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Daily Archives, April 2005
April 2005
April 1
 • News: Weekend Ipod plans, dumb women at the gym, rhetorical pondering at the slowness of Windows XP search functions when compared to Google, nothing April Foolish today.
 • Essay:
Interesting ESPN.com article about sports stalkers and stalkers in general, Terri Schiavo dies at last, the Pope is nearly dead and my comments on him and Catholicism in general.

April 4
 • News: Ipod report and car audio options for it, movie trailers, shopping and department store sticker shock, pennies should be banned except as building supplies, the Pope is dead.
 • Essay:
Movie review: Sin City.

April 6
 • News: Monday's technical problems, first report on listening to the Ipod through the car stereo, Kali class with kicks of every sort and my first time leading the whole group through sparring at the end of class.
 • Essay:
Vanity Faire belabors Desperate Women and this sort of thing gives TV stars delusions of grandeur, how many five year olds could you take in mortal combat? 

April 8
 • News: Kali intermediacy, harnessing the "eye of the tiger," and an iPod in the car update.
 • Essay:
Movie discussion: War of the World trailer, Fever Pitch scorn, the new maybe James Bond is fugly, Kung Fu Hustle anticipation, and Night Watch interest.

April 11
 • News: Golf just for the sake of Tiger, cute cat photo, reader feedback on "eye of the tiger" and kali, and admitting to a changed opinion is apparently very rare from a man.
 • Essay:
Book Reviews: All five of Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme novels.

April 13
 • News: Malaya shares an illness, kali footwork while dancing, newbs to Kali having to unlearn their previous martial arts knowledge, and smooth movement stereotypes.
 • Essay:
The best blogspot URL ever (
whatmycatshavekilled.blogspot.com), the Wendy's severed finger chili story continues, interesting pet pillows = death threats, pit bulls actually help someone, yet more grievous personal data losses, 

April 15
 • News: The nagging illness continues to wreak havoc on my empty schedule, my S.A.D. kicks in with sunlight, I talk housing prices with dad and get pwned.
 • Essay:
Great juicy article about the history of pope selection, granny goes for a misadventure test drive, premature ejaculation article kicks off a litany of questions, my new favorite blog, GoFugYourself.com.

April 20
 • News: Good writing weekend and good Kali class, unbelievable Harry Potter sales figures compared to The DaVinci Code, DragonSinger book discussion, enjoying an early listen to NIN's With Teeth, grotesque evidence of police brutality, update on the SUV arson cases.
 • Essay:
Chicago underpass Virgin Mary artwork, creepy face on a tree, the new pope is as 15th century as the last one was.

April 22
 • News: Malaya laughs at male sexual performance, kali, coughing, and upcoming free dance lessons, loving With Teeth.
 • Essay:
Kung Fu Hustle opens with good reviews, the joy and wonder of Google satellite photo maps, Hollywood Walk of Fame stars grow ever-cheaper, Tomb Raider parody cartoon humor.

April 25
 • News: Lots of writing and computer time = boring weekend, cats growing wings =men growing breasts?
 • Essay:
Aeon Flux movie has a sort of trailer, cool Japanese train crash photos, new Superman costume is man-tastic, a real-world Superman would be a far more interesting character than the clichιd crime fighter.

April 27
 • News: National Dance Week in the Bay Area yields some rather interesting sample classes.
 • Essay:
M
aggie Gyllenhaal makes some good and controversial points, Lucas ready to continue disappointing nerds with two new SW programs, combat and tactical absurdities in Star Wars, how would the original SW movies fare if they were released today?, Paris Hilton lives up to her reputation at a movie premiere.

April 29
 • News: Free dance class review and discussion, dance class freedom to fail vs. self guilt in kali.
 • Essay:
Movie Review: King Arthur, 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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