Good word
"I made the Posh-Sporty switch a while back. Posh is so dull."
--Kenneth Burns, 22 May 1998
Friday, May 27, 2005
Good word
"Now, I've got nothing against freelance writers; I've been one myself, and tomorrow morning I'll become one again. It's a respectable way to make a living (even if a fiscally preposterous one)."
--Daniel Okrent
"Now, I've got nothing against freelance writers; I've been one myself, and tomorrow morning I'll become one again. It's a respectable way to make a living (even if a fiscally preposterous one)."
--Daniel Okrent
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One from the vault
Hey Junkers fans, here's a rarity: a jingle for the radio station WMMM the Junk recorded some two years ago. I just laid hands on a copy.
Hey Junkers fans, here's a rarity: a jingle for the radio station WMMM the Junk recorded some two years ago. I just laid hands on a copy.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Ring ring
Recently I went to a screening of the Jet Li film Unleashed, which I reviewed in Isthmus. During the movie I was vexed by a din of cell phones: they rang frequently, and even more maddeningly, their owners took the calls. The kid in front of me must have taken four calls, and when he was not speaking, he seemed to be texting.
Isn't this a bit much? Why bother to go to a movie at all? I might have spoken up except that I was there on a press comp, a privilege that, as I have learned, theater managers can revoke with extreme prejudice. So I like to keep a low profile. But if I had paid for that ticket! Actually, even in that case I probably would have just tried to find a more isolated seat. In these situations I usually find that active protesting only stresses me out.
Recently I went to a screening of the Jet Li film Unleashed, which I reviewed in Isthmus. During the movie I was vexed by a din of cell phones: they rang frequently, and even more maddeningly, their owners took the calls. The kid in front of me must have taken four calls, and when he was not speaking, he seemed to be texting.
Isn't this a bit much? Why bother to go to a movie at all? I might have spoken up except that I was there on a press comp, a privilege that, as I have learned, theater managers can revoke with extreme prejudice. So I like to keep a low profile. But if I had paid for that ticket! Actually, even in that case I probably would have just tried to find a more isolated seat. In these situations I usually find that active protesting only stresses me out.
Ink in the coinky
Weekday afternoons rarely find me on State Street, but today I had to drop off a video at Four Star, so downtown I went. Because I parked at a meter that had almost two hours on it, and because the weather was extremely pleasant, I decided to loiter a moment. I grabbed a couple of newspapers and was sitting on a bench, reading, when I noticed someone standing in front of me and smiling incredulously. It turned out to be my old college friend Andrea, whom I have not seen in something like 13 years! She's here interviewing for a job at Lands' End in Dodgeville. We ducked into a java den and caught up. Then I had to get back to work and she had a plane to catch, so we said farewell, for now.
How lovely is that? Thanks to whoever put the extra money in the meter, because otherwise I would have missed the whole thing!
Weekday afternoons rarely find me on State Street, but today I had to drop off a video at Four Star, so downtown I went. Because I parked at a meter that had almost two hours on it, and because the weather was extremely pleasant, I decided to loiter a moment. I grabbed a couple of newspapers and was sitting on a bench, reading, when I noticed someone standing in front of me and smiling incredulously. It turned out to be my old college friend Andrea, whom I have not seen in something like 13 years! She's here interviewing for a job at Lands' End in Dodgeville. We ducked into a java den and caught up. Then I had to get back to work and she had a plane to catch, so we said farewell, for now.
How lovely is that? Thanks to whoever put the extra money in the meter, because otherwise I would have missed the whole thing!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Addenda
To the list of links to articles I've written, over there on the right, I have added reviews of CDs by Audrey Ryan and Maia Sharp, a profile of the Madison pop-punk band Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons ("Nutty by nature"), and concert previews for Green Day ("Idiots beware") and Chicago pianist Patricia Barber ("Latin lover").
To the list of links to articles I've written, over there on the right, I have added reviews of CDs by Audrey Ryan and Maia Sharp, a profile of the Madison pop-punk band Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons ("Nutty by nature"), and concert previews for Green Day ("Idiots beware") and Chicago pianist Patricia Barber ("Latin lover").
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