for real!

by jebni on February 25, 2004

This just in from Linlee, our French correspondent: so i am at work today minding my own business, arranging books, carrying on etc and then i hear “oh pharrell, this is linlee, she speaks english. if you need anything just (…)

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incroyable!

by jebni on February 25, 2004

Disney has invited us to a sneak preview of The Incredibles. How exciting! And it’s the last Pixar film Disney’s distributing — ooh er!

whedon-spandex = mao-spontex

by jebni on February 22, 2004

Far be it for me to recommend any brand of Leninism, but I have a soft spot for the whacky ideological orgy that was non-hierarchical French Maoism of the early 1970s, particularly the strand known sexily as mao-spontex, or “spontaneist (…)

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wham bam thankyou ma’am

by jebni on February 21, 2004

David Bowie was really good last night. The most curious thing, though, was the “mature and affable” persona that he’s been projecting since the Hours… album — after all the metaphorical maskwork of previous decades (even what critics cite as (…)

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prexy skein competish sked topper

by jebni on February 19, 2004

Excuse me, but what the hell kind of journalism is this? I’ve never read Variety, so I don’t know how pervasive this almost autistic use of industry-speak actually is, but reading the article in question was like steeping into another (…)

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line of the year

by jebni on February 19, 2004

“Oh daddy don’t you want to be my subject?” – Kelis, “In Public”

said says: baise la police

by jebni on February 18, 2004

the jossverse endeth

by jebni on February 15, 2004

…on TV, for the time being, anyway: Angel was cancelled on Friday. In the words of Joss Whedon: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN’ SHOW.” Poor guy.

the siege of civilization

by jebni on February 12, 2004

I almost totally lost it yesterday. Not only did French parliament vote to ban the Muslim hijab in public schools by something like a 16:1 ratio, but I lost a long and involved post about it. The short of it: (…)

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death to usability

by jebni on February 9, 2004

In a shocking blow to the interests of hypertextia and usability everywhere, I’ve been awarded an Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Award for last season’s Lee Jeans site, in the Best Advertising/Marketing category. Yay, me! This is the same site (…)

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