Monthly Archives: October 2007

Washington DC, Halloween

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 31, 2007

I saw more skinny white dudes in shades wearing skinny black frock coats and pretending to be Neo than you could shake a stick at. I saw a waitress dressed like Annie Oakley who had me convinced. I saw a guy in a gorilla suit and a girl dressed like a gangster in some Warren [...]

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Dad Update

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 31, 2007

Like so many others, I too have been visited by Anger and his three legged dog Grief. I was in a real stew yesterday. The helplessness I feel in the face of dad’s condition aggravates me. Here is an update on dad’s health. I don’t know where the time has gone since I took dad [...]

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Sit on my facebook, please

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 30, 2007

[UPDATE 10/31: Yesterday, William (PaPa) Meloney put it this way: It is as if the world was too big, the universe too vast, the Internet too ... too something-or-other... we need to be members of some smaller order, some familiar covenant, some little comfort zone. We want to belong and the only way we can [...]

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At the corner of Walk and Dont Walk

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

Funny ideas at the In-N-Out Burger in Venice Beach.

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Cookie Crumbles

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com Mari and Leslie are finalists in the stopbadware.org Cookie Crumbles Contest! It’s not practical for them to slide over six time zones from FNO France to be there in DC this Friday, so I’ve consented to represent them and their work at the Federal Trade Commission workshop [...]

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Marvelous Maeve

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

Maeve, on her eponymous blog Meadhbh Maonaigh, has posted a video animation of Jonathan Coulton’s song, “Creepy Doll.” The animation is eerily apropos, and maximally seasonal of course, but the Coulton lyrics are also uncomfortably evocative of a middle class experience and laden with symbolism (see Richard Corelli for more on this, especially perhaps the [...]

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End of life

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 28, 2007

My friend said he wasn’t reading Scoble, Scobes, the Scobleizer, the Scobie-dobie dude. I asked him why. He said, I can’t fathom why I should. Why anybody would. I looked at something someone pointed to. Utter bilge. What world is this that people have time for Scoble? Well, I think the following critical insights that [...]

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Who believes in these things anyway?

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 28, 2007

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com When I saw that Winston had scored “Easy Rider,” I figured this would be an amusing little test. Imagine my surprise. [tags]Winston Rand[/tags]

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