Entries from October 2005

It’s about to become very quiet

Date October 31, 2005

Thought my posting had become rather lean, did you?
!/textpattern/images/30.gif (NaNoWriMo 2005)!

Strip Everything Away.

Date October 31, 2005

At the very bottom of his column today, Howard Kurtz says of the Libby indictment:
bq. Strip everything else away, though, and Libby, like Clinton, is accused of lying. [ "Howard Kurtz":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html ]
Yes. And if you strip everything else away, Howard Kurtz and “James Guckert”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon are both journalists. What’s the point?

Guess the Lyric Update

Date October 28, 2005

More of the guessing game coming soon, but I’m going to give folks a few more hours to pick up the “last four lyrics that need guessing”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1237/guess-the-lyric.
#4 is not terribly obscure, but it is alternativeish music from the twenty-first century. For the readership of this blog, that might be too much to ask.
#5 is alternativeish [...]

Sweet Jesus

Date October 28, 2005

“George Takei is gay”:http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/13014885.htm.
I seem to remember somewhere — “Pandagon”:http://www.pandagon.net/ most likely, as their discussion of sexual politics is impeccable — that there are a lot of gay actors, but few willing to come out of the closet because they are afraid it will hurt their careers. Not only being gay is controversial (to put [...]

Guess the Lyric

Date October 24, 2005

I think this is a fun game. Fred does too; actually, I think he thought it was a fun game before I did. If you want to guess more, “try his latest set here”:http://www.unreality.net/weblog/fishes.html.
Here’s a new ten.
# *Push It*, Garbage [ HilleviW ]
This is the noise that keeps me awake, my head explodes and [...]