Archive for July, 2008

Adaptation: 10 Stories That Should Be Made Into Movies

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

Maud Newton, whom I adore unreservedly and who knows more about literature then me, and you, and (yes) everyone we know, has come up with a list of ten novels ... Read more..

Seriously, Why Obama?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Music, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

My homey kickerofelves at Large Hearted Boy is running a series of interviews with musicians and artists on why they're openly supporting Barack Obama this fall. It may be true that ... Read more..

Charles Van Doren Finally Comes Clean, 50 Years On

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Game Shows, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

In an article in this week's New Yorker, Charles Van Doren, the man at the center of the great game show fixing scandal of the 1950's and subject of the ... Read more..

Amazing Stop-Motion Video

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in I Found This Interesting | 1 Comment »

Just watch this video. There are so many cool little things in it, that describing them would kill the joy: PES' Western Spaghetti from ideals creatives on Vimeo. Read more..

While We’re Manipulating Web Addresses Here

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting, Housekeeping | Comments Off

Yeah. eviltwinclassic.blogspot.com is up. This DSO project is the second blog I've really put an effort into maintaining (if you can call this "effort" and "maintaining"). In 2000, I started a ... Read more..

Mea Minima Culpa: Scrabulous, Obama, Missing Toddlers, and The Elusiveness of Self-Improvement

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting, Housekeeping | 1 Comment »

A bunch of things that don't merit their own blog entry: I finally managed to get my grubby little mittens on tonyhightower.com. I had it for years; it was where the ... Read more..

Recap: What You Missed Last Night

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, Music, I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

Last night's audio round is now up at dsotrivia.muxtape.com, as well as an unused track from the genius behind the Chipmunks. Feel free to guess answers and other stuff I ... Read more..

The Muppet Show Muppets Are Up To Something

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Comedy, Music, I Found This Interesting | 1 Comment »

They've opened a couple of channels on YouTube and posted some (largely musical) videos under a few usernames: deumnborkborkbork patrioticeagle weirdowhatever meepmeepmeepow and, kindasorta tying them together: heckleu247 They seem to have constructed each video as ... Read more..

DSOTrivia.muxtape.com - Finally Updated

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in Trivia, Music, Housekeeping | Comments Off

After trying since Thursday to upload the new audio round (not continuously, but regularly), I finally managed to get the most recent audio round up at DSOTrivia.muxtape.com. I think I have ... Read more..

Note: DSOTrivia.com now directs here

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in I Found This Interesting, Housekeeping | 1 Comment »

In a move that should have happened many, many years ago, I've finally procured http://DSOTrivia.com and directed it to point to this page. Talk about something that was way overdue. The ... Read more..

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