Check out Brad’s somber mood, an excellent ‘Morning Improv‘ by Scott McCloud. There’s a bunch, but I particularly like this one - it sort of steals the last scene from Bergman’s Seventh Seal, but it’s funny instead of spooky. Or whatever the last scene in Seventh Seal was - maybe I should just say [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2004
Heh heh.
October 31, 2004 – 7:19 pm
(via tjic.com/blog)
Great comics at a softer world.
And shouldn’t there be a new Zetetic soon?
Something else to Blame Canada! for
October 31, 2004 – 10:05 am
After all, it’s just my job, five days a week.
Perhaps even more frightening is that he’s just come out with a critically acclaimed album (?!)
That and the Red Sox winning it all. Maybe the apocalypse really is nigh.
Osama bin McAuliffe
October 30, 2004 – 1:05 pm
The Belmont Club’s Wretchard (who’s been delivering great analysis on the missing explosives would be-story, btw) writes:
It is important to notice what he has stopped saying in this speech. He has stopped talking about the restoration of the Global Caliphate. There is no more mention of the return of Andalusia. There is no more anticipation [...]
More like us than them
October 29, 2004 – 11:58 pm
Natalie Solent on what appeals about W:
And I thank God - literally thank God - that the guy in the White House who started work on making that downside on September 12 2001 was a sunny-tempered frat boy who is President, at least in part, because his Daddy was. Peter Briffa’s column said that professional [...]
Friday night dogblogging
October 29, 2004 – 11:20 pm
We hates the close of the month, we hates it! She’s always lateses coming home and we can’t see the door from our burrow!
Better to be a dolt
October 29, 2004 – 9:33 pm
Excellent review at Armed and Dangerous.
In this satire, it’s the satire you’re supposed to see through. Irony is enlisted to anti-ironic purposes.
Throughout the film, Team America is clumsy, parochial, hamfisted and inadvertently destructive. But this is emphasised mainly in order to point up a continuing underlying message that it’s better to be a dolt with [...]
Cool tool
October 29, 2004 – 9:11 pm
http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/isen
For extra credit, find my post-it. ;)
(via isen.blog)
How not to run an online mailorder business
October 29, 2004 – 6:13 pm
Don’t indicate what items in your catalog are out of stock. Accept an order, and let the buyer choose to either
1. have the items they selected that don’t happen to be in stock deleted from their order and have the remaining items shipped right away, or
2. have the order held until all items are in [...]
Read Yourself Raw
October 29, 2004 – 6:02 pm
This pretty much sums up how I feel about Spiegelman. Hilarious. Not that he hasn’t done great work in the past, but it’s always sad to see an artist make the ludicrous jump from ‘people like my art’ to ‘people like me‘ and start spouting inanities like they’ve actually got anything more than eyes, fingers [...]
you had me at…
October 29, 2004 – 3:38 pm
DF: I’m not a financial adult. I don’t even file my taxes quarterly.
TC: You had me at “taxes”.
Teen pop here I come
October 27, 2004 – 7:10 pm
Apparently Cleary is moving to the west coast, so no more Delta Factor.
That sucks.
Just putting my foot in the water.
October 27, 2004 – 9:00 am
This word press thingee looks to solve a couple of problems I have with Moveable Type: private posts, and perhaps passwords on comments and replies. Does it solve the “comment spammer” problem which is so pissing me off in my current MT blog?
What fans?
October 27, 2004 – 12:42 am
You’re Nny! You’re psychotic and kind of evil, but somewhere in there is an emotion. Good luck finding it.
What Johnny the Homicidal Maniac character are you? brought to you by Quizilla
Accurate labels
October 26, 2004 – 11:58 pm
So, I fired off a brief message to the list today, and got a long progressive rant in reply. Which got me to thinking: isn’t it about time we changed the name of the town back to West Cambridge?
Because, well, it’s more West Cambridge every day, isn’t it?
Tough luck for Colin Quinn
October 26, 2004 – 11:47 pm
Well, this sucks. Quinn’s show was good, hopefully they won’t give it the axe. If they want higher ratings, they could try… I dunno… promoting it?
The Comedy Central late-night series “Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn” has likely reached the end of its run.
“Quinn” has been holding onto only about half of the audience tuning in [...]
Waging a silent war on western civilization
October 20, 2004 – 12:53 am
Reagan, vindicated yet again:
A number of factors have combined to increase volatile organic compounds (VOCs) air pollution from trees faster than VOC pollution from humans has declined.
The truth is plain to see: Nature is dangerous and needs to be brought under greater human control so that we can have a safer and cleaner environment. This [...]
Not-so-concealed quantification
October 19, 2004 – 9:51 pm
Jim Marzilli:
I grew up in Arlington when we could pay for our schools from the property tax, but that is no longer true.
I take pride in writing the law that abolished Middlesex County, a relic from our colonial era that long ago ceased working for us.
Who edits this stuff?
My parents’ generation provided me with an [...]
Bite me, Mr. Cornhole
October 19, 2004 – 5:43 pm
John Le Carré ^H^H^H^H^H David Cornwell writes:
Maybe there’s one good reason - just one - for re-electing George W Bush, and that’s to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling actions, and answer for his own lies, rather than wish the job on a Democrat who will then get blamed for his [...]