Category: bodega
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Puta De las Heces De Juan
Gnosis, a Salon blog that currently has a John Lee Hooker quotation as its description, notes that the Spanish translation of the artist’s name is suprisingly literal: Puta De las Heces De Juan … means “prostitute (hooker) of the shelters (lees) of John.” Good thing the folks programming the translator didn’t know the slang meaning…
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Damn, It's Cold!
My nose is freezing. Just a week or so ago it was too hot to do anything. Now I feel like Bob Cratchitt hunched over here at my desk.
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Brief Annual Bachelorhood at End
B gets back from her writing retreat at the shore in Oregon tonight. I am trying to clean the house and make things presentable, after a week of slovenly bachelorhood, mostly devoted to working on my Salon blog and related projects. In other blog news, I renamed the column I’ve been doing at Mediajunkie from…
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Fast and Bulbous
Played hooky this afternoon after working all weekend. Saw XXX. I thought it was great, funny and clever. Definite Bond elements, without the gross-out humor of the Austin Powers franchise. The meshing of the extreme sports attitude—camped up by Hollywood to the nth degree—with the technothriller context (complete with a gothic supervillain) works beautifully. Vin…
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These Ain't Tales of Brave Ulysses
Will you make it to the end of Tales of the Plush Cthulhu? Over 11,000 curious readers have fallen by the wayside.
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To the Finland Station!
New design up at Radio Free Blogistan, inspired by a chance remark from Andy Stafford about Constructivists or Futurists (I forget, exactly, but it conjured up an image for me) that led to a six to eight hour alpha flow session mostly in Fireworks, massaging a collage together from some found imagery and a personal…