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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
Beat Mystique Endures at a San Francisco Landmark. The City Lights bookstore, a literary mainstay of San Francisco's alternative left, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. By Dean E. Murphy. [New York Times: Arts]
I stopped in yesterday; I haven't been in the store in a while. What a great place! I also spent some time across Jack Kerouac Alley in Vesuvio, my favorite bar of all time. (I was a good boy.) There was a sign up about the 50th anniversary at City Lights, but I didn't really remark on it; an hour or so earlier I had stopped in to Stacy's on Market Street, and they were celebrating their 80th birthday, and had free cake and a string quartet in the front of the store. Stacy's and City Lights are two very different bookstores, but life in the Bay Area is richer for both of them.
4:17:37 PM Permalink
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Republican Family Values. From Entertainment Weekly, via Body and Soul:
Body and Soul: Toilet politics: But nothing in T3 bears Schwarzenegger's creative stamp more than his epic tussle with the Terminatrix, a battle that begins in a bathroom. The sequence was made longer and more elaborate thanks to the actor's largess -- and his singular imagination.
"As we were rehearsing, I saw this toilet bowl," says Schwarzenegger, an impish smile crossing his face. "How many times do you get away with this -- to take a woman, grab her upside down, and bury her face in a toilet bowl?.... "The thing is, you can do it, because in the end, I didn't do it to a woman -- she's a machine! We could get away with it without being crucified by who-knows-what group." [Semi-Daily Journal]
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Weblog parody spooks psychic. Jacksonville weblogger Joe Dougherty has incurred the wrath of the supernatural world: The British psychic Craig Hamilton-Parker, unhappy about being quoted in a parody about a planned party for Saddam Hussein in Hell, is trying to have the weblog entry taken down.
No word yet on what Princess Diana has to say about this.
Attaboy, Joe! [Workbench]
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