And now I know who Finnished the coffee.
Month: July 2004
Mankind is scary…
or at least people who use a bris-o-matic. I mean, why would you get an automated circumcision tool? My God. From the wonderful world of cory doctorow over at boing-boing, of course. I finally got my hands on one of his novels and I’m excited.
Canadian?
Funny that I am Canadian, but while I’m not perfectly up to date, I am far more up to speed with American politics than with those in my own country. Ah well. Keisha recommended a show from the NPR series This American Life for me. I don’t want to forget it and so this post serves as a reminder to me to listen to it when I return home. It’s called Who’s Canadian? Maybe you should listen to it too, eh? Did you ever think about that? Hmm?
Bad Music, Korean and Otherwise
Well, worth hearing anyway. It’s Korean: Unpleasantly (The Anthology) by The Pearl Sisters is the CD focused discussed in this page, which has a whole CD of tracks you can listen to. There’s also a page here on Korean Psychedelic and Acid Folk music… which is a subpage of a much bigger index of psychedelic music from around the world, but I’ll let you follow the thinks at your leisure and according to your curiosity. Links from a post on Metafilter by dhoyt. And speaking of bad music, I”m never ever going to play one of these.
Superpowered Blatherings
This week’s Friday Five question comes from Marvin Long, who is currently co-hosting me with his with Keisha during my accident-ridden visit to Texas: One morning you wake up and discover that whatever it was that bit, irradiated, or otherwise made contact with you yesterday has transformed you into a muscle-bound freak with a penchant for spandex leotards. What do you say to your spouse/significant other, your boss, your best friend, your parents, your first ass-whuppee? So, as I mentioned, I just read the graphic novel Superman: Red Son so I’ve been thinking about the possible political ramifications of super-powers. …