Monthly Archives: May 2005

Preparatory Geekery Revealed

So … about Wednesday. We lost, as stated, but not by much. What was not immediately evident from the final score was the amount of preparation that occured prior to the game itself. See, the truth is … well … we sort of … just read for yourself. faceasspants: What ship was originally modelled after

Expected and Obligatory

Another Wednesday. Another evening of trivia. With several of our number otherwise engaged or simply out of the city, we had only four noggins between us (1, 2, 3 and me). But overall, we didn’t do too bad. While we weren’t one of the awarded top three, we did catch a respectable fourth.* Amber‘s Olsonites

Needs More Lando

Astronomically apostolic art from Eric Deschamps. (Found on Cinematical.)

Kermit, Yoko and Horace

Last week’s iPod shuffle list was a rather interesting measure of the day, so let’s do it again. And besides, I needed to do something to steer me away from the subject of my last post. In true 24-style, let’s say that the following songs played between the hours of 11:00am and 2:45pm on Tuesday,

This is Feist

Sometime between now and Saturday, I need to come up with another music review. Two, actually. First, I need to distill last week’s Ari Hest / Aslyn show to something more than just “It was really cool and there was this drunk girl who almost broke herself.” Then I need to put some thoughts together

Familiar Thunderous Applause

With few exceptions, I try to keep [modern, nightly news] politics out of my movie and music reviews. After all, works of art ought to be capable of maintaining an existence beyond the immediate present, so one shouldn’t use only the most immediate mirrors available when judging their worth. In other words, while I couldn’t

Party’s Over, Kids

Did I say we’d be back to normal on Monday? I must’ve been lying. I meant to say Saturday. As in today. Everyone give Jen a wonderful round of virtual applause as she shuffles back over to her own blog. To celebrate my return, I should have a stupendously spectacular post all typed-up and ready-to-fly

In The Name Of Art

Yes … … there is a story here. Why do you ask?