- For Joey, & Cissy, & Atlas...
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...and all my other fellow-poemers out there. We have anther poemer in our midst, a lady of infinite ability and a big bosom. A lady who makes soundin ... [Read]
- Taking the plunge.
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It's certainly been a strange 4 days. Thursday was loverly but after the heavy rain of Wednesday night I decided to leave the plot to dry out and do a ... [Read]
- Best Crop of the Year?
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Like a lot of allotmenteers I'm always experimenting with new crops either to see if they'll grow, find new varieties we like better, or to try someth ... [Read]
- Not a Bad Weekend
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After three weeks I've finally managed to spend a weekend gardening, attempting to catchup on some of those necessary jobs for the growing season whic ... [Read]
- Son of Silent Scream Series: "Help! I need somebody! Help! Not just anybody."
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I'm considering Fridays as part of the weekend. And you know what that means . . .Greetings, Screamers and Screamettes. This year we start our tour of ... [Read]
- Meta: In the silent era, nobody could hear anybody scream.
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Today marks the second birthday of And Now the Screaming Starts!As this shambling blogtastrophe heads into its terrible twos, I'd like to thank the re ... [Read]
- Movies: The Gallic tablesaw massacre.
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Before we get to the movie review proper, I'd like to share with you one of the pleasures of the information age: humorously inappropriate adds trigge ... [Read]
- Music: 45 hard inches of groovy black love!
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There's a curious subculture of YouTube posters that makes web films of their old record players spinning 45 singles. Sometimes they paste some montag ... [Read]
- Sept 24--- info security and the power of nice
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In hour one we spoke with the men behind www.spectrumme.com about our information security needs today!Amazing how little ongoing attention organizati ... [Read]
- NetFlix premiere API
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As of today, US movie rental titan NetFlix has released their API, allowing anyone eager to have their developer wizardry way with the company’s ... [Read]
- Typos can bedevil online political campaigns (AFP)
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LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Typos can bedevil online political campaigns by letting evil software wizards or crafty king-makers aptitude misspellings into oppor ... [Read]
- Il Divo and Gomorra; or, I hit a wall and then bounce back
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An alternate title for this post might be "Italy: More f-d up than Baltimore!"I write that based on my reaction to the second of these films, Gomorra ... [Read]
- The Ghost/Домовой (and other thoughts)
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The Ghost was a pretty darned good straight up Russian thriller. Again, part of the TIFF summary:"Though The Ghost is just his second feature, Armeni ... [Read]
- Linha de Passe
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I found this movie frustrating.Again, to quote the official description of Linha de Passe, The film focuses on four fatherless brothers and their preg ... [Read]
- Waltz with Bashir
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First movie. The official TIFF site describes it like this:"Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz with Bashir is a seminal entry into the canon of ... [Read]
- Shannon & Anthony's Wedding in San Diego
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it seems like it was just last week when we did shannon and tony's engagement session. actually, that session was way back in november. this year is f ... [Read]

