December 18, 2004 Archive

Books

• A Great Book about Videos

  The best Christmas gift-book I ever opened is this compilation by David N. Meyer, 100 Best Films to Rent You've Never Heard Of.

  in Books — by DrPat — on Dec 18, 2004

• Word Freaks "Heaven on Earth"

  in Books — by bookofjoe — on Dec 18, 2004

• Quicksilver—Pilgrims Progessive

  Neil Stephenson's Quicksilver explores belief in religious free will against a background of revolutions in science, mathematics, cryptography, religion and politics.

  in Books — by DrPat — on Dec 18, 2004

Culture

• Pop Ten Suck This List, 2004

  Well, my Bonsai Buckaroos, what's more hee-hawlarious than a drunktank full of rednecks? The 2004 Crap-O-rama and PCPopCulturefest!

  in Culture — by Melisande Luna — on Dec 18, 2004

• Personalized M&M's

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Dec 18, 2004

• The Sculpture-Stealing Capital of the World

  in Culture — by Lenny Campello — on Dec 18, 2004

• Dew's Top Ten for '04

  The things I took everywhere, kept track of my opinions, garnered opinions for or just plain really liked.

  in Culture — by Dew — on Dec 18, 2004

• Yes, Virginia...

  A modern-day answer to the classic Virginia O'Hanlon letter asking "Is there a Santa Claus?"

  in Culture — by Pete Petrisko — on Dec 18, 2004

• You know what it's like?

  I'll tell you what it's like.

  in Culture — by Prometheus 6 — on Dec 18, 2004

• Day By Day for December 18, 2004

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for December 18, 2004

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Dec 18, 2004

Video

• De Palma Style

  in Video — by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti — on Dec 18, 2004

• Blues Traveler - Live Thinnest Of Air DVD Review

  in Video — by Paul Roy — on Dec 18, 2004

• DVD: SCTV, Volume 2

  I first stumbled onto SCTV while channel surfing late on a Sunday night during the Carter administration. Saturday Night Live was still going strong at the time, but this was SUNDAY night, so SCTV was a much needed comedy fix several hours before I had to begin yet another miserable work week at a job that was almost as much fun as walking barefoot on thumbtacks.

  in Video — by Bob Rhubart — on Dec 18, 2004

• Movie Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

  in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Dec 18, 2004

• Dumpster Bust Film Squad: Chomping at the Bit for Serenity

  Where have thee gone, Joss Whedon? We Brown Coats be getting our jones on…

  in Video — by Eric Berlin — on Dec 18, 2004

Politics

• Taxing Blues

  By 2010, Federal tax law will raise taxes on upper and upper-middle income families, especially in the Blue states.

  in Politics — by Harry Forbes — on Dec 18, 2004

• Iraq Round Up

  in Politics — by spiderleaf — on Dec 18, 2004

Music

• Singers Says Why Not Try Romance

  Bernadette Lawrence says Try Romance. Her enjoyable release carries that common theme throughout on all ten tracks. This is a beautiful album, lyrically and musically.

  in Music — by MuzikMan — on Dec 18, 2004

• Why the lists?

  in Music — by Daryl Sng — on Dec 18, 2004

• Keith Richards' birthday

  in Music — by Al Barger — on Dec 18, 2004