March 2007

Review, The Nintendo Wii

March 30, 2007

When Christmas rolled around, I was going to buy this for myself. I bought a smart phone instead. Now the Wii remains at the periphery of my perception. I have yet to see one in person, except once in the distance in a bar, surrounded by happy drunken twenty somethings. I heard secondhand that the [...]

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S. Murakami Turns Around

March 29, 2007

S. Murakami turned around to look At the red haired orphan sleeping, In the back seat of A 1979 Lincoln town car His head looked like a bundle of fire The leather seats tan and clean Sunbeams migrated on his skin Saltwater was the silent ghost A feathered band Wrapped around his head Collected his [...]

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Ink Blot: A Tower

March 28, 2007

In which modern technology is utilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. This week’s ink blot: The walkway to a spiralling tower made of clouds and electricity flanked by two metallic floating spheres.

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Tornado Season:Bar Napkin Art

March 27, 2007

My friends and I used to pass bar napkins and draw on them in bars in Milledgeville, Georgia. At the time, I was so sure that we would look back on them later and see the symbols and codes we so painstakingly laid within them, like hiding a really smart baby in some bushes to [...]

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Review, Game & Place: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Land of The Dead

March 26, 2007

I played Oblivion for a week. I stole a horse and a guard killed me. Everybody seemed to get mad at me when I talked to them. A guy with a cat face stole my money. I kind of don’t like this game. I tried to return it to Wal-Mart. Guess what? It’s easier to [...]

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Review, Charles Mingus: The Complete 1959 Columbia Sessions

March 23, 2007

In a sleepy bout of music downloading last night around three in the morning, I put this album on my music playing phone, the very existence of which leads me to believe that I may one day have an advice giving toaster. I don’t know anything about Charles Mingus. I don’t know when he lived [...]

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Review, Rhapsody Music Service:

March 22, 2007

I’ve been signed up with Rhapsody for a while now. It works with my smart-phone, so like a cat that can cook breakfast, it has my begrudging respect. I like not owning the music, believe it or not. This is not to be confused with not wanting to own any music, ever. When you own [...]

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Ink Blot: Sleepy Devil

March 21, 2007

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. This week’s ink blot: A sleepy devil peers at the viewer over the fork of a skinny tree.

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Review, Album: The Notorious B.I.G. “Greatest Hits”

March 20, 2007

There’s a new Biggie Smalls album out. I know this, because the record store downtown has a giant poster in its window of his head. It’s not really new, it’s a greatest hits compilation, but it’s a good chance for Mr. Wallace’s image to gaze out at us from the other side of the six-foot [...]

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Review of Tivo To Go Video Service

March 19, 2007

Tivo: Hey, man. Got this new video service. Take shows off your Tivo and put them on your computer…. or your smart phone. Me: Really? That’s all there is to it? Tivo: Yep. Try it now. Me: Ok, I’ll just wait here for two hours while one show transfers through the network from the Tivo [...]

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Review: Logitech® FreePulse Wireless™ Headphones

March 15, 2007

I ordered a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones to sync with my smart phone and listen to music at work with. The earpieces were gigantic and the only way they stayed on your head was through the application of massive pressure through the headband, so it was a lot like having someone press two pies [...]

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Ink Blot: Hippo?

March 14, 2007

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. This Week’s Ink Blot: A sunbathing hippo wearing nipple tassels with her hands under her head. Two genies stand guard above her in plumes of smoke, their arms crossed.

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Tornado Season: Letter To My Girlfriend

March 13, 2007

Dear My Girlfriend, Despite your insistence that koalas are fearsome creatures with claws that tear and devious minds that live in an undersea lair, I have drawn something closer to what I feel a real koala attack would resemble. Update: My girlfriend responds, You think you’re clever, aren’t you? But what you’ve really drawn is [...]

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Review Of Windows Vista & Heaven

March 12, 2007

Windows Vista is the new operating system from Windows. A of lot of people don’t care about it. In fact, I’d be pretty willing to bet that deep down inside, beneath the curtain of awareness and the veil of dreams, where the poets and executives and janitors of the soul all bustle and clamor for [...]

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Review, Logo/Illustration: Amazing Cat Pirate & Entropy

March 8, 2007

This amazing cat pirate is the logo for a scratching post I saw in a pet store. Entropy is a term to describe, in layman’s terms, the inevitable all-inclusive breakdown of all systems around us. Which means this amazing cat pirate’s hook will eventually tarnish and fade, and with enough time eventually break down or [...]

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Ink Blot: A Circus Tent

March 7, 2007

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. Updates Wednesdays. This week’s inkblot: A cloud of pure energy unleashed on the tip of a circus tent at night.

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Review: Phil Collins Love Life

March 6, 2007

This review of Phil Collins’s love life is based on two reference sources: Phil Collins’s wikipedia entry, which like the tumultuous surface of our planet is subject to change or deletion, and the song “Doesn’t Anybody Stay Together Anymore” on his album No Jacket Required. His wikepida entry states that he has been divorced three [...]

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Review: CinemaNow Movie Download Service

March 5, 2007

Once again, another video I paid money for is locked down by a corporation. Even though my video playing phone could easily play the episode of My Name Is Earl I downloaded, thanks to CinemaNow’s ingenious locking mechanism that prevents me from viewing, syncing or even placing the file on my smart-phone, I can’t do [...]

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