Prestige Format: Music, Books, Movies
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A Year-End Mixtape
As promised at the bottom of my first Albums of the Year post, I have finally completed a mixtape with [mostly] 2008 tracks. Click through to listen/download.
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Albums of the Year 2008 Followup
Looking back at my several-days-old 2008 AOTY list, I screwed up. A bunch of really good albums failed to place on my list. Not because I didn’t like them as much, but because I forgot about them. Lame. Click through to read some other lists about music from 2008.
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Albums of the Year 2008
Click through to see my top albums for 2008.
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Chili Cookoff Names
Ah, the workplace chili cookoff. It’s an easy way for everyone to get free food and to slack off in the name of competition. Ideally, chilis are named cleverly and there is a contest for best-tasting chili. Below are some names I came up with while trying to name my chili: [more]
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Christmas (Tree) Time
I love Christmas. I love the weather, the feelings, the giving, the helping, the food, the family, the everything. I just don’t love celebrating Christmas (at all) before Thanksgiving. It just feels wrong to me. So I specifically avoid the “Holiday Decorations” sections in stores and refuse to play any Christmas music before black Friday…
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These could be Tweets: a Life Update
Isabella’s saying ‘Dada’ and ‘Mama’ now with some frequency. I drink Diet Dr Pepper daily–I’m starting to break my Diet Coke addiction. I would like a barbecue feast. No one was interested in seeing M83 with School of Seven Bells, so I’m probably not going. Rossy was interested, but when I asked about it later…
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Thanks a Lot, Genius
Apple’s new feature, Genius, has been getting some “it works pretty good” responses from musically inclined computer users. I don’t share that assessment. Until an editing feature is implemented, I think that Genius just doesn’t have the skills to be your personal iPod DJ. [click to read the whole post]
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Paul Pope’s 100%: A Lunchtime Review
100%, Paul Pope’s 2002 graphic novel, was billed as “a graphic movie” and I think it succeeds splendidly in that. This book dares to be a slice-of-life comic wearing a future-suit. These aren’t extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; they’re just people, y’know? Sure, it’s the future, but so what? [Click to see the full post]
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Wall-e: Foreign Contamination
I recently watched Wall-e again, this time with my wife and our 6-month-old daughter. (She was captivated by some of the movie, but then she was captivated by the straw in our drink until she fell asleep. All in all a good first time at the movies.) While watching, my nerd-self noticed an issue that…
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