President Bush, the Martyr

Freezerbox: President Bush the Martyr

The Believer

In The Believer, Ryan Gosling plays Danny Balint, an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi, but unlike Edward Norton’s character in American History X, Balint is a Jew.

The Ern Malley Affair

The Alsop Review’s Jack Foley reviews a criticism of a modernist poetry hoax in Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair.

Re-engineering the Drug Biz

This article (Re-engineering the Drug Business) from the NYT Magazine investigates the route heroin takes from poppy plant to pusher and the precautions the smuggling industry has taken since 9/11 . If you’ve played GTA3 it’ll read like backstory to most of the missions.

ST:TNG

The Next Generation crew will break the Prime Directive for the last time in Star Trek: Nemesis.

Trip East

My brother and I got back from our road trip to NYC on Tuesday at about 4am. During the trip we hung out with family and friends in Woodstock and Richfield Springs as well as the Big Apple. It’s always too long between visits to their neck of the woods. We also visited the site of the World Trade Center where damaged office buildings have a view of one another never imagined. New foundations appear to have been laid, but I could be wrong. Stayed up Saturday night ’til South Korea beat Spain in a tie-breaking penalty kick-off, and then crashed in Central Park. Sat on the roof at a converted-warehouse party in Williamsburg. Finished playing Halo haphazardly, and discussed the Cameronian paradigm it follows — i.e., there hasn’t been an original idea in sci-fi since Aliens. Heard Eminem from every Civic and Sentra (especially the one I rented) on the BQE, where traffic is governed by Darwinism in a fastforward weave. New York is a nice place to visit, but a better place to ‘blog.

In a shameless attempt…

In a shameless attempt to generate more traffic to my site, I have a story about some license-plate related humors.

American History on Drugs

This Is American History On Drugs, found on Freezerbox.com explores why our country’s war on drugs is “paralyzed by an absurd schizophrenia–the purpose of our domestic policy is the mitigation of our foreign one.” Reading on, this conclusive quote immediately conjured up the image of M. Night Shylamanamanaman’s Unbreakable:

The drug economy is as artificial as it is illicit; we have used our laws to construct an enemy, and now we use our laws to fight it. Not since Prohibition have we engaged in such large-scale shadowboxing, have we, in our desire to fight crime, created a massive criminal class and fought it.

Our old chum Noah…

Our old chum Noah I. Miller has emailed me that he has procured the domain miller.cc for the motherland. His email is noah@miller.cc. He has plans for web site goodness, but nothing is up yet.

If you can’t stand listening

If you can’t stand listening to the whole song, try Quick106.