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Apologies

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For the lack of content. I find — irritatingly enough — that I’m still worn out from the Dread Bug of Last Week and have some lingering head-coldyness that is making it hard for me to focus on anything too complicated. In short: SLEEPY. And no time to sleep.

We did break down and get a Playstation 2 as our overall "You Must Deal With the Season" consolatory present last weekend. So, expect a post soon on my impressions of the buying/playing process as a video game novice. (Bully is my runaway favorite so far, which is all Bookshelves of Doom‘s fault.)

In the meantime, did I mention how sleepy I am? Very, very sleepy.

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Tuesday Hangovers

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Heroes Yammer

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And tonight (before the rerun season sets in):

Fallout. The heroes struggle to come to terms with the Texas tragedy; more is learned about the nuclear bombing predicted in Isaac’s painting; Matt and Audrey (Clea DuVall) pursue a new lead in their hunt for Sylar; Niki makes a difficult decision, which will allow her to keep her family safe. Sandra Bennett: Ashley Crow. Zach: Thomas Dekker. The Haitian: Jimmy Jean-Louis. Ando: James Kyson Lee.

This better be good. I’m still mad about Charlie (and the "brain tumor").

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Agree (Updated)

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Forbes has a special report on how those book things, with the pages and the words? They’re actually doing okay for themselves. (Via Maud.)

Updated:

I know it’s wrong to make fun of Suzanne Somers, who has surely helped flatten many, many abdominal muscles, but her answer to the "Books are" thing cracks me up:

Books are… I have spent my lifetime collecting books and devouring books and re-reading books and quoting from books and learning some of my greatest life lessons from books. I have written 16 books since the ’70s, which reflects my Irish heritage for writing, and each one is one of my beloved children. I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer. It’s probably inevitable that this will eventually happen if one looks back on the history of written communication; from chipping messages, to papyrus, to the Guttenberg press, to the typewriter and now the wonderful digital world of computers. No matter how our books come to us now and in the future, the inner thoughts and imagination of the writer will somehow always find an avenue to communicate. I love my books!

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Cautionary Tale

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Those of you downloading the recentish Firmware update for Macbooks, take care and follow the directions EXACTLY; your clumsiness (me) managed to screw it up and render my computer unusable for about an hour at one in the morning last night. Luckily, Mr. Rowe was present, made a magic CD, and fixed it. Much nail-biting in the interim.

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Saturday Hangovers

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Stormy Weather

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The wind outside is crazy wild today. A group of school children on a field trip downtown went by a few minutes ago, holding hands and shrieking, surrounded by flying leaves. The temperature has already dropped about 20 degrees since this morning. If this were a movie, Dennis Quaid would be getting out the snowshoes right about now.

Gobal climate change is scary.

But I believe we’ll be disappointed yet again on the point of snow. We’ll probably get ice instead or just really nasty conditions. Yesterday, I posted a picture of Christopher’s lunch, today I’m talking about the weather. What are the other blogger cliches I need to fill?

And, yes, feeling considerably better today, so the weird woozy malady of yesterday appears to have been a viral thing that is passing quickly. Fingers crossed, anyway.

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Always Causing Trouble

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Mr. Matos, that is. From the NYT:

This week Idolator, a newish music blog owned by Gawker Media, seized on the outrage and disappointment felt by critics around the country who saw Mr. Christgau — and Chuck Eddy, the Voice music editor, who was dismissed in April — as a force of credibility and journalistic continuity, by announcing its own poll, Jackin’ Pop.

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The new survey will be organized by Michaelangelo Matos, a well regarded freelance writer who has served as music editor at the Voice-owned Seattle Weekly. (When New Times Media acquired Village Voice Media, it also took its name.) Jackin’ Pop will have some new technological bells and whistles, like demographic breakdowns of ballots, but will largely be modeled after Pazz & Jop. Mr. Matos, 31, said it was as much a homage to that model as a protest against the new Voice.

“Pazz & Jop has always been about intellectual music coverage,” he said. “There are people at The Voice doing good, smart work, but the overall culture does not smile upon it being particularly thoughtful.”

Go team good, smart, and intellectual!

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