Category: Music

  • Breakfast circles

  • I more friendlier than I thought

    Although you’re hacking out the future in RDF, you realise that all technology boils down to dating in the end. What social software are you?

  • Weblogging's political lodestars

    Tom Coates writes about the political compass postings that have been meme-ing their way through the blogosphere lately. I know I took the test and posted my results here sometime, but I’d have to use my search feature to find it, or take the test again to see if I’ve drifted or if the questions…

  • The blogging of the president, 2004

    This sounds like a job for feedster: Chris Lydon wants us all to write The Blogging of the President. [Joho the Blog]

  • Beth, I hear you calling

    Scot Hacker asks the musical question, What was your first record? My older sister had the Partridges record he depicts (as well as a few others – all of them?), but the first record I bought myself was Kiss Destroyer, an LP that by pure coincidence was given to me for my birthday last week,…

  • Al Franken kinda blogs

    Visiting the DNC, Franken apparently dictated an entry for the Kicking Ass weblog. I’d read a real Al Franken weblog, if he had the time to write it. Hell, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho do.

  • Tuesday is 'Luskin is a stalker' day

    According to Tom Tomorrow, Neal Pollack is declaring this coming Tuesday (November 4, I believe, “Luskin is a stalker” day. Oh, and Tom (or whomever maintains your blog for you), your RSS feed stalled out some time in September.

  • Blogger threatened by lawyer

    I’m too busy this week to keep up with all the juicy weblog gossip and topics du jour, so I’ll just point you to Rogers Cadenhead’s coverage at his Workbench blog of this emerging story: Atrios, the pseudonymous publisher of the liberal political weblog Eschaton, has been contacted by the attorney of National Review contributor…

  • Documenting DeanSpace

    So much for downtime. My FrontPage book is in the can (but still needs a website), and the revision of my Dreamweaver book proceeds a pace, ably handled for the most part by my new coauthor, Lucinda Dykes. My next major project is more than a month a away. Mostly I’ve been writing fiction lately,…

  • Cranky soup

    When we run out of stuff at home, when we remember, we write it up on the whiteboard magnetically attached to the fridge, so next time I go shopping, if I remember to check the whiteboard, I can remember to get whatever it is we’ve run out of, on top of the usual stuff I…

  • Hosting does matter

    My aggregrator was filled this morning with discussions of blogging outages across the political spectrum (from right-wing to far-right-wing… just kidding), starting with CalPundit and on down. Dean Esmay had the scoop as far as I could tell. Metafilter now has this summary: Last night Hosting Matters (and their related resellers) was taken down by…

  • Announcing monolog

    So Dan asks me if there’s any way he can keep up with my blog postings all in one place, instead of scattered over numerous sites depending on whether it’s a journal entry, something to do with the arts, political, random and briefly noted, or experimental (I’m probably forgetting something). Well, now there is. It…

  • The soundtrack to your coming of age

    Mac at Tacitus asks the musical question At that point in your life when you hit the brink of adulthood (college graduation, dropping out, joining the navy, being kidnapped by cult of left-handed redheads, whatever it might be) what was the single most defining album/CD that the largest number of people you knew were likely…

  • Signs of the Apocalypse

    So the A’s are eliminated and we’re getting a new governor. (If Orren Hatch has his way Schwarzenegger can be president too. After that I guess the machines take over.) It’s looking more and more possible that there will be a Red Sox / Cubs world series, in which case Hell will probably freeze over…

  • DeLillo's 'The Names'

    In following the Plame Affair updates this morning I was reading the comments following a post (about evil Bob Novak) at Kevin Drum’s site. One comment mentioned the Philip Agee story. I don’t know much about it, but it may have inspired the law that was allegedly broken from within the White House, and it…

  • Blogs briefing the press

    Billmon think’s truly pathetic that journalists are getting their background on the Plame Affair from blogs, but one of his commenters points out that its the journalists who aren’t reading blogs who are harder to understand. It’s a great thread, not least because it includes this rewrite of Shakespeare by “Monica”: To the liberal blogosphere:…

  • Schwarzenegger is scary

    Last night I saw Arnold’s “Indian Gaming” ad and when he said, “I promise you, things will change” I suddenly realized that we are in fact a phantasm in the mind of Philip K. Dick, still transfixed by a sourceless beam of pink light, turning Hollywood into reality, one politician at a time. On the…

  • Working titles

    When I get around to writing a novel loosely based on this period of my life (but not legally actionable), I may want to call it South Lake. I like the name for some reason. I try to name all my novels, even the ones that are still just a glimmer in my eye. Having…

  • South Lake

    B commented on how it seems that numerous people we know have bought houses in the Brooklyn area on the south side of Lake Merritt (between Lake Shore and Park Boulevard). We live in a strangle little interstitial rhombus, bounded roughly by Oakland High on Park Blvd., Highland Hospital over on 14th. Ave., 580, the…

  • Substantial blogging at Edwards site

    Mike Kasper from EdwardsforPrez.com (an unofficial Edwards-supporter site) followed up my comment from a few days ago about John Edwards writing some of his own blog entries. I compared his first efforts to cat-blogging, in the sense of journal- or diaristic entries. I actually think that’s a good place to start and not a bad…

  • What is NewsMax?

    And why does it send me right-wing spam?