Daily Archives: May 12, 2009
Quick Review: Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown
Posted on May 12, 2009 43 Comments
It’s good, and I like it, and I think I’ll like it more the more I listen to it. It continues in the same vein of American Idiot, i.e., loosely linked concept album with lots of anthemic moments, so if you like the one you’ll like the other. That said, I’ve seen reviews that say […]
The Big Idea: Sarah Prineas
Posted on May 12, 2009 9 Comments
“What if you could do magic by blowing things up?” This is the question author Sarah Prineas is asking in her The Magic Thief series, of which the second, Lost, has just hit the stores. My answer: Man, if I could do magic by blowing things up, I’d be the happiest wizard ever. But there’s […]
The Society for Creative Drinking
Posted on May 12, 2009 68 Comments
Here’s an article which suggests that more than one in ten caucasians are potentially able to convert alcohol into creativity — i.e., that it affects their brain in a way in which “ethanol behave[s] more like an opioid drug, such as morphine, with a stronger than normal effect on mood and behavior.” This statistic that […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying