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A couple items as I continue to catch up: Matt Tiabbi well-summarizes the Michael Jackson trial in the latest Rolling Stone. His conclusion: This case is the ultimate sizzling shit pile of American society: It is what our culture of gross celebrity worship looks like when it comes out the other end. A pop star […] It’s disappointing to realize this past weekend marked the 50th anniversity of the death of Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and I saw nary a word about him in any general interest national publications to which I subscribe, or even Rolling Stone. While I didn’t expect anything from the local media, I at least expected the […] From Frank Rich in the NYT: [L]et me recommend the series that probably has more four-letter words, with or without participles, than any in TV history. That would be “Deadwood” on HBO. Its linguistic gait befits its chapter of American history, the story of a gold-rush mining camp in the Dakota Territory of the late […] Yesterday, I started playing with a new extension for the Firefox browser called StumbleUpon. It takes you to random web sites based upon interest areas you select. It’s kind of a fun toy and here’s just a select few of the sites to which it took me: classicbands.com is devoted to classic rock and classic […] Travel and the first killer cold of 2005 have slowed things down. Thus, here’s a few things from the last several days I should have mentioned earlier: 14 Days in Iraq maps “the human cost of a fortnight in an embattled land.” Civilian fatalities not included. Clueless or what? From the WaPo: “President Bush said […] |
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