As per usual, I’m not sure which link I most want to jack from Quiddity…Farpark (Gotta love South Park Scorpy), or news of Romance and Cigarettes, the Coen-produced, Turturro-written musical.(Thanks, Megg.)
Month: July 2002
Don’t buy Falafels or Ziplocs…
…cause your shopping habits are being monitored. I wonder what the Feds would think of my alarming intake of Red Bull and Mt. Dew Code Red.
Red Whining.
The mystery of the red wine headache, via Follow Me Here. I’m definitely suffer from ’em, which is why most of my drinking is confined to beer, whiskey, and other potables time-tested by my Gaelic forbears.
Didn’t they see Outland?
A three-day conference in Houston argues for a return to the Moon as an integral first step in Martian exploration.
Gentle Giant or Ivan Drago?
The NBA and the Houston Rockets try to figure out how to market Yao Ming. Looks like Agassi’s just psyched Yao doesn’t play tennis.
Somewhere in Time.
By way of Lake Effect, Terry Gilliam’s sequel to Time Bandits is coming to television! (although someone else is directing.) And this was announced in May? The fanboy sites have been sleeping on this.
Pearls That Are Her Links.
Booyah…After a too-long hiatus, Pearls That Are His Eyes returns. (Via Do You Feel Loved, who’s hopefully not taking too long of a hiatus either.)
Vinsanity.
In the first big NBA deal since draft day, the Celtics trade underachieving head case PG Kenny Anderson for underachieving head case F Vin Baker. I dunno…but I’ll wager it was a terrible call for the Celts. I would have stuck with Rodney Rodgers, but perhaps Baker can turn it on in the East. At any rate, thank goodness the Knicks didn’t end up with him.
Taxpayers for Jeb.
TNR explores how Dubya’s using your money to re-elect his brother (and keep the Florida machine greased for 2004.) Amazing how little we’ve heard about this considering all the treatment the FALN clemency story got during Hillary’s run. (Speaking of Hillary, my respect for her diminished further — it was already pretty low after the “somebody should kill Nader” bit on election night — when she got in a shouting match with Russ Feingold over campaign finance reform last week. Apparently, she’s already trying to find ways around the ban.)
The Complicated American.
What the World Thinks of America, from Gary Kamiya of Salon (premium). A fascinating read.