Totally *not* feeding the trolls

This is why I don’t have a “Recent Comments” sidebar on here.
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As much as I enjoy a good blog war (hell, it’s why I read scienceblogs.com), I don’t like encouraging this kind of moronicity. It started out fun. Now it’s just depressing.
I like my blog and my modest [...]

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Brief movie review: King of Kong

I’m probably going to podcast about this, so I will be brief. but if you haven’t seen it already you HAVE to see King of Kong: Fist Full of Quarters.
I may be a nerd, but I’m not a videogame nerd.  Other than Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt when I was about 9, I have [...]

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Dear Josh: Or more signs that you might be a troll

Though I should probably break this blog silence by writing about the move (rainy but OK), the house (awesome!) or the phone/internet situation (bloody frustrating), this is too awesome to ignore. It’s almost as good as the time I got plagiarized.
But first, a couple more helpful signs that may tell you if you’re a [...]

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Book review: The Unlikely Disciple

I can’t remember *where* exactly I read about Kevin Roose’s book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University. I can’t remember when exactly I reserved at the library.  But I must have done so – I’m guessing sometime in July, at the peak of my Quiverfull obsession – because a week [...]

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An extremely civilized Facebook flame war

One of my Facebook friends (Ali Berkok, of the excellent jazz group Arkana Music and others) posted a link today to Nina Paley’s essay, Artists are not inherently entitled to monetary compensation for their art. The ensuing flame war was both educational and relatively civilized.
Paley’s point appears to be that, like no one feels like [...]

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Perhaps I am doing Ralph Nader a disservice, but…

…has he lost his mind?
Go here, listen/watch, and tell me what you think.
The title came from—Warren Buffett was watching post-Katrina in his living room in Omaha, and he saw these streams of poor people fleeing the floods and the winds, and no food, no water, no shelter, on the highways north of New Orleans. And [...]

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Movie review: Spy Games

This is an old film, not in the “Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich” sense, but in the “Robert Redford was still working, nobody’s really using their giant ugly computers but hey! they have cellphones” sense.  I was visiting my parents this weekend (hence my failure to post in the past few days – sorry!), and, [...]

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Extremely quick review: Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes

Last night my lovely friend Cecilia took me to see Elvis Costello. Even though I have an audition today – I have an audition this afternoon and have to go out and print off another headshot before too long, so this will be brief – I was like, “Sure!” because even though I like [...]

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Alchemy: Still not dead yet.

Today at the art gallery I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the financial, social, and moral disaster that was Enron, the oil/internet/utility company that crashed and burned so spectacularly in 2001. Yeah, OK, the movie came out in 2005 or something, but I didn’t see it until today [...]

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What was THIS supposed to be?

Ran across a file today titled “The Migraine Muse”.  I don’t remember writing it, though it’s obvious that I did.
The Migraine Muse
Ellen bit her lip.  The pain was subsiding, and with it she felt her grasp on her story slip away – Dolly the pretty one, Marjorie the silent stern patient one, Mickey the lovable [...]

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