August
2004
August
2
• News:
Blog by the minute style experimentation.
• Essay: Laundromat fun and
formula, Manchurian Candidate seen and briefly reviewed, relief at not
seeing The Village, The Village discussion, Eric Bana as the new 007,
where the hell did the day go, Thunderbirds goes splat, Sunday hiking
with photos, celebrity housing value Catch-22, Manchurian Candidate
scored.
August 4
• News:
More time blog stuff and fiction review.
• Essay: Howard Dean and the right
wing pundits on terrorism, portobello mushroom love, random mushroom
stir fry recipe discussion.
August 6
• News:
Pathetic celebrity news staring Nick Carter and Paris Hilton, Halle
Berry slams plastic surgery while standing beside Sharon Stone, the
worst circumcision story ever, slower than expected death from Mad Cow
disease.
• Essay: Reader Mail: cat
declawing, Yeti sports discussion, gay porn requests, fat guy girl in
thong photo, America in comments, blog time vs. old style, blog software
suggestions.
August 9
• News:
Book review week begins: John Saul's Hellfire, Ramsey Campbell's Darkest
Part of the Woods and his odd writing style in it.
• Essay: Review: Q is for Quarry,
by Sue Grafton.
August 11
• News:
Reviews feedback, the public needs dreck, Pratchett discussion, Yeti
Games breakthrough game and reader comments.
• Essay: Review: Thief of Time,
by Terry Pratchett.
August 13
• News:
Reader mail on Robert Jordan, Baron Munchausen anticipation, Phantom of
the Opera epilepsy trailer, AvP time.
• Essay: Book Reviews:
Tehanu, by
Ursula K. Le Guin, Dark Tower
VI: Song of Susannah, Stephen King, Peter
Jackson, From Splatter Prince to Lord of the Rings, an Unauthorized
Biography, Ian Pryor.
August 16
• News:
Microsoft XP service patch doubts, Phrase of the Moment archive online,
Olympic empty seats, the "breaststroke" difficulty, US TV
coverage of the Olympics is as bad as ever, US Dream Team humiliated.
• Essay: Alien vs. Predator review.
August 18
• News:
Three new mailbags, article feedback, Tehanu review enlarged, new
photos/captions on Jinx, Dusty, and Jinx/Dusty pages, vowel sounds in
names = attractiveness skew, girls vs. shemale vote, Oz finds that porn
is good for you, Olympics news from the UK, female asses on prominent
Olympic display.
• Essay: Book review: G is for
Gumshoe, by Sue Grafton.
August 20
• News:
Long blog sanity check time, the national "no-fly" list
idiocy.
• Essay: Movie reviews:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
The Mummy,
The Mummy Returns, Urotsukidoji
II: Legend of Demon Womb,
The Others,
Rob Roy.
August 23
• News:
Rough Sunday with no sleep, screenplay idea, San Diego no sleep
flashbacks, reader comments on The Others and actress no-makeup
comments.
• Essay: Book reviews:
Vincent Van Gogh, A Stroke of Genius, an A&E Biography, Ansel Adams, from PBS' American Experience
series, Brand Failures, The Truth about the 100 biggest branding mistakes
of all time, by Matt Haig.
August 27
• News:
Wednesday no-blog excuses, short discussion of the Placerville trip with
photos, D2 site hacked news, Hero and the worst weekend of new movies
ever, insane shoot out in Indianapolis, seal death in the UK and "neds,"
"neds" definition and UK slang discussion, hilarious 10
stupidest death metal band photos of all time.
• Essay: Exercise discussion:
jogging with and without weights, heavy juggling balls and cat bowling.
August 30
• News:
Hero and House of Flying Daggers box office news, everything else flops
at the box office, Ebert interviews Gallo, Hero reviewed.
• Essay: Sheri Dew, the RNC
prayer-giver and her gay-hatred and the LDS history of Nazi
indifference, interesting blog coverage of the NYC protestors, is the
potential coming media imbalance on both sides an improvement, and a
quick bit about Michelle Malkin.
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