Uneasy Rhetoric

An interesting column by Lisa Annelouise Rentz, from AlterNet.
Rentz describes how the “soft” economy has made her sell her stuff, the detrius of a life of accumulation (and some stuff she didn’t really want to sell). She ends by saying “I refuse to miss things.” That is a good attitude to have; if only more [...]

It seems like tennis players of my generation are dropping out of the rat race. Both Pete Sampras and Michael Chang have retired. It’s a little sad. Agassi, who keeps on going (hoorah) summed it up pretty well: “It’s a weird feeling,” Agassi said of seeing Sampras and Chang retire. “You expect to leave the [...]

I just found out that Bob Walkenhorst, formerly of the (now defunct) Rainmakers, has released a solo album. His site has a downloadable MP3 of a song called “Life Can Turn” that is, I think, quite good.

This post from Boing Boing reveals a startling truth: hordes of teenagers with cell phones are not necessarily a bad thing.
Thanks to pocket-sized instant messaging, thousands of people are turned away from the theaters before they waste hard-earned dollars (the price of a movie is more than many people make per hour) and precious time [...]

One of my blogroll entries is for Morfablog, a blog done almost entirely in Welsh. I admit that I can read almost none of it anymore, except with great difficulty, but having it on the list inspires me to think about Welsh.
Here the author explains why he blogs in Welsh.