::Monday, January 9, 2005::

Click Here to Return to Inkblurt

You're looking at the "Drewspace" site, my blog from 2000 to Sept 2002. It is now archived under the Inkblurt domain. The posts below and the blog's archives are all old and dusty, but ok for posterity. Please keep in mind that a lot of the links and some of the navigation will be out of date.

::tuesday, september 24, 2002::

memekitchen

I just don't have time for two blogs these days. I may end up folding drewspace into memekitchen, but for now all new posting will be happening there. Come on by!

::monday, august 26::

Darth Vader moonlights as a gargoyle

That whole Star Wars as Religion thing is looking more and more convincing.

::wednesday, august 21::

Restaurant Horror Stories

The New Yorker has a terrific double-issue this week on food. And one particular story on restaurant health inspections is pretty unnerving. This is a short interview with the story's author.

DW over at JOHO the Blog is mulling over a name for the impending invasion of Iraq, saying "I'm less enamored with Operation Oedipus than I was. I'd prefer something like Operation Oedipal Blindness or maybe Operation Oedipal Apocalypse." How about Operation Barking Lunatic? or perhaps Operation Bush II: The Reckoning?

::monday, august 19::

JOHO the Blog

DW explains how the FBI is draining American productivity by millions of hours through making us watch those infernal warnings on rented movies. This cause needs a lobbyist and some PAC money, and I mean now! Email me, and I'll tell you to whom you should write your checks!

::sunday, august 18::

Paste Magazine

Click immediately over to the CD Sampler for issue #1 (link at top of page) and then listen to Bill Mallonee's "She's So Liquid" -- a new track from an upcoming CD.

::wednesday, august 14::

Esquire:Tools:Exit-Memo Generator

Esquire gives us a quick and easy way to crank out the typewritten equivalent of a sturdy middle finger.

::monday, august 12::

Google Search: aa ae ao ea ee eo

Bart has vowel issues. (This is crazy.)

Google Search: "By now I should know everything"

Google has been kind enough to add all my poetry that I've posted in its indexes, so that now phrases like "All we wanted was a little porn at midnight" and "By now I should know everything" bring you a single result at Google's search page: my page of poems. If only there were a way to get rich off this?

::friday, august 9::

The New Yorker - "Signs" Review

Anthony Lane is right-on about the movie. But don't read this unless you've already seen it. And if you haven't seen it yet, go.

::friday, august 2::

6pc Crucifixion Accessory Set

For this season's well-dressed messiah. (Scroll to the bottom to find it; too bad they're "Sold Out.")

A Philosopher Asks Buddha

Enter the weekend with a random koan. A new one with every "refresh."

::thursday, august 1::

I've been so busy with work and the occasional long post to memekitchen, that I've neglected my personal logspace. I've decided to just throw down a bunch of fun links I've run into over the last few months that I never got around to talking about here. I'll let you click 'em and see what you think.

• Is it ok to make fun of W again?
• I love old book covers.
• If i still had free time I might play with these.
• Furbies are getting so cheap now. I mean Cheeeeaaap.
• The building I work in, in 1995, as seen from space.
• Everything is connected.
• See Darth get an ASCII-cking.
• Flash is 99% wack.
• Geek satire, with many levels (Quicktime).
• The first of my MFA mates to hit it bigtime.
• Nice dvd reviews.
• Fab favelets.
• Find only the freshest at Google.
• The One Disc set to own about The One Ring.
• Teeny cartoon games I don't have time for. But you probably do.
• Those wacky Zagat reviewers are a stitch.

::wednesday, july 24::

VillainSupply.com Home Lair

One day I'll have enough spare time to do something like this.

::monday, july 22::

Cronenberg's "Spider"

Looking forward to whenever this hits theaters around here. I still wish I could find Naked Lunch on DVD, but it doesn't exist in any official form.

::tuesday, july 9::

Apparently Vegas is where all the cool kids are this weekend. Maybe next year for me. I'm sure it's terrific, but I'll get the powerpoint decks if anybody releases them. Meanwhile, I have been spending this week in lovely Gatlinburg! If the Florida panhandle is the Redneck Riviera, this is the Redneck Aspen. But I have to admit I'm having kind of a blast. My in-laws managed to get a deal on a condo for the week. I haven't been here in about 10 years, but since I was last in town Ripley's has apparently bought or built just about everything, including the super-cheesy Haunted Adventure I experienced last night. But the best part is the nature, like horse riding and floating downriver in a big inflated doughnut. Especially when you have a terrific 6 yr old girl like ours (she didn't go in the Haunted Adventure, though, just the horses and tubing. And the Aquarium. And lots of tacky gift shops). Vicarious joy is the best kind.

::tuesday, july 2::

CNN.com

Man. Somebody at CNN needs to lay off the Viagra.

::monday, july 1::

memekitchen

I suppose there's no point in not mentioning that I have started a new website, where I'm putting my less meaningless thoughts into something akin to actual language, rather than these little brainfarts that I pop onto drewspace now and then. Just think of this as the flotsam, and memekitchen as the jetsam. I may end up using memekitchen as my main home on the web after a while, but for now I'll be doing both. Sounds like a lot, but it's actually not. Movable Type is so easy to set up, it really was just a matter of choosing colors in my css file. Feel free to drop by there and leave some comments; virtual grafitti the weblog way!

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Essential Blogging

The genius couple behind Movable Type has also written this book for O'Reilly. And it has the weirdest cover, bar none, of any O'Reilly title in existence. If you don't believe me from the thumbnail in the catalog linked above, check out this larger version. Those are some messed up kitties.

3DOSX Themes

If you run Mac OS X, you can browse your file structure in 3D. This is actually pretty cool. Don't know how useful it is, at least right now, but it's pretty fabulous.