Posted 7:08pm
pst, Wednesday, August
31, 2005
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Posted 11:53pm
pst, Saturday, August 20,
2005
This
and that
On Monday,
Sony Music announced that Fiona Apple's
Extraordinary Machine would finally
be released on October 4th. But this
won't be the version that leaked onto
the internet earlier this year.
That version was produced by Jon Brion.
It was a masterpiece.
Having
heard two tracks from the retooled
version, produced by Mike Elizondo,
I'll say it has more of a sheen on
it. Definitely more commercial than
Brion's take on the songs. Apparently,
Apple is happier with
the new version.
I'll
reserve judgement until the album's
released, but it'll be hard to top
the first version.
A shout out to
blogger Jay Gnospelius. I told him I'd
give him a plug for a new venture of
his: Kidparazzi.
Kidparazzi
is basically a modern version of a
kid photographer. He comes to your
public event, free of charge, and shoots
the hell out of it. Then you go to
his site and buy prints. He makes a
cut of all the sales. Pretty good deal.
There's a nominal fee for private parties,
but that's only natural.
I don't
receive anything except Jay's gratitude,
so check out his services.
Last post I said
I was working on some redesigns of parts
of the site. The first upgrade is up:
the Martial
Artist's Guide to Hong Kong Films.
All the reviews are written by my good
friend and sometime columnist Passenger
58. He's been practicing martial arts
all his life and he knows his shit. In
fact, his subdomain is one of the most
visited parts of my site. Check it out
if you're into chop socky flicks.
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Posted 11:15pm
pst, Friday, August
12, 2005
Heartless
From
the Associated
Press:
President
George W. Bush got his first look
at an anti-war vigil near his ranch
on Friday as his motorcade took him
by the protest site lined with small
white crosses representing fallen
American soldiers in Iraq.
[...]
Cindy
Sheehan, whose son was one of the
nearly 1,850 U.S. soldiers killed
in Iraq, held up a sign that said: "Why
do you make time for donors and not
for me?"
[...]
Bush
left his ranch to go to Stan and
Kathy Hickey's Broken Spoke Ranch
for a barbecue lunch to raise more
than $2 million for the Republican
National Committee. The 230 people
attending were among the party's
biggest donors.
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Posted 10:12pm
pst, Thursday, August
11, 2005
O'Reilly
gets his ass handed to him
Cindy
Sheehan, the mother of Casey Sheehan,
a soldier who was killed in action
in Iraq, has been staging a protest
outside of Bush's Crawford ranch. She
vows to remain there for the duration
of Bush's five week vacation (the longest
by a president in 36 years).
Sheehan
would like Bush to explain why more
Americans have to die in the name of
a lie. She says she's staying until
he comes out and speaks to her personally.
her cause has garnered national attention.
She's been pegged for interviews and
coverage by Time, People, Vanity Fair
and even Oprah.
So Wednesday
night Bill O'Reilly invites Dolores
Kesterson on his program. Kesterson
also lost a son in Iraq. He was looking
for an anti-Cindy Sheehan; someone
to counter the attention Sheehan was
getting. It backfired.
Not only
did Kesterson agree with Sheehan, she
laid into O'Reilly hard and he had
to sit there and take it. His usual
strongarm tactics wouldn't work on
a dead soldier's mom.
It was
priceless. Enjoy the video.
Sorry for the lack
of updates. I've been redesigning my
Spider-man art site along with my illustration
section. I've also been messing around
with a different look for this blog.
First
change, I've decided to forego the
comments links at the end of each post.
If you're inclined to leave a note,
you can still post comments at the Blogger
version of this site or simply
send me an e-mail. frankly, it was
a bit of a hassle to code the comments
section.
In a
few weeks, I'll be changing the look
of the site. I also plan on adding
a search function which will along
you to find old posts.
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