Archive for January, 2008

Experience Lebowski »

If you frequent Spfldbloggers, and you should, then you already know about the Lebowski Experience that’s set to go down on January 19. If you don’t know about it, you will within the next couple of paragraphs.

Aimee Mann was unfairly snubbed by Oscar for her role as Nihilist Woman in the Big Lebowski.
To celebrate the [...]

Imagine There’s No Jack Johnson »

Today, I had the misfortune of hearing Jack Johnson’s totally unimaginative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s overrated Imagine. Why does this song merit air play? How is Johnson’s version any different than those offered by tens of thousands of other sensitive-guys-with-guitars at open mic nights throughout the country? It’s just so, ordinary. Yet for some reason, [...]

Give Me Techno Advice »

A couple of my kids’ software-included gifts this year awoke me to the fact that the ol’ family PC just ain’t what she used to be. She’s bogging down quite a bit lately and one of the applications couldn’t even be loaded due to an embarrassing lack of visual memory. Since I’m not prepared to [...]

Fire All of Your Guns at Once: are some people born to be wild? »

“Just like everyone does on New Year’s, you have the first shots for the new year. … It’s a tradition.”
This quote from a local resident appeared in today’s SJ-R. The man said it in defense of his friend who, after firing off a few shots to blast in the new year, was himself shot by [...]