February 2009
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New music: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of...
Take a listen to this new album just released album from the band “..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead”. The got a great review from the A.V. Club and the entire album is streaming online on Spinner.
The Century Of Self still shoots for arena-filling bigness—at times it recalls mid-period U2, or Phil Collins-era Genesis—but the arrangements are much less fussy or...
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"Anathem": aliens, philosophy and made-up worlds
About a week ago I finished Neal Stephenson’s sprawling 1000+ page book Anathem and I still feel like I’m digesting it. Newsflash: I’m a sci-fi nerd and this thing was right up my alley when I read a review of it on the Onion’s AV Club “Books of 2008” list. Now it’s over and I finished the thing…but it was one of those experiences where I’m...
Morning coffee with a side of alcoholism
(overheard while getting a cup o’ joe at the office)
Guy 1: How are you doing, man?
Guy 2: (looking haggard) Ugggh, still recovering from the weekend.
Guy 1: Wait isn’t it Tuesday? Were you sick or partyin’?
Guy 2: Party…must be getting old. Can’t do it like I used to.
Guy 1: I guess you can’t down a bottle of JD and be perky for work the next day anymore.
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Rise of Citizen Dave
by Steve Johnson | Tribune Internet critic February 5, 2009
David Letterman, these days, isn’t exactly Howard Beale, the cranky anchor from “Network” urging viewers to howl out their windows in protest at the way things are. But he’s getting close, having completed in this, his third decade on national television, a remarkable transformation from Goofy Dave,...
I LEGO N.Y.
By Christoph Niemann in the New York Times
During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.
Bonzi Wells was playing in China..can I get a...
BEIJING — Chinese basketball team Shanxi Zhongyu has sacked superstar import Bonzi Wells after the former National Basketball Association (NBA) bad boy failed to return from a holiday in his native United States, his club said Monday.
Wells, 32, dubbed by the local media the best player to have ever graced the Chinese Basketball Association after joining Zhongyu in December, had his...