Category: The Internet
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You want more of me
Admit it. So to give the people what they want — rambling, seems-insightful-at-first-glance-until-you-think-about-it blog posts — and as part of my ongoing quest to be more like Rain, I’ve started writing a weekly column for SFist, a blog about San Francisco. My first post is up today, and they should follow every Friday. The general…
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Flickr and Raccoon Dogs
Now there’s the title for a 70’s action movie if I ever heard one. I got my copy of Pom Poko yesterday and watched it on the commute back to San Francisco. I’m impressed; Disney released it unedited. And with a pretty tasteful translation — they always refer to them as “raccoons” and never describe…
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Internet Movie Fun Special Friendship Society
I signed up for Netflix again, because I needed another monthly expense and a source of meaningless consumerist stress and deadlines. They were very happy to see me back, and they had my queue and my friends list waiting for me and everything. And that’s the thing. I’ve got one Netflix friend and that’s fine,…
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I wonder if it remembers me
The neat thing about amazon.com’s comments sections, apart from the obvious entertainment value, is that people on the internet are so eager to jump on top of each other to show how hip they are that you can often learn something useful. Case in point: the soundtrack for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou does…
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More on Blount, but still not stalking I swear
I just noticed from his website that Roy Blount Jr. now has a regular column in Atlanta magazine. I haven’t read it yet, but I know some readers of this blog (okay, one) also like his work, so I thought I’d pass it along.
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Obsession
Somehow this turned out to be one of those “theme” days, where everything all ended up tying loosely together. Today’s theme was passion and obsession. Not the creepy stalker variety, but The Orchid Thief-style passion over seemingly mundane things, and how we define ourselves. I had breakfast this morning with Rachael, where we talked a…
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Musty TV
My friend Rain has a blog now of her wildly popular mailing list. It’s called Musty TV, and it should be considered required reading.
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I Am Roast Beef
Best thing ever on teh intarweb: Achewood. It’s a comic strip by Chris Onstad, and it’s just about genius. He’s got a perfect sense of timing, and he knows how to go from dark humor to potty humor to just nonsensical stuff. You’ve got to check out the archives and follow it for a while…
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Is That a Leg?
I’m a big fan of the Straight Dope website and its message boards, and have been a member for a couple of years. This post, in a thread about “Funny things said during lovemaking” is probably the single funniest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.