Monthly Archives: February 2004

Like Al Pacino’s…cat?

Posted on 2/23/2004 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Jack Bristow IS Jesus!

Posted on 2/20/2004 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Spam Blockin’ Puppies!

Posted on 2/18/2004 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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A Night at the Movies, old-school style

Posted on 2/17/2004 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Digital distribution confirmed!

Posted on 2/10/2004 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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