or to the challenge of arrival or to the challenge of our rivals. Whatever. Bryan at 2:20 am: “2006 is my bitch, yall!!” Happy New Year from Rocky Balboa and the Garden State Chorale, Inc. And from all your best friends at The Great Whatsit.
Author Archive
Another break in the schedule: More short reviews
Because we gotta keep it real, keep it fresh, 100 words or fewer, yo, not counting shorties w/ one or two letters: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach (Norton, 2006) Children who have uncanny memories of “past lives.” Ectoplasm photographed spewing out of a psychic’s nose. “Spirit voices” caught on tape at the [...]
Easily distracted: Short reviews
As usual, 100 words or fewer, for the delectation of the weaning-themselves-from Adderall crowd: Secaucus, The Wrens (1996; Wind-Up, 2006) The Wrens and Spoon share similar career arcs: in 1996 they released alt-rock masterpieces to little fanfare (Secaucus and Telephono, respectively), endured subsequent record-label legal battles and watched helplessly as their back catalogs went out [...]
Post-election haiku: Let the love flow!
Farrell Fawcett offers these for starters: In January an effing terrorist can finally have a partial birth ‘bortion then send the fetus on to Michael J. Fox so he can inject it directly into his spine and cure parkinsons while smoking ganga rolled in US flags, and then marry his boyfriend ha ha ha ha ha hee [...]
West coast falls off the whatsit map (for a day)…
Sorry, folks. Envious that we didn’t get Columbus day off like you Eastcoasters, we’ve been forced to play hooky… We’ll be back next week to resume the east-west rivalry. In the meantime, maybe some of you will get a chance to see BW’s favorite LA band (shameless promotion warning), Silversun Pickups, who are playing the [...]
Columbus Day
The original Department of Homeland Security mandates we suspend our publication for the day. TGW will resume tomorrow.
Substitute
Farrell’s away, and we evidently forgot to line up a substitute, which means it’s time for the kids to go wild, run up and down the TGW hallways, throw paper from your lockers all over the floor. Or we could use the comments section as an open thread for recommendations: books, movies, TV, music, art [...]
Hot or not: More very short reviews
We take a break from the bathroom blogging to bring you more 100-words-or-fewer reviews: It’s Never Been Like That, Phoenix (Astralwerks, 2006) “Long distance call” has a funky, playful sound that has forced me on several occasions to stop whatever it is I am doing in order to dance around. It’s one of those songs [...]
Keeping America strong: More very short reviews
Disappointed that flag burning is still protected by the Constitution? Can’t wait for the rest of the American Values Agenda to come up for votes? Seek solace in more 100-word-or-less reviews. Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005, directed by Sydney Pollack) Interesting movie about an interesting person. A little pretentious and self-serving, but he’s an architect, [...]
