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: Maggie
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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