November 30, 2005 Archive

Music

• Single Review: Kim Wilde "The Touch"

  Kim Wilde meets the perfect guy and not much else in the bungled single.

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Nov 30, 2005

• Concert Review: Playing the Angel -- Depeche Mode live

  Depeche Mode comes back from the brink with their Playing the Angel tour

  Review in Music — by Shannon Okey — on Nov 30, 2005

• CD Review: Elko by Railroad Earth

  Through the years, music fashioned by fusion has had its successes and failures, but all of it remains distinct and loyal to its origins.

  Review in Music — by Larry Sakin — on Nov 30, 2005

• "Paranoid" - It's not a happy song!

  Opinion in Music — by Wally Bangs — on Nov 30, 2005

• Concert Review: Dinosaur Jr. in Ann Arbor, 11.28.05

  Fifteen years on, Dinosaur Jr. is still the most unlikely rock band on the planet.

  Review in Music — by Modern Pea Pod — on Nov 30, 2005

• CD Review: The Invisible Eyes - Laugh In The Dark

  Review in Music — by Wally Bangs — on Nov 30, 2005

• Rolling Stones to Play Super Bowl and The Daily Music and Tech News

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: Journey - Live In Houston 1981, Escape Tour

  Review in Music — by Paul Roy — on Nov 30, 2005

• B5 and Pretty Ricky Attacked in 'Black Friday' Riot

  Oh, the humanity - now Black Friday takes on a new meaning in the wake of senseless tragedy and violence.

  Satire in Music — by Dave Nalle — on Nov 30, 2005

• Music Reviews: Live, Collected, and Zombified

  A Meltdown covering Reculver, Murdoc, Anthrax, Dragonforce, Indukti, and Rob Zombie.

  Review in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Nov 30, 2005

• CD Review: Veronica Mars Soundtrack

  Review in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Nov 30, 2005

• Twenty-Five Years Later: Thinking About John Lennon

  He was the right man in the right time, and his death marked the end of that time.

  Opinion in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Nov 30, 2005

• CD Review: The Darkness One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back

  In the beginning was The Darkness. And The Darkness was good. Then God said, "Let there be rock!"

  Review in Music — by Pete Blackwell — on Nov 30, 2005

Video

• Movie Review: The Ice Harvest

  Review in Video — by Zombyboy — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: King Kong Escapes

  Easily the most obscure entry in the Kong series.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: King Kong vs. Godzilla

  It's the US version, not even half as good as the Japanse original.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: The GingerDead Man

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Nov 30, 2005

• The Ten Most Mildly Interesting People of 2005

  Thoughts on the latest Barbara Walters special, The Ten Most Fascinating People of 2005.

  Opinion in Video — by Don Baiocchi — on Nov 30, 2005

• TV Review CSI:NY "City of the Dolls"

  As the team digs deeper and deeper, these mysteries are more complex than they seem.

  Review in Video — by NancyGail — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: Search for Santa

  Is there a Santa Claus? If you, or someone you know are having any doubts, this film is a must see!

  Review in Video — by Annie — on Nov 30, 2005

• DVD Review: Dead Man

  Review in Video — by Scott C. Smith — on Nov 30, 2005

• Paris and Nicole's Simple Life Moves to E!

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 30, 2005

• Movie Review: The Libertine

  The star is the camera. It peers through the murk to see a greasy strand of hair, a goosebumped arm, a bottomless pool of mud.

  Review in Video — by Natalie Bennett — on Nov 30, 2005

Sports

• Mooch: Canned

  Detroit Lions head coach Steve Mariucci is fired...

  News in Sports — by RJ Elliott — on Nov 30, 2005

• Canada Parties Down With Olympic Curling Trials

  Canada sure loves its curling, and December 3-11 will have some fierce competition to witness in Halifax.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Nov 30, 2005

Culture

• Blogcritics Editors' Picks - Nov. 19 to Nov. 25

  We is good. Here's proof of the most goodliness.

  News in Culture — by Temple Stark — on Nov 30, 2005

• Sicko Screws Stallion, Dies Distastefully

  The mind reels...

  News in Culture — by RJ Elliott — on Nov 30, 2005

• Barbara Walters Is a Big Fat Idiot

  Opinion in Culture — by John Bill — on Nov 30, 2005

• Following King Kong

  King Kong is all over New York City these days with even a State Lottery game being issued in his honor.

  Opinion in Culture — by Mike Johnston — on Nov 30, 2005

• The New Podcasting Revolution

  Opinion in Culture — by Ben Schoen — on Nov 30, 2005

• Business Loyalty-An Oxymoron-Authored by a Moron

  Opinion in Culture — by T Stoddart — on Nov 30, 2005

• Blogcritics on Michael Jackson, Expatriate

  News in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 30, 2005

• Holiday Decorating Safety: The General and the Specific

  News in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 30, 2005

• Black Friday?

  Without so much as a "Happy Thanksgiving Grandma!" he sternly asks Dear Grandma if she received his updated wish list.

  Opinion in Culture — by Mary K. Williams — on Nov 30, 2005

• Break Up! Double Virgo in Love: Astrology-based Advice

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Nov 30, 2005

• Really Inconsiderate People Disgruntling Real People: Suite101.com's New Image

  Any writers out there who got fired from Suite101.com? Read about how they feel about real people.

  Opinion in Culture — by Clarissa Adkins — on Nov 30, 2005

• Day By Day for November 30, 2005

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for November 30, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Nov 30, 2005

• Episode 8 - Vigil: The DJRadiohead Podcast Experience

  By the time some of you get this podcast, it might well be too late. Nguyen Tuong Van will be dead.

  Opinion in Culture — by Josh Hathaway — on Nov 30, 2005

Politics

• Osama bin-Laden Dead?

  Did Sen. Harry Reid blab about a top-secret report - again?

  Opinion in Politics — by Bird of Paradise — on Nov 30, 2005

• Suicide Bomber in Iraq Was Belgian Woman

  A woman who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq two weeks ago was identified Tuesday as the first European female suicide bomber

  Opinion in Politics — by Bird of Paradise — on Nov 30, 2005

• America - A Nation Of Morons Run By An Administration Of Morons

  Why does the US have such horrid leadership? Look at your countrymen.

  Opinion in Politics — by Adam Ash — on Nov 30, 2005

• Phony Medical Testimony, or Phony NYT Article?

  Most readers of this front-page New York Times story would conclude that its subject, Dr. Ray Harron, is a crook.

  Opinion in Politics — by Uriel Wittenberg — on Nov 30, 2005

• I Must Get on Bill O'Reilly's Enemies List!

  Just in time for the season of goodwill, Fox's biggest blowhard has published his enemies' list.

  Opinion in Politics — by Steven Hart — on Nov 30, 2005

• Notable/Quotables - 11/30/05

  Congress Critters yowl about their pork cuts. Defining "success" and a little Twain.

  Opinion in Politics — by Patfish — on Nov 30, 2005

• Tom Fox And Quaker Courage

  There is courage in the spiritual battle that Tom Fox and other pacifists in Iraq have endured.

  News in Politics — by Leoniceno — on Nov 30, 2005

• The Administration "Re-Wronging" History

  The Bush Administration should look at itself before accusing others of rewriting history.

  Opinion in Politics — by AmeriPundit — on Nov 30, 2005

Books

• Reviews: The Beatles: The Biography, With the Beatles

  Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

  Review in Books — by Carlo Wolff — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 by Philip Zaleski, editor and introduction by Barry Lopez

  Review in Books — by Vikk Simmons — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx

  Wyos in the badlands of milk and honey, by the author of the soon-to-be-a-controversial-motion-picture Brokeback Mountain.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain

  Go Tell It On The Mountain is one of the finest novels written in American history.

  Review in Books — by Robert Lashley — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: Deals From Hell

  Review in Books — by Joshua Sharf — on Nov 30, 2005

• Next Week in the Bookstore: Two Phils, a Miller and a Bill

  It's quiet at the publishing houses, busy at the bookstores, as we move deeper into holiday shopping season.

  News in Books — by DrPat — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life

  Review in Books — by Meryl — on Nov 30, 2005

• Book Review: The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman

  A fascinating overview of the "big picture" of how the world has quickly changed since 2000.

  Review in Books — by Nik Dirga — on Nov 30, 2005

Sci/Tech

• Blogcritics.org on SUBJECT2DISCUSSION

  News in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 30, 2005

• Buzz Marketing of Software By Beta

  Google has fine-tuned this concept with the Gmail invitation ... receive one and you are a cook geek; pass them on and you are Uber-Geek

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Marianne Richmond — on Nov 30, 2005

Gaming

• The Farce of the "Video Game Report Card"

  Uniformed, hypocritical, and a thorn in any gamers side.

  Opinion in Gaming — by Matt Paprocki — on Nov 30, 2005