Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot was found dead yesterday at the age of 52. So far, there’s no word on whether this was a cover version of the death of someone from Slade.
I call it… the Sun Sack
“Perfume: Threat or Menace?”
My new favorite magazine.
Lesson Learned
If I stare at the screen longer than the duration of the Anglo-Zanzibar War without writing a word, it means my idea for a post was no good. So, the salient points I had hoped to make are:
- Sometimes, going back to a book can be rewarding, even when you don’t remember it fondly
- As a corollary to that, A Confederacy of Dunces
is now one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read, and I was bored by it when I read it in 1992
- I have so many books in my library, I won’t get around to reading half of them before I die
- As a corollary to that, I was so bored by James Wood’s The Book Against God
after 70 pages that I tossed it into my “Books To Sell” box after the San Diego trip
- Oh, and sometimes my Eco Chamber strategy just doesn’t work
China Syndrome, Part 2467
For a one-party dictatorship, China’s government is remarkably ineffective at getting the locals to follow orders:
“Understanding is not adequate, responsibilities are unclear, measures are not complementary, policies are incomplete, investment doesn’t arrive, and coordination is ineffective,” China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, complained bitterly.
By the way
I LOVE the animation on this website.
I’ve discovered Dim Matter!
Having attended a very PC college, I heard plenty of complaints about anthrocentrism, but this may be the greatest bit of self-centeredness ever:
New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos.
The damaging allegations are made by Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, who suggest that by making this observation in 1998 we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end. “Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe,” Prof Krauss tells New Scientist.
Running down that Hill
I guess the Wall Street Journal has a vested interest in throwing Hillary Clinton through the Drew Friedmanizer like this:
Note: I added a “Drew Friedmanizer” category to the site, so now you can check out all the posts with these wacky WSJ pictures.
Unrequired Reading: Nov. 23, 2007
It’s time for some post-Thanksgiving links, dear readers! Happy Black Friday! Go buy me stuff!
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Happy Thanksmisting!
Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers! The official VM wife is preparing some infernal Brussels sprouts recipe for our hosts. I baked my super-amazing bestest-ever chocolate chip cookies last night while we, um, listened to Abba. So the holiday weekend is in full swing, is what I’m saying!
While Amy got ready to stink up the house with those sprouts this morning, I decided to take a walk around the block. As you can see, Dimension Studios put together a great product tie-in for this weekend’s new Stephen King movie.
