Entries from July 2009

July 29, 2009

James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game

The transfer at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue from the 6 train to the N or W is delightfully multi-cultural. And as rush hour bodies ebb, it becomes a poly-ethnic stew of shoving, heaving jerks.
Now, I can get pushed all damn day long and not go anywhere, as the majority of my fellow passengers are [...]

July 18, 2009

Price Drop!

See below.
The Korg Wavestation SR and the Sony DPS-V55 are now also gone!
ADDENDUM: Dear lord deliver me from these gawdawful money order Craigslist scammers.

July 5, 2009

A Short Review of “Away We Go”

When the only way you can really humanize your main characters is to have all of their acquaintances be horrendous monsters or living saints, I’d say you might have a problem with your characters. But I suppose clueless is preferable to maliciousness in the particular socio-political memeplex of the intended audience.
This is an unfair characterization, [...]