“Downstairs, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking party was moving into its 40th hour.” Thus begins Thomas Pynchon’s short story “Entropy,” which I discovered leafing through a collection of his early work that I picked up at a booksale the other day. To me, the best part about this story is not the first line — although I […]
links for 2006-02-21
Detroit Metrotimes 2000 Newshit Article on Michigamua Short article about the tower occupation with a photo of members in the “Wigwam” (tags: michigamua Michigan” activism wigwam) U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review Government agencies are re-classifying public documents at the National Archives. (tags: secrecy politics)
links for 2006-02-20
Petition Spot – Preserve AATA Bus Service to Ypsilanti Ann Arbor area bus service considering cutting service to neighborhing city. (tags: buses politics activism petition) DC Voting Rights – Stamp Act Congress DC group is trying to build support for voting rights for the District by stamping money. (tags: DC politics)
Review: The Crying of Lot 49
Ok, I lied. I’m not going to try my hand at a review of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, mostly because Amazon.com already has 155 of them. Instead I thought I’d just note a couple thoughts on it. I was inspired to re-read it after I picked up a copy of a book […]
More Internetty Goodness
I finally hooked together my del.icio.us account with this blog so each day it will post any links I post to that service for the day. We’ll see how it goes. Scott tried this and stopped because it was taking over his blog. Since I’m a less habitual user of del.icio.us I’m not worried about […]
Plan Your Week
DCist is sponsoring another Unbuckled concert this Thursday. Unbuckled is an occasional concert series where we invite a couple local acts to perform, charge just enough to cover costs and a modest fee for the band, and generally have a good time. This time the bands are The Hard Tomorrows and Olivia Mancini and the […]
Dodgeball
I just added a link to my profile on dodgeball.com to the “personal” section on the right hand side, bringing the number of social networking site profiles I have listed to 11. I’m not sure how many people I know who use the service in D.C., but if you are one by all means click […]