and the pixelated sample images, which I can’t seem to fix.
links for 2008-03-19
How a German wartime flying ace discovered he shot down his hero | the Mail on Sunday Poor guy killed Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who was his favorite author at the time. Sad story. (tags: author ironic war-sucks)