Monthly Archives: October 2003

silent films, rock city and tea

we got to charlotte in plenty of time. vanilla coke and chex mix, rufus wainwright and johnny cash. these things kept us awake and thundering up i-85 on a saturday morning. these things and the reason to go, of course. and we were early. early enough to check into one hotel, make our way to

imminent interview

heading to charlotte tomorrow morning.for novello and the interview.nervous energy is distracting me from work.the weather should be good.thirteen questions for twenty-five minutes? ought to be enough. honestly, i’m not that concerned. the bright sun of a mostly gorgeous day is doing today’s work-distracting. and i’ve never been one to lose my bearings and behave

now everybody can play

don’t have a mac? loyal to your PC? who cares? ignore your operating system prejudices and download this fine piece of work. itunes – without a doubt the one of the best things about OS X – is mac only no longer. update: if the real link bogs down, users of bittorrent can go here.

apocalyptic profit (or foul behavior)

there’s much cash to be made from the so-called “end days” of this fine planet. selling the idea of earth’s decimation is not a new idea. hollywood of the 80s gave us several possible scenarios, most of them dealing with the effects of nuclear radiation or life in a fallout shelter or bands of mutant

blood, the bride and a guy named bill (kill bill: volume one)

my review of quentin tarantino’s kill bill is up at jive magazine, so go take a look. when you’re done, feel free to come back here and drop a comment or two.

new navigation

(aka pointing-out-the-obvious) i’ve moved some of the internal links from the left to a handy-dandy nav-bar across the top (much credit to listamatic for design inspiration). external links have been given a unified design based on what is becoming an 80-by-15 pixel standard. and still others some have been eliminated because of dead-linkage or other

spam: it’s not just for email anymore

it’s in your weblog, as well. i don’t know if you’ve noticed — i’ve tried to be vigilant — but there have been more than a few inappropriate comments posted in the last few weeks. i mentioned them briefly a short while ago. these aren’t inappropriate in a personal sense, but rather in a “using

wishes diminished

it is that time of year again. time to dig through my amazon wish list and throw out the things that don’t meet current wish criteria. i dropped my total items from somewhere in the upper 70s to an even 40. maybe i’m getting less greedy in my old age…

the cult of personality..

has chosen. way to make us all proud, california. say it with me now: “america gets the celebrities politicians it deserves.“

january all over again

in a freak mishap involving jam and banjos and duct tape and the right honorable ambassador from burma, i lost my stylesheet. and now, i’ve had to scramble to my last known backup of the site to find something resembling a replacement. so, if the site looks a bit like it did around january… well…