INSOLVENT REPUBLIC OF BLOGISTAN

I was thinking to myself, why I don't I listen to many podcasts? (Besides Due For A Win , but I'm an Atlantic City aficionado and there aren't many place anywhere to discuss a gambling town on th...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-about-you-shut-up-and-record-music.html

Yessss remembered to update before the year ended! My lifestyle limits my ability to much of any old timey, typing-into-a-white-text-box active blogging (as opposed to passive Tumblr-style reblog...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-feel-happy-i-feel-happy.html

GIRD THY LOINS BEFORE CLICKING THIS LINK: Riddick is the manliest film possible . (Just put a cup on, that's as good as modern girding gets.)

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/09/gird-thy-loins-before-clicking-this.html

I've switched to Feedly, and it's a nicer app at least in terms of presentation than Reader is, at least on my Nexus 7. It actually looks a bit like the Google+ app, so, ummm, IRONY, or something...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/03/well-theres-at-least-one-decent-outcome.html

I hope they see this story: Wells Fargo Typo Victim Dies in Court - Page 2 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/03/and-when-they-google-fargo.html

From April, 2009 : > The Armadillo World Headquarters, the first real road trip I ever > took with the E Street Band. We got in a motor home and drove from > New Jers...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-e-street-ephemera.html

Ugh yes this : > OKAY, LOOK, THE ONION TWEET NOR THE OUTRAGE ISN'T THAT HARD TO > UNDERSTAND. BUT I CAN EXPLAIN QUICKLY. 1) It's clear the intent was > straight irony,�...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-ballad-of-child-actress-q.html

A subgenre that occurred to me when I was thinking to myself that The Hold Steady plays in the Springsteen genre, and then wondering well what would one call the Springsteen genre? (This has be...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-operatic-bar-band-genre.html

Interview from 1985 with early E Streeter Suki Lahav . She's probably best known for the violin part on Jungleland. Yes--I am on a Springsteen kick. (Also clearing out an open tab.)

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/02/dept-of-found-internet-objects-asbury.html

Wrestling was dropped from the Olympics because it didn't have friends in the right places . That's it. End of line, as the Master Control Program would say. And this: "FILA didn't think its spor...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-now-yeller-eurocrat.html

It's the Bacevich article that makes the More Flan/Less Ayn argument. By the way, AmConMag, you need a tablet version in the Play store, yo. ...there's an AmCon Center For Public Transportat...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/02/dept-of-e-mail-mailing-list-titles-that.html

And if I do fail at my fake blogging resolution this year, you can always catch me on Tumblr . Microblogging! Which means, in 2013, a bloglike social stream with a network of people you don't kno...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/01/federated-states-of-microblogorrhea.html

And an app for the world's oldest blog. Will I blog more in 2013 consequently? Ask again, answer unclear. But look! A pretty screenshot! #shareeverything

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-have-nexus-7.html

GREAT BRITAIN JUST LOST TO CROATIA IN HANDBALL 37-14: Which is massive blowout if you know your handball and I think you do, and the 14th goal for Team GB came at the 29:59 mark, so the very last...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/08/great-britain-just-lost-to-croatia-in.html

YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT LIVING IN A TABLE TENNIS NATION: When your best young player is giving interviews like this: > "If I didn't have straight A's, I wouldn't play table tennis. My >...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/07/you-know-youre-not-living-in-table.html

A THE DARK KNIGHT RISES REVIEW: By Alan David Doane . I am only lukewarm on the Nolan-Bale Batman project, and ADD seems to be on a similar wavelength, so I may agree with this review in large pa...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-dark-knight-rises-review-by-alan.html

COOKING AS A FORM OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: I've already forgotten where I got this from--it's a really great debate between Francis Lam and Eddie Huang. Is it fair for chefs to cook other cultu...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/06/cooking-as-form-of-cultural.html

BLOGGING AS A FORM OF SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: Little note on writing well that I wish to keep track of. Via Maria Yang . Alternate title for this post: DEPT OF PUTTING MY BOOKMARKS ON THE INTERNET...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/05/blogging-as-form-of-social-bookmarking.html

DEPARTMENT OF COMMENTS FROM MAJOR MEDIA WEBSITES: This little one in the Economist: > This article does no good for the Economist's credibility. I'm > asking myself: "If articles�...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/04/department-of-comments-from-major-media.html

AH, I SWEAR I DON'T PLAN ANY OF THIS: Like writing a post a month. I mean I don't have a reminder set up in my phone or something that tells me, "it's been a month! Update the stupid blog again!"...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/04/ah-i-swear-i-dont-plan-any-of-this-like.html

DEPT. OF PRESSING THE LIKE BUTTON ON COMMENTS MADE ON OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOGS: The entity known as "elm," a member of the LGM commentariat, offers the following on the "Corey Robin on Cory Booker "...

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LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE OVER: In record time , and in close to the most humiliating way possible, in terms of seeding. Never humiliating to lose to a Patriot League team, though, not really--thos...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/03/long-national-nightmare-over-in-record.html

WAIT, THE LATEST RIGHT-LIBERTARIAN ARGLE BARGLE IS BASED ON NOT MUCH OF ANYTHING?: Captain Renault reference, Captain Renault reference ! This is re: that idiotic "state workers forced a presch...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/02/wait-latest-right-libertarian-argle.html

GETTING ON THAT LOCAL ISSUES TRAIN: The audience for my blog is already very tiny, and the remaining audience that would be interested in subject matter of this post is even tinier--it has not ev...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/01/getting-on-that-local-issues-train.html

AND SO, IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PROTESTS GOING ON ACROSS THE INTERNET, THIS BLOG WILL GO DARK FOR A DAY: Wait.... (Seriously, though, SOPA is terrible and needs to be stopped. Don't let ancient ...

http://slotman.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-so-in-solidarity-with-protests.html