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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (2004)

Posted in A.M. Homes, Aaron Naparstek, Amy Fusselman, Ben Greenman, Books about writers, Chris Bachelder, Christopher Monks, Clay McLeod Chapman, Corporate skewering, Daniel Handler, Darin Strauss, Dave Eggers, Demons, Denis Johnson, Digression, Dip-in Books, Dreams, Ezra Pound, Funky Web Sites, Funny (ha ha), Humiliation, J.M. Tyree, Jake Swearingen, Jim Stallard, John Hodgman, John Moe, Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Luchs, Lawrence Krauser, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Mike Bullard, Myla Goldberg, Neal Pollack, Negativland, Neil Gaiman, One Ring Zero, Paul Auster, Political Humor, Postmoderism, Rick Moody, Sci-fi, Sean Carman, Sex & Violence, Smarty Pants, Sports, Stephany Aulenback, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, They Might Be Giants, Tim Carvell, Todd Pruzan, Zev Borow on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: ONE RING ZERO-As Smart as We Are (2004).
I had this CD sitting around my house for about 4 years.  I had received it as a promo disc from Soft Skull Press (along with several other books on CD) and I just never put it on.  Then one day I was going through all these [...]

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Jimmy Gownley–Amelia Rules: The First Three Trade Paperbacks (2006)

Posted in Boredom, Broken Social Scene, Canadian Music, Children's Books, Dreams, Fantasy, Feist, Fiona Apple, Funky Web Sites, Funny (ha ha), Graphic Novel, Jeff Smith, Jimmy Gownley, Marriage Trouble, Set at School on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

SOUNDTRACK: FEIST-Let It Die (2004).
I’ve recently discovered Feist through Broken Social Scene.  I know that she is huge (and “1,2,3,4″ is a really great song that we used for our son’s 4th birthday video), but it took me a while to catch on.
This first album (technically her second, but her first was released only on [...]

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Douglas Coupland–Generation A–Where is it?

Posted in Canadian Content, Douglas Coupland, Funky Web Sites on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I am very excited about Douglas Coupland’s new book Generation A.  It’s a sequel to his first book, Generation X, which I loved, and reviews have been quite positive.
I’ve been a fan of Coupland’s basically since Gen X, having read all of his books, including his weird Canada-only nonfiction pieces.
So, imagine how excited I was [...]

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Bryan Lee O’Malley–Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe (vol. 5)

Posted in Adventure, Books about music, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Cibo Matto, Contests, Death, Drinking, Fantasy, Free Kitten, Funky Web Sites, Funny (strange), Gay/Lesbian, Ikue Mori, Magic, Robots, Romance, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sex & Violence, Sex Bob-omb, Short Books, Sonic Youth, Supernatural, Threats, Video Games, YA Books on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: SONIC YOUTH-SYR 5: Sonic Youth Featuring Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori (2000).
The fifth SYR disc is rather different from the others in that the only SY member is Kim.  This is a sort of side project for Kim, Ikue Mori and DJ Olive. They’ve played shows together as well.
This disc is also different because it [...]

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Periodical: Radar

Posted in Books about music, Britney Spears, Consumerism, Corporate skewering, Drinking, Drugs, Funky Web Sites, Political Humor, Radar, Technology, The Future on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Radar Magazine has folded.  Yet again.  They launched the magazine a few years ago, and I subscribed.  And it folded.  Then they relaunched it a second time, and they continued my subscription (wasn’t that nice).  And now it folded again.  They still have an online presence, but I’ve never looked at it.
Whatever you say about [...]

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Periodical: Wired

Posted in Consumerism, Danger Mouse, Dark Night of the Soul, David Lynch, Esquire, Funky Web Sites, Guillermo del Toro, Hive, Oddities, Outer Space, Sci-fi, Slaughterhouse Five, Sparklehorse, Stephen Colbert, Technology, The Future, The Hobbit, Tiny Masters of Today, Video Games, Weird Al Yankovic, Wired on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Many many years ago (1995), while I was in Boston, I bought my first copy of Wired magazine (how could I forget the absurd cover to the right (yes, there IS a picture there) [And I'm very impressed that you can easily link to all of their back issues, just as I did with the [...]

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The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (2008)

Posted in Belle and Sebastian, Ben Greenman, Books about writers, Christopher Monks, Colin McEnroe, Craig Berman, Dave Johnston, Ellie Kemper, Franz Kafka, Frightened Rabbit, Funky Web Sites, Funny (ha ha), Harper Lee, Harry Potter, Homer, Irish Writer, James Joyce, Jane Austen, John Hodgman, Magic, Matthew Kennedy, McSweeney's, Meta, Postmoderism, Set at School, Short Story, Smarty Pants, Supernatural, Teddy Wayne, Tim Carvell, Time Travel, Uncategorized on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: FRIGHTENED RABBIT-Midnight Organ Fight (2008).
My friend Jarrett introduced me to this band.  He rather casually called it his favorite album of the year, so I figured it was worth checking out.
Frightened Rabbit are a group from Scotland, and they play a sort of disaffected folk.  Although that’s not a wholly accurate description because they [...]

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Periodical: Miller-McCune

Posted in Consumerism, Essays, Francisco DeVries, Funky Web Sites, Harper's, Library Journal, Miller-McCune, Prison, Racism, Religion, Research, Technology, Threats, Utne Reader on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Who has ever heard of this magazine?  I hadn’t.  And then Miller-McCune showed up in my mailbox at home with a “Subscribe for Free!” sticker on the front.  They just needed to know that I worked at a non-profit company (which I do).
It’s an unwieldy name, and I couldn’t really tell who published it or [...]

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Me, quoted in (on?) Salon.com

Posted in Colin Meloy, David Foster Wallace, Funky Web Sites, Infinite Summer, Joe Coscarelli, Paul Debraski, Salon.com on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yes, that’s right.  I’ve made it to the big time.
Joe Coscarelli contacted me about Infinite Summer and I wrote a huge reply back and got into his article about the phenomenon.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/
That’s right, I’m in (or is it on?) Salon.com!
And, better yet, I’m mentioned in the same article as Colin Meloy!
Aw, heck since the article was [...]

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Adam Curtis–The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004) (Wholphin, Vols 2, 3 and 4)

Posted in Adam Curtis, Airlines, Brent Hoff, Demons, Funky Web Sites, History, Lawrence Weschler, McSweeney's, Political Humor, Russia, Technology, The Power of Nightmares, Threats, Violence, WMDs, War, Wholphin, Wikipedia on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

[WATCHED: June 2009] The Power of Nightmares
This is a film, not a book.  But I found it so fascinating that I had to say something about it.  I have to say it again, this series was truly amazing, and I encourage everyone to watch it.
The Power of Nightmares is a 3 part documentary, totaling about [...]

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