Lynne Truss, a British writer and author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation gets a taste of her own medicine from Louis Menand of the New Yorker. Menand thoroughly examines her screed against poor grammar and punctuation and finds that it is rife with grammatical and usage errors. It’s a [...]
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing [...]
It’s that time of the year again. The first day of summer is upon us and the summer festival season has already started. The Taste of Chicago starts this Friday, June 25th and runs through July 4th. Street closures have already started, so beware! I was going south on Lakeshore Drive on Saturday only to [...]
This coming week is Jazz in June week at Ravinia. I’d like to see Medeski, Martin and Wood on Thursday, but I don’t think I’ll be able to. Maybe I’ll be able to catch the Dave Brubeck Quartet on Sunday. He’s a jazz legend. See the full Jazz in June schedule.
As if Windows isn’t bad enough already, Windows XP users are now reporting trouble maintaining WiFi connections. So, those of you with XP and WiFi, I suppose you can find some consolation in the fact that it’s not just you. Read the full article: Wired News: Windows XP Bedevils Wi-Fi Users
So, I leave work yesterday thinking I’ll catch the last express bus from the Sears Tower to the South Loop. I made it to the bus stop with time to spare, but I ended up waiting nearly 15 minutes because the bus was running late. A minor annoyance, but I figured that I shouldn’t expect [...]
boingboing reports on a device that records sound by etching a groove into a CD or any other suitable surface much like Edison’s phonograph of old. It’s apparently sold in kit form for about $40. You have to provide your own needle for a stylus and a paper cup for a speaker. Read more here: [...]
The Olsen twins have reached that critical mass where they are nearing utter dominance of supermarket check-out magazine racks and tabloid television. They are the new it girls. Although there are two of them, they exist as a single gignormous entity—one that’s worth several hundred million dollars. There has been much written about our favorite [...]
I recently commented on Disney’s refusal to distribute Michael Moore’s upcoming movie Fahrenheit 9/11. I realize I might have been a bit premature in my judgement of the movie. I’ll reserve my final judgement until I see the movie. However, my opinion of Michael Moore will remain unchanged unless the movie gives me a good [...]
Or as Prince would say, “the most beautiful girl in the world.” A “panel of experts” named Audrey Hepburn the most naturally beautiful woman of all time. If you had to choose one, she would probably be my choice as well. However, as with all top n lists, especially one compiled by a “panel of [...]
