Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
I’ve been bugging out on Google calendars recently, and I found a really nifty one for this year’s World Cup. Others: Bottom of the Hill shows (rock n roll!), Giants games (hey, batter), Dolores Park movie nights (bring: jacket, beer).
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So apparently Google and Earthlink are teaming up to provide free WiFi service to all of SF (via Gizmodo). While we’re still a ways from knowing what this will actually mean — mainly, will be accessible at 14th and Valencia, third floor apartment? — it is intriguing to me that Google is involved. Unlike Earthlink, Google has never gouged [...]
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Here’s my question: How did this become the “Dear God” album, considering at least half the songs on it are as good or better? Damn you, Sarah McLachlan. I hadn’t listened to it since maybe 1995, when Ted and I played the shit out of it. We both loved the Beatles, and I had a [...]
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Most of my records, CDs and tapes sit idly in crates and on shelves, so here’s what I’m going to do: Every so often, I’m going to dust one off and see what it sounds like. Dredge the archive, and take a good long listen to something I haven’t heard in 2+ years. Tonight, I begin [...]
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The Twin Cities are still full of good times, especially when the mercury plunges. A couple of weekends ago, I enjoyed the chill with my friends Fish, Katie and Becky (pictured, in front of the new wing at the Walker). The highlights: Vietnamese sandwiches at the Jasmine Deli on Nicollet. Their sandwiches are fabulous, especially [...]
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Mike Mills is a graphic designer, director of many excellent music videos (among them: “Kelly Watch the Stars,” by Air, the one with the 70’s-looking slow-motion ping-pong players), and all-around aesthetic bad-ass. Terry Gross interviewed him on Fresh Air a couple of weeks ago, and you can check out the archived version on the NPR [...]
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Take one character each from column A and column B, place them in one of column C’s settings, and voila! You have the makings of a New Yorker cartoon. Supposedly, this was the doing of a group of NYer cartoonists at a recent festival.
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Law nerds around the country are providing interesting commentary of the Roberts confirmation. SCOTUSblog provides a blow-by-blow account of the posturing and intermittent questioning of the senators alongside interesting legal commentary, but it’s a blog, so you have to scroll down to the bottom and read upwards if you want to read chronologically. Balkinization, a [...]
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Has there been a more thankless task in modern literary history than editing Hunter S. Thompson? According to former Rolling Stone editor Robert Love, the magazine actually assigned junior editors the task of babysitting Thompson as he approached his deadline. (Okay, there are worse junior editing tasks than that; I’ve done them). In a recent [...]
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I’ve never met anyone who enjoyed an installment of the second Star Wars trilogy — Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. Commonly cited aspects of its unpopularity (in no particular order): terrible dialogue, insufferable “love” scenes, new characters that would be merely uninteresting if they weren’t offensive, and over-dependence on effects. [Read [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
