Gunner Palace
Monday, February 28th, 2005 Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »This looks like a movie worth checking out: Gunner Palace (watch the trailer). It's a documentary about the Iraq war from the soldier's perspective. I don't remember seeing popular culture engage the first Gulf War the way they are the second. ...
The United Nations PSA No One Will Air
Monday, February 28th, 2005 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »The United Nations Mine Action Service has a public service announcement no one will air. According to AdAge, the ad has been rejected by CNN, Lifetime, and several ABC affiliates. After watching it I can understand why, but it's sad ...
I’m a Geek
Monday, February 28th, 2005 Posted in Introspection | 3 Comments »For some time now I've had recurring dreams about high school. It's usually some sort of trauma-inducing scenario, like my old high school was remodeled and now I can't find my classes and I get lost and end up in ...
Supertones Sit Back
Saturday, February 26th, 2005 Posted in Music | No Comments »Following in the footsteps of Five Iron Frenzy (quite literally), the Supertones will be calling it quits by the end of the year, taking 2005 to say goodbye. The article reveals their financial woes thanks to a manager stealing from ...
The Blogosphere vs. the Blingosphere
Friday, February 25th, 2005 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »Rappers and bloggers are one and the same, they just dabble in different media.
iLego
Friday, February 25th, 2005 Posted in Art | 2 Comments »How cool is this? PodBrix (I'm assuming that's pronounced Pod-Bricks--I'm not always up on my IM-speak) are custom Lego figures inspired by iPod commercials. The guy paints Legos and sells them. The first one (the silhouette, to the right) sold ...
Guard Dog
Friday, February 25th, 2005 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Check out the Oscar-nominated Guard Dog (supposedly available for today only on Salon.com, which means you'll probably need to watch a short commercial to get free access to the site). It's only 5 minutes long and well worth your time. ...
Arcade Fire @ The Roxy
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 Posted in Music | 1 Comment »From Believer magazine: "The Arcade Fire consists of a group of startled young North American citizens who probably had little idea that Funeral, the album they created and assembled for Merge Records in 2004, would generate a storm front of such ...
Dave Eggers Interview
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 Posted in Writing | No Comments »The Onion interviews Dave Eggers (only it's a serious interview), the man behind McSweeney's and author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. After that book exploded, Eggers wanted to tone things back for his next book, You Shall Know ...
Daniel Handler interviews Jack Black
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 Posted in God, Church & Stuff | No Comments »JB: See, I say thirty-three is the landmark. DH: Of what? JB: It
