Reviews Too Late: The Wire

October 13, 2008

Last night I screened (courtesy of Netflix) the final episode of The Wire, which over its five years has pretty damn clearly proven itself the Greatest Dramatic TV Series Ever. The series never won any major awards, but it’s so good that it ought to be inscribed, like the works of Chuck Berry, on a […]

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New Banks!

October 11, 2008

So while I was watching CNN yesterday while the markets were doing their Chicken Little dance, and they had a guest ec0nomist named Khan, or maybe Cahn— at any rate he wasn’t their regular correspondent Riz Khan— who had a solution to the debt crisis so pleasingly science-fictional that I immediately fell in love with […]

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Brief Commercial Message

October 7, 2008

I just realized I’ve gone over a month without reminding you that you should be buying Implied Spaces. Consider yourself reminded.

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Apple Picking Time

October 7, 2008

I’m going up to this place for a couple days. Kick back, do some hiking, do some writing, maybe pick a few apples.

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In the Dumps

October 7, 2008

Here’s Topaz all depressed because he’s not as famous as Ghlaghghee.

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Celebrity Chimp Tells All

October 6, 2008

It’s all very well hypothesising about those monkeys and typewriters, he says: isn’t it time for human beings to look around? “You’ve had a million humans, at least, writing away for much longer than a thousand years, and only one of them ever managed to produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Only one! Well, well, […]

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21st Century Crime

October 5, 2008

A man robbing an armored car in Washington State recruited his unwitting henchmen from Craigslist. “ . . . an ad was posted on the free classified advertising site, asking for 15 to 20 men to show up near the Bank of America on Old Owen Road at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday to work on a […]

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Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre

October 4, 2008

Here’s the new cover for This is Not a Game, which will be coming to a bookstore near you in March. Whaddya think?

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Curiosity

October 3, 2008

So . . . congress passed the bailout today.The markets went down.WTF?

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Turtle Parts

October 3, 2008

So I was washing my hair this morning, and I was using this small sample bottle that we’d been given by somebody or other, and the bottle says on it, “Green Tea and Willow.”Green tea and willow. In shampoo.Does anyone out there have any idea how these items are supposed to make my hair cleaner […]

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