::monday, august 26::

Darth Vader moonlights as a gargoyle

That whole Star Wars as Religion thing is looking more and more convincing.

::wednesday, august 21::

Restaurant Horror Stories

The New Yorker has a terrific double-issue this week on food. And one particular story on restaurant health inspections is pretty unnerving. This is a short interview with the story's author.

DW over at JOHO the Blog is mulling over a name for the impending invasion of Iraq, saying "I'm less enamored with Operation Oedipus than I was. I'd prefer something like Operation Oedipal Blindness or maybe Operation Oedipal Apocalypse." How about Operation Barking Lunatic? or perhaps Operation Bush II: The Reckoning?

::monday, august 19::

JOHO the Blog

DW explains how the FBI is draining American productivity by millions of hours through making us watch those infernal warnings on rented movies. This cause needs a lobbyist and some PAC money, and I mean now! Email me, and I'll tell you to whom you should write your checks!

::sunday, august 18::

Paste Magazine

Click immediately over to the CD Sampler for issue #1 (link at top of page) and then listen to Bill Mallonee's "She's So Liquid" -- a new track from an upcoming CD.

::wednesday, august 14::

Esquire:Tools:Exit-Memo Generator

Esquire gives us a quick and easy way to crank out the typewritten equivalent of a sturdy middle finger.

::monday, august 12::

Google Search: aa ae ao ea ee eo

Bart has vowel issues. (This is crazy.)

Google Search: "By now I should know everything"

Google has been kind enough to add all my poetry that I've posted in its indexes, so that now phrases like "All we wanted was a little porn at midnight" and "By now I should know everything" bring you a single result at Google's search page: my page of poems. If only there were a way to get rich off this?

::friday, august 9::

The New Yorker - "Signs" Review

Anthony Lane is right-on about the movie. But don't read this unless you've already seen it. And if you haven't seen it yet, go.

::friday, august 2::

6pc Crucifixion Accessory Set

For this season's well-dressed messiah. (Scroll to the bottom to find it; too bad they're "Sold Out.")

A Philosopher Asks Buddha

Enter the weekend with a random koan. A new one with every "refresh."

::thursday, august 1::

I've been so busy with work and the occasional long post to memekitchen, that I've neglected my personal logspace. I've decided to just throw down a bunch of fun links I've run into over the last few months that I never got around to talking about here. I'll let you click 'em and see what you think.

• Is it ok to make fun of W again?
• I love old book covers.
• If i still had free time I might play with these.
• Furbies are getting so cheap now. I mean Cheeeeaaap.
• The building I work in, in 1995, as seen from space.
• Everything is connected.
• See Darth get an ASCII-cking.
• Flash is 99% wack.
• Geek satire, with many levels (Quicktime).
• The first of my MFA mates to hit it bigtime.
• Nice dvd reviews.
• Fab favelets.
• Find only the freshest at Google.
• The One Disc set to own about The One Ring.
• Teeny cartoon games I don't have time for. But you probably do.
• Those wacky Zagat reviewers are a stitch.