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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…

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.

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…

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…

Will you make it to the end of Tales of the Plush Cthulhu? Over 11,000 curious readers have fallen by the wayside.

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…