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Entries from July 2008

Fish Taco

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“Fish Taco” (2004) by Caramelize

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Tags: food · music

Crossing Suicide Bridge

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Here, through the windshield of a PT Cruiser, is the view from about midway across “Suicide Bridge” in Balboa Park, looking toward the tower and dome of the Museum of Man.

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Tags: music · self

California, Here I Come

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“California, Here I Come” (1924) by Al Jolson

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Tags: music

MoFO Facial Morphs: Submission #1

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

There is no denying that Mo is a pretty woman.

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Tags: film · self

Arrrrr wins another one!

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

“Cabbage is second by a head.”

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Tags: language

Bibliophiles love lists.

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

The list displays the following 100 books (hopefully in random order – how else to explain Les Miserables at #100, well behind The Da Vinci Code?), with instructions that allow you to take stock of how “well-read” you are (according to their parameters, of course) and allow you to pinpoint some reading goals.

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Tags: books · ideas · self

Trailer for Oliver Stone’s W.

July 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

According to what we see in the trailer, it’s about the transformation of the current president from sloppy-drunk party boy to humbled (or triumphant?) victor over the parental authority figure (that other president).

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Tags: film · politics

MoFO Facial Morphs

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

The photo above has been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks. I didn’t know what to do with it. Then, in a moment of mindless whimsy, I decided to scribble us new faces using Microsoft Paint.

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Tags: ideas · self

Either (a) The New York Times is reading this blog, or (b) great minds think alike.

July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

In the NYT article, David Browne discusses the disturbing trend toward not printing liner notes in CD booklets and sending purchasers of the hard CD online to find personnel information for the recording.

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Tags: music

Obama bumper sticker mash-up

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments

This was clever: the owner of a car in front of me on the road yesterday made their own Barack Obama bumper sticker.

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Tags: politics