Atomized juniorDedicated to the smallest particles of meaning on the webGeorge Best- June 21, 2008 This is the time of year I call the summer radio doldrums. Indie or college radio wise - the stuff I've listened to the last 25 years - few bands release new material in the summer. It seems a good moment to review highlights from the spring. First of these was Ted Leo's improv performance of "A Bottle of Buckie" during the WFMU marathon. At some point in the wake of this, thinking about it more than the previous times I had heard that song. I thought "I have the rough context of things...http://www.wam.umd.edu/~pbushmil/atomized_jr/2008/06/20.html#a722 BvC (bike v. car)- June 13, 2008 There was a Christian Science Monitor article on hybrid envy last week. This is the envy of your friend or acquaintance who has gone out and got a hybrid-engine vehicle. Hybrid Envy is chic, the article questions, but not bike envy As the author states:...During the month that I drove it, three different people complimented me. And yet, during the seven years we have been carless, only one person has complimented me. Hybrid cars get compliments - why not my bike ...http://www.wam.umd.edu/~pbushmil/atomized_jr/2008/06/12.html#a721 Lunch- June 1, 2008 There was a morning one day last spring; I was biking into work. I work in a library at a large public university so invariably this involves emerging into a roiling bustle of people as I get on campus. On the other side of the street I saw a beautiful women, lovely and graceful. She was in plain fact hot. "I never get to know women like that" I thought. However; as I passed and glanced over I realized it was Huyen Trân. For the remaining fifth of a mile, till I got to the bike rack.http://www.wam.umd.edu/~pbushmil/atomized_jr/2008/05/31.html#a720 |