Archive for 'The Offical Record' Category
HELLO MY FRIENDS.
18 June 2003I added a list of my blogged friends on the left. Check ’em out! If I know you in real life, and I left you off, please email me at david @ danzig . com (without the spaces)!
MOB RULE.
18 June 2003I joined MOB #2, today in Herald Square. I got an email, I’m not sure from where, telling me to meet at one of four bars, based on my birthday (i.e., I went to the Holiday Inn bar, because I was born in April, May, or June). Then, A fellow in a trucker hat, gave […]
HOW TO COMPLETELY REVITALIZE THE US ECONOMY.
17 June 2003Apparently, the main reason for the US economic slowdown has been the reduction in purchases of new computers, right? And people are buying fewer new computers, because they feel their current ones are fast enough for everything they want to do, and the main thing they need to increase the speed of their computer is […]
THEY SHOULD CALL IT “A BEING READ TO.”
17 June 2003I went to a reading at the Telephone Bar in the East Village last night. There was a decent short story by writer Greg Sanders, a laughably bad excerpt from “This Won’t Hurt a Bit” by author Timothy Sheard, and a not-even-funny-how-bad-it-was reading of some song lyrics by Katherine Pritchard (maybe it’s better with the […]
PASTRAMI.
14 June 2003I had a fun and yummy lunch Thursday with fellow blogger Blake N., who I had not seen in about four years, at our high school reunion. The food was delicious, the conversation engaging, and the company delightful.
MY DANISH COUNTERPART.
14 June 2003Check out creamy.com’s Danish counterpart, creamy.dk.
TWO TASTELESS JOKES.
14 June 2003Here are two tasteless jokes I thought of. ONE. I was a member of triple-A, the American Automobile Association, but I just quit. I switched and joined the North American Man Boy Automobile Association. I really just joined NAMBAA because their rates are better, but I was reading some of their literature, and it really […]
THE MUSEUM OF BAGS.
12 June 2003After the charity auction (see the previous post) ended, I wrote to the guy who won: I really wanted to be winner of this auction, but, obviously, you wanted it more than I did. I don’t know how often you bid $5,000 for an item at a chartiy auction, but it’s kind of a big […]
HOW I JUST RAISED $3,949.00 TO FIGHT AUTISM.
12 June 2003Did you see the recent special “A Night of Too Many Stars” on Comedy Central, to benefit the Autism Coalition? It included a Charity Auction, which included a paper bag that had been sat on by every guest on the Conan O’Brien show for a month. I was the second place bidder for it at […]
MY GOD, IT’S FULL OF SARS.
11 June 2003Sean S. cracked me up by finding this:
THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.
9 June 2003That’s the promise of the Internet, that it will be the sum total of all human knowledge, every library in the world at our fingertips, right? Obviously, it’s not there yet, but I just had a great experience of how it could be. I was talking with my brother on the phone, and he said […]
CRISIS = DANGER + OPPORTUNITY.
8 June 2003We’ve all heard that thing about how the Chinese word for “crisis” combines the Chinese words for “danger” and “opportunity”. That is true, as far as it goes, but I think it’s easy to read too much into that. You see, that’s just the way Chinese is, combining words from a relatively small pool that […]
MONEY DOES GROW ON TREES.
5 June 2003Money is made out of paper, and paper is made out of pulp, and pulp is made out of trees. That’s so weird that everybody uses that expression, that money doesn’t grow on trees, and yet it’s never occurred to me before that it does.
THEATER REVIEW: JESUS IS MAGIC * * * 1/2 (3 and a half stars out of 4).
5 June 2003I think I would have given Sarah Silverman‘s one woman show 4 stars, but I was miffed by how much of the show I’d already seen from seeing her stand-up routines around the city and on TV. If you’ve seen much of this, there’s very little new here. But if you haven’t seen her before, […]
THEATER REVIEW: DREAM A LITTLE DREAM: THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS MUSICAL * * (2 stars out of 4).
5 June 2003Papa Denny Doherty more “hosts” than “stars” in this play. If what you want is a concert in which you here Doherty with some okay backup signers, then you’ll get it. If what you want is a superficial, name-dropping, self-serving history of the Mama’s and the Papa’s, you’ll get that. But, as a story, and […]
THEATER REVIEW: INTRIGUE WITH FAYE (2003) * * * (3 stars out of 4).
4 June 2003This new play starring Benjamin Bratt and Julianna Margulies gets a lot of credit for being innovative and different. The play incorporates video images, mostly filmed by the actors on stage, in a novel, intelligent way. But it does require a little bit of a leap of logic to buy the premise (which I won’t […]
MOVIE REVIEW: BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003) * * 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 4).
4 June 2003Jim Carrey‘s latest movie passed the time well enough, but didn’t have the sort of depth or insight that the subject matter deserved. And the commercials gave away the whole movie.
SARS TAN LINES.
2 June 2003Yeah, I think that picture is probably a fake, too. But I’m sure it’s really happening to people.
MAJOR GEEK.
2 June 2003I scored “42.80079% – Major Geek” on The Geek Test.
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAX MACHINE.
29 May 2003Tim Burton is reportedly going to direct a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocoloate Factory! Burton’s dark, colorful vision is best demonstrated, I think, by such films as Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), James and the Giant Peach (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996).
MEMORIAL DAY WEAKENED.
29 May 2003I had a great weekend with Pete and Samara. We ate at some of the best restaurants in the city (The Carnegie Deli, Balthazar, Serindipity 3) and saw a few shows (Jesus is Magic, The Mamas and The Papas Musical), and had a few relaxing drinks. A good time was had by all!
GET IT AT HOME.
24 May 2003Here’s an interesting rundown of the distributed computing projects you can have your computer work on for the betterment of humankind while it is idle. The oldest and best known is seti@home, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, which has recently exceeded 1.4 million years in total CPU time.
PETE AND SAMARA.
23 May 2003I’m being visited by one of my best friends, Peter B., and his wonderful and pregnant wife, Samara. They got into town yesterday, and they’ll be here until Tuesday.
MOVIE REVIEW: THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003) * * (2 stars out of 4).
17 May 2003I loved the first Matrix movie, so I was extremely disappointed by this sequel. It starts off extremely slow, but without clearly explaining the convoluted plot. Then, there are some nifty fight scenes, but which go on too long, and don’t come close to the creativity and visual appeal of the first Matrix. And then, […]
MOVIE REVIEW: X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003) * * *
17 May 2003The story is a little thin, but the special effects in X2 are great and beutifully conceived, and worth the price of admission.