Vintage posts from ValerieMacEwan.net

ramblings from an old blog, or as we call it — category 7.

Written on May 26, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

Jeremy Needle — Elizabeth Must Die

Elizabeth Must Die by Jeremy NeeDLE
Published by Six Gallery Press
January 2003, 146 pgs, $12 (US)
Solitary Madness, A Mind Revisted
“…the more I thought about computer hackers, the more obvious it became that what was even more interesting about them, in human terms, was the fact that these hackers represented a much larger spiritual challenge to our [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

Joe Finder and Paranoia

Joe Finder – Kicking Ass and Taking Names
“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.” — Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
How do you sell a suspense novel these days? Obviously you advertise, get the word out. Spend money to make money. Develop a cult following. [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

72dpi-Anime — Robert Klanten

I wrote this book review a couple years ago and found it on a back-up CD a while ago. Re-reading it made me go find the DVD and the book and check it out again. It is still magnficent. Most things that come from Die Gestalten Verlag are inspiring and mind boggling. Robert Klanten also [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

The Point

First off, they found remnants Saint-Exupery’s plane…
The Amelia Earhart of philosophy, St-Exupery’s likeness was on the 50-franc note. Yeah, you already know all that plane stuff but I didn’t find out until I read my 3 day old issue of the Christian Science Monitor. The newspaper is always a couple days late (duh, I live [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

Summer Reading List 2003

Mom, I’m Bored
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
— Francis Bacon, Essays
This is not a compendium of the latest beach books, nor is it a list of classics everyone needs to bone up on (you know, those books many of us substituted with Cliff’s [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

von Martin Eberle, Temporary Spaces

Temporary Spaces
Photography by von Martin Eberle, Quotes edited by Heinrich Dubel
Die Gestalten Verlag
April 2002, 144 pgs, $45 (US) strictly limited edition
forward ever backward never
“I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.”
–Horace, Ars Poetica
For ten years Martin Eberle filmed Berlin’s infamous club scene. These clubs, known as the “international benchmark for improvised coolness”, provide an [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

David Amsden — Important Things…

Important Things That Don’t Matter by David Amsden
William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins
April 2003, 272 pages, $24.95 (US)
“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
–Benjamin Disreali, Coningsby
This Book Does Matter
Reading the novel Important Things That Don’t Matter by David Amsden made me miss my brother John, who’s been dead since 1975. [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

Janis Owens

Janis Owens, was born in Marianna, Florida, just a few scant miles from the Alabama and Georgia state lines. Her father, both an insurance salesman for Independent Life Insurance Co. and an Assembly of God preacher, moved his family around Mississippi and Louisiana, returning to Florida when Janis was in high school. She went to [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

SuSE9, WPS, and more

When I used RedHat, I had some conversion problems with word processing which could have been StarOffice. I’m now using SuSe 9 (Professional) and Open Office and I haven’t had encountered too many quirks, but I also am not collaborating with anyone right now. I have saved OpenOffice word processor (text) files with embedded graphics [...]

Written on May 15, 2004 | Posted in Southern Life Words | Leave a comment

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