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November 30, 2003

   


November 29, 2003

 

6 am americana

Authorities said that Patricia Van Lester arrived at Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. for an early sale on a DVD player for her mother. When the store's doors opened at 6 a.m., Van Lester grabbed the DVD player but was quickly...
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November 27, 2003

 

for john dillinger, in hopes he is still alive

Subject: Secrets of the World Revealed on I-29 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 Dear McSweeney's, My car ran out of gas and would not start again, stuck on the shoulder of a 2 lane highway. I put the "Need Gas"...
Posted by xtop at 02:19 PM | Comments (1)
 


November 21, 2003

 

line the line

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the brooklyn daily eagle

Holy shit. Half of the entire print run of the Brooklyn Eagle has been scanned, put online and is available for downloading as image fragments or in total in pdf format. This is Phase I of the project, with the...
Posted by xtop at 06:45 PM | Comments (1)
 


 

blink

Simon Boswell's digital video installation, part of the ICA's whatdoyouwanttodowithit? festival, is an audio-visual exhibition of portraits of celebrities, blinking....
Posted by xtop at 01:23 PM
 


November 20, 2003

 

the passing of brooklyn

The following poem was read by Will Carleton at the public observance: Now while the bells of the steeple turn golden, Now as the year has waxed sacred and olden, And the new century clearer and clearer Flashes its headlights...
Posted by xtop at 11:00 PM
 


 

the last mayor of brooklyn

On New Year's Eve of 1897, Jamaica, and most other towns to be joined into Greater New York, blew whistles and banged drums. Newtown's minister delivered an oration on the town's history, and Rockaway's fire department held a dance. The...
Posted by xtop at 01:37 PM | Comments (2)
 


November 19, 2003

 

baby roundup

Isabella Leigh Stempleman b. July 26, 2003 Stupidly late congrats Jordan and Marlee Carl George Dahlberg b. November 11, 2003 Somewhat late congrats Gus and Val...
Posted by xtop at 11:49 PM
 


 

the volume enthusiasts

I'm unnaturally proud of this article and the fact that, as fraction pointed out, I was bylined on a cover with a picture of a midget: . . . Schiller soon found herself up against other volume enthusiasts who'd spent...
Posted by xtop at 11:05 PM
 


 

I've been loving you too long (to stop now)

Otis Redding live at the Monterey Pop Festival, doing one of his staple numbers. Besides the fact that redding has one of the most amazingly hard-edged and soulful voices, oft-imitated but never even approached close enough to not be blinded...
Posted by xtop at 06:17 AM
 


 

cats in heat and what they do

My cat, Goon, has exploded into some sort of mutant full-on heat, which may be the most unendurably obnoxious behavior I've ever lived with, and that's counting every irritating roommate I've ever had. My new soundtrack is this low...
Posted by xtop at 06:03 AM | Comments (33)
 


November 17, 2003

 

quoth ray charles

(On his 17 year heroin habit) "No one made me do it. No one hooked me. I hooked myself. And I have no horror stories about it. I don't recommend it to a soul. I know it kills a lotta...
Posted by xtop at 08:44 PM | Comments (0)
 


November 15, 2003

 

false starts: santa parade

Wherein I tackle the age-old question: What the hell do you say about a Santa Parade in a mall? Call us ignorant, but we never knew Santa lived in a mall. In the movie “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka,” one...
Posted by xtop at 01:44 PM
 


November 11, 2003

 

brilliantly crackers

Jurors who on Tuesday acquitted eccentric New York millionaire Robert Durst in the killing of his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, said they had to put aside the defendant's admission he dismembered Black's body and then fled because it was not...
Posted by xtop at 06:35 PM
 


 

relouped

The Loupe returns irregularly. Welcome back, Todd....
Posted by xtop at 06:12 PM
 


November 10, 2003

 

false starts: the volume enthusiasts

False starts on a long sidebar about the upcoming International Autosound Competition. A convention of people with tricked out rides bumping the funk in each and every one of their trunks to win the big tall trophy and the respect...
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Wiretap

Wiretap is a small, free, simple program that can record all audio feeds coming through your Mac. Lets you tinker with sound quality and compression and is easy enough for the average cretin. I've been looking for something like this...
Posted by xtop at 09:12 PM
 


November 06, 2003

 

BTK Strangler: Bind 'em, Torture 'em, Kill 'em

The last confirmed BTK Strangler incident took place on April 28, 1979, when he waited inside a house in the 600 block of South Pinecrest for the 63-year-old owner to come home. When she did not show up, BTK became...
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November 05, 2003

   


 

one cold fish

Ridgway had been a suspect as early as 1984, when the boyfriend of victim Marie Malvar reported that he last saw her getting into a pickup truck identified as Ridgway's. But Ridgway told police he did not know Malvar....
Posted by xtop at 08:59 PM | Comments (2)
 


November 01, 2003

 

the time travel fund

Q: How does this work? A: Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500...
Posted by xtop at 12:50 PM | Comments (2)
 


 

mark ames vs. chuck klosterman

Klosterman and his type are one of the reasons why I went into exile (I’m writing this from Moscow). I wanted out of a paradigm in which his type dominated the narrative when in fact his type should be rotting...
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