Commencement speech given by Jon Stewart at Willia…
Commencement speech given by Jon Stewart at William & Mary College.
This is interesting, if New-York-centric. (It is i…
This is interesting, if New-York-centric. (It is in The New Yorker, but still, there are blogs outside of New York…)
Reading Bill Simmons
If you care even in the slightest for either sports and/or magazine writing, you should be reading ESPN’s Bill Simmons now more than ever. After a couple shaky months (a career so prolific, yet so organic, creates natural ups and downs), Simmons has been on fire lately, with two excellent mailbag columns and two other
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg’s “”Must I Paint You A Picture“” (from Walking & Talking) is one of the best movie-ending-soundtrack-songs ever.
Depressing local baseball game
The Bangor Lumberjacks game Monday night was depressing, to say the least. Only about 75 people were on hand on a beautiful, long early summer evening, leaving the stadium that holds 3,000 looking suprisingly vacant. There was no vibe whatsoever, thanks to a stadium experience lacking both video replay and the crowd noises most people
Saint Hillary draws her plans for the throne
Nevermind the instantly boring campaign 2004, a race that ended in mid-April around the same time as Saddam Hussein’s rule. (Sorry, Deano, you won’t even get a chance to be the next Nader!) With campaign 2004’s long, weaving season out of the way, thanks to the military we embedded with those reporters in Iraq, it’s
on his way
In a few short weeks, our baby, who is not even born, will own more things than we do. He’s already well on his way. After a suprise baby shower in Connecticut this weekend and several scattered items besides, we’re grateful that his room is filling up fast with gifts from people who have never
A flash constituency
Glenn Reynolds has a great new article up on TechCentralStation about the power of horiztonal knowledge and how it has changed the world in the past 10 years- With email, weblogs, bulletin boards, etc., I could, if the topic interested enough people, put together an overnight coalition – a flash constituency – without leaving the
Don’t be too sure of parity
With today’s news that the FCC would allow further deregulation of the media industry, effectively allowing fewer companies to own more media properties, it’s interesting to note a similar, if ironic trend, going on with the Web. It’s conventional wisdom (for whatever that’s worth) that in traditional media, the fewer the companies the worse the
Die Another Day DVD
Sitting down to watch Die Another Day on special edition DVD, even though it doesn’t officially come out here in the US until tomorrow. Thank you again, half.com.