No time for Internet goodness. It looks like my busy-ness will continue for at least the rest of the week.
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I spent the week working on a presentation I gave yesterday. Now, I have to turn it into a digital video, which I hope to post this weekend. Between that, school, work, and preparing for some guests who are arriving this weekend, there’s really been no time for the Internet. I have added a few [...] Recently I wondered whatever happened to Woody Allen’s son. Today I learned that David Bowie’s son (who was Zowie Bowie as an infant, but long ago resorted to the more mundane, non-rockstar handle Duncan Jones) is the director of Moon, starring Sam Rockwell. Gubernatorial candidates Alex Sink and Bill McCollum are both on Twitter. They also have Facebook pages. Bill. Alex. The Tampa Bay Brewing Company just alerted me via Facebook that one of their weekend specials will be the burger bomb. “‘’Burger Bomb’’ 8oz burger with French Fries, Onion Rings, Bacon & Cheddar Wrapped in Pizza Dough and Baked $10″ Wow. I’ve added Florida Speaks to the Politics section in the blogroll. Florida Speaks is a round-up of political blog posts, mostly from the left, with an emphasis on Florida. Seminole Heights Foundation, Inc., the controversial non-profit dedicated to improving the greater Seminole Heights neighborhood launched a good-looking site. The Official Unofficial Seminole Heights blog has a new [...] Was Mayor Iorio right to sever ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)? This Trib article by William March says her decision “was based on her own research on the group.” Maybe. And she can always cover her decision by noting that the FBI recently dropped CAIR because of its possible links to Hamas. However, if March [...] Why does the Obama administration seem to have split personality disorder when it comes to gay America? In May he writes an army officer who came out a note re-affirming his commitment to changing Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell. In June he asked the Supreme Court to not hear a case challenging Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell. Now he’s filed a brief defending the Defense of [...] I started to write this up, but see that Clark Brooks has already done an excellent and thorough job. And so, in the spirit of marrow-deep laziness I will simply direct you to his post and recommend that you GO NOW, and GO TO THE HOMEMADE MUSIC SYMPOSIUM THIS WEEKEND. Here’s a link to the official [...] Hugh Hopper, bassist for Soft Machine (one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever) has died of leukemia. “Mr. Hopper was part of the band during its most influential period, from 1967 or 1968 (sources differ) through 1973, playing on and composing for its first several albums.” (Thanks JLT) There are some clips of Hugh being interviewed, [...] Open Congress has launched RaceTracker to help political junkies keep track of campaigns for Governor, US Senate, and US House of Representatives. Here’s their page for Florida. Today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum should remind us that Florida, and especially the I-4 corridor is a hotbed for the hate culture in the US. Less than two months ago “Joshua Cartwright, 28, a U.S. Army Reserve soldier, shot 45-year-old deputies Warren “Skip” York and Burt Lopez just before 1 p.m. at the Shoal River [...] Katie M. at Creative Loafing points to these videos about the Pacific Garbage Patch. Last October I pointed to a great documentary about Garbage Island. If you haven’t seen it I strongly recommend checking it out. If you’re in the northwest of Florida and you’re looking for a burger, you might want to check out this burger blog. These bloggers are looking for the best burger in the greater Pensacola area. Marvel is releasing Strange Tales Max 1 (of 3) this September which will feature some indy comic heavy-hitters like Peter Bagge, James Kochalka, Michael Kupperman, and Jason. Here is a page from Jason’s re-imagination of Spidey. I can’t wait to see Peter Bagge’s Hulk! Bagge’s Incorrigible Hulk will be serialized over all three issues. By 1987 Mia Farrow convinced Woody Allen to produce a biological offspring. After the 1994 divorce Mia was given custody of young Satchel, and he only saw his father under strictly supervised visits. When he was eleven years old Satchel entered Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Last month he graduated from Yale Law School at age [...] Checking out the widget features at Grooveshark. “Politicians love the death penalty because it makes a bunch of candy-asses look like tough guys.” “Idiot Whistle” is a spoken word track from The Executioner’s Last Song Volume One. …and America loves him! The Rolling Stone interview is out, and so is Adam. Finally. Senator Bill Nelson has taken the lead on abolishing poisonous Chinese drywall in the US. The next step is to help Florida become a producer of EcoRock (as seen in the video below). Nelson’s leadership on drywall issues, and Florida’s aching construction industry, combine for a rare opportunity to bring new, sustainable businesses to the sunshine [...] Pastor Drake unabashedly says he’s praying for Obama’s death. He and Osama bin Laden both want the president of the United States to die. Bill O’Reilly is attacking the father of David After the Dentist. One of these is insignificant and the other appalling. O’Reilly and I disagree on which is which. Tampa Heights blog points to this list of Friday night movies at Cafe Hey. Schedule: Wayne Garcia has been advocating that Tampa pay close attention to what other “All-America Cities” are doing. He’s right. This is a great source of best practices Tampa should be learning about, and in some cases, emulating. He’s been tagging his All-America City posts and you can find them here. Sinfonian catches the sentencing of long-time Florida Republican operative Mary McCarty. She was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. While Florida has plenty of real corruption (here, here, here, and here for example) there’s also a problem with “good souls corruption” which we need to address on the local and national level. “Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop [...] Since this is more commentary than review there are a lot of spoilers. Read at your own risk. (Oh, and if you haven’t seen it, and don’t want to read the spoilers, I’ll just say I give it a thumbs up.) W3C response to proposed sarcasm tag in HTML 5. Hmmm, since I’ve started Facebook I realize that it takes up some of my blogging oxygen. There’s only so much time to browse and post. Here are some of the links I’ve pointed to recently on FB. Kitintale skates 2008 *** Catherine Durkin Robinson of Out [...] 1950s educational film on how to survive a zombie attack. What To Do In A Zombie Attack (via Missions Unknown) I started a Facebook fan page for Re/Creating Tampa. Mostly it’s just a feed of this blog. If you’d like to follow R/CT on Facebook you can become a fan here. Or, you can get the RSS feed here. You can subscribe by email here. YouTube XL “YouTube XL, in a nutshell, is YouTube optimized for the TV. It is made to be simple to use and interact with on big screens. We’ve just been given an in-person demo at YouTube headquarters, and we have to tell you: the thing is slick. Interestingly enough, it looks and feels a lot like [...] |
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