1. The only thing snarky at a Dead concert is the dogs: “The last concert I can remember was on Long Island, at Nassau Coliseum. I don’t think we got into the arena but just took in the scene in the parking lot, where I recall taking a surprising satisfaction from the sight of two dogs fighting, all snarl and tooth and yelp, upending tables stacked with veggie burritos and crystal pendants. The Deadheads looked on in paralyzed horror, no one knowing what to do about this flagrant canine flouting of the ethic of peace and mellowness. I rooted for the dogs.”  ¶ 20
2. AOL Journals: You’ve got a 2,500-character limit, and you are most likely a total newbie and/or Windows user. The chance you will create a valid-HTML posting is thus virtually nil, since you’re already fighting the software just to let you say what you want.  ¶ 16a
3. Gang of Pour: I see wine snobs are actually faux-classy rather than classy classy. Great name, and just barely on the right side of tacky.  ¶ 16b
4. Goats: The accessible comic strip? (Great minds, &c.)  ¶ 16c
5. Quotation marks multilingually.  ¶ 16d
6. Found type: Itchy Robot; Phil’s.  ¶ 16e
7. How can Microsoft enable your business? Perhaps by not crashing on the Macy’s JumboTron manqué.  ¶ 15
8. G5 photo tour. Prime case for use of the link element.  ¶ 12a
9. Bestest superlong rock & roll lyrics:
   • Rush: “Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth that the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dream of youth”
   • BR: “And from somewhere in our black subconscious minds when we’re asleep comes a haunting, swirling mass of voices resonating. It screams of forgotten victims and their cries of innocence and their desperate cry for resolution and recompense”  ¶ 12b
10. “What is a suicide redhead, you ask? Dyed by their own hand.”  ¶ 12c
11. What, exactly, is a Blogging Plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Part of a “Fun Pack,” if such could be associated with WiMP.)

    Add more personality to your blog with this plug-in that adds the artist, song, and album name to the Windows Media Player 9 Series title bar. Blogging clients like LiveJournal, w.bloggar [what?], Semagic [what?], and others [what others?] can then easily add that information to your next entry while you compose.... Over the past few years blogging popularity has snowballed as more and more people are connecting with each other online. Showing visitors whether you’re in the mood for metal, rap, baroque, or jazz while you work on your blog is a great way to enrich your site with personal information.

    Would you like DRM with that?
12. And on the above topic: Young Zach Robinson, who was a model of some kind at some time in his distant past, fills us all in about Windows Media blogging, using as example the perennial heterosexualist fave, Dave Matthews Band. (Zach – even his name is cute – runs an old log site that turns out to be less sexually revealing than it suggests, plus a LiveJournal in which he brags about his pay raises.)  ¶ 11b
13. Pitchfork Disney: Ian Roberts’ first play, apparently. Rather inauspiciously contrived title. Also Windows Media interview. So: Ugly but astonishingly muscular homunculus cast as homunculus so ugly he wears a bag over his head: “You’ve got to give me the part of Krispy the Klown!” “I’m sorry. You’re wrong for the part.” “But look at my range!”  ¶ 11c, 12
14. Trust me, whatever I said was at best approximated in the Maclean’s article. I pride myself on accurate quoting of sources – verbatim when possible.  ¶ 7
15. “I will buy a Logitech Elite Keyboard for the first person [who] switches from QWERTY to Dvorak (and sticks with it!) as a result of this post.”  ¶ 6

All dates in September 2003.

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