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Review: Whomp That Sucker
OnCover of Whomp That Sucker (Reis) Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight…
Review: Introducing Sparks
OnCover of Introducing Sparks Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by reviewing…
Stupid Ideas I Haven’t Done: Wasted Opportunities
OnDavid Bowie via last.fm Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and sometimes, it’s just…
Book Review: Evguénie Sokolov
On[Purchase Book] When I bought a copy of Evguénie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg, I thought it was, in fact, Serge Gainsbourg by Evguénie Sokolov. I had no idea that Gainsbourg had written a novella — I just figured the slim volume was…
Stupid Ideas I Haven't Done: Eno Busking
OnImage via Wikipedia Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes it’s out of laziness, sometimes it’s just because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and sometimes,…
Things That Are Neat: The Concept Of Persistence Of Vision!
OnI’m big into film, and so I sort of have to think this is neat. But even if I wasn’t, I’d still think it’s pretty cool, since it’s your brain putting together a series of stills together and presenting it to you…
Things That Are Neat: Octopuses!
OnI know that some people say the proper plural of “octopus” is “octopi“, but I read somewhere that it’s actually a bad Latin construction and is incorrect, though a lot of dictionaries list it as proper anyway. (The whole prescriptive versus descriptive…
Things That Are Neat: Goats!
OnImage via Wikipedia I love goats. They’re really cool animals. They’re always relatively friendly at petting zoos and folks’ll hire them to do gardening (mostly just by letting the goats eat stickerbushes). But my favorite thing about goats is their eyes.