Month: May 2004

  • How to Make Friends by Telephone. GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON!

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  • What the hell? Apparently my sister went to the American Idol finale and VIP after-party. Seriously. Those crazy L.A. people… Read on to hear an excerpt from her e-mail. (Note: It was originally sent to my Dad, which is why she explains who all the celebrities are.) Hey, you shoulda watched American Idol last night…

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  • Martin Freeman (aka “Tim from The Office” and Arthur Dent in the upcoming Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie) has a very cool personal site that includes Babel Fish, The Game, a Flash game where you shoot little yellow fish into Martin’s ears. My best score so far is 94.

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  • Photos

    Kristen has finally posted her photos from our meetup last January. There’s a good one of me and her, one of Rodd and Mark (Check out the Snook’s blonditude!), and a very weird one of Snookums taking a picture of us.

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  • Roger Ebert has posted his Cannes Photo Album. Not bad, Uncle Rog! I like the idea of him walking around with a camera just like all the other tourists.

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  • This one’s for Amy, who’ll be starting her new library job soon: Comic Books for Young Adults, a guide for librarians wishing to integrate comics into their regular holdings. Pretty cool. I really enjoyed Joss Whedon’s Fray and I’ve found myself perusing the “Graphic Novels” section at Borders more often. The ones I want are…

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  • Note to Aussies: Fahrenheit 9/11 is scheduled to premiere at the Melbourne Film Festival on July 22 and will open nationally a week later.

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  • Abu boo boo

    Nothing ruins the buzz of a nice cold beer on a sunny day quicker than hearing your co-workers joke about the fact that your President can’t even properly pronounce the name of the prison where we’ve been illegally torturing “enemy combatants.” What an idiot.

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  • “Treatise on matching socks for the modern obsessive-compulsive.” I have to admit I know exactly where Patrick is coming from here. I have a lot of seemingly identical black cotton socks that actually feel wildly and obviously different once they’re on my feet. I tend to judge by length and color fade at first, but…

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  • No Carb Diet

    I know I’ve been cheating on the whole Atkins thing quite a lot lately… but I’m going to shape up, I swear. As of now, I’m going on the No Carb Diet. HA! That is brilliant. (Link courtesy of Emily.)

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