October 22, 2002 Archive

Culture

• Sci-Fi Channel Backs Quest for Govt UFO Info

  Who did you think would do it - Animal Planet?

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Carnival of the Vanities #5

  Highlighting what you may have missed or overlooked in your daily reads...

  in Culture — by Laurence Simon — on Oct 22, 2002

• Helms Explains Hold

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Benny Hill Gets Shafted Yet Again

  The people chosen by the BBC's internet poll as The Most Famous Britons of All Time deserve to be in the top ten in some way, shape, or form, I guess. But given I vacationed in England for two weeks during the summer of 2000 and have eaten crumpets, I think my own list of most famous Brits is the definitive one.

  in Culture — by Chris Monks — on Oct 22, 2002

• Shock the monkey

  in Culture — by Steve Rhodes — on Oct 22, 2002

• Little Green Lies

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Darwinian Paparazzi

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Report on American U Copyright Conference

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Sniper Babble Ideological

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Microsoft Introducing Kazaa to Polite Society?

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Why the Telecos Should Be Allowed to Fail

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• New Audio Formats- A Reply

  After almost two years the DVD-Audio/SACD format war still produces an amazing assortment of mis-information.

  in Culture — by Chris Daley — on Oct 22, 2002

• New Audio Formats

  in Culture — by Jim Schwab — on Oct 22, 2002

Video

• From the Ridiculous to the Criminally Insane

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Samuel L. Jackson's Greatest Hits

  Hear the dude sound off.

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Bigger Than Life

  Baseball and IMAX

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• PBS to Air History Through Gastronomic Lens

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

Music

• Every Day is Halloween

  I make a new mix cd at the turn of every season. I've been compiling a list for my annual "Every Day is Halloween" version.

  in Music — by Michele Catalano — on Oct 22, 2002

• BBC's Version Of "New Rock"

  The BBC examines "new rock."

  in Music — by Dave Gutowski — on Oct 22, 2002

• The Supersuckers live: Far Beyond Drivel

  Who else but the Supersuckers could whip a jaded New York crowd into a song-and-response of “Are you ready? Yes we’re ready!” in the chorus of a number entitled “Rock Your Ass”?

  in Music — by Charles Murtaugh — on Oct 22, 2002

• Fancy a Jaded Heart?

  If I were to have a band I would want to sound like this lot. They have got good tight hard-rock down to...

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Oct 22, 2002

• Rising Force isn't quite there yet.

  Back in the day, Malmsteen had this great band called Rising Force, which produced cracking albums...

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Oct 22, 2002

• RHCPeppers, Oasis, George Benson Cancel Shows in Southeast Asia

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 22, 2002

• Nick Hornby's Top 10

  in Music — by Kenan Hebert — on Oct 22, 2002

• Dropkick Murphys: Live On St. Patrick's Day

  What do you get when you mix green beer, St Patrick's Day in Boston, traditional Irish songs, hardcore music, a wedding proposal and the Boston Police Gaelic Column Pipes and Drums corps?

  in Music — by Jim Schwab — on Oct 22, 2002

Books

• Shaw's "The Doctor's Dillema"

  "The Doctor's Dillemma" by Bernard Shaw satirizes the medical profession brilliantly. Shaw groups the brilliant doctors of his late victorian era and has them talk about their methods and their practices in such a way as to make any sick person set off in search of a witch doctor.

  in Books — by Murphy — on Oct 22, 2002