The Great Recession: Officially Worse Than the Depression of the 1890’s
…and the Panic of 1907, too. This is a few days old, but worth pointing out. And there’s no end in sight. But Romney’s all Rich and stuff!
Out and About.
Baptism and such. Expect little blogging.
Lileks Speaks the Plain Truth: Vertigo is Lame
Duller than a great thaw is Vertigo, hurdling contrivance upon contrivance with such impossible conveyance of thought that one watches it like a man at a mark, praying that the firing squad kills you straight off. And while the preceding bastardization of Much Ado About Nothing is entirely too pretentious to be clever, it’s still… Read More Lileks Speaks the Plain Truth: Vertigo is Lame
William S. Burroughs’ Boring, Prophetic Hate Mail to Truman Capote
Authors, like teenage girls, hate each other, and while this is mostly banal, expressions of it can occasionally be entertaining in a mindless-drivel kind of way, rather like The Expendables or the upcoming political conventions. I would like to report that the titular letter (via Word and Film), a 1970 bit of flamebait from Burroughs… Read More William S. Burroughs’ Boring, Prophetic Hate Mail to Truman Capote
Riposte Publishing is Up and Running
Please look into my fledgling enterprise here. This will be our first book:
Time Keeps On Slippin, Slippin, Slippin…
…into the future… And yes, that will be all the explanation you get for my recent absense.
The Olympics Make No Sense
I don’t get anything about what I’ve been watching for the last few days. Maybe for the past few Olympics. Things were simpler when I was a kid, when the Olympics were nothing more than the Cold War in athletic form. It seemed to matter then; I seemed to care. But every passing of the… Read More The Olympics Make No Sense
Micheal Moore and the Musket Fallacy
In 1789, the best available military technology was the musket. It was a cumbersome weapon by today’s standards, and had an involved process to load and fire. However, it was not quite as slow to load as it would appear to modern eyes. A trained soldier, commiting the steps of the process to muscle memory,… Read More Micheal Moore and the Musket Fallacy
The Exclamation Comma and Other Things The Language Should Have But Doesn’t
English is known for its wonderful economy of odd squiggles. It’s what makes our language so contextual. At the Blah Blah Blog, a list of interesting new grammar points: The Irony Point The Love Point The Exclamation Comma The Question Comma The Interrobang Yeah, they’re rediculous. So are a great many words Shakespeare invented.
Background/Update on the Vi Ripken Story
Police are still looking for the guy, who seems to have abducted Ripken, drove around with her for a few hours, and then let her go: …investigators are trying to answer the main question and are hoping that surveillance cameras at a Baltimore County Royal Farms and a Diner will provide them with clues. The… Read More Background/Update on the Vi Ripken Story
