Gabe Bullard | Is On The Internet
Obligatory Post-Christmas Post
I haven’t had a personal blog around Christmas before, but I think it’s still a meme to post a list of gifts received. Here it is, Meme Ahoy! Argyle socks Alphabet Juice – Roy Blount Jr. Hard Times, “The Good War,” Working – Studs Terkel American Heritage Dictionary American Heritage Thesaurus One year subscription to Rolling [...]
Obamo Was Here
This was in the bathroom at a rest stop in southeastern Illinois. I pulled in to use the restroom and to wait out some sleet on the way to my parents’ house for the holidays. After I washed my hands, I found this note. The printed part is especially apologetic, with two references to [...]
More On Criticism
In high school, the prospect of being a professional critic convinced me to give up my guidance counselor-approved goal of becoming an engineer, math teacher or something along those lines. When I got to college I decided I’d rather work in hard news, but I always liked analyzing media. In my senior year I started [...]
The Holiday Robot Funk
In 1997 I almost exclusively listened to Beck. I was twelve and my brother had a copy of Odelay on cassette in his Oldsmobile. Those were the two coolest things in my life. Fortunately, my burgeoning music snobbery coincided with the early stages of internet addiction. I Yahoo-searched (it was the nineties after all) for [...]
Critical Acclaim
Spending hours a day being enraged and confused by Garfield has paid off, slightly. The Comics Journal’s blog quoted my review of two Garfield Anniversary books. Check it out: Review Quote
Is It Legal?
Judging by my stats, you’re looking at this post in Google Reader. I’m a big fan of the web app, too. I use it to keep track of about 200 feeds, from daily news to webcomics to friends’ rarely-updated blogs. One of my favorite feeds is to a site that posts mp3 downloads of bizarre [...]
A Must Read For Urban Issues Wonks
My Dad just loaned me The Power Broker – a controversial biography of Robert Moses. I didn’t know anything about Moses until I was moving out of New York, but his influence on the city and urban politics around the country is huge. It’s a lengthy bio and I’m not all the way through it, [...]
December’s 8
1. Gadget – The FM3 Buddha Machine. Matt Hurst introduced me to this $10 wonder in college. I found one on eBay and used it until the batteries died in June 2007. I just replaced them and I’m once again swimming in lo-fi loops while I browse, read and cook. 2. Comic – RASL by [...]