Black and White and Red All Over

Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 11:53 p.m. -
I interviewed Howard Bloom for Amazon.com recently and forgot to link it. His website's linked over yonder on the right. He's a broad and deep thinker, and I encourage you to check out what he had to say to me - then, why not dig into his book Global Brain?

Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 12:27 p.m. -
Swedish cops fake video evidence. If they're doing it, surely American prosecutors are as well.

Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 02:54 p.m. -
Yesterday I learned the true meaning of Boxing Day.

Monday, December 24, 2001 - 12:36 p.m. -
Oh, oh, oh, and while I'm at it I'd better publish and copyright my latest $$-making IP: a line of clothes for kids of hipsters, all black, called Osh Kosh B'Goth.

Monday, December 24, 2001 - 12:18 p.m. -
The name of the New Jersey Governor's mansion is Drumthwacket. Drumthwacket! Thay it - I mean say it: Drumthwacket.

Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 11:49 a.m. -
OK, here's my Lord of the Rings entry. I saw it yesterday with Therese and Mrs. Therese and Mrs. T's giant posse of cow-orkers (sorry, I can't help but hyphenate it that way). It was really quite good. It might just be that years of experience with marketing-orgy films like Episode One have diminished my cinematic expectations to the point where any effort directed toward thoughtfulness or aesthetic appeal will stun me into compliance, but who can be sure?

Somehow they managed to cram in several hundreds of pages of exposition between the fight and special effects scenes without boring the crap out of the non-Tolkien-obsessed. One funny moment, possibly unintentional, came after Gandalf had finished another flashback-reverie-explanation-of-what-had-happened-off-camera; Frodo had to sort of shake him out of it like they were a couple of stoners. Speaking of which, the drug references are cute and not overwhelming.

So go see it. Unfortunately you won't experience what I felt to be the best part of the day: During the trailer for the new movie by the guy that did The Sixth Sense, which is all about spoo-oo-ooky crop circles and weird lights in the sky, etc., Anonymous Geek cried out "I see grey people!" Brought the house down, he did.

Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 11:48 a.m. -
Quick! Go check out the hacked National Cathedral home page. Or is this old news?

Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 11:43 a.m. -
Here's the cry-for-help Xmas piece I just wrote for the Weekly. I'm not responsible for the little disclaimer at the bottom, though I do think it's funny. The illustration rocks. Here's the other Lightner's article from the same issue on holiday fun with contraband. To compare with a different family, try P.R. Hughes' article on, well, pillows. Yeah, pillows!

Oh, and Tera wanted to see Jill's pie article, too. Mmm, pie.

Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 11:41 a.m. -
Hubba hubba. It's a VERY complete map of Springfield. Yes, THAT one.

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