Friday, September 26, 2003
Mad about youJonathan Chait of the New Republic confesses his hatred of George W. Bush and debates with Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review.
Besides all the rational reasons to disagree with the policies of the Bushites, like Chait I must confess suffering from a visceral disgust of our commander-in-chief - the corny jokes, the moronic facial expressions, the crypto-populist blabble, the accent, the nasal tone of his voice, the surrealist grammar, the lack of intellectual curiosity, the month long vacations in his ranch, ...
El Hombre 12:10 PM
Robert Palmer R.I.P.After we lost Warren Zevon and Johnny Cash within a week, now Robert Palmer has gone. Are we going towards an Annus
Horribilis of rock? Palmer will likely be remembered more because of his classy suits and trendsetting videos during the eighties (which did contribute to some pre-puberal fantasies of mine) than of his music, whether justified or not. I did like his Power Station stuff though - and after a decade of denial (see also Duran Duran, Wham!, Depeche Mode,...), I'm quite willing to openly admit this.
El Hombre 10:34 AM
Thursday, September 25, 2003
IntroAangezien ik enkele jaren geleden al een soort avant-la-lettre weblog aan het genereren was, heb ik besloten het nu eens deftig aan te pakken, met een blog tool, wat de noodzaak tot urenlang html-gepruts weg moet nemen (hoewel dat gepruts niet per se onaangenaam was - als ingenieur die van luiheid een deugd maakt werd een en ander echter wel eens uitgesteld - het 'morregen' effect).
For the English speaking, the same thing. I decided to post both in English and Flemish (have a bit of a hard time calling my native language Dutch); no rational arguments for this, it will just be based on whatever I feel like doing at the moment; anyway, learning more languages is good.
El Hombre 9:12 AM