April 30, 2003 Archive

Video

• Wuthering Heights

  in Video — by Murphy — on Apr 30, 2003

• X-2asy

  X-2 is not a sequel to the X-Men movie. X-2 is the X-Men movie, whatever came before was just an intro.

  in Video — by Flea Rosca — on Apr 30, 2003

• Surrendermonkeyvision

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• 24 is "unbefrickinomenal"

  in Video — by Jeff Petermann — on Apr 30, 2003

• Arab TV Wants Iraqi Information Minister

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Putting the Humanity Back In Star Wars

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• A Chip Off the Old Ozz

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Who do these damned Christians think they are?

  Are you now, or have you ever been a member of a Christian church? That should be the question asked before anybody can do business with the US government.

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Apr 30, 2003

Culture

• 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase

  200 years ago, on April 30, 1803 the United States made the Louisiana Purchase for $15 million, which about doubled the size of the country.

  in Culture — by Al Barger — on Apr 30, 2003

• Time rewrites history?

  A now-inconvenient (to Dubya) 1998 article by George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, who argue that a U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991 would have sent the wrong message about "aggression," mysteriously disappears from the Time archives.

  in Culture — by Brian Flemming — on Apr 30, 2003

• Booty Call to Action

  Wal-Mart finds "hell has no fury like a woman scorned" as sex discrimination lawsuit is filed. Partly substantial, partly silly in nature...

  in Culture — by Pete Petrisko — on Apr 30, 2003

• Some Old French Dude

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• May the ghost of Ayn Rand smite them

  The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has published guidelines for submissions of designs for the World Trade Center memorial. Just in this most sensitive corner, they've managed to inject the worst kind of fake egalitarian nonsense into the rules.

  in Culture — by Al Barger — on Apr 30, 2003

Music

• CD Reviews: Basque

  in Music — by Jianda Johnson — on Apr 30, 2003

• Capturing Streams To MP3

  Apple's new iTunes streaming service won't let you save the stream to disk. Right? I mean, it can't be easy, can it?

  in Music — by Phillip Winn — on Apr 30, 2003

• You don't say?

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Apr 30, 2003

• Madonna: American Life

  in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Apr 30, 2003

• Frank Zappa "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"

  This seven and a half minute song from 1967 gave an early indication of Frank Zappa's artistic ambitions - the wide range of musical styles he knew and could bend to his own ends, his broadjumping studio cut and paste compositional style, and perhaps the best single codification of his central lyrical theme.

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Apr 30, 2003

• Hey, I have no shame

  I'm not ashamed to say it--I'm a straight male, and I love musicals. And admit it guys, you do too...

  in Music — by Alex Knapp — on Apr 30, 2003

Politics

• Surrendermonkeyvision

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Rip van Falwell

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• The gay family

  Dan Savage wrote a book about the family that dare not speak its name.

  in Politics — by Brian Flemming — on Apr 30, 2003

• War Flowers Blooming Redux

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Aw, let the freak in

  Several dozen Democrat office holders and former office holders are petitioning the South Carolina party to include perennial candidate, ex-felon and conspiracy freak Lyndon Larouche in the upcoming May 3 pre-pre-primary presidential debate.

  in Politics — by Al Barger — on Apr 30, 2003

Books

• The gay family

  Dan Savage wrote a book about the family that dare not speak its name.

  in Books — by Brian Flemming — on Apr 30, 2003

• Dragons: Fossils and the Collective Subconscious

  in Books — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Free Ice Cream and Books for Kids

  in Books — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• The Lecturer's Tale

  The Lecturer's Tale is a book for anyone who's had contact with a college English department without actually becoming a postmodern literary theorist.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Apr 30, 2003

• The Cassini Division

  If speculation about anarchist utopias is your thing, this is the book for you. But if you're after rollicking politicized space opera, you'd be better off digging up some (very) old Heinlein.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Apr 30, 2003

Sci/Tech

• You Mean Mrs. Sese-Seko Doesn't Need My Help to Move Her $10M?

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Triangulation

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• Triangulation

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003

• "Pure thuggery"?

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Apr 30, 2003