I'm worried about the election. With Obama settled as the nominee, his campaign seems to be behaving more and more like a conventional (i.e., losing) Democratic campaign ( Read more... )

So, in addition to being out of town for the weekend of the Outside Lands Festival, which is like three blocks from my house (and which, admittedly, I couldn't really afford and would have affected my weekend only by making the walk to the corner coffee shop an ordeal -- but still), I was just totally denied for a last-minute ticket to the Johnny ( Read more... )

It was really good! The Octopus Project is really good! They have a theremin.


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I went to see Squirrel Nut Zippers at the Independent with more of the clan than is usually in one place at one time. It turns out that I am really bad at taking pictures, but I got two that were clear. One of them is terrifying.


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Kingsley Amis asserts, in his book On Drink, that the preferred tipple of Queen Victoria was prepared like so:

a tumbler
fill halfway with red wine
top up the rest of the way with scotch

Where he got this information, Kingsley Amis does not say.

Pointess Youtube post: Alan Bennett reading Philip Larkin's "Aubade" over a background of New Order.

The anti-religious stanza is left off, either by Alan Bennett or whoever made the video.

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After only two glasses of wine I found myself totally incapable of prospering in my video game, so I decided to go through the closets and organize my old boxes of books ( Read more... )

Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For is on hiatus, but she published this short memoir in a magazine a little while ago, and they've let her put it online. Some of you may relate.


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I guess I would have realized this if I'd ever thought about it, but I never had: legalization of gay marriage at the state level is irrelevant to the question of deportation. A story from Reuters:

Rita Boyadjian wishes she were in a better mood to celebrate the weddings of fellow gay friends after California began legally marrying same-sex ( Read more... )

Fooling around with Wordle I stuck the first and last chapters of Middlemarch in there, minus the character names. Huh!

First chapter:

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