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In light of all the controversy over James Frey’s book I was reminded tonight of another author who embellished real-life events in a “nonfiction novel:” Truman Capote. We saw “Capote” tonight and I was completely blown away by the movie, and more specifically Hoffman’s performance as Capote, but sitting there in the theater I couldn’t […]

links for 2006-02-08 “The Day the Saucers Came” by Neil Gaiman It’s a poem by Gaiman, just click on it already. Cartoon Debate – The case for mocking religion. By Christopher Hitchens Sometimes I hate Hitchens and sometimes I love’em. This is falls under the “love’em” category. Rolling Stones Decry Super Bowl Censorship It’s a […]

Have you ever said something rude to someone and in disbelief they replied with “what?” People usually do that to assure themselves that someone has just crossed the line of civility so they can respond in kind. Many people will back off and retreat from a “what,” by either mumbling a lame apology or changing […]

links for 2006-02-07 You Stay Classy Iraq Ron Burgandy sends his regards.

Tonight when I sat down to write I was all set to publish a scathing post about the wiretapping scandal which looms over the Bush administration like a buzzard circling over roadkill, when a Google search halted me in my already cynical tracks. I use Google image search to find images related to my posts, […]

While noodling with the template for the blog this afternoon (don’t ask how it’s going) I noticed my post statistic in my Blogger dashboard: Not counting this one, I’ve posted 424 times since November 2004 when I first began this blog. Oh how it’s changed. I’m not masochistic enough to link to my first post, […]

links for 2006-02-06 The Colbert Nation “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web…Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” Bibleman In the […]

Well, it looks like my new banner of self-aggrandizement is finally operational. The rest will have to wait. Sleep is threatening to overtake me.

Ugggh. I had such high hopes for the blog tonight. I’ve worked for hours and hours on a new template design for the blog and things just aren’t working out. HTML hates me and I hate HTML. We have a relationship based on mutuality. I’ve sat in front of this damn computer so long my […]

links for 2006-02-05 VaderCoaster Well, the name kinda says it all. Al Lewis, Beloved as ‘Grandpa Munster,’ Dies at 95 Sad.