You Are At The Archives for June, 2008

June 30th, 2008

For once, saddened by the lack of douche

The only thing the Slate piece on overused catchphrases is missing is how we really, really need to ditch douche.

June 30th, 2008

What not to do about a dead bird

When we last left the poor dead bird, it was swinging forlornly from the lowest branches of the pine tree. Sometime Saturday, the bird was blown from the tree and now lays feet up in the grass next to the tree. I was really hoping that once the bird was freed nature or the neighbors [...]

June 30th, 2008

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Internet Archive: Details: Mike Doughty Live at First Avenue on 2008-03-23 A download of el Doughty de Deliciouso’s First Ave show back in March (the saturday one, not the sunday one) (tags: music mikedoughty largeheartedboy)

June 29th, 2008

How Chuck Klosterman and Rock & Roll Bookclub made me revise history

I removed roughly a hundred entries from the iwilldare.com archives today. They were mostly of the “I have to clean the kitchen” variety and whining about that one time I had a cold back in December of 2000. Hey, blogging was new then and I thought the Internet really wanted to hear about how I [...]

June 29th, 2008

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Candy Bar Identification Quiz – AOL Food Guess the candybar by viewing a cross-section of it. I got 15 out of 20 (tags: candybars)

June 28th, 2008

Haunted by the ghost of a memory of Maurice Sendak and Carole King

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve had the Carly Simon song “Mockingbird” stuck in my head for the entire week. It bothered me endlessly because whenever I would sing the song I’d have these Maurice Sendak-esque cartoons accompanying my singing. The more my obsessed about it, the more concrete the cartoons became. It wasn’t until this [...]

June 28th, 2008

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Primer: Pixar | The A.V. Club (tags: pixar movies) What’s the Best Pixar Movie of All Time? — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine (tags: pixar movies) Being JT – Paper Cuts – Books – New York Times Blog Despite never having read any of his/her work, I was fascinated by [...]

June 27th, 2008

This is my attempt to exorcise the demon

I’ve listened to this song no less than 26 times in the last two days. It’s a sickness and I can’t figure out what the cure is.

June 27th, 2008

Why I’m giving up on Blake Nelson’s Girl

And so I started reading Girl by Blake Nelson because it’s rock and roll June and I was so sick of non-fiction I could barf. Plus, it helped that the book had been sitting my shelf for about six years. And I knew the book was supposed to be about grunge music, alternative nation, and [...]

June 27th, 2008

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Live Review: Dan Wilson at the PUSH Opening Gala :: Reveille Magazine I still have Semisonic on the brain after reading the Slichter book. (tags: reveille, danwilson) top five musical crimes perpetuated by record store customers in the 90s and 2000s (tags: music passiveagressivenotes)

June 26th, 2008

What to do about a dead bird

There’s an enormous pine tree across the street from Supergenius HQ. The lowest branches of the tree are about a foot and a half off the ground. Hanging by a thread, literally, from one of the bottom branches is a dead bird. It’s been there since Monday. I am not sure how the bird got [...]

June 25th, 2008

High-falutin’ talk about art and artists

Last night at Grumpy’s, Jags, No Nickname Amanda, and I had a conversation about Art, Artists, and whether you can go on enjoying the art if you find out something really gross about the artist. I am not sure how we got on this topic, but it had something to do with Joni Mitchell and [...]

June 24th, 2008

Break it on down

So there’s still about eight books on the diningroom table and a few scattered about the various rooms, but I’m calling the Semi-annual Supergenius Book Reorg 08 done. And since I don’t have a job and a real problem with prioritizing my time, I counted most of the books. I present to you a break-down [...]

June 24th, 2008

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CRITICAL MASS: Guest Post: Kit Reed on Twitter, Google, Facebook et al (tags: books authors publishing) Bookninja » Blog Archive » Second hand books I can see how this could be kinda gross if you spend too much time thinking about it. (tags: books bookninja) Past tense: Did a Minnesota Wikipedia user break news of [...]

June 23rd, 2008

Two habits: Old & New, like I like my men

So I was in the shower, brushing my teeth and reading the bottle of Olay Restore Body Wash. This is no easy feat, because I am blind and I don’t shower with my glasses on. I was reading the bottle of body wash again because the other day when I was taking a bath, I [...]