Ah, the 50s.. such an innocent time… or was it? Archie has some subtext.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Who is coming from where? 7909
7908 – Pirate update – Cruise ship used a sonic weapon to help ward them off.
7907 – I’m in the mood to listen rather than speak.
7906 – This and That
Hey! Looks like Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman in Spiderman 3!
7905 – Happy Trees
via buzzmachine
The Audit Bureau of Circulations is coming out with its report on
newspaper popularity (what else should we call sales) and it’s going to
be bad. The Wall Street Journal (free link) sums up the numbers:
: Gannett down 2.5 percent
: Knight Ridder down 2.9 percent
: Tribune Company down 4 percent (not including scandal-scarred Newsday)
More numbers from E&P:
:
“McClatchy is breaking its 20-year winning streak this period. Daily
circulation dropped around 1% while there was a “steeper decline” on
Sunday.”
: Knight Ridder’s breakdown: down 2 percent daily, 3.5 percent Sunday.
: Belo’s Dallas Morning News: down 7 percent.
: Providence Journal down 2 percent.
: Riverside Press-Enterprise down 3 percent daily, 4 percent Sunday.
: Boston Globe down 7.7 percent daily, 7 percent Sunday.
: NYTimes up 0.4 percent daily, 0.1 percent Sunday. “The increases came
mostly from the paper’s national effort. Circulation for the New York
City area declined.
Youch.
: Notable quotes above.
newton dreams – 7904
newton dreams
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
of being streaky, the super-cat. I think he’d look quite dapper in a blue cape.
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7903 – Arr… Pirates… we’ll cutcha if you mess Floridians!
Pirate Attack Repelled by Cruise Ship Crew
MIAMI – Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns Saturday in an attack on a luxury cruise liner off the east African coast, the vessel’s owners said. Continue reading 7903 – Arr… Pirates… we’ll cutcha if you mess Floridians!
7902 – birthdate meme
snagged from christin, who snagged it from ana:
| Your Birthdate: February 2 |
 You’re so intuitive, it’s like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense. You connect with others freely and easily – and you tend to have many best friends. Warm and caring, it’s hard for you to close your heart to anyone. Affection is like air for you – you need to give and receive it to survive. Your strength: Your universal compassion Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings Your power color: Mauve Your power symbol: Butterfly Your power month: February |
Mood swings? varies. Compassion? I can have a very hard heart at times, depending on the situation. I am fond of affection, and am fairly intuitive. I don’t have many best friends, but am a friendly guy.
the reason dinos are extinct 7901
the reason dinos are extinct
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
giant newtons roamed the earth.
7900 – only 2100 more until I’ve hit 10,000 entries!
Didn’t hang with anyone last night, just flew solo. No calls from Wendy, Liz or the hippies… walkabout was fun, regardless. Chicken Little was cute, but not worth a matinée… more of a Netflix rental.
7899 – tiki
written on the bus & riverwalk 7898
written on the bus & riverwalk
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saw Sasha yesterday for a little dinner and catcup conversation. I let her know about Magda’s return on November 25th, and the new condo — she told me about Gil, Sonya and Steve quitting the club… not to mention Susie and M getting the boot. Chris was promoted to manager on Sunday / Mondays, plus Melissa and Longhair still bartend and serve respectively. I could quite easily fall back into being the club’s Sunday “Norm!”, now that the bald IKON boneheads have bailed on the place. Tougher to get there from Deerfield, but worth it, I think.
Bro came by to pick up his guitar and amp… I told him to pick up the rest of his stuff before 12/1, because I’d be moving. He just told me to leave it at the Momster’s. I told him he’d have to work that out himself, and we argued a bit. I think a month’s notice to find a place for his stuff after being storage over and above 2 years is more than reasonable.
Note, he only calls when he wants something, and then it’s practically hourly voicemails.
I don’t think that I’ll pass my mailing address on to him, just let him know I’m in Deerfield.
Saw Chicken Little (any excuse for a/c instead of the muggy apt… semi-blah, but had quite a few fun moments. Not as good as Wallace & Gromit, but fared better than Robots. (Plus, Joan Cusack voice, who I adore.)
crescent moon is out with a single bright star right now… cool breezes and sunset reminds me why I dig Florida.
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7897 –
John Lithgow’s new Campbell’s Soups commercials are sort of sad.
Apartment got pretty heated again last night… nearly impossible to get any rest… Newt’s in great shape, but I was sweating far too much. Not enough voltage to run a tiny box fan.I’m really happy that this didn’t happen in July, or it would be a health hazard. Cool Showers work wonders.
Random Memory… whenever a propeller plane would fly overhead, my buddy Jason and I would yell “STUKA!!” and run for cover, as if it might go after us on a strafing run. I was 7 years old, and I think it was a side effect of my pop’s fondness for WWII documentaries that inspired the game. It seems sort of weird, looking at it under current context…. 40 years from now, will I see kids play-acting at the trade-center bombing, or other major world event, or will most of my life history fade into a blur? I’m not sure what defines my generation… Movies? Star wars and Star Trek got milked to the point of making them weak jokes. Harry Potter, maybe? Somehow, I suspect those books won’t be so much in vogue down the line… but the old standards of playing war have a strong vibe. I doubt kids’ll play “Iraq war” any more than I played “Vietnam” or “Korea”. WWII and to a lesser degree, WWI both have something very powerful going for them that isn’t easy to replicate. Other history-genres that seem timeless are Dinosaurs, Pirates, Knights and the Wild West… Cyberpunk and even pulp seem to be little subsets that’ll probably never get rolling again.
7896 – newt and cam 072305
newt and cam 072305
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Rerun… Newt and his nose!