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Alice told me she was composing a literary bat-list (similar to reguluar bat-list, w/ more literature), and, sure enough, she did . Amazon's So You'd Like to... features are kind of like blogs, and linking to one is kind of like blogging on my part, so I'm done for the day!

Recent DVD purchases include my favourite two movies of last year: I (Heart) Huckabees and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . If I somehow didn't manage to drag you along to Huckabees during one of my many viewings in the theatres, be very suspicious if you get invited over for a movie night. Oh, and I have Google adverts now. I like Google when they're giving me money.

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Regardless of what I accomplish in my lifetime, it hurts to know that the Times will never run a story about me whose lede graf begins "Jeffrey Posnick, Coney Island Math Team prodigy..." Maybe I could get FFH or Rich to profile me. That would be cute. I was at least as dominant as Marbury was, brining Lincoln top math nerd honors in the city one year, and getting top individual scorer awards mutliple times as well. We beat Stuyvesant, for goodness sakes. And since everyone copied off me, I clearly had more to do with us winning than Marbury had in basketball, who ostensibly played with four other guys contributing on the court at any given time.

I was talking with Banana about blogging (well, she was talking with me about English major windbags, but all conversations with Banana wind back to blogging), and we decided that Very Hipster Windbag would be a great name for a blog. As we both have blogs already, we're throwing it out there to the general population (read: spambots) who've been dying to blog but couldn't, for lack of a catchy name.

Since the mainstream media doesn't do any reporting anymore (unless it's to detail the influence of blogs ), 34 picks up the slack: Bill Keller, the Executive Editor of the Times , spoke at last night's Blue Pencil Dinner (& Lecture!). I tend to, ummm, drink a bit during these sorts of events and don't always focus on exactly what the speaker is saying, but when he started talking about blogs I perked up. The Times news section, I take it, isn't too crazy about the blog phenomenon, and Keller believe that they're a fad that will die out sooner rather than later (because who really expects the Internet to be around in three years?). Exhibiting the type of tact that you'd expect from the most powerful editor at the most powerful media entity, Keller dismissed small-operation blogging enterprises with questionable or nonexistent journalistic standards as "one man circle-jerks." Attempting to display the tiniest shred of journalistic integrity, ...

I'm honoured to be the first to blog congratulations to Sarahs on her acceptance to Yale 's English Ph.D. programme. I'm sure she'll get into the other places as well, so start your East Coast lobbying early.