July 2010
Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Martin Denny (40) Elton John (15) Esquivel (9) Arthur Lyman (5) Les Baxter (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 27th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Why Scientists Should Read Science Fiction →
Jul 21st
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Three Is A Magic Number (for Henry Green) by Molly... →
I love this song so much, I wish I could marry it.
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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“If you can’t get into reading real books, you really shouldn’t be a writer. It’s...”
– Natalya Anderson
Jul 20th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Elvis Costello (59) Talking Heads (53) U2 (19) Pink Floyd (12) Adrian Younge (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 20th
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Conan O'Brien on taking chances, the Internet, and... →
Jul 19th
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Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat
This was left in a comment on my blog where I wrote about writing: From an interview with Teller (of Penn & Teller): “There is that great line in Sunday in the Park with George,” he says, referring to Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 musical about Georges Seurat, “ ’Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat’.” He falls silent again and, as unexpectedly as those coins turn to fish, big fat...
Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 17th
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“I have no idea how to write about sports, and that’s certainly not the...”
– George Steinbrenner and the New York of my childhood
Jul 14th
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What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain →
Jul 14th
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Action on climate is being blocked by the lockstep... →
It so happens that in the Senate, rural and fossil fuel-dependent areas are overrepresented and there is an absurd, undemocratic 60-vote supermajority requirement for all legislation. These accidents of history present barriers to action that are all but insuperable, even by leaders with more ambition and less fear, even in a time of less economic anxiety. In this case, the Senate’s...
Jul 13th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
Ennio Morricone (38) Hugo Montenegro (12) Radiohead (7) The Beatles (7) The Shins (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 12th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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the creative process (comic) →
Jul 9th
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Jul 9th
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Jul 9th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
Scary Kids Scaring Kids (146) Astrud Gilberto (61) Bjork (4) JES (1) The Cure (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz Edited to add: It looks like my son was using my Sonos while I was in Portland, without turning off scrobbling. I’ve never heard of the number one and number 4 bands on this list. I think my #1 this week would either be Death Cab or Decemberists, if...
Jul 7th
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Hyperbole and a Half: Dog →
Allie gives her dog an intelligence test.
Jul 7th
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Jul 7th
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What the Higgs 'harmonic signatures' may sound... →
Researchers have simulated the sound of the Higgs Boson and other sub-atomic collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. You must listen to this. Seriously. It’s really cool.
Jul 6th
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WatchWatch
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU (by blu)
Jul 6th
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Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing,... →
It’s more than just a slide into obscurity that delivered Gallagher to the Admiral rather than, say, the Moore in Seattle. You see, Gallagher is—how best to put this?—a paranoid, delusional, right-wing religious maniac. I HAD NO IDEA.
Jul 5th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
XTC (31) Oingo Boingo (22) Astrud Gilberto (15) Squeeze (11) The Smiths (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 2nd
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“The crappiest vampire in all of fiction — and I include George Hamilton playing...”
– Warren Ellis, when Geekosystem asked him which Twilight team he was on.
Jul 1st
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