Build your own Lionel Richie head. My girlfriend thinks we should follow this process to build our own Christopher Hitchens head, but I’m afraid that it’d have its own gravity field and destroy the world.
The Wave
Dec 28, ’04
11:02 PM
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Amsterstan
Dec 27, ’04
6:29 PM
Chris Caldwell at the Weekly Standard wrote about the failures of multiculturalism and free immigration in Holland. Looks like my brief glimpse of the country holds up: Many discussions of the Netherlands suggest that the country’s multicultural model is “under threat.” Maybe that was true a year ago. Now it would be more accurate to [...]
Best-Laid Plans, etc.
Dec 24, ’04
11:23 AM
Holiday plans got scuttled, after the official VM girlfriend came down with food poisoning Wednesday night. We had to cancel our Thursday flight to visit her family in Louisiana for the holidays, as she was in no shape to board a plane, and the person I spoke to at Continental burst out laughing when I [...]
Present Perfect
Dec 19, ’04
9:28 PM
Holiday gifts have been trickling in. Because I’m a Jew, friends send me gifts throughout December, hoping to catch Hanukkah. If they’re late, they can say it’s an early birthday gift (my birthday’s in January). I love my friends dearly, and tend to give them gifts throughout the year, when the mood and the opportunity [...]
House of Flying Corporate Capabilities Profiles
Dec 19, ’04
8:33 PM
I took a break from the gigantic issue I’m working on, and watched Ying Xiong last night (that’s Hero to you roundeyes). My buddy Sang referred to this flick as “a Confucian action movie,” which I consider a recommendation. It was, hands down, one of the most gorgeous movies I’ve ever seen, with action scenes [...]
Update
Dec 14, ’04
9:00 PM
My workload’s reached the level of near-impossbility, so blogging’s going to be pretty light. Two observations, while I take a break this evening: A) Prince sure was a blistering guitarist back in the ’80s. Showtime West is playing the concert flick for Sign o’ the Times, so I got to see the live version of [...]
Home home home
Dec 13, ’04
4:33 AM
Made it back safe and sound last night from Amsterdam, and the offical VM girlfriend was waiting for me at the terminal. At least she said she was waiting for me. She did seem kinda surprised when she saw me, and she was wearing that chauffeur’s cap and holding up a sign that read, “W. [...]
Oh, God! Do Proust! Faster! Faster!
Dec 11, ’04
3:30 PM
Just back from the Red Light District. I do sorta understand where that Moroccan guy was coming from. Problem is, if you have that bad an issue with sexuality and loose morals, what the heck are you doing living in Amsterdam? Honestly, I’ve never witnessed anything like it. In addition to the girls in the [...]
Dutch Courage?
Dec 11, ’04
9:32 AM
Looks like I got here after the party: Frans Buysse, the head of Buysse Immigration Consultancy, said he received more than 13,000 hits on his emigration website in November, four times the usual level. His office in Culemburg is flooded with fresh applications. “[Theo] Van Gogh’s death was a confirmation for them of what they [...]
