Month: June 2008

I gave up at friends/?skip=430

I am back from SF which was lovely. I ate and drank well, and enjoyed the company of many good people. Special thanks to zebulon_y for the use of a couch much longer than is considered polite. There is pork on the way.

I won’t try to summarize the trip because I am lazy.

If anyone huge happened in my absence, I may have missed it because skip=430.

hi from gate 90 at sfo

we are now in hour 3 of lateness, involving a delayed plane, a plane with broken stuff, trouble making sure the broken stuff was fixed, and finally a flight attendant swapout because they’d hit their max hours.

Boy, some people really can’t handle inconvenience. i mean, this is not fun, but i don’t see any corpses, and some of these people… wow.

Jack Marquette: 1948-2008

He was responsible more than anyone else for the Los Angeles underground music scene that lit up my brain in high school and gave me so much in the years afterwards. The art of all kinds that arose from Theoretical and the Anti-Club turned a lot of us upside down in the best way. Thanks, Jack.

From the Savage Republic mailing list:

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Truly a sad day…

Jaques Ren Marquette 1948 – 2008

.We have lost a true pioneer of the LA music scene..

I (thom f.) was fortunate enough to know Jack Marquette and he is a
large part of SR’s exposure and success. He gave my first band, Spadra
Moods, our first chance in LA and he promoted my first two shows with
SR. He broke bands like the Abecedarians, Psi-Com, and many others.
The following was sent to me to today by Marnie Weber…

Our very dear friend Jack Marquette passed away early this morning,
after bravely battling a long illness. His partner, Fredrick Ascher
was by his side. All of your thoughts, prayers, visits and love over
the past few months touched him deeply. Jack meant so much to all of
us, he will be greatly missed.

Don’t wanna talk about it!

You know how sometimes people on your friends list will post about their lives, and all of a sudden you think, “Wait a minute. Since when are they growing qat? And who still takes Gregory the Great seriously?” And then you wonder how you could have missed that seemingly standard information, but you feel too ashamed to ask for madlib answers. It happens to all of us. I mean I’ll bet you a sentence there’s a cut and paste with minor edits already.

Copy the questions below, erase my answers and post yours..

NO.

This week in academic publishing

Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal

Says Variety:

Men like Steven Seagal are not born; they are forged in the heat and hell of Hollywood offices. Unlike his bloodthirsty macho contemporaries, Seagal burst onto the bigscreen with fists blazing, parlaying Ovitzian connections into a starring role in “Above the Law.” Ain’t-It-Cool’s Vern puts the action star on a pedestal in “Seagalogy,” a tome that explores all aspects of the man behind the ponytail with utmost respect. Fans will find it irresistible, but those who caught “On Deadly Ground” on cable might well wonder what all the fuss is about.