You are currently browsing the monthly archive for January 2006.
“Fabulous State of the Union parody”:http://www.youtube.com/w/State-of-the-Union-2006—-Bush-Impression?v=upTUbqc5Pso. Hat tip to Marty.
I love “CD Baby”:http://www.cdbaby.com/ for a couple of reasons.
Reason #1: This is an excerpt of the confirmation email I received upon shipment of my recent order:
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Sunday, January 29th.
Reason #2: CD Baby sells “Craic Wisely”:http://www.craicwisely.com/ CDs, including their “new one”:http://cdbaby.com/cd/craicwisely2, which I await most eagerly. I wrote about them “before”:http://www.polytropos.org/archives/2004/01/craic.html; they’re super-cool. Make sure your next CD Baby order includes something of theirs.
Someone do “one of these”:http://www.originalalamo.com/downtown/frames.asp?b=/online_tix/show_details.asp?show_id=3243 in the DC area, pretty please. Like, yesterday.
Hat tip to cousin Tom.
It’s been a spare year for the ol’ blog. And looking back over things, it’s clear that nearly all the entries even vaguely worthy of the term “highlight” fall under the “Polytropos Review” category from previous years — reviews of books, movies, music, games, what have you. Not much at all in the way of politics or “slice of life” narratives. No promises, but we’ll see if we can do something about that in 2006.
*Books*
* “The System of the World”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=497
* “The Knight”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=501
* “The Wizard”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=504
* “On Rereading Books”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=505
* “The Wizard Knight Redux”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=526
* “Vacation Comics Roundup”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=532
* “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=541
* “Cormac McCarthy, In Brief”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=545
* “No Country For Old Men”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=546
*Movies*
* “Outfoxed”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=489
* “Sunset, Before and After”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=502
* “The Revenge of the Sith”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=527
* “Batman Begins”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=542
* “Serenity”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=556
* “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=561
* “King Kong”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=566
* “NarniaBlogging”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=571
*Games*
* “H2Online”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=486
* “Major League Halo”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=491
* “That Game”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=543
*Music*
* “That Voice”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=496
* “Quick Music Reviews”:http://www.polytropos.org/index.php?p=544
