August 12, 2003 Archive

Video

• Ripper Fu: Shanghai Knights Meet Jack the Ripper

  in Video — by Cindy Collins Smith — on Aug 12, 2003

• Snoop's pimp skills slipping?

  Snoop is SUPPOSED to be the goddam Superpimp, a Nietzchean uber-pimp. What kind of half-assed excuse for pimping is this?

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Aug 12, 2003

• "Open Range" could be just what Costner needs

  The rise and fall of Kevin Costner has been well documented and probably also well deserved. Open Range could be his legitimate shot at theatrical redemption.

  in Video — by John Campea — on Aug 12, 2003

• William Gibson is a stranger in a strange land

  in Video — by Ernest Svenson — on Aug 12, 2003

• Double DVD Delicious

  in Video — by Solonor Rasreth — on Aug 12, 2003

Books

• "The War Against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers

  Although sociology and human development can be a slippery science, with ill-defined objective goals, Ms. Sommers has written a book of surpassingly convincing evidence that boys are being shortchanged in our American educational system.

  in Books — by Eric Lindholm — on Aug 12, 2003

• Notes while reading People Magazine

  in Books — by Berkeley Joe — on Aug 12, 2003

• What God wants

  in Books — by Brian Flemming — on Aug 12, 2003

Politics

• A Conversation With Tucker Carlson

  A conversation with CNN Crossfire co-host and author/writer Tucker Carlson on his new book, the media, live TV, Satan (James Carville), and even blogs.

  Interview in Politics — by Kevin Holtsberry — on Aug 12, 2003

• What God wants

  in Politics — by Brian Flemming — on Aug 12, 2003

Music

• Eyes Like Knives

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 12, 2003

• I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House: Put Here to Bleed

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 12, 2003

• Raz on the Braz: Hot Times In Texas

  A random look both behind the scenes and in front of the stage at a three-day music festival in hot ol' Texas.

  in Music — by Scott Chaffin — on Aug 12, 2003

• This might work...

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 12, 2003

• Ripper not in Iced Earth...yet

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 12, 2003

• Blue's jazz doesn't go far enough

  Blue's music hits listeners like too much mescal and cigarette smoke. It is full of life, not the listless life of the David Sanborn or Kenny G crowd, but jazz like it was meant to be, derelict and seamy.

  in Music — by Howard Owens — on Aug 12, 2003

Culture

• Negotiating Middle East Peace and an almost four-year-old

  in Culture — by Dawn Olsen — on Aug 12, 2003

• Movin' Through Casimir

  Purdue physicist Ephraim Fischbach – oh, you beautiful, bald man – spends his time like a mime pretending he's encased in glass, feeling the space around him, hoping his hand slips into another dimension. The goal might be generations away, but – like Tang and joysticks to the Apollo program – the search can lead to some wonderful discoveries along the way.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Aug 12, 2003

• The Electric Kool-Aid Nano Test

  A great deal has been written in the popular press recently about the slippery definition of "nanotechnology." At Small Times, we often subject the word to unspeakable torture in our attempts to extract information on whether a company conforms.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Aug 12, 2003

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Nude Photo

  Brian Flemming has a nude pic of Arnie and wants to share. Blogcritics cleans up the mess...

  News in Culture — by Brian Flemming — on Aug 12, 2003

Sci/Tech

• Rock's Hottest Ticket

  in Sci/Tech — by Chris Cotner — on Aug 12, 2003