Welcome to Community Server Sign in | Join | Help

July 2004 - Posts

"Waiting for the Movie"

Newsweek has a sobering article on the state of literature in our society. Based on report by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), less than half of Americans read for pleasure. One of the best lines of the report:  "Indeed, at the current rate of loss, Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:30 PM by poo | 0 Comments

WNBA Liberty Playing at Radio City Music Hall

Due to the RNC coming to MSG in NYC, The WNBA's NY Team is playing at RCMH. (That's Radio City Music Hall. sorry, i got carried away with the abbreviations). Anyways, it's really weird to see a basketball court on a stage. The 3 people who go to games Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:32 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Michael Moore on the Media, Nader and Kerry

Michael Moore is at the DNC trolling around and Salon posted this good little article about a speech he gave. Some highlights: Moore admonished the crowd that it would take unrelenting hard work to remove the Bush administration in November. "They Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:23 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Al Gore Version 2004

I've never been an Al Gore fan, but this guy recently has been excellent. I just watched his Democratic National Convention address and it was fuckin awesome. He was funny, loose and dead on. He had some funny lines: But you know the old saying: Read More
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 8:49 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Friends Don't Let Friends Shop Offline

When it comes to buying stuff, I'm pretty impulsive. Most of the time I try to find the best deal, but sometimes I don't. I decided today to pick up ESPN NFL 2K5 for the Xbox which was released earlier in the week. I don't normally buy that many games Read More
posted Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:42 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Amazonia by James Marcus

. Since I have a decent book queue built up, I've started the new habit of reading myself to sleep at night (replacing the old crying myself to sleep habit. j/k). This new habit helped me finish Amazonia by James Marcus pretty quickly. My only real complaint Read More
posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:14 AM by poo | 0 Comments

"Brother, Can You Spare a Job?"

Following in the footsteps of the early propaganda cartoons of Disney, Fleischer, and Chuck Jones, this original, fully-animated look at the underbelly of Bush's economy juxtaposes a depression-era style with modern-day political rhetoric. Originally Read More
posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:32 AM by poo | 0 Comments

Miss Opportunities of 9/11

NBC Nightly News last night had a great story of nine different chance the government had to either delay or stop the 9/11 attacks. It's kinda amazing how just about every branch of government screwed up from the FBI to the NSA to the FAA. Not cool. Read More
posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:42 AM by poo | 0 Comments

Superman

Superman is suppose to fight evil, not random people! You just can't make this stuff: Police say a 21-year-old man dressed as Superman attacked some motorists in Ann Arbor early Sunday. "I guess this young man jumped in the back seat of the victim's Read More
posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:34 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Razorlight

Razorlight's debut album Up All Night replaces Franz Ferdinand album in my Music I'm Playlist section. I'm not listening to the Franz Ferdinand album as much these days, but I still highly recommend it. I've had the Razorlight album on constant repeat Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:34 PM by poo | 0 Comments

My Boss's Daughter

You ever see a movie that just leaves you feeling empty, but not exactly pissed at watching it? My Boss's Daughter is one of those movies that I can't say I'm pissed I watched or pleased I watched. It was just blah. There were some funny moments, but Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:13 PM by poo | 1 Comments

Monster

My sister and I rented Monster one night I was up in Boston. I realized while we were looking for the movie at the video store that there isn't a lot of stuff out these days that I really want to see. Monster was a good choice tho and I'm glad I checked Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:08 PM by poo | 1 Comments

Eurotrip

I got a chance to watch Eurotrip (Unrated) on DVD while up in Boston. It was a typical teen movie and the unrated version had some good nudity (and sadly some bad nudity). It's a fun movie to watch and had some fairly amusing parts. Worth renting if you Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:03 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

It only took me a week, but i finished reading Mystic River. It was a good book and was a pretty easy read. The story was well put together and everything worked. The ending was kinda cheesy, but it worked. I decided to see the movie shortly after Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 7:55 PM by poo | 0 Comments

firstrowidiots.com finally up-to-date

i spent a lot of my train travel time updating firstrowidiots.com. i finished up some overdue game recaps (4/17, 4/25, and 5/15) and added an about page. fun stuff and worth checking out for a chuckle. the 4/17 recap has some really funny videos. Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 7:20 PM by poo | 0 Comments

poo returns

the point of this blog was to blog more often/more regularly. with my other blog, i totally censor myself and keep the post-worthy topics down to a minimum. i've been slacking recently and that's going to end. i just got back from a good little trip up Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 7:19 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Bush's cheap shot at Edwards

Joe Scarborough (of MSNBC's Scarborough Country), who's normally pretty conservative, did a great job taking Bush to task for comments he made about John Edwards not being prepared to be President: Today, President Bush took a shot at John Edwards, Read More
posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:10 PM by poo | 0 Comments
Filed Under:

Hungarian kids dislike Bush

[Hungarian secondary school] survey of 34,000 students, aged 16-18, from 655 high schools showed Adolf Hitler was the most disliked foreign personality with 25 percent of the vote, followed by Bush with 23 percent and Bin Laden with 16 percent. Yikes. Read More
posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:56 AM by poo | 0 Comments
Filed Under:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

I just finished Snow Crash. There were a few times throughout the book I had to force myself to continue reading instead of giving up. I'm not in love with the style of the book, but looking back it was decent story and I recommend it if you are into Read More
posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:45 PM by poo | 1 Comments
Filed Under:

Political Insight via Software

Thanks to Paul W. for the excellent article: The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of the computing counterculture: open-source software that is distributed free, and improved and debugged Read More
posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:00 PM by poo | 0 Comments
Filed Under: