Crazy White Devil
Crazy White Devil for Robert Craig Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007) Long before Christopher Reeve and R. Kelly, we believed a man could fly if he was daring enough, and crazy enough, to risk the inevitable crash landing. “America’s Legendary Daredevil”, Evel Knievel was both, a brazen boiler room broker arguably a bit more crazy than daring,
Evel Dead
EvelKnievel Damn. I don’t typically take much note of dead celebrities but Evel Knievel was a childhood idol of mine ranking up there with Graig Nettles and Batman. Much to my mother’s chagrin, I would attempt to duplicate his stunts as a kid, from jumping across my twin beds, to jumping from the dresser to the bed
Buy These Books!
Two very good friends of mine have recently had books published, one non-fiction and one fiction, and I highly recommend that you pick them up. You can get both of them on Amazon (use the links below) or at most decent bookstores. Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New
QotD: Today’s Musical Horoscope
What’s your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Creative Zen 4GB A Little of Your Time – Maroon 5 No One – Alicia Keys Beautiful – Christina Aguilera This Ain’t a Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy Strobelite Honey – Black
Shooting War Review
Shooting War Anthony Lappe Shooting War posits a world gone mad in the wake of Dubya’s ill-conceived war on terror, delivering some unexpected LOL moments without straying too far from a very serious underlying message. Check out my full review on PopCultureShock. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Vox Hunt: Take Me Anywhere
If you had the ability to teleport, where would you go right now? Isla Mujeres Isla Muerejes, Mexico. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Parent-Teacher Nights
Back-to-School 2007 Isaac and India both had their parent-teacher conferences this week, but because I stayed home with them Tuesday and Wednesday as they were sick, Salomé had to attend both meetings solo in the evening. While I’ve met both of their primary teachers, she’d only spoken with them over the phone and via email, so it worked out okay, especially
Spindle swag
Like my new hat? Get your own! Spindle Hat Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Patricia Smith, Michael Cirelli, Ivan Brandon and more
It’s Spindle‘s penultimate update before the official launch in January and it’s the most eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography yet, including the debut of our first column, Mahogany Browne’s Coffee & Brooklyn (C&B), and the latest Notable New Yorker interview, Ivan Brandon: Crime Comics Czar. Log on now to check out new poetry,
Support the Striking Writers
There’s a great website called fans4writers.com that is trying to organize support for the members of the Writers Guild of America who went on strike this past Monday after negotiations over royalties for usage of their creations in new media vehicles — ie: re-playing TV episodes and streaming movies online, the sale of digital copies of TV episodes, etc. Philosophically speaking,