December 2007
68 posts
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Evel Knievel Makes Final Jump →
(1938-2007)
November 2007
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framework →
‘Phonography/field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity’. With an aurally satisfying stream and podcast.
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“H-Hold on a second… Kiki wants me to pull her finger.”
– Kiki’s Mother (During our phone conversation today)
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Meet Your Vancouver 2010 Olympics Mascots! →
Ugh. Can’t anyone design a contemporary spokescharacter or mascot without it looking like Qee?
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ESPN: Chiefs Lineman Turley Giving Game Check To... →
Stepping up when his own NFL Players Association won’t. And it seems other active players are following his lead. A selfless gesture, to be sure. Kudos.
Curious if there exists a threshold when dirty clothes become clean again, when the stink enzymes eat themselves. Feeling experimental…
Should chocolate covered raisins be crunchy?
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ABC Executive Now Writing All Their Shows...
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Bam! Food Network Shutters 'Emeril Live' →
10 delicious years come to an andouille.
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“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”
– Stanislaw Lem
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ESPN: Cubs Are Willing To Trade Prior →
Thanks, Dusty Baker, for burning this kid out. What a waste. Of course, with the Cubs’ track record for dealing pitchers, the righty will bounce back elsewhere and torch them in the NL. Greg Maddux, anyone?
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More From The Hi-Fi Cabinet...
Released in 1962 as a demonstration disc to show off the sonic capabilities of new stereo systems. The only tracks I remember were ‘The Phantom of the Opera Song’ (what I later learned to be a cheesy rendition of Bach’s ’Toccata and Fugue in D Minor’), some equally pungent exotica, and a mondo weirdo called—wait for it—‘Adolph Hitler’. Pretty sure this...
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WatchFat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt On - Today, Now! (via The Onion News Network) Cringe-worthy because we all knew a kid just like him. Yup, we sure did.
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Quiet Riot Singer DuBrow Dead At 52 →
I give VH1 less than a week to re-air their Behind The Music episode (with an addendum). Rock in peace.
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FirstBook.org →
Give children of low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
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FFFFound.com →
Image bookmarking. Visual cornucopia. Graphic design orgy. Invite-only beta. Shucks.
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Pinhole Photography - Justin Quinnell →
Talk about Point-of-View. Otherworldly snaps captured with UK photographer’s proprietary ‘Smiley Cam’, which you can buy at his site. You can also buy prints of his dental work. Image © Justin Quinnell
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FreeRice.com →
Expand your vocabulary. Help end world hunger. (via Drew)
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NFL Well, It Wasn't A Total Loss 12
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Reading Tea Leaves And Campaign Logos →
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The Bulls Stink →
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the city’s sports saviors might well be the Blackhawks.
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Fire Destroys 35 Structures In Malibu; 25%... →
Mudslide season’s gonna be a doozy. Enough already. (via The LA Times)
Just had PBJ, and now I feel drowsy. Either Unilever’s spiked the Skippy with tryptophan, or I OD’d on turkey on Thursday.
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A Photographer's Look At The Special Olympics →
Brief Huffington Post interview with Richard Corman about his 2003 book: an emotional photo essay documenting his then 12-year association with the organization. The book’s cover image says it all. More images at Corman’s site.
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The Romantics Sue 'Guitar Hero' Maker →
Video game’s cover version of ‘What I Like About You’ sounds too good. Guys, really. You wrote the song 28 years ago. Take the free licensing money, and shut up. Perhaps you should be more concerned about rehearsing for that Wichita Squash Festival gig next weekend.
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This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Pass'
Shark - Used to have teeth. Now it’s just CBS-ified.
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'Oz' Munchkin Actors Get Star On Hollywood Walk Of... →
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'The First Family' LP - 1962
Every anniversary of the JFK Assassination brings this artifact to the fore. As a lad, I found my folk’s copy in the hi-fi cabinet—leaving Color Me Barba unexplored, of course. I remember the disc being pristine, as if it came from the record store the day before and had only been played a few times. And then I found out why. And then I realized there must’ve been millions of other...
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Be thankful.
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NYC Christmas Tree Gets Greener →
So-So-Solar. (via C|Net)
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Jeremy Mayer: Typewriter Sculptures →
Eerie pieces crafted entirely of typewriter parts. Writers often claim their machines have minds of their own. Now they have arms and legs, and teeth and eyes… (via Boing Boing) Bust - 2004 (© Jeremy Mayer) Nude III - 2007 (© Jeremy Mayer) Mask II - 2004 (© Jeremy Mayer)
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Get My F.B.I. File →
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Veggie Enemy #1: Brussels Sprouts
Nope. Won’t eat ‘em. Not over rice, or under sauce, or caramelized. I’ll pass, thanks. Joining them on my hit list, in no particular flavor: Cauliflower Turnips/Parsnips Eggplant Rhubarb Okra Cabbage (though will eat cole slaw) Kale (a form of cabbage — Nice try!)
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Songza →
Sleek, low-frills music search and net jukebox.
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Study Finds Sitting May Increase Risk Of Disease →
Fat-burning enzymes are shut off within hours of not standing. So don’t sit while you’re on the phone. Don’t sit while working at the computer. Recommendation of 30 minutes of activity 5 days a week not nearly enough. So, what, we have to call them ‘Stand-ups’ now…?
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LA County Tests Drive-Thru Flu Shots →
‘Care to try our Tetanus-Diptheria Pertussis Combo?’
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Dick Wilson (1916-2007)
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New DVD Of Early 'Sesame Street' Contains Parental... →
Episodes produced in 1969 ‘May not suit the needs of today’s preschool child’. Well, duh. (via Huffington Post)
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NFL What Happened? 11
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Preston Sturges →
Without peer, past or present. Wrote dialogue more than 60 years ago that could be spoken onscreen today. Only fitting this Hollywood legend was awarded the first-ever Oscar™ for Best Screenplay (for The Great McGinty, 1940. Sullivan’s Travels is on my short-list of films I’ll drop whatever I’m doing to watch, minute 00:01 or 00:81. WGA Strike Update: Writers, Studios To Resume...
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'Tis The Season To Swingle
Holiday A Cappella goodness.
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Wrigley Playing Field Reconstruction Ahead Of... →
White Sox groundskeeper in charge of project. Wha…?
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Save Ellis Island →
Inside that complex somewhere — on a handrail, or a doorknob, or a window sill — the anxious fingerprints of my then 18-year-old great-grandfather: March 3, 1907. Just the thought sends chills.
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Starbucks Profits Up, U.S. Traffic Down →
Not a coffee achiever, which explains why I don’t get their math… Then again, perhaps my disinterest comes from knowing that lip-burning, good-to-the-last-drop, morning wake-up is sometimes made from cat shit.
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Digital Tampering In The Media, Politics and Law →
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