Archive for January, 2003

Midnight in a Perfect World

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

In this building there is a ghost that runs up and down the halls at night. It’s not squirrels on the roof. It’s not the pipes. It’s a bi-ped, a heavy one, and angry. We can’t figure out if it’s the landlord’s brother on the other side of the wall, or the downstairs neighbor, a […]

Terry Gross and Gene SimmonsLast

Tuesday, January 14th, 2003

Terry Gross and Gene SimmonsLast February, radio history was made when the host of NPR’s Fresh Air squared off with the bassist and tongueman for the band KISS, during what is usually a tepid, polite half-hour interview forum. I heard about the incident a while back, and recently they re-broadcast it as part of a […]

MacWorld 2003

Wednesday, January 8th, 2003

Sure, Apple released some cool new products. But they’re nowhere near as cool as the predictions in this Fark Photoshop thread, entitled “What exciting new products will Apple unveil at the Macworld Expo this week?”

(give it a minute to load, it’s a long page with many images)

Hell

Friday, January 3rd, 2003

For the past three days straight, I’ve had the Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Hell going through my head literally nonstop.

All my tried-and-true techniques for making a song go away have failed. These include actually listening to the song, and imagining the scratch of a record player’s needle being lifted mid-play. P suggested I sing the […]