Whit's Blog / 1000 Recordings

Never Listen to Electric Guitar

• 3hive: Eef Barzelay
  Fierce and grim. This is why we have acoustic guitars. Zap.
  (tags: EefBarzelay music)

Takes All Kinds

• copper
  Dude. This calls for Studio Ghibli.
  (tags: comics)
• Hubert and Abby - Online Comic
  This comic is finding its voice. No one knows what kind of animal this is, which was a running gag for a while. The personalities are coming together. It's close kin to Get Fuzzy.
  (tags: hubertandabby comics symmetry philosophyofbeauty getfuzzy)
• LILEKS (James) the bleat - Inspired miscellaney today
  Better than usual, and that, my pretty little wigs and seashells, is saying something.
  (tags: lileks bleat thebleat brucedern amazingamanda parenting)
• The Peekaboo Paradox
  Ah. Never yet have I told this good a story.
• Fleen » Crossoverpalooza And Saint Elsewhere
  Ow ow ow.
  (tags: sixdegrees comics)
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story - Review - Movies - New York Times
  How on earth can a grownup review this movie without mentioning the film of The French Lieutentant's Woman?
  (tags: johnfowles tristramshandy)
• Pearls Before Swine
  It is righteous.
  (tags: pearlsbeforeswine comics)

That's gotta hurt

Don't you hate it when you get Rage Against The Machine songs stuck in your head?

Just Ignore The Ludwig Jokes

• Arlo and Janis Home Page
  This charming cartoonist wants visitors. He's among the finer working newspaper strip artists working today; he likes to blog (although he doesn't call it that); he wants more people to visit. OK? OK.
  (tags: arloandjanis jimmyjohnson comics)

All kinds to make a Web

• {scene language} Valentines for the Indie Rock Set
  Windows, however valid, into other more youthful worlds. I've been enjoying Webcomics in part because of their apparent candor about that.
  (tags: valentinesday)
• PartiallyClips - Literary Joke (at least, literate)
  (tags: janeausten prideandprejudice)
• AndyRunton.com (Owly)
  We're bringing Owly back to the house for a second engagement. First time, Joe definitely "got" Owly's stories but seemed unimpressed. Maybe he'll like them better this time.
  (tags: owly comics)
• Penny Arcade! - The Partial Revolution
  Yowza. On the other hand, writing about games is like, to paraphrase, operatically singing about manga.
  (tags: gaming comics journalism)
• 3hive: Eagle*Seagull
  Ah, the breathless 1980s, and the trip hop of the late 1990s, and the mashup mentality of the 2000s. Pop-up, booked.
  (tags: music eagleseagull)
• Katie Holmes Turns 27 Amongst Other Imprisoned Playthings - Defamer
  I am not reading this. Especially not top to bottom, hand folded over mouth, eyes closing ruefully when finished.
  (tags: tomcruise katieholmes celebrities birthday)
• What was No.1 on the day you were born?
  I know, I know: I need to get a MySpace for such frippery.
  (tags: music birthday)

I'm Not Saying

Joe [Wearing only grey briefs and a plastic lei]: There's going to be a festival tonight, Dad, so you have to look your best.
Dad [black jeans, grey sweatshirt, bare feet]: Do I not look my best?
Joe: Uhm, no.
Dad: What would you recommend?
Joe: Uhm, are you wearing your checkered underwear?

Wah wah wah wah waaaaaaah

• Peanuts (1959)
  A rarity! Words from an adult!
  (tags: peanuts comics wahwahwaaaah)

Strike

Joe, on candlepin bowling: "It's like a 'time out' where you get to bowl in the middle of it."

To The Moon

• Apollo 12: Self-Portrait (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
  Sometimes pictures are just good.
  (tags: moon astronaut photography reflection)

Says He

One of the things I like in a Weblog is a writer who writes like he or she talks. Which I do. Which my old friend Brian Dilsheimer does. Here he is on his blog addressing matters of import in the world of athleticism.