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May’s 8
Cool Thing – The AV Club’s Undercover series. Bands choose a song to cover from a list compiled by AV Club editors. Once a song is covered, it can’t be covered again for the series. I especially like Ted Leo’s entry. Be warned, there’s an auto-playing ad when you click over. Even Cooler – This [...]
April’s 8
Finally… More than rusty – I’ve been playing tennis lately, and I’ve really lost my touch. Maybe I was never that good, but then again, that would mean my whole high school tennis team was really, really horrible. The power of iron - The Atlantic tells me to use my cast iron pan to its full [...]
March’s 8
Inspiration – I recently read Chris Ayres’ War Reporting for Cowards. It’s an overview of Ayres’ career–from journalism school to an aborted stint embedded in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion. It’s entertaining, but it also compares the mindset of aspiring journalists to that of war correspondents and explains how both personality types were [...]
February’s 8
Still at it – I’m sticking to my goal of taking a picture every day, and only one (1-22) was shot in a late-night photo panic. In the car – Nearly a year later, I only have 5,000 miles on my car. Maybe I’ll make some short trips soon. That, or at least go to [...]
January’s 8
Regret – I didn’t make any best of lists for 2009, and even if I had kept them to myself, it would have been nice to chronicle something. I do have a few favorites of the decade, including Sea Change, Royal Tenenbaums, Assassination Vacation, Radiolab, Age of Persuasion, Breaking Bad and Arrested Development. Only in [...]
December’s 8
First, a thank-you to the great tech support available at GBiotI headquarters. Now, a question…Wiretap is now available as a legal podcast. Why aren’t you listening? But it can’t all be funny – I’m reading Among the Thugs. It’s a disturbing account of the soccer riots caused by Manchester United’s supporters in the late 80s [...]
November’s 8
Anniversary – It’s one year of blogging here. Thanks for sticking around. Sign of adulthood – It’s the time when all my friends start getting married. I went to a wedding with a date and was overjoyed that no one asked if I would be the next one down the aisle. Sign of adulthood (that [...]
October’s 8
Well, this is my 12th monthly 8. We’re closing in on one year here at GBiotI. Practice – I’m trying to teach myself a better handwriting style. At some point I tried to mask my horrible penmanship by writing in all capital letters, but I’ve gotten lazy again. My I’s, Z’s, T’s and L’s all [...]
September’s 8
Inside Baseball – Ken Silverstein’s Harper’s blog Washington Babylon is some of the best political reading around. I’ll always be wonky, I guess. Mobile Reading – The Typography Manual app (no link right now) for the iPhone is a handy tool for a wannabe typeface nerd like me. It’s a toolkit and a textbook. And [...]
August’s 8
Hey, it’s 8 for the 8th month. Does that mean something? Achievement – In the last month two Smith-Corona Galaxie Twelve portable typewriters came into my possession. Neither worked. Now I have one Galaxie Twelve that works. I made it work. I’ll have more on this in a post later this week. Reality imitating art [...]