August 19, 2004 Archive

Video

• Tracking Trailers: Alfie (2004)

  in Video — by Scott Pepper — on Aug 19, 2004

• Tracking Trailers: I Heart Huckabees

  in Video — by Scott Pepper — on Aug 19, 2004

• How to cast The Da Vinci Code without pissing me off.

  And trust me, you don't want to piss me off.

  in Video — by Drew Feinberg — on Aug 19, 2004

• Word Wars

  This entertaining Scrabble documentary is on Discovery Times Thurs. & Fri.

  in Video — by Steve Rhodes — on Aug 19, 2004

• A Beautiful Mind | Sparks of Genius

  in Video — by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti — on Aug 19, 2004

• Do You Like Scary Movies?

  Once upon a time, nearly seven years ago, Scream 2 scared me.

  in Video — by Phillip Winn — on Aug 19, 2004

• Dumbest campaign ad so far this year

  I'm sure President Kerry would appoint a commission, draft some reports and recommendations, and pass a new Medical Paperwork Reduction Act. Then doctors and insurance companies can each add on a new office worker to ensure compliance with the MPRA.

  in Video — by Al Barger — on Aug 19, 2004

Books

• Review of 'Trend Following'

  Michael Covel's 'Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets' will certainly be regarded as a classic investment book. Everybody involved in the markets should read this book.

  in Books — by Michael Seneadza — on Aug 19, 2004

• Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz - one of the towering figures of the 20th century - is dead at 93

  in Books — by bookofjoe — on Aug 19, 2004

• Book Review: Good Morning Midnight

  Waterman emerges as a tragic and flawed human, a man who is difficult to understand and complicated even after his death.

  Review in Books — by Ladygoat — on Aug 19, 2004

Politics

• Questions for Vets for Kerry

  in Politics — by Paulie at the Commons — on Aug 19, 2004

• Why the McGreevey scandal matters

  In standing by "one of their own," gay rights advocates ignore the shenanigans of McGreevey and New Jersey politics.

  in Politics — by Mark Edward Manning — on Aug 19, 2004

• Al Barger for US Senate

  Our own Blogcritic Al Barger is the Libertarian Party candidate for US Senate from the great state of Indiana

  in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 19, 2004

• Dumbest campaign ad so far this year

  I'm sure President Kerry would appoint a commission, draft some reports and recommendations, and pass a new Medical Paperwork Reduction Act. Then doctors and insurance companies can each add on a new office worker to ensure compliance with the MPRA.

  in Politics — by Al Barger — on Aug 19, 2004

Music

• Old 97's - Drag It Up

  They're back after three years of turmoil. Too bad they couldn't write any new material during their years off.

  in Music — by Dylan Wilbanks — on Aug 19, 2004

• Mortiis moves up the charts

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 19, 2004

• Timberlake the southern rocker?

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 19, 2004

• Jam Bands and Hash Bars

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 19, 2004

• I'ROCQ and Roll

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Aug 19, 2004

• Southern Rock Literei

  It's the Lynyrd Skynyrd micro essays!

  in Music — by Celestial Dung — on Aug 19, 2004

• The Last Broadcast - Matthew EP

  in Music — by Craig Lyndall — on Aug 19, 2004

• Ramones Turn 30

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 19, 2004

• Film Music Great Elmer Berstein Dies

  in Music — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 19, 2004

• Beatallica - The Ultimate Tribute

  in Music — by Lono — on Aug 19, 2004

Sci/Tech

• American and Blogcritic

  in Sci/Tech — by Marvin Hutchens — on Aug 19, 2004

• Copyright law as corporate welfare

  Copyrights are restrictions on everyone else's freedom in thousands of ways in the name of ONE person or company. Information wants to be free. It's natural that it flows and mingles and gets put back and forward in different forms.

  in Sci/Tech — by Al Barger — on Aug 19, 2004

Culture

• On Anti-Americanism

  in Culture — by AH — on Aug 19, 2004

• Let the Power of Sport Into Your Life!

  Olympic sport - and football in particular, is showing us glimpses of what Iraq's future could be...

  Opinion in Culture — by Jeremy Chrysler — on Aug 19, 2004

• What? Run on the Record?

  Why should candidates run on their recent records when they can highlight the distant, irrelevant past?

  in Culture — by Mike Kole — on Aug 19, 2004

• The introvert world

  in Culture — by Auke Veenstra — on Aug 19, 2004

Sports

• Hamm: I'm Proud to Be of the Same Species

  in Sports — by Eric Olsen — on Aug 19, 2004