August 2008
joshc: 8:36 pm : venturing out to buy detergent to... →
joshc: At last. Today's sortie seems to have... →
July 2008
joshc: Under assault by fighter jets. Resisting... →
“‘Garfield’ Creator Displays Previously Unhinted-At Sense of Humor”
– [Vulture], regarding Jim Davis’s endorsement of a print edition of Garfield Minus Garfield from Ballantine Books. :: Alternative interpretation: “Garfield creator displays consistent desire to make money from cartoon cat in any possible format.”
joshc: 8:36 pm : meeting with metbloggers. →
joshc: I think Britt Daniel is hanging out at this... →
This would have been a more exciting tweet if it turned out that he was secretly playing a show of his own somewhere in town.
joshc: 8:36 pm : being crushed to death in a... →
joshc: @tarabrown wow, one day in and already eco... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : was leaving work but thought... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : having a glass of wine. →
capitol hill block party, day two →
Another weekend, another music festival. My yesterday experience at the block party benefitted greatly from low expectations. I was generally interested in a lot on the schedule, not specifically excited about anyone in particular, and pretty thoroughly impressed with almost everything (except for the bottleneckish crowd design) and saw a lot of bands that I’d been consistently missing...
joshc: 8:36 pm : in a beer garden counting down to... →
joshc: At a shooting range behind a BINGO parlor... →
girl talk at the capitol hill block party →
Aside from making one of the smartest albums of the year, Greg Gillis is a master of the science of the scene. There was a huge proportion of the audience who, during the hour of his set,…
joshc: 8:36 pm : onstage at the end of Girl Talk's... →
(Yes, I did recognize that posting this was among the lamer things to do at the moment that I sent it to twitter, but the alarm went off. And, really, I was up there not as one of the dancing kids anyway).
Capitol Hill Block Party, Comet Style →
Hello block party.
unlimited enthusiasm, and a metallic owl on stage →
I also saw Harry and the Potters and Neumo’s last night. The few photos I took were terrible, but the show was awesome as usual. Pretty much the only thing you need to know is that their encore ended with a rewritten cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Because the floor was for the all ages part of the crowd, a lot of people went nuts without any twinge of inner conflict.
But...
“I want to persuade you to see “Baghead,” but I don’t want to...”
– Andrew O’Hehir’s introduction to his interview with the directors and stars of Baghead perfectly describes my sentiments [mb] about the movie and reservations about evangelizing it too much. [salon]
joshc: 8:36 pm : thinking about eating. →
“I was surprised how depressed I felt all day on July 21, when Richard and I...”
– Roger Ebert, “The balcony is closed” [ebert] There are some great stories about Siskel & Ebert in this post.
andrew bird played at the zoo, seated outdoor... →
Andrew Bird played at the zoo. Aside from a sock monkey onstage, no non-human animals were featured in the performance. However, there were plenty of songs that referenced animals, including one that rhymed “anemone” with “enemy”.
joshc: um, Harry and the Potters just ended their... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : milling out of the zoo after... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : home from the gym, waiting a... →
Watchjstn: Font Conference
Oh, why not? Everyone else is reblogging it. Where, though, is beloved Gill Sans? And who ever heard of “French Script”?
Phil Elverum & Julie Dorion
“flaming...
joshc: 8:36 pm : wondering if the failwhale will... →
joshc: Did I accidentally ask for vanilla syrup in... →
Slate: How to take a Web head shot. →
This is not really about making a good userpic or even that great of an article, but it is filled with some fascinating links that could consume your entire day. Crowdsourced headshot market research [facestat], for instance.
joshc: On the road to a raft and possible death on... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : riding back to the city after an... →
Australian "Store" →
I want a “koala”.
Little Bavaria →
In Leavenworth after a day in the Wenatchee.
joshc: Annoyed after an afternoon spent... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : pizza party birthday party... →
Iron & Wine
“Flightless Bird, American...
joshc: Twitching unhappily: It is Blue Angels time... →
joshc: 8:36 pm : my Thursday night laundry agenda... →
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Loney, Dear
“the city, the airport”
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keithgessen:
Finally there’s the larger philosophical problem of comments. I think, generally speaking, that every site gets the commenters it deserves.
I’m not philosophically opposed to comments — I like them a lot on my livejournal — but am too lazy to think of a good way to have comments both here and on the source posts. Plus, there’s something nice and clean...
joshc: 8:36 pm : at home, being lazy. →
“You know, this is actually an insult against Muslim-Americans, something that we...”
– Barack Obama, responding to Larry King’s question about “a lot of misinformation”. [huffpost] (long overdue)
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former... →
I’m pretty sure that I don’t like that Bansky’s true identity has been revealed. Doesn’t Mail Online remember that touching scene from Spiderman 2 where all the nice people on the train agree not to tell?
yes. the daily show on the new yorker cover. →
This just the parts about the New Yorker cover. The whole show is on hulu, which has a really nicest embedding link trick of letting you choose start and stop times, so you can tune in for the Pierce Brosnan interview at the end on your own time. John Stewart gets a little “special commenty”, but the clips of the media coverage alone are worth it.
This, though is the win, and...