Double Reading

Last summer Slate had a nice piece about the “Afronaut Invasion.” I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff. I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive (which [...]

Jobie and I rewatched Vanilla Sky tonight. I haven’t watched this movie for well over a year. There was a time back in 2003 when I was obsessed with the movie and watched it over and over again. During that time I posted a few things to my old blog “Out of Control.” Here are [...]

My friend Jennifer broke the news (via Ausiello) that Dirty, Sexy, Money is over… or will be, at the end of this season. Although this show wasn’t quite as dirty or sexy or money as the title makes it sound, it was good. I loved the cast and the overarching mystery (“Who killed Nick’s dad?”) [...]

I’m glad to see a few places (Defamer via The Stranger) noting how “gay” last week’s Saturday Night Live was. And by “gay” I don’t mean the great, awesome, queer-type way. There were four gay-themed sketches: A family where everyone kisses each other — and at the end two of the guy cast members had [...]

The other week I was reading an article about a mummy found in the alps that has little/no living relatives today. That got me doing some wiki research and I thought my “stream of wiki” was sort of interesting… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita_Caldera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum (this actually resonates with [...]

I love the io9 post about bad vampire hair. I actually liked Angel‘s hair…

I stumbled across Imagekind yesterday. It sort of makes me want to order art there, but as I told my friend Shannon, I’m torn between: feeling like i should make my own artwork feeling like I should have some personal connection to the artwork (a la the prints she and my friend Molly made for [...]

I dunno if it’s a troll or what, but this post on the Apple forums about the iPhone saving raunchy pictures being a glitch is hilarious. “It wasn’t me, honey. My iPhone has a glitch that somehow calls my ex in the middle of the night when you are sleeping and makes up texts messages [...]

io9 has a (part 1?) feature about who the final cylon on Battlestar Galactica is. I honestly have no idea who I want it to be. I’m worried that I’ve been waiting to find out for so long that no matter who the final cylon is, I won’t be satisfied… I’m also worried that it [...]

I’m proud to say that Dan Savage is a Seattle-ite and editor of our weekly paper (The Stranger). I love how he gets Colbert to laugh!!