Category: Doing

  • Journalists come under fire in Georgian conflict.

    It’s inter­est­ing to see video like this since we see so lit­tle cov­er­age of jour­nal­ists who’ve been attacked in Iraq. A word of warn­ing: this isn’t for the feint of heart.

  • I’m updating my wardrobe.

    One of the ben­e­fits of train­ing for this marathon is that I’ve been los­ing a lot of weight. Unlike my Philebri­ty Fit Club expe­ri­ence, this has been a grad­ual, grat­i­fy­ing process, rather than a sprint to the fin­ish. I’m much hap­pi­er with the results. Why? Los­ing 16% of my body mass in two months did­n’t…

  • New Black Mountain Video — “Wucan”

    Black Moun­tain prob­a­bly just employed the most tired con­cept for their lat­est video, “Wucan,” but I’m sure plen­ty of herbs will go absolute­ly bonkers for it.  As I watched this video I could­n’t help but wish they’d fleshed out the Krautrock from their last album instead of pur­su­ing this Easy Rid­er non­sense. [via Fork­cast]

  • Scott Walker’s Rejected Bond Theme

    The Vul­ture has a list of the five great reject­ed themes for James Bond movies. I think Scott Walk­er’s is my favorite. [via The Vul­ture]

  • Should I drink more tea?

    Grow­ing up, my fam­i­ly was all about tea. I start­ed boil­ing water for my Mom’s tea at a very ear­ly age and was around it my entire child­hood, yet, at about 13, I devel­oped a taste for cof­fee that’s been with me ever since. It must be from read­ing too much detec­tive fic­tion and/or I…