Thursday, April 27, 2006
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Whoa.
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SWA has a new weblog. (Any airline that quotes an old Carol Burnett song is aces with me.) AND! In the "small world" department, apparently my pal Leia (alargehead.com) had a hand in it.
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Where's the funeral? Barcelona. Oh.
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It's the feel-good story of the day!
April 27, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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"Yes," That Voice Inside Me replied, "you were saved, in part, so you could be present for your mother in her illness."
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Archie and Reggie go on a date! (Of economic necessity, so it's hardly "Brokeback Riverdale", but this is a same-sex high school dance date nine years pre-Stonewall.)
April 26, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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Adam Greenfield looks at two different micropatronage "experiments". I've talked about this notion before and I'll want to come back to it later.
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Oh how I'm looking forward to this. In June, probably.
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...you have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They're the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat "movie-literate." (By rogerebert.com editor Jim Emerson)
April 25, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Monday, April 24, 2006
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Pretty, pretty pony. "...and the guy who rode in on him."
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I own enough domain names, I think, so I won't be joining the bidding. Sadly, none that I own are likely to be as lucrative down the line.
April 24, 2006 at 5:22 PM
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Friday, April 21, 2006
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A wonderful, scary and necessary step: coming out of the rehearsal hall and into the light, with the whole staff watching.
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Someone really needs to remake/remix this for the internet age. (Are those guys dancing on the holodeck?!)
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"This year, a dozen movies have been kept from reviewers, but still make big box-office bucks. Do critics matter?"
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Nifty cell-phone comparison tool.
April 21, 2006 at 5:23 PM
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
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April 20, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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Distressing. In a good way.
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Dress up your sow's ear of a profile.
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Tiny, tasty web design tutorials.
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Table-less and CSS-ilicious.
April 19, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Related how, exactly?
There's a tearoom joke to be made here somehow, but I can't quite get my mind around it.
On the other hand, I
am in the process of remodeling a bathroom at home.
How did del.icio.us know?!
April 18, 2006 at 3:05 PM
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Freude, Schaden
Achoo!
Divine punishment for sodomy is...the sniffles:
Half a dozen protesters stood outside the South Lawn gates with large signs and a bullhorn. They yelled at all the families, telling heterosexual parents that their children would be punished with colds for coming to an event that included gays and lesbians.
Well, that would explain my frequent head colds.
April 18, 2006 at 9:37 AM
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GBLT
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Pleased am I
I've been in the market for a new cell phone to replace my nearly three-year-old handset, so last week I followed the herd of my friends who'd recommended it and bought my very own
Treo 650. I can't believe I waited this long.
There are a lot of pluses. Foremost, I get to replace both my phone and my PDA with one device, in a form factor that's not too much larger than my old headset. It's also got a decent-for-snapshots camera (that plays nice with Flickr), so there's another device I don't have to pack everywhere. Secondly, Sprint offers a very reasonable service plan that gives me the voice minutes I need along with all-you-can-eat internet access, meaning I can use the Treo for e-mail and light web work when I'm away from the office but don't want to lug a laptop. (The inexpensive combination of voice and data service surprised me. It's only $3 more per month than my old plan.)
On those trips where I do haul along the iBook, though, the phone is
really going to come in handy, since its Bluetooth capability allows me to use it as a high-speed wireless modem. That means no more shelling out outrageous fees for hotel or airport wireless and no more struggling to check my e-mail or update websites on a fluky, long-distance dial-up connection when I come home to visit my mom. Which is where I am now, posting this at blazing speed.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love living in the future?
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April 15, 2006 at 5:19 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Friday, April 14, 2006
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April 14, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Tweaks
I've made a couple of minor changes to this site in the past couple of weeks. If you read this weblog on the web, you may have noticed that the rotating taglines have returned to the top of the page. They were a feature of the weblog for a couple of years (roughly 2000-2002) and then disappeared in the last redesign. So, they're back.
I've also changed a setting in Movable Type that affects the way the archives are published. While on the main page here, newest material will always appear at the top of the page, in the monthly archive pages, the first post of the month appears at the top and proceeds down chronologically. I don't know why I didn't do this before. It's certainly the way I prefer to read other folks' archives. (And I usually read/skim a year or two of them when I discover a site; the top-down format certainly makes it easier.)
Finally, I am still slooooowly getting the archives themselves back online. There's still a three-year gap here on the weblog and two years missing from The Daily Brad. It's a spare-time chore, but I hope to get it all dumped into the Movable Type database before The BradLands' eighth anniversary come June.
April 14, 2006 at 10:44 AM
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Meta
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Here’s to ten more…
I have never been bored in the company of Lance Arthur, not online and certainly not in person, not once in the
ten years he's been writing on the web.
