Here’s one for the beautiful strangeness category. Henry Raddick writes reviews of books for Amazon.com, which, by all rights, shouldn’t be that funny. Trust me, it is. If you know who T. Herman Zweibel is, you must read some of Raddick’s reviews.
Archive for November, 2003
Henry Raddick: Why I love the Web
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003City Pages: Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.
Friday, November 14th, 2003City Pages: Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.
This is a story from citypages.com about a place where people can meet other people, hang out, make new friends, and be a liberated girl. They can also look damn sexy doing it. The article is a great intro to indie pr0n.
Transcript: Rock the Vote Democratic Presidential Debate (washingtonpost.com)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003I was just reading the Transcript of the Rock the Vote Democratic Presidential Debate (washingtonpost.com) and I remembered a lesson my dad taught me. The lesson was: “Find the Referent.” It’s from Stuart Chase’s “The Tyranny of Words“. In other words, think about what the words being used actually refer to, physically. Political speak is meticulously devoid of referents, except, of course, in the cases where the speakers abuse statistics. I want to see a debate where candidates aren’t allowed to use the phrase, “the American people”.
I was kinda enjoying the debate, and laughing about how all the other candidates, including the Reverend Al Sharpton, lord help us all, were trying to give Dean such a hard time for pointing out the unrequited loyalty of Southern white voters to the Republican Party. Bless ‘im.