July 27, 2004 Archive

Sci/Tech

• Puss In Boots

  Puss? Pus? Or Pussy?

  in Sci/Tech — by RJ Elliott — on Jul 27, 2004

• I Jab Your Parody, I Jib Your Satire

  in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 27, 2004

Politics

• Great Orators of the Democratic Party

  "One man with courage makes a majority."--Andrew Jackson

  Opinion in Politics — by Evilwhiteguy — on Jul 27, 2004

• Ted Turner Talks Media Turkey

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 27, 2004

Culture

• Cop Pepper Sprays Moviegoers

  Now I think it's extremely rude to answer your cell phone in a movie theater, but I don't think it rises to the level of having to pepper spray someone after they've already peacefully left the theater.

  in Culture — by Evilwhiteguy — on Jul 27, 2004

• GODHATESFAGS.COM

  An unspeakably evil site...

  Opinion in Culture — by RJ Elliott — on Jul 27, 2004

• Free Olympics Medal Tally for your Blog

  in Culture — by Darren Rowse — on Jul 27, 2004

• Reading, writing and the iPod?

  Duke will get its iPods at a significant discount. The cost of the entire project, including hiring a researcher to study the educational effects of the iPod for a year, will be about $500,000.

  in Culture — by Mac Diva — on Jul 27, 2004

• What's wrong with Jason Giambi?

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Jul 27, 2004

• Images From The DNC: Part Four

  The Bl(A)ck Tea Society held its "Really Really Democratic Bazaar" on the Boston Common this evening.

  in Culture — by Scott Pepper — on Jul 27, 2004

• Sylvia Daoust 1902-2004

  in Culture — by Zeke's Gallery, Montreal — on Jul 27, 2004

• Jérôme Delgado on the clowns

  in Culture — by Zeke's Gallery, Montreal — on Jul 27, 2004

• "Never leave a small wound exposed or allow it to breathe"

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Jul 27, 2004

• Day one recap

  in Culture — by Tom Bux — on Jul 27, 2004

Video

• Bonding for Dollars

  Pierce Brosnan has said it before and now he's said it again: He's finished wearing the tux of one, James Bond. Or is he?

  in Video — by Kevin McCallum — on Jul 27, 2004

• DVD Releases For Week Beginning 26-07-2004

  A great week for the shiny disc, with the cannibals and the dramas and the Hellboy's all uniting beofre our very eyes, in crystal clear anamorphic, no less.

  in Video — by Duke De Mondo — on Jul 27, 2004

• Sci-Fi Puppets: Thunderbirds Return

  in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 27, 2004

• No Maps For These Territories - a road trip with William Gibson

  in Video — by bookofjoe — on Jul 27, 2004

Books

• "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges

  Borges plays with the discrepancy between the "real" world and the world within his fiction, and especially the nature of the "coordinations of words" that seem to bear so much, yet so little resemblance to the universe we're familiar with...

  in Books — by Sean Scott — on Jul 27, 2004

• Recommend-me-a-book-athon

  Okey dokey, here's the deal: i know many of you blogcritics read quite a bit...so, recommend me books to read, with a reason. HOWEVER, I'm only after fiction, for now.

  in Books — by Jon Downs — on Jul 27, 2004

• The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom; ed. Daniel Jones, 2004

  in Books — by Hilary Caws-Elwitt — on Jul 27, 2004

• Dan Ho - Rescue from House Gorgeous

  You'll laugh, you'll cry...you'll get rid of your crap.

  Review in Books — by Mark Saleski — on Jul 27, 2004

• Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man, by Norman Mailer

  This “interpretative biography” is largely built from snippets from a score of sources, including works by art critics, intimates of Picasso (Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, etc.), and even previous biographers...

  in Books — by Sean Scott — on Jul 27, 2004

• Caesar's War Commentaries

  You are camping with your legions way beyond the frontier between Gaul and the Roman Empire, deep in unknown territory, facing a strong enemy army. Your men's morale is at zero. What would you do?

  in Books — by Dirk — on Jul 27, 2004

• The Killer Inside Me--by Jim Thompson

  As his father was a physician in the small town in Texas where they lived, he promptly castrated his son in hopes he could lead a somewhat normal life(?). Now alone in the house he grew up in with his twisted thoughts and the still fully stocked pharmacy cabinet that he uses to jack himself full of hormones so that he can perform sexually when necessary, he puts forth a public face that keeps most people fooled including his long-time girlfriend.

  in Books — by Finkleman — on Jul 27, 2004

• Teddy Pendergrass is Truly Blessed

  It had come to the notice of PRI that the young baritone upstaged the other members of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes with female fans. His solo image was crafted around his sex appeal.

  in Books — by Mac Diva — on Jul 27, 2004

Music

• The Duke Listens To "Pretend You're Alive" By Lovedrug

  Radio-Friendly Unit Shifters In Attempt To Shift Units Shock! Also, quite radio-friendly.

  in Music — by Duke De Mondo — on Jul 27, 2004

• Quincy Jones/Bill Cosby music revived

  Two new CDs capture Q and Cos' late-60s musical collaboration--then filter it through some top DJs and producers.

  in Music — by Mark Hasty — on Jul 27, 2004

• Carlos Kleiber - "The conductor who could not tolerate error"

  in Music — by bookofjoe — on Jul 27, 2004

• Shyne disses 50 Cent from jail

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 27, 2004

• N'Sync vague about reunion

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 27, 2004

• Death metal do it for charity

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 27, 2004

• 'Thrax re-record old material

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jul 27, 2004

• New album releases, week of 7-27-2004

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Jul 27, 2004