archive for September 2008
9/16/08 Jon Carroll on the passing of David Foster Wallace
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Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle columnist, remembers author David Foster Wallace after his suicide at age 46.
I loved David Foster Wallace’s work and I was very sad to hear of his death. DFW was brilliant and he knew it. He skewered the absurdities of our society by being as complex as the ridiculous world we [...]
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- Topics covered: Culture, Life, Recommendations
- Written on September 16, 2008
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9/12/08 Sidewalk steamer annihilates gum in Milwaukee
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Apparently, my hometown has been “long known for its compulsively clean streets.”
Well, Milwaukee is furthering that tradition with a GumBuster. Huh.
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- Topics covered: Life, Tech
- Written on September 12, 2008
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9/5/08 Tom Ridge Defends “John Bush”
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Tom Ridge accidentally calls John McCain “John Bush” when talking to Tom Brokaw. Oops!
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- Topics covered: Amusing (if only to me), I Hate Politics
- Also tagged with idiocy, mcbush, mccain, mcsame
- Written on September 5, 2008
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9/2/08 “everyone sane has already been eliminated from the power structure”
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In Welcome to the Terrordome on This Modern World, Jonathan Schwarz argues that “living through the decadent phase of the American empire is going to be REALLY EXCITING,” as evidenced by McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Oh, my. Read it. Then weep, or laugh, or both, hysterically. Or just sigh because you [...]
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- Topics covered: Amusing (if only to me), I Hate Politics
- Written on September 2, 2008
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Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies
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In a world without Don LaFontaine, movie trailers will never be the same.
Don LaFontaine obituary from the AP.
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- Topics covered: Culture
- Written on September 2, 2008
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