O brother where are thou finding time for self-culture? The things you learn from Wikipedia: The Martini Ranch track How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture? featured three members of Devo. The band was composed of Andrew Todd Rosenthal (vocals and guitar) and actor Bill Paxton (voices and samples). Bill “Chet” Paxton?
Three Panel Soul wins worst and best pun of all time with this…
A brief entry — I just finished reading Lev Grossman’s second novel Codex — the one he wrote before beginning the Magicians trilogy. Its plot is an interesting, if not terribly new idea — a quest for secret knowledge hidden away in some manner, this time in the form of a medieval book that may or may not exist. It throws in a video game and nostalgic references to an old Atari 2600 game called Adventure. It feels very Lev Grossman-esque, even if in many ways a beta version of what he is finally able to achieve in the Magicians …
Wall of Voodoo equals The Monkees filtered through Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Discuss.
Haysi Fantayzee equals Milli Vanilli plus Boy George with a dash of Thompson Twins.
I’ve been listening to Start Up a podcast about Alex Blumberg’s efforts to start-up a business to make podcasts (a business he names Gimlet Media for reason revealed in one of the episodes). Blumberg comes with a great NPR pedigree having worked for both This American Life and Planet Money. Start Up is very revealing, particularly because Blumberg knows so little about what he’s doing that he asks the questions others might skip right on by. I can’t recommend this enough — it’s great story. It is also reminding me of issues comics and the web went through, are still …
So NaNoWriMo is coming up in November. Is it NaNo-RYE-Mo or NaNo-RHEE-Mo? I’ve always said “rye” myself. I have started and flailed several efforts at cranking out a horrible first novel so why not try again? I’m “cheating” in the sense that I’m starting now and will probably not finish in November but maybe cranking out a couple 1000 words or so every week will get me a novella by the end of the year. I think that’s almost realistic if I don’t fall prey to my usual predators of insecurity, doubt and failing to meet my own standards of …
David Malki is brilliant. Every sports interview should go like this.
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