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A story about "Boy Vey!: The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men"

nobody@allconsuming.net (jamid) — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 05:23:17 GMT

Boy Vey!: The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men

by Kristina Grish

1. i did not purchase this.

2. she is talking about east coast men (gucci cologne? what?), not jewish men.

A story about "2046"

nobody@allconsuming.net (jamid) — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:44:31 GMT

2046

by Kar Wai Wong

after the first notes of “quizas, quizas, quizas” played in “in the mood for love,” the lovers could have killed themselves, mistakenly believing the other to be dead, ad infinitum, and it would have been a lovely movie.

but in “2046,” the aesthetic wasn’t good, continuing the course of more-depressing-less-lovely hinted at by “days of being wild.”

A story about "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"

nobody@allconsuming.net (jamid) — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:34:41 GMT

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

by Cory Doctorow

i was starving for a fresh dystopia (nuclear annihilation is SO 1987!) and wound up with “magic kingdom” in my grubby little hands. it’s a fresh dystopia, but much as i like boing boing and just stumbling across cory doctorow’s flickr page, i have to admit that, like other commenters, i didn’t care about the characters.

the theme, “when death is gone, no one will know what to do with so much life,” is an important one. but i ended up with the impression that a “love” story with a gal who was presented as nothing so much as a philandering bimbo was supposed to be the “meaning of life.”

i’ve done some philandering bimbos in my day. i sure hope there’s more.

A story about "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"

nobody@allconsuming.net (jamid) — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:46:05 GMT

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss

who wants to rumble over oxford commas? you, you, or you?