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Noir-y A Thing Accomplished

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 10, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Unlike Lileks, I don’t feel compelled to explicate on every occurrence during my waking hours. Half of it would be exaggerated with nuances nonexistent and overstated, to make a fanciful story out of a dull, plodding non-event. I think it’s probably a flaw of my character that I prefer a dull and dreary day to [...]

’06 Begins

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 2, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

The new year started out like the old one, which is to say with the angry disposition of a five year old who just wants to stay in bed and sleep. Which it did. Only this time, it’s a six year old. Whatever. Meanwhile, I woke up to a wet carpet and banging vertical blinds [...]

Wookie Rock

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 10, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

You know you’re a true rocker when you do the rock ‘n’ roll thing with your hands…in your sleep. Replace “true rocker” with “loser” or synonym of choice, and you have an equally valid description of the photograph above, taken from Passed Out Wookies (via Lileks). This is one of the big reasons I never [...]

What WMD?

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The nuanced Al Jazeera flash cartoon Lileks links to today is bizarre in its blatant yet somehow unintentional presentation of the new New York City skyline since 9/11. What an ironic placement of Bush fishing for WMD, right smack in the place where a giant hole surrounded by a chain link fence now lies. So [...]

First Name Round-Up

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 18, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Around the ‘sphere by first name, as if I’m friends with all of them. Well, two out of 10 ain’t bad. Jeff may be contemplating cellphone-cide, or rather, homicide for anyone carrying one. Easy there, Jeff. We need Beautiful Atrocities for those photos of sexy Argentinian rock music babes. Greg is still miffed about mixed [...]

A Vast, Stereotypical Wasteland

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 10, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Lileks loosed the cannons of his immeasurable wit the other day to lambaste an article about 24, which I have never watched, though I have googled Elisha Cuthbert’s stats; c’mon, who wouldn’t want to know more about this vixen? I am, of course, speaking to the male-oriented of the species. There’s a certain something about [...]

Happy Holiday Traditional

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 15, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

To start the year’s Christmas festivities (it is the 15th, after all), I’d like to point you to Lileks’ Backfence column from yesterday wherein he defends Christmas as an appropriate title for this current holiday. It’s peppered with the right amount of disdain and exasperation for the unfair short shrifting the name “Christmas” has gotten [...]

Lileks on Saddam Capture

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 15, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Lileks has banged out another winner. I’m posting the whole thing here, since it won’t be archived. But truly, try and visit his site at least once a week. He’s got Important Things to Say without ever really being snarky or Important Sounding. Here’s the read: They got him! Or so they suggested, back in [...]

Revolutions Review

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t seen Matrix: Revolutions yet, but it’s getting slammed by critics and worse, regular movie goers. So far the only positive things I’ve read are that it is better than Reloaded and that the assault on Zion is amazing. Lileks saw it, and among other things, wrote: I took away something else from the [...]

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