“Midnight in Dostoevsky” / More Monsters

By Don Delillo. Another steal from the New Yorker this week. And that makes 3 about/from New York this week. All I have to say, I suppose, is that I live on the West Coast. And I live in a big house. And maybe I don’t blog enough.

While I’m at it, I’d also like to introduce my Portland family to the blog. Beth’s joined us already with a good post on pop. And Brad, the last quarter of NE Monroe will hopefully join soon and I’m sure provide a lot of corn. Muahaaa,

Now, THAT said, do you guys remember Wes’s “Dummy Monster” story from way back when? Well, for those that haven’t heard it, ask someone who has or just believe these ones we (Beth) recently found on the interweb. The information highway has become a farily big place, I’d say. Good thing we have this small space to talk about it. I hope to hear from all of you regarding this matter.

For Comrades and Lovers.

Many of you have known Paul for a short time. I introduced him to the world of the blog. He now lives in Brooklyn (with me again!). Here is Pauls Blog. Rejoice. (his title is a Walt Whitman quote, btw) If that is not an appropriate title for his blog, i don’t now what is. Here’s to you, Mr. America!

P.S. Check out his post about Star Wars Girl. Yours truly makes an appearance.

09ers

This time, I decided to make the tape with all new material; new songs from small artists that I found in the last few months (+some).  Blog stuff. I endorse all the tracks on here, though.  All are great, a few are ‘09 classics.  I’d be interested to see which ones catch on. Let me know.

09ers

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Tracks below.

Hey Paul Krugman (for John, really)

I generally love this. I was reading Krugman’s Blog for about an hour the other night and I came away terrified. If you want a jolly good scare, give it a gander. It does beg the question asked by this video though. Who knows if Krugman is actually correct, but at this point its worth a shot. Some one needs to muster up the mana, play the Paul Krugman spell and pray that Geithner or reality doesn’t have a counter. (this, a weak MTG reference, was also for John)

Holy Boop! We’re One Year Old

In fact we missed it, it was January 10th.  Why not put together a little retrospective?

Our First Post

Welcome

Our 10 Most Popular Posts

Great Pacific Garbage	14,235
hot dogs	6,395
bee-el-zeh-BOOF-oh	3,330
Dead Monster on Montauk Shore	1,470
Teeth in the Motherfuckin’ Ovary	1,003
The Moon Versus Us Sleeping Together Eve	612
Cultural Borders vs Political Borders in	515
Colossal Squid, big peepers	398
Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie	354
Post Post Post Post	342

Least popular and stats below.

‘09 Livin’

A good old fashioned mp3 post:

Mirando (Animal Collective remix) is a song that has all you’d need out of a AC/Ratatat song, dance beats with creepy crawly sound effects, pretty electronica expanses and an absurd run time. VIA

Quiet Dog gives Mos Def a chance to be jazzy, funky, bouncy, and go in all sorts of directions with his flow. Sort of reminds me of that Kizza kid… VIA

Finally the adolecent in me has to point you to this crazy electro cover of White Winter Hymnal by Ruby Isle.  It almost works for a couple of minutes there. VIA

Here’s hoping that ‘09 will be a better year and we’ll be getting more good music posts.

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Completely unrelated:

This is why I stopped reading Slate a while back; they are publishing Obama fan fiction AND they want me to take it seriously. Here.

H COLUMN’s (in conjunction with Put It Up) top 10 albums of 2008

10. ATLAS SOUND – let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel

9. THE STREETS – everything is borrowed

8. BRITISH SEA POWER – do you like rock music?

7. FRIGHTENED RABBIT – midnight organ fight

6. CUT COPY – in ghost colours

5. BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY – lie down in the light

4. FLEET FOXES – fleet foxes

3. NO AGE – nouns

2. THE WALKMEN – you and me

1. DEERHUNTER – microcastle/weird era cont.

Top 10 songs of 2008 PLUS top 10 college albums sept ‘04-may ‘08, maybe

Brows

Hi:

NYT 10 Notable Books of the Year

Lo:

Everything is Terrible – A blog dedicated to finding the best of the worst of YouTube. Blogrolled!

I Don’t Even Care if This is Real or Not

Gary Busey’s Blog

VIA

oh my god oh my god oh my god

So, after completing today’s LA Times crossword, I was a little PUZZLED as to how the theme worked…it wasn’t immediately apparent to me. After a quick search I came across this blog http://crosswordfiend.blogspot.com/. It’s all about crosswords…seems to be mostly solved versions of most of the big daily crosswords with explanations of the themes. Sorta cool (not for cheating purposes, but there’ve been more than a couple occasions where I’ve been stumped as to the theme, or exactly how the supposed theme works). Today’s LA Times theme was a little clever I guess, but ultimately rather unsatisfying.

QUICK SIDE NOTE: According to the aforementioned blog this Sunday’s Simpsons is crossword-themed, and features cartoon versions of Will Shortz and Merl Reagle.