I stumbled upon this popular YouTube video that shows the repetitive lyrics of Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger in a corporeal format. Very clever:
About half the way through, I was totally lost if the guy was actually following the lyrics accurately. I was wondering how many hours, days, weeks, months of practice it [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by JM
This was delightful (from the New Yorker, June 23 issue).
People express anger in two different ways. There’s “cold” anger, in which words may be overarticulated but spoken softly, and “hot” anger, in which voices are louder and pitched higher. At first the caller’s anger was cold:
AGENT: OK, sir. I’m gonna go ahead and explain this… [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by JM
I just read a great article in Wired about efforts to geoengineer a cooling of the Earth, since it’s clear to most that a complete cessation of carbon dioxide production is not feasible. The proposal is to capture sulfur dioxide from power plants, release it into the upper atmosphere (using jets, balloons, etc) where it [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by JM
I live in an enviable corner of the world, the San Francisco Bay Area. But living in any place for an extended period of time, no matter how great, forces you to confront the inevitable drawbacks to any place. I have separate lists for San Francisco and Oakland, but in general, they could stand to be [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by JM
I’m starting a series about San Francisco’s most lovable weirdos. This is the first installment.
About four years ago, I was waiting in the Daly City BART station (don’t ask) to head back home. That was the first time I saw the woman whom I affectionately call the screaming BART station lady. She was a petite [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by JM
I lived in some of the coldest, most desolate, coal-mining regions of Eastern Europe, where people weren’t so much pale and blonde as they were washed out from the lack of nutrients. And there friends and I saw a curious phenomenon: the one of Transpanic Tanorexics.
If I had a zloty for every woman with glossy [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by JM
One of the most bizarre and campy movies I’ve ever seen was Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, a 1965 release that was remastered and rereleased in 1995 in indie movie houses for its 30th anniversary. I remember being blown away by the clever dialogue and overly buxom (and violent) femmes starring in this cult [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by JM
I just saw on Drudge that 3 polls show Obama with a lead over McCain in November. Drudge then shows a beaming John McCain with the caption “Underdog!”
I’m wondering what the general effect of being declared the frontrunner or underdog does to your candidacy. I’m sure there are countless examples of the rule being broken, [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by JM
In order to deal with a bunch of comment spam (which come in droves, always repeating variations on the words “viagra” and “slut”), I’ve found reCaptcha and have put its Wordpress plugin on my blog. I think it’s an ingenious service: it forces you to write the correct spelling for two words. One is a [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by JM
There’s something about a soulless old man who shoots his friends in the face and wears a snarl most of the time that makes him the ideal butt of jokes. Man, I love a good Cheney joke.
So while this Machiavellian monster’s carefree trampling over human rights will soon be over, I have to admit I’ll [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by JM
