Archive for February, 2004

Like Al Pacino’s…cat?

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

Some­one found this site in a Google search for “al pacino cat gone like lyrics.”
Sounds like someone’s been mis-hearing their Switch­foot.
It’s inter­est­ing to see things in ret­ro­spect. I wrote that post about Switch­foot last April, lament­ing that they hadn’t made much of a dent in the main­stream with their most recent album. […]

IS Jesus!">Jack Bristow IS Jesus!

Friday, February 20th, 2004

I know Vic­tor Gar­ber (aka Alias’s Jack Bris­tow) has had a long and var­ied act­ing career, but thanks to this arti­cle in the Onion A.V. Club I’ve just learned that he played Jesus in God­spell.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see him as Sydney’s father again with­out imag­in­ing him in an afro, […]

Spam Blockin’ Puppies!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

The lat­est weapon in the war on spam is, appar­ently, pup­pies.
My job requires me to email a lot of cus­tomers as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies, so I end up chang­ing the “From” field on my busi­ness emails a lot. This tends to trip up spam block­ers, who see that the reply address and the […]

A Night at the Movies, old-school style

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

In his book A Year at the Movies, Kevin Mur­phy (also known as Tom Servo from Mys­tery Sci­ence The­ater 3000 waxes poetic on the dying art of silent film. Fri­day evening Carla and I expe­ri­enced this art first hand at Mer­rill Audi­to­rium dur­ing a spe­cial Valentine’s Day silent movie, accom­pa­nied by the the Kotzschmar Organ. […]

Digital distribution confirmed!

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

So, I’m down­load­ing songs for Valentine’s Day (legally, from the RealPlayer Music store), and come across the fol­low­ing album online, in full DRM–encased, AAC–encoded glory:

Yeah…I know…it’s RealPlayer, not one of the cool down­load store play­ers like Itunes, but this is my first sight­ing of us on a site solicited by CDBaby, so it’s still pretty […]

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