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A new way of looking at chords and music. Well, new-ish. Or maybe, not so much.
Guess there's free and then there's free.
Yes, it's quite obvious that this site has its own agenda, but there are some valid points in this argument.
I should have just slept here. It certainly would have been easier. And, of course, it would have saved me the commute. However, the thought of enormous roaches warming up against my thighs throughout the air conditioned evening kept me from crashing on JA's couch.
And to sleep here would be a kind of surrender, a submission of all else. I already forget to eat. I've already begun using 261 Madison Avenue as my mailing address. If only I could find a shower somewhere in the building, I could stop paying rent and get so much more done.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing…
Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."
Via Jeff Wong.
Money quote: "Not one student said, I am studying English "because I want to make a lot of money" or 'because my parents made me.'"
What, no Angels and Insects? No Blade Runner? No Giant? Okay, I'm wrong about Giant—I've always over-rated it because it was almost exclusively made up of boring parts, so I got to make out with my girlfriend in the movie theater for nearly three hours. Now that was a visceral cinematic experience.
Writing a single "Recommended Components" blurb takes me about half an hour. It involves skimming the original review, searching for the details and the highlights and the heart, extracting those lovely bits, and rearranging them into a meaningful and seamless miniature review. It means taking five pages and condensing them into one hundred words. It means turning an essay into a poem. I kinda love it, I kinda hate it.
Sometimes, I complete an entry, re-read it, shrug, and go on. Shrug and go on. Shrug and go on. Other times, I complete an entry, re-read it, and say…
Part of NPR's You Must Read This series, which mostly seems like a better idea than it is. Anyway, this one intrigued me because The Dain Curse always struck me as nigh unto incoherent—perhaps it's time for a reconsideration.
Where's my copy of The American Library's Hammett: The Novels?
Why the man's a radical preservationist! But I agree with him more than not.
At last, a theory that explains that I probably do have more readers than Stephen Mejias, John Atkinson, Buddha, Adam Sohmer, Alan in Victoria, Jeff Wong, Al Marcy, my wife, and Monty. According to the 1% rule, I actually have almost one hundred readers!
Empires tremble at my might.