Monthly Archives: August 2007

Pitchfork: Early John Coltrane Collaborations Collected on Box Set A new Coltrane box set that sounds worthwhile. I need to check out the video they linked. (tags: johncoltrane boxset jazz pitchforkmedia) The Rip-off in Iraq: You Will Not Believe How … Continue reading →

Paul Krassner: Assholes of the Week #7 – Politics on The Huffington Post If this Wesley Clark revelation is true, then it needs to be brought to everyone’s attention. Not that we all don’t believe it already anyway. (tags: wesleyclark … Continue reading →

Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a “Greater Middle East” Must I roll out the old phrase? Something about doom and repeating. Somebody help me out. (tags: bush napoleon middleast fiasco history juancole nevadathunder) Pitchfork: Mastodon, Deerhunter, … Continue reading →

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Small and Smaller Mahablog with another awesome post on Bush and how, unlike the rest of the country, his legacy is completely tied up in the war that he now voluntarily is likening to Vietnam. Also, on the ineffectiveness of … Continue reading →

8.19.07 Red Hook David Byrne blogs about concession stands that I saw featured on a special NYC edition of Tony Bourdain’s No Reservations. Looks like the city might shut them down after this summer. Damn. I really wanted to try … Continue reading →

Boing Boing: Lumix FX07 cameras – perfect pocket camera Note to self: When the time comes to replace current camera. (tags: camera photography digital review panaonic leica corydoctorow boingboing)

One house through boom and bust Oh look. A couple used their California home as an ATM, foreclosed and moved to Austin to drive up our prices. Marvelous. (tags: mortgage finance housing california texas stupidity)

The War as We Saw It – New York Times An op-ed in the NY Times from soldiers nearing the end of their 15 month deployment. Read it. Now. (tags: iraq war soldiers firstperson oped nytimes)