search
Does music represent the pleasure of counting without the burden of numbers? John S. Allen makes a strong case—sort of.
The Morning News' Clay Risen thinks the LA Times shouldn't have published Claire Hoffman's story on Girls Gone Wild sleazeball Joe Francis. Risen thinks Hoffman couldn't write objectively about a man who assaulted her.
Possible photo captions:
An album cover art that finally gives the pathetic voyeur old man strata of the audiophile community what it needs most.
A record cover that finally understands that audiophiles are really not that high falutin and hard to please after all.
Has frontal nudity gone the way of the cassette?
Hi Def Gratuitous Nudity: A Format With Something For Everyone.
Just another day, beyond the velvet rope, outside Stephen Mejias office.
Brazilian swimwear: analog or digital?
Slow afternoon at the South Jersey's only all…
KR: "What the hell did you people do to me?"
SM: "They call it 'The Bug.' You've been bitten by speaker lust."
KR: "You do know that if I get these speakers and go away to Boston I may have to ask you if I can post a blog entry every now and then. I'll need help figuring out where to put these babies and I'll let you know how they really sound to my young ears."
SM: "I love that idea."
KR: "The bite itches."
I'll have to check with JA to be sure (he remembers these things better than anyone), but I think it was Thursday, August 10, 2000 — exactly six years ago — that I first sat down in front of a computer screen for Stereophile.
Happy Anniversary to me. To me?
To me!
Bagheera, tiring of being compared to a recumbent Modigliani model, tries for some Julian Schnabel neo-expressionism.
Watch the blooming of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), aka the "corpse flower" because it "releases a monstrous stench of putrefaction at peak bloom."
Pretty gross, no? Yet, since it rarely blooms in cultivation, a blooming incident is pretty special. Enter the BBG—they're webcasting a photo every 30 seconds so we can all watch, minus the putrefying stench.
Via Boing-Boing>
Today's Jon Carroll column doesn't exactly answer yesterday's link to Clay Risen's critique of Claire Hoffman's Joe Francis story (man, is this blog getting self-referential or what), but it does neatly expose Risen's glaring flaw: Journalism isn't just one thing.
Do I think Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese, and, yes, Claire Hoffman produce journalism, even though they don't disappear into an appearance of neutrality? Heck yes, and I value the heat they bring to their subjects.