In response to my wife’s direct threat of strike, I have come here to blog because I do infact love her with my heart. Also the implications of a strike are far reaching as I am quite lost without her. So wife. I love you. A whole lot. I love you because you are zany. [...]
Congress is readying an upgrade to the incredibly sucky DMCA, so get stoked! Included are such great ideas as allowing wiretaps for copyright violation investigations, upping the penalties for copyright infringement to ten years in prison, and making it illegal to posses copyright circumvention software/tools (including your shift key). But I think the choicest part [...]
A good way to waste time on Friday. Also, seriously. Andrew Jackson = worst president ever.
Associate professor of English, Claudia Emerson, has won the 2k6 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Emerson was awarded the prize in recognition of her 2005 book, titled Late Wife, an autobiographical account of the break-up of her 19-year marriage and the start of her life with a new husband. Her publisher, Louisiana State University Press, nominated [...]
After 44 days, tonight at midnight I will drink some delicious beers. As you probably know, 44 days ago Lent began with Ash (not Ashe Wednesday, where we all play tennis and take books away from children) Wednesday. During Lent Catholics typically do semi-fasts for 44 days while Protestants stop doing a thing that could [...]
This Saturday Gallery5 hosts RVA Mag‘s one year celebration. Events include the River City Burners (fire dancers), Prabir & the Substitutes (UK invasion rock featured at the last Patchwork Collective show, and The Gaskets (featuring the other Ross in Richmond). It should be a blast, check it out. Festivities start at 8pm. Technorati Tags: music, [...]
Usually, this guy annoys me a lot. Michael Paul Williams Today, though, he actually wrote a somewhat decent column. Ignoring the fact that the front page headline reads “Who moved New York here?” there are some good ideas in the actual column: The future of Richmond lies less in hulking edifices, performing-arts centers and new [...]
The time foretold by the prophets is finally here: haduken shirts. For a mere 10$ American you can sport the latest in intertron related apparel. The shirts will be white of tagless variety and screen printed (by our own nic) in black featuring the below design. Cost 10$ + shipping (if you need it mailed [...]
Last night on the Daily Show John Stewart had a short interview with John McCain via satellite. The result was a sad showing by McCain who suffered mild pwnage by Stewart. Before the interview they ran clips of McCain’s 2k presidential run where he said amazing things like: Neither party should be defined by pandering [...]
Pics from Saturday’s Slaughterama bikefest on Belle Isle. Click on the photo to see the whole flickr set. Technorati Tags: bikes, Richmond, sports, Virginia
Via Norm. The Judiciary of the United States is so constructed & extended, as to absorb and destroy the Judiciarys of the several States; thereby rendering Law as tedious intricate and expensive, & Justice as unattainable, by a great Part of the Community, as in England, and enabling the Rich to oppress & ruin the [...]