Anniversaries like this, the round ten-year kind, are supposed to herald retrospectives that showcase what has come before and yield tear-stained memories of the changes wrought and the regrets still painful and discolored. Unfortunately, I can't dig deep into the archives because some months ago, it was all erased. Gone. The digital bits and bytes all lost except for the few tattered remnants logged by the Wayback Machine, and looking at those pages kind of makes me sad.
But it's been a long time since we sat down to talk, you and I, so I thought I would take this opportunity to offer up some reflections on what has been and what might be, on where I've traveled and what I've seen, the hopes that were dashed to the rocks and the dreams fulfilled.
Lance's was one of the first truly personal websites I discovered in my early surfing and in my own such efforts, I've spent the time since trying and failing to live up to his example. Offline and on, he's a genuinely good guy: smart, funny, honest, creative—an authentically beautiful mind. He's handsome and shy, bitchily witty and charmingly self-deprecating. He is, in short, a catch, and someone I'm so very grateful to know.
Congratulations on achieving ten years along the information superhighway, my friend.
April 13, 2006 at 11:00 PM
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XOXOX
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April 13, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Google made me call my therapist
Google launched
Google Calendar today, which looks pretty sweet,
if its error messages don't give you a complex:
April 13, 2006 at 5:03 PM
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General
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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April 12, 2006 at 5:22 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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I call it the Brokeback Capades.
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I really liked the movie, and the title sequence was great.
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We are all from somewhere else.
April 11, 2006 at 5:23 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Must see gallery
This has been on my calendar for months: My pal
Bill Keaggy is getting a one-man exhibition at
COCA.
Junk Science: Found objects, trash photography, strange collections and accidental art opens this Friday and runs through June 11.
You may know Mr. K from such arcane and eclectic collections as
grocery lists,
arbortecture or
sad chairs (my favorite). I know him because he's a weblogger from waaaay back and he had the good fortune (and good sense) to marry another pal o' mine, Diane.
Here's a win-win proposition: See Bill's great stuff at the gallery and see me seeing it at the opening reception, Friday 6–8 pm.
April 11, 2006 at 3:49 PM
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Recommended
Now you can see The Light…
Light in the Piazza to Air June 15 on Live From Lincoln Center
The June 15 performance of the Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza will be aired at 8pm that evening on PBS' Live at Lincoln Center. The show is scheduled to close at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on July 2, and will then begin a 50-week national tour in August.
The aired performance is scheduled to star Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Michael Berresse, Katie Clarke, Patti Cohenour, Beau Gravitte, Aaron Lazar, and Chris Sarandon.
I love this show and I'm
thrilled that Victoria Clark's performance will be preserved on video. That Tony was richly deserved. Now a large audience can see why.
April 11, 2006 at 1:28 PM
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Theatre
Friday, April 7, 2006
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April 7, 2006 at 5:24 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Thursday, April 6, 2006
Those good and crazy people…
OK, try not to act
too surprised by this revelation:
I was wrong.
The marriage between Stephen Sondheim's music and John Doyle's directing is proving to be fruitful. Mr. Doyle's acclaimed production of "Company," now playing in Cincinnati, is headed for Broadway by the end of the year, its New York producers said. There it will join the hit revival of "Sweeney Todd," by Mr. Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which is also directed by Mr. Doyle.
My recommendation stands. See it, in Ohio or in Manhattan.
April 6, 2006 at 6:37 PM
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Theatre
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
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"Brokeback" enters the lexicon in its manifold meanings.
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Just "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" and free yourself from pesky reminders to reboot.
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Gael at Pop Culture Junk Mail points out this collection of classic video games with a Hasselhoff twist.
April 4, 2006 at 5:26 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Evergreen
People often wonder why I don't go out dancing on Saturday nights as often as I used to. In the last part of his Black Party roundup,
Joe nails it.
We are survivors, all of us, a fact underscored, amplified, by the 20, 25, 30-year old tunes being played, each song removing us to a place and time back when we danced with The Lost. In the music, we find our truths, we find our souls, we find ourselves, we find The Lost. It's not uncommon to notice someone dancing with tears rolling down his face. Still, he dances.
April 4, 2006 at 9:22 AM
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Monday, April 3, 2006
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Two of the web's sexiest mofos, Matt Haughey and Merlin Mann, sit down to talk about Getting Things Done.
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So much love. Belated congratulations to Jase and Michael.
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It wouldn't hurt me to spend some time learning from first principles, rather than just leaping in with both feet. (Yeah, right.)
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A proposed specification for Hypertext Snarkup Language, facilitating a framework to measure snarkiness in weblog posts.
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It's amazing what you can do when you have Michael Jackson's credit card.
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As always, the yahoos at TeeVee turned in a class act for April 1.
April 3, 2006 at 5:22 PM
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Brad L. Graham is a writer, editor, riverboat gambler, fashion consultant, softshoe dancer, professional assassin, freelance factotum and singer of sentimental ballads.The BradLands is his home on the web. 
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