10/27 to 11/03 |
november
3, 1:09 am
A few months ago, I started listening to Howard Stern every
morning, mostly to figure out what the hell the attraction was. And, for some reason I
still can't intelligently articulate, Stern's sexist schtick was always funny, smart and
insightful. Now we all know he's separating from the wife he seemed so faithful to. Was it
all an act? Frank Ahrens from the W.Post dissects these "Split
Decisions on Howard Stern."
I would love to be known as a survivor (and a millionaire). That's why today I
printed up the application
for CBS' upcoming "you're marooned on
an island with a bunch of strangers" program. The producers have extended the
deadline for submissions until Dec. 10. I've given up, though. It says you must be
in "excellent physical and mental health." Ah, well. Maybe Real World New Orleans is for me.
You play music on RealJukebox and RealNetworks
collects all kinds of information on you. That's so uncool! So they stopped.
But these issues of digital privacy are good to be familiar with if you're a regular Web
player.
"American Movie" is a
documentary about a documentary-in-the-making (and it has a cool website). It's also
"a hilarious, heartfelt look at grass-roots filmmaking." This article
is from Sunday's NYTimes. But it's worth your time to read because this film will soon
generate a lot of talk in your neighborhood. I promise.
Listen to the new R.E.M.
song. (thanks Whit!) On that musical note, music365.com knows what they're talking
about.
Are you kidding? Gentlehints.com. It
might be easier to let Dr. Weil help with that body odor problem. |
november
2, 2:15 am
If you are a film lover, and I should hope you are, become a fan of
Roger Ebert's Great Movies column.
Twice a month, the Chicago Sun-Times critic (also
known as the fat half of Siskel & Ebert fame) reviews a classic film as if he was
watching it for the first time. Read his introduction first,
because he eloquently explains his goal: "One of the gifts one movie lover can
give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered." Some
of Ebert's so-called classic movies may be hard to get through (I have fallen asleep several
times during a screening of some oh-so arty foreign film on the list), but the
pay-off is dropping a line about Hiroshi Teshigahara's use of sand imagery in "Woman of the
Dunes" at your next pretentious party. Check out: "E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial," "La Dolce
Vita" and "A Hard Day's
Night" - which should be
in theaters soon with an updated soundtrack. Cheeky! |
november
1, 1:42 am
Yes, I need to archive this crap I write. Yes, I'll do it one day.
Hopefully soon.
Everyone loves online photo galleries, right? You can channel so much energy into
click-click-clicking your mouse as pretty pictures shuffle past your glazed eyeballs. The
NYTimes.com just launched a new gallery featuring the work of Annie Leibovitz.
There are some exceptional photos here from her new exhibit "Women." I
especially like the Jerry Hall portrait. Definitely more than worth a click-through.
(Thanks to Heather Moore for pointing it out . . . she works there, you know.)
Sites that require lots of time: atomfilms.com
and ifilm.com. Both give you a more-than-necessary
collection of short films to download and watch. On a similar waste-time-at-work note,
have I talked about spinthebottle.com yet? It's
a site run by the Pop-Up Video people. If that's not enough to entice you into this world
of sarcastic put-downs, what if I say you can a.) watch new pop-up videos b.) scan a
schedule of upcoming "pops," including a search-by-artist feature c.) giggle at
the Pop of the Day (a concise & blasphemous take on the latest news).
Golly gee it's NOVEMBER. Where are your children? |
october
29, 11:35 am
I have nothing, NOTHING to report. So sue me. *mmmmmwha!* |
october
28, 2:39 am
My head aches and my heart breaks that I cannot bring you much more
than:
The Mojave Desert phone booth has
been stolen! I just found out about this particular communications phenomenon
a few weeks ago: 15 miles off the one lone interstate through the circus sands stands a
PHONE BOOTH. Its mysterious affairs are recorded on this site. I read up about it and
started calling (760) 733-9969. It was always busy! But once, oh yes ONCE I got through.
Now it is no longer. Thanks to the Yuppie
Slayer for bringing this sad sad news to my dark dark world.
Snortals? Coming soon. Wired.com wrote about this "Web product that makes scents"
a week ago. And this prompted USA TODAY's Kevin Maney to sniff around a bit: "Do you get the scents the Internet
is going to the dogs?"
Found fun fact: Almost half of all Net users will have a personal Web site by the
spring, according to an NPD Online Research survey.
Does your doggy like Frisbees? Join the club.
(p.s. this is my dad's favorite site) |
october
27, 2:04 am
Has everyone tried google.com
yet? You want to know why you should? Well! The company's response is good enough: "Google
is designed to impose order on information chaos." And that's certainly what
this whole World Wide Web thing has become. But as a search engine, I think google makes a
very worthwhile contribution. Here's a sample of what I discovered today:
�My name brings up two
(really boring) papers I co-wrote for a Texts and Contexts class
�Ryan Cormier is quoted in an
article with the headline "University of Delaware now calls Mommy when you get
drunk"
�Catherine Hopkinson is immortalized for her contribution to a
certain interactive story for a major online newspaper
�Bill Werde likes to post on the Acid Jazz newsgroup
�Kimberly Fenn was Sports Campus Rider of
the Week
�Whitney Matheson wrote zillions of columns for The Daily Beacon. Sample
"Fun-shaped
foods provide peace, tranquility," be reassured that "even cheerful people
get the blues sometimes," discover why books are
better than the movies
I enjoyed this U.S. News article about why it pays to quit and
other interesting tidbits for the young adult trapped in the inevitable "what the
hell am I doing" conundrum
Lord! Ronsangels.com. Certainly worth
discussing. Here's the Post's take on
it.
I suppose we must all conjure up some kind of Halloween costume. Sandy Duraes,
manager of a theater-arts store, had some
advice: "You can never go wrong with Elvis; a classic vampire is always in as
is any character from "The Wizard of Oz." If you're planning on boogeying the
night away, you'll have more fun in a '50s outfit than in full Elizabethan regalia." Thanks
Sandy! Or maybe I'll just peruse this guide to modern Wicca,
and read the latest edition of The Witches' Voice
to tap into some inner, scary resource.
Today is Roberto Benigni's 47th birthday. Write him a message in Italian. Perch�
non? |
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