From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Thankful

30 November 2009

I think I forget each year about just how much I love Thanksgiving, at least until it’s right upon us. It’s that curmudgeony part of me that wants to gripe about traveling and seeing my family that’s responsible for it, I know. This year, I was fixated on how I didn’t get to cook or [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Pop Diva Edition

27 November 2009

Christina Aguilera may have faded into obscurity and Britney Spears may have become a mentally ill sexual deviant, but cover songs will always remember them at their best.  Here are some covers of these mid-90s pop powerhouses from some unlikely sources.
Elvis Costello – Beautiful (Christina Aguilera cover)
Keane – Dirrrty-licious (Christina Aguilera/Beyonce cover)
Yael Naim – Toxic [...]

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Items of Note

24 November 2009

1. Item the first: Xeric Award-winning comics creator Box Brown is crowdsourcing the funding of his new project, called Everything Dies. I like everything of Box’s that I’ve read, especially his last book Love Is A Peculiar Type of Thing. I talked to Box a little bit at SPX earlier this year and he’s a [...]

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Burning Questions

23 November 2009

Every once in awhile, I like to take a look at this site’s analytics data and see how exactly people are finding my humble Internet home. Amid some search queries like “Gypsy Curses” and “Space Werewolves” and “Cover Songs,” there are some truly intriguing questions. Robyn and PJ both suggested that I answer [...]

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

20 November 2009

In commemoration of the second of Stephenie Meyer’s novels making their way to the silver screen, I shared the first part of my own vampire love story yesterday.
In the comments, Rich craved more:
I must sadly inform you that I find this tale unsatisfying and lacking in closure, like many from real life.
Although you were undoubtedly [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Disintegration Is The Best Album Ever

20 November 2009

Back during Project: Mixtape Week, I commented that I could do a week of nothing but covers of songs from The Cure. If that is something you’ve been waiting for me to do, you can stop waiting.
I don’t suppose I’m voicing an unpopular opinion when I say that I really prefer The Cure’s more pop-inspired [...]

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The Twilight Saga

19 November 2009

If you are my fake internet friend on Facebook, you may have seen the commentary on a recent change in my relationship status immediately turn to talk of vampires, culminating in exclamations like “Vampire Rock Band!” that are very funny basically only to me and the person leaving that specific comment.
There is, as might be [...]

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National Procrastinating Month

18 November 2009

I have a lot of friends who at least try to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – this month, the month of November), and I have to tell you, I respect the hell out of anybody that actually makes the effort. My personal experience with the exercise has been a bit like [...]

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Santa Monica

17 November 2009

1993
Some of my classmates (friends in the loose, we talk at lunch maybe sometimes sense of the word) tried to drive their English teacher insane by playing Judas Priest’s “Breaking The Law” at a barely imperceptible volume from a portable tape player whenever her back was to us as she scrawled notes on the board [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Kenosha Wisconsin’s Own

13 November 2009

Despite its rad name and memetic album cover, Raditude isn’t Weezer’s best album.  It’s no Pinkerton.  It doesn’t even have as many redeeming tracks as the uneven Red Album does.  It’s decent.
Sometimes Weezer covers stuff in concert, and that’s generally more than decent.
Weezer – Viva La Vida (Coldplay cover)
Weezer – Kids/Poker Face (MGMT/Lady GaGa cover)
Weezer [...]

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