"Lookin' better than a body has a right to"

"There's also a Nashville-ized, beat-happy version of the Fine Young Cannibals 'She Drives Me Crazy' that mostly works because of the determined way Parton plows through it, as if refusing to recognize its fundamental unreasonableness."

from a review of Dolly Parton's new album, Backwoods Barbie.

Poetics of Indeterminacy

Of the two 'references' in Wikipedia used to support the biography of the writer, Avi, one is 'Cataloging Rules' by the 'American Lesbians Association' . If I was aware of that association at all, I would be surprised that the other A.L.A. had any interest in metadata, Dublin Core, or AACR2. Even more--Why would this organization of all things classification and sapphic be interested in a biography of Avi?

Perhaps there is a clue in that other collaborative/authoritative resource chock-a-block with truthiness-- Answers.com. Fans of Avi, your wait will soon be over! The inside scoop can be found in his autobiography : My Life Looking Like a Shemale (2007). Apparently, Answers.com beat Books-in-Print and Amazon to this forthcoming publication.

Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.

As a wise colleague realized, we will soon be in a possesion of another gadget. Huzzahs to the Radio Corporation of America! Huzzahs to L2.0!

'73--
KA8OMQ

Shout Out to my Pepys

Supposedly "unabridged," Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys can be downloaded from NetLibrary. It's read by Audie Award-Winning reader, George Guidall, so I'm looking forward to listening to this recording of a 17th century text in my 21st century car (with audio jack!)

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Not to get too old-timey or anything, but I knew members in the WELL, had an e-mail account in 1992, and was using Archie (Jughead and Veronica too--we were very resourceful then) before Mosaic came on the scene. Podcasts may be the new new thing, but--yawn--it's really a rather old thing. Social networks (the WELL, Free-Nets, MUD's, IRC) were past tense in 1994 (Rheingold's 'Virtual Communites,' et. al.). Well, maybe imperfect tense--Everything old is new again.

Be a 'mind sticker'--with a shape he can't forget

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