Archive for November, 2004

Pullman comes right out and says it

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

I’ve always been amazed that Pullman’s Dark Materials books sell in the children’s section without more hue and cry from the Jesus brigades. Very glad, but quite surprised.
SPOILERS IN FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH
I love the idea of a whole generation of readers growing up on books where the kids save the world by having sex and killing [...]

Apparently I am allowed to openly like Waters-era Floyd now

Friday, November 5th, 2004

There’s a nice piece at the Guardian about the history of perception of Pink Floyd, that glances off history and current projects of various band members. The key thing is that apparently I don’t have to be embarrassed about knowing all the words to The Final Cut anymore.
There’s lots of nice quotes in it:
“My big [...]

US Dollar Falls…

Friday, November 5th, 2004

One of the few upsides that I can find at a very selfish level in the Bush win is that as Bush’s fiscal insanity continues to destroy the US economy (while he pretends to be a “fiscal conservative”) the rest of the world is noticing and consequently the US dollar is dropping.
Even though I work [...]

What it really looks like

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

(This, of course, does not include all the spoiled and systematically ruined ballots, but only the “official” counts.)

Mourning Armbands

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

DOOM

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

I have spent the entire day in a cycle of rage and despair.
That is all.

Tension

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Nothing going on today except election tension.
One way or another the campaign will be over tomorrow. Let’s see if the election is.