Entries from March 2003
CNN refuses to answer cluephone
Kevin Sites, a CNN reporter, has been maintaining a blog from the field in Iraq. On orders from CNN management, he has put it on hold.
Lost in La Mancha
Saw Lost in La Mancha on Friday. This is a documentary of the doomed effort to produce Terry Gilliam’s magnum opus, the story of Don Quixote. Gilliam had been working on the idea since 1991, and only managed to start filming in 2001. The undertaking was terribly precarious even before it began, and as soon [...]
France fest
Not sure how I got on this mailing list, but I just received a notice of an upcoming event at Escapist Bookstore called (in an unfortunate apparent confusion of Spanish and French) “Viva la France.” From the message:
Womens of Masse Production bring you Viva la France!, a party honoring French culture in particular and American [...]
Texas Travesty
Texas Travesty is a student humor publication very much in the same vein as The Onion. Pretty well done. I got a laugh out of it. Discovered it in print, not on the web, at Vulcan Video on 29th St.
Where is Raed
Where is Raed? appears to be a genuine blog by an Iraqi citizen living in Baghdad.
Updated RSS feed
For those who are interested, I’ve updated my full-text RSS 2.0 feed to include comments. To use this in Movable Type, open your template-editing screen. Click on “RSS 0.91 index”. Rename that to “RSS 2.0 index”. Replace the contents with this file. The output filename should still be “index.xml” unless you have a good reason [...]
Wired at 10
I picked up the tenth anniversary issue of Wired yesterday.
I remember when Wired came out (and still have a copy of issue 1.01 lying around somewhere). It was very exciting at the time. On a trip to San Francisco around then, I went to a party for Wired (which was headquartered in the same building [...]
Celis is back
At Central Markup yesterday, I noticed a familiar label out of the corner of my eye. I almost failed to give it a second thought, but realized “Hey, that’s Celis beer!” I asked the beer-and-wine guy about it. Turns out the Michigan Brewing Company has bought Pierre Celis’ copper kettles and recipes, and is running [...]
Democracy and war
I ran across this chilling quotation yesterday:
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor [...]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Very enjoyable. Partly, to me, because of its involvement with the early days of comic books (I collected comics when I was younger), partly because it’s just an engaging story. Michael Chabon seems to have done a prodigious amount of research to fill in the details [...]
