Archive for November, 2007
Maybe censorship isn’t a bad idea after all
Or we could at least excise the dancing.
Good reason to never work in a big company
Here’s a remarkable posting by Phil Windley summarizing a presentation where someone imagines Facebook with “enterprise” features — which are essentially about watching every move of your co-workers.
Here’s the link: http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/11/defrag_making_interactions_explicit.shtml
And here’s the image from Windley’s post, which I will duplicate here as an incentive to go read the summary. It seems like a really, […]
Mallon and Leithauser
How come no one has outed Thomas Mallon and Brad Leithauser as right-wingers? Mallon wrote for the American Spectator, and Leithauser for the New Criterion — UGH! When these guys get published in mainstream journals, they never mention this in their bios. Wikipedia is pretty quiet on this as well.
Those publishing bastards
That’s it, I am never, ever going to buy a book by a UK author on an American imprint.
I read in the newest Atlantic Monthly that certain key lines (having to do with adolescent sexuality) were removed from Pullman’s series The Golden Compass. Now, first of all, I totally respect those novels, if only for […]
10-Nov: Eric Martin and the Illyrians at the Middle East Corner
I really loved the Neats way back when, and never understood why people complained so much about their shift from their fey college rock sound to their brawny blues rock stance. I liked both, and there was really nothing like their post-shift “Big Loud Sound” at the time. OK, maybe the Gun Club.
In any case, […]
Why I am not voting for Mitt Romney
Because his name is Mitt. What kind of name is that? It’s a glove that doesn’t have separate fingers. Ick.
Oh, wait. It’s worse than that. His middle name is Mitt. His real first name is Willard.
There is a rule in the Constitution forbidding Willards to be elected President. I am surprised that the media has […]
“Hard rock”
I graduated from high school in 1978. In the mid-70s my best friend Chris and I would cruise St. Paul, Minnesota in his sedan, and I believe we only listened to three things in the 8-track player:
Led Zeppelin
Foreigner or Foghat [I can’t even remember which]
The MC5 (because Chris’s older brother was aware of them)
We may […]
Nice interview with the Saints
Brooklyn Rocks did a nice interview . . .
Necrology: Kirsty Maccoll
While I was roaming around emusic.com listening to some Saints snippets, I stumbed across Kirsty Maccoll’s page. She was the daughter of Ewan Maccoll, but had such a distinct voice. I remember when she died — and it was awhile back now — what a loss. So there I was was, looping about on emusic.com, […]
1-Nov: The Saints (Chris Bailey) at the Church of Boston
Looking back on the emergence of punk, one of my favorite groups was the Saints from Brisbane, Australia. The Saints had a bit more of a “rock” sound, but the themes were the same as the UK punks. A couple of themes in particular: Boredom and being an outsider:
On the left on the right it’s […]