June 2008
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Memetics: The EW Movie List
Another listicle from EW for us all to pore over — the 100 best films from 1983-2008: 1. Pulp Fiction (1994) 2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03) 3. Titanic (1997) 4. Blue Velvet (1986) 5. Toy Story (1995) 6. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 9. Die Hard (1988) 10. Moulin Rouge (2001) 11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 12. The...
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Music Friday: Crazy Cambodian Garage Rock
Yes It DoesWanna hear something really cool? Check this out: Cambodian Rocks My pal JoeyX mentioned this album on The Well the other day. It’s a compilation of Cambodian psychedelic and garage rock from the late 60s and early 70s that was “compiled by an American tourist named Paul Wheeler from some cassettes he bought in Phnom Penh.” WFMU originally posted the tracks without...
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Memetics: The EW Book List
I am a sucker for lists; I have been since I was a kid. Anytime a magazine spits out a listicle I am inclined to read it and see how many of the the albums/books/movies on the list I have seen/read. So when Marjorie pointed me at the Entertainment Weekly list of the 100 Best Books Since 1983 (part of their New Classics series — I’ll blog the other lists later as well), I had to see...
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What To Drink
Thanks to Mark Bittman, I now have the entire menu for wht I’ll be drinking this summer: Be Your Own Mixologist As Bittman points out in this article, just about any combination of liquor, a little sugar, and something sour is a named drink. So if you know how to make one, you can make any of them, depending on what you’re in the mood for, and what’s in the house. Here’s...
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Must Watch: Lara Logan on The Daily Show
I have become a member of the cult of Lara Logan, after this interview on The Daily Show earlier this week. Watch the whole thing, it’s fantastic. “If I were to watch the news that you’re hearing here in the United States, I’d just blow my brains out, because it would just drive me nuts.” “You get in a Humvee with soldiers, they’re all on their best...
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Attacks In Midtown
This weekend saw a couple of assaults in my neighborhood: Attacks unnerve residents The first was on a residential block about two blocks from my house; the second was in front of a bar about 7 blocks away (a quick aside: I wouldn’t describe Shady’s as “near the Broad Street Market.” I’m sure the management of the Market was un-psyched to see it pop up in this...
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Random Thoughts After Listening to 10 Minutes of...
1. As much as I hate the country station that’s usually on in the shop, I would gladly listen to that “stick a boot in your ass” song a hundred times instead of being subjected to “All Out Of Love” even once. 2. The line “she blew my nose, and then she blew my mind” confused the hell out of me when I was a little kid. 3. When you open a dictionary to the...
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Must Read: Michael Lewis on Baseball in Cuba
Jonah Keri calls this “the best baseball article you’ll read all year,” and he’s right. Michael Lewis (of ‘Moneyball’ and ‘Liar’s Poker’ fame) writes about the state of baseball in Cuba. Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution This is reporting at its best. Do yourself a favor and read this over the weekend — you’ll be...
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Why To Vote Republican
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Welcome to 2001, UGI
UGI Utilities has finally implemented online bill payment. For the last two years, the UGI bill has been the only monthly expense I had to write a check for — everything else, from the phone to daycare to the mortgage, is paid online (and, in fact, automatically). This cuts my time spent on monthly bills to almost nil — just an occasional check of the checking account to make sure no...
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Congrats to The Kid
Congratulations to Ken Griffey Jr. for hitting home run #600 last night in Miami. Encomiums (encomia?) are Sweet-swingin’ Ken Griffeyappearing throughout the baseball world as the first untainted 600 in 37 years* comes courtesy of one of the prettiest swings in the history of major league baseball. As is often the case, Joe Posnanski has one of the best columns about this milestone: Joe...
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Movie Friday: SideStreet Cinema
Movies instead of music this week, as I finally got confirmation that SideStreet Cinema is back! I’ll be there, Midtown cocktail in hand, for ‘Dazed & Confused’ this Saturday, and ‘Raising Son, you got a panty on your head.Arizona’ in a few weeks for sure. I’m glad to see they’re doing the live music thing again, this time for the awesome...
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An Email to Mike Doughty: The Harrisburg Show and...
Mike, I was at your free show at the Abbey at Appalachian Brewing Company in Harrisburg over the weekend. I’ve been a fan since the Soul Coughing days — I doubt there’s been a record over the last year that I anticipated more than Golden Delicious — and have been lucky to see you twice in central PA over the last few months (thanks for that — it seems like no one ever...
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WANT
Back before the Internet, I remember seeing ads for a little handheld gizmo that displayed baseball scores. I imagine it was cellular; you could scroll through all Niiiiice.the games in progress and see the score, men on base, count, etc. If I remember correctly, it even had some sort of notification feature that would let you know when your team scored. I don’t remember much about them...
