September 2001
I might be wrong
Posted by on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 2 comments
The good boys of radiohead are finally going to officially release a recording of their song True Love Waits. Apparently from the OK Computer era, the song is at least as strong as some of their best album tracks. Apparently they've yet to produce a studio recording to their satisfaction • The …
Trivia
Posted by on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 3 comments
Eels have a new album out: "Souljacker." Rock and roll with horns used sparingly. The usual brilliant lyrics. • Oct. 4th at Confed. Centre Library at 8pm. I will be introducing a poet I've never read. He is Bruce Taylor. He has also written a book about puppeteering! Admission is free. Nice …
only on The Onion
Posted by on Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 5 comments
I wasn't sure what to expect from The Onion this week. Last week's edition didn't come out because of the WTC/Pentagon massacres. • The Onion did an entire edition about last week's terrorism. I was amazed by how well they handled it. Two things in particular are God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't …
four beautiful things
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2001 in - 1 comment
Dodge Magazine #1 - Pixel art at its best. Messy and perfect at the same time. It's put together by the guys at super-design site k10k (in hibernation until Dec. 1) and design shop XL5. • Rustboy - A personal short CG film still under development by the aforementioned XL5's Brian Taylor. Some of …
a name for everything
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 3 comments
In English Lit the other day, we were discussing an English trick I was rather fond of. Sadly, I forgot the name of it. But. In my desperate search for "metaphor+compound+word" I found this list of very cool words for things I didn't know were defined. • I did learn that saying things like" …
matt abandons the virtual for the tangible - gets ink on hands
Posted by on Monday, September 24, 2001 - 58 comments
For those who haven't picked up on his self-serving hints, let it be known to all that award winning poet* and aov genius Matthew Dorrell is now the Editor-in-Chief of The Cadre, the student newspaper at the University of Prince Edward Island. • I have criticized The Cadre in the past for … read more »
Tuesday September 11, 2001
Posted by on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 10 comments
I've been reluctant to comment on the events of Tuesday, September 11th, as I am afraid of contributing to what is becoming a wall of white noise. So much rumor and rhetoric is flying is every direction that I fear that any comments on the subject, regardless of their nature and content, will only …
Damn Untouchable Garritys!
Posted by on Monday, September 10, 2001
Gerard Garrity (know better to me as "Grampa" Garrity) watched The Untouchables regularly while it ran between 1959 and 1963. • Even though he was Irish, it bothered him that the bad guys were always Italian. Surely there were bad dudes of all sorts of ethnic decent. Why, he wondered, must the …
mount a rob
Posted by on Thursday, September 6, 2001 - 22 comments
You know what I mean. • I've just moved into my quaint little dorm room in the fine Thornton house of Mt. A, it's very nice. And it smells like paint. • I believe we get the ritual 'welcome spanking' sometime this weekend. Wish me luck.
mergers and monitors
Posted by on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 1 comment
HP and Compaq are going to merge. • I suspect that together they will be able to create the ugliest computer monitor ever conceived! (see the artists rendition)
to drink or to sleep?
Posted by on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 9 comments
bruyneel: (3:58 AM) im thinking about getting drunk • Matthew: (3:58 AM) i feel like Dr. Frankenstein except without the big guy made out of dead people • bruyneel: (3:58 AM) we jost wrote a novel together yo • bruyneel: (3:59 AM) just even • Matthew: (3:59 AM) let me finish here. then we …