Category: Musicology

  • Sunbaked parapet

  • Building is enormous basket

    Longaberger makes baskets, and their building is a 16x scale model of one of their more popular products.

  • Diversity in the real world

    In People Like Us, noninsane conservative columnist David Brooks writes Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives next to a professional golfer, who lives next to a postmodern-literature…

  • New York is off-line

    Suddenly I’ve noticed the charms of a hosted weblogging system, now that the New York blackout has taken my server off-line. Not sure if my sites will be up again today or not till Monday. It’s too bad, too, because I’m missing “Fair and Balanced” day on the Internet.

  • Dear Ndugu

    About Schmidt seemed to be as much about America, about the sky, about freedom, about infidelity, about regret, about clarity, about death.

  • the old winery

  • cough, cough

    teh photolog

  • Friday is 'Fair and Balanced' day

    In one of his least gonzo weblog posts ever, Neil Pollock, the world’s greatest living writer steps up to defend Al Franken against Fox News: Nonetheless, it’s the policy of this website to rise to the aid of satire whenver it’s threatened, even if the threatened satirist is three links above it on the comedy…

  • east is south on 580

  • underpass

  • Daypop Top and falling fast

    You, gentle reader, probably did not notice my most recent experience of nanofame, a weekend flirting with the top of the weblog charts on the strength of a weak little song parody I call Blogistan Pie. Now, I’m already conflicted about Radio Free Blogistan. It’s a good outlet for my writing, memoir, and publishing interests…

  • The Soroses are part of the market

    D-squared Digest explains why bubble markets don’t pop as soon as we might expect.

  • Tom Coates fact-checks the BBC

    Ordinarily, Tom Coates of plasticbag.org defends professional journalism as the province of dedicated newgathering resources and standards of professionalism, although, as he notes in On ‘two years’ of weblogs…, [A]bsolutely anyone who’s ever been featured in a news story … knows full well that journalists routinely seem to get quite important and easy-to-check facts wrong.…

  • I've created a monster

    Pete Hoskins of This Pirate Kills Fascists has recorded the first known rendition of my li’l ditty (I Sing the Blogistan Electric). Amazing stamina! Some moments really cracked me up, especially with the overrunning lines! It occurs to me that the chorus should really be “this’ll be the day blogging died” or “this’ll be the…

  • Spam sells

    So who’s buying all that herbal v1agra? rich, stupid guys: There was a picture on the top of the page that said, ‘As Seen on TV,’ and I guess that made me think it was legit.

  • Google still working fine

    Ev says the whole I’m the first Bruce on Google phenomenon isn’t really a good test of whether it’s working. Now, if you go to Google and type Robb’s Law an click the I Feel Lucky button, you’ll see that Google is on top of things.

  • Weinberger for Dean

    As noted in Art of the Possible (The Cluetrain Candidate), David Weinberger, the author, academic, and consultant behind JOHO the Blog and such influential volumes as The Cluetrain Manifesto (coauthor) and Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, has endorsed Howard Dean and formally joined his campaign staff as a senior adviser.

  • All Jon Ames all the time

    It’s a small web but I wouldn’t want to paint it. Yesterday I get notifed that Jonathan Ames, a friend from way back, will be appearing on David Letterman (again) tonight (Wednesday, July 30). In that message he also mentioned that his website has been updated (I liked his old Flash animation, though) and that…

  • Memory transplants

    Well, I bit the bullet, installed some perl modules and migrated over the entries in my LiveJournal, bodega, from January through October of 2002 (and a single entry from June of this year) to this X-POLLEN weblog. I’ve been doing a bunch of migrations moving other sites from Radio to Movable Type and from Blogger…

  • Complaining about free boobies

    Careful with that crop, Eugene. Metafilter deconstructs the accidental peepshow Tech TV’s Cat Schwartz unleashed on the Web. I’m waiting for the conspiracists to suggest that she did it on purpose to release deniable cheesecake. TechTV nerdgrrls are definitely an improvement over camgirls and girlybloggers. About that “bicubic interpolation,” maybe it could help with my…

  • New York Times scoops Slashdot

    Dog bites man. Film at 11.