A suitable question, but I doubt the Village is the place to look. Other interesting finds today include someone searching for “dubois bacon” in pages from Canada. Sorry, Francine’s not Canadian (unless she’s on vacation in Europe), but our website is hosted in Canada. The Village shows up as the second search result on Google [...]
Well, at least one of today’s spam letters didn’t involve Viagra, mortgages, “increasing my member,” or cable descramblers.
“I visited your website “East Westerly Review”. Let me start by congratulating you for running such a fine website, that draws one’s focus upon a proverbial post-mortem of songs. The mock-academic review of the lyrical content of “Baby [...]
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Maureen Dowd discusses how blogs are being used by presidential candidates, to differing degrees, to boost support for their campaigns. See, Mr. Wilder, I told you that you could handle this “technology thing.” If the presidential candidates are doing it, it must be something that even stodgy old you can do. (Of course, [...]
Last night I watched PBS’s special The American Songbook while listening to, variously, Cream, Led Zeppelin, and The Talking Heads.
It was like MTV way back when they actually showed videos.
It blew my freaking mind.
All right. Saw “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” this weekend. It’s very shiny visually, and we won’t talk about how weak the plotline is or how it’s amazing that a submarine big enough to have hallways that intersect at 90-degree angles can also shove its way down an 1899 Venetian canal built for gondolas. And [...]
What are latin kids wearing? What is wanton sexuality? Well, I know that they’re two questions to which visitors to the Village wanted answers today. Hillary Hardcore’s essay on Snoop Dog, James Joyce, and George W. Bush also got noticed today, by jim and splintergirl.
Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has entered the race for governor of California, one wonders a few things:
1. Is he popular because of the roles he has played?
2. Is he popular because of his great political acumen?
3. Is he popular because Gray Davis isn’t?
The relative political success of Fred “Gopher” Grandy and Ben “Cooter” Jones would [...]