Double Reading

Speaking of exploitation, I want to “exploit” the current disaster going on around New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and defer blame not to nature but to President Bush.
(Yes, I am serious.)
Sidney Blumenthal has a great article on Salon: “‘No one can say they didn’t see it coming’”
My favorite quote:

In early 2001, the Federal Emergency [...]

Even though I’ve gotten over my problems with Dell computers (by purchasing a new computer by Toshiba), I thought it was worth pointing out that Jeff Jarvis over at Buzz Machine has been documenting his “Dell Hell” and is getting some press and response from Dell. Yay for him.
It turns out that his son’s laptop [...]

Quite a long time ago my 20GB iPod ran out of space. Every time I added new songs, I had to delete old ones to make room. This caused my iPod to become sorta messy (incomplete albums, exclusion of songs I wanted at a later date, etc.). Thankfully, today I went to get a 60GB [...]

I hate to be all gossipy and stuff, but I cannot resist posting this note that is taped to the door on the guy who lives in the apartment next to mine.
It reads:

If I didn’t buzz you in via the front entrance you will not get in this door. I don’t care how loud or [...]

I know I’m a bit behind on the whole bandwagon of checking out Star Wars: Revelations, but oh well. I have now downloaded it, burned it to a DVD, and watched it — so I feel confident that I can comment on it.
First off, though, a little about getting the movie — the nerdy [...]

As far as I am concerned, life is based on exploitation. Everyone exploits everything, and that just seems to be how things are. The people who complain about that are totally missing the point.
I find it extremely disturbing and ironic that while people are attacking Cindy Sheehan for exploiting her child’s death, we have another [...]

Finally!!! 2046 is opening in Seattle on August 26 and playing at the Harvard Exit Theatre.
I must say, that of all the Landmark Theatres in Seattle, the Harvard Exit is the best for foreign films because the seats are sloped enough so that people’s heads are not in the way and you can actually [...]

While watching Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike (who also did Izo, Audition, Visitor Q, etc.), I kept saying to myself, “Hmm, this is missing the absurdity that I love so much in Miike’s films!”
Then I got to the ending. I don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it, but it’s great. [...]

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is the idea of universal common descent. I know there has been some recent questioning of common descent, but let’s pretend for a second that common descent is indeed the model — and even if it is not, the fact that life has basically come from one [...]

I probably shouldn’t make fun of people who post comments on my site (but as far as I’m concerned, this stupid 206-415 business is a site of it’s own now — I swear that most of the people posting comments didn’t even read my original post… they seem to not understand that the phone number [...]