You can’t trust animals.

Posted June 4, 2009 by Dewb
Categories: Animals

Withdrawl.

Posted April 16, 2009 by Dewb
Categories: Internet dependency, Uncategorized

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Nooooooooooooo!

A brief survey of dancing cops in pop music.

Posted October 14, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Crime, Music, Police

2008: (at 1:03)

1996: (at 3:35)

1983: (at 1:50 and 2:50)

1967: (at 1:03)

I’m sure there are some classics I’ve missed. Any suggestions?

And no, I’m not talking about this:

RIP David Foster Wallace.

Posted September 13, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: David Foster Wallace, Footnotes, Suicide, Writing

I hope this is a fitting tribute:
Michael is in shock[1] over the news[2] about David Foster Wallace[3].

Two-sentence review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Posted August 28, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Movies, Travel

[the film ends]

Kim: I want to go to Barcelona!
Me: I want to go paint!

In my defense, Bruce Campbell does not hang out in my studio.

Posted August 1, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Burn Notice, Music

What I intended to do with my free time this week: Work on my recording of “Fresh Born” (see http://deerhoof.cashmusic.org).

What I actually did with my free time this week: Watched season 1 of Burn Notice.

Manny to the Dodgers, Jason Bay to the Red Sox.

Posted July 31, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Baseball, Manny Ramirez, Red Sox

The deal doesn’t look too bad. Bay is under contract for 2009 (at $8m) so the Sox lose Moss, Hansen, and a few points of OPS, but save around $10 million (vs. keeping Manny and exercising the option) and a lot of headaches. Decent defensive upgrade in left, also.

I’m sad to see Manny go, but it had to be done.

Quick thoughts on the first hour of Generation Kill

Posted July 13, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Politics, The Wire

So we just had our first hour of television from David Simon & co. since The Wire closed up shop. It was good TV. Not amazing, but nobody familiar with The Wire expects a David Simon production to show its hand in the first hour. We’ll know if it’s good or not around episode 4, probably.

Good: The characters, the acting, the dialogue. Bad: Hmm. Well, the empty desert is already getting old. Many of the actors, while unknowns, look vaguely familiar — leading to a lot of false “Hey It’s That Guy” hits. (Yeah, I’m stretching.)

Didn’t see too much new fuel for the political debate around the show. Most of that seemed sparked by the trailer, which definitely had a bit of selection bias towards soundbites that would attract an anti-war audience. And certainly there’s a larger selection bias in Simon and HBO choosing this project. But Simon’s promised neutrality holds up, and I don’t think either side of the debate has grounds to complain. At least not yet.

A certain few nicknamed officers of 1st Recon are not going to be happy, though, woo. No way.

As clear a demonstration of cause and effect as you’ll ever see.

Posted April 22, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Facebook

Things to do in Stockholm.

Posted March 26, 2008 by Dewb
Categories: Chef John Bull, Clavia, Denmark, Food, Kirstein Ketsjer, Stockholm, Sweden

Standard touristy stuff: Visit the Vasamuseet and the Arkitekturmuseet.

Ring up Clavia and beg for a factory tour.

Go to Chef John Bull’s restaurant Back A Yard.

See a Kirstein Ketsjer show — whoops, never mind, that’s Copenhagen.

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(In truth I’ll see Kirstein Ketsjer in New York next month. This post is a thinly veiled excuse to link to Chef John Bull.)