Brian Wood’s Local

Dan | June 29, 2009

It’s new over there in the Goodreads feed on the right, but I thought I’d elaborate a bit more on just how good Brian Wood’s Local actually is. The idea is that he follows a young wandering woman through twelve years of her life, and twelve towns. Each town was a single comic, and [...]

A quick Jackson thought

Dan | June 25, 2009

I was thinking today when I was biking home. I started thinking about people who are famous who died this year, and it suddenly made me sad that David Foster Wallace will never write a long, footnoted biographical article about Michael Jackson. That would be absolutely riveting reading.

Aren’t we over this nonsense yet?

Dan | June 9, 2009

I was cruising around on the Internet today, and I saw an advertisement for Ketel One as “the gentlemen’s vodka.”
Do gentlemen drink vodka in this day and age? And isn’t overpriced gourmet vodka a gimmick of the mid-2000s bling era? Am I writing this into the wilderness of the Internet just because [...]

Metric

Dan | June 2, 2009

Metric rules. That’s all I have to say this morning.