Q: “In your view, does the entertainment industry need to make a serious effort to significantly reduce the amount of sex and violence in its movies, television shows and music, or don’t you think they need to do this?” Gallup Poll. Feb. 6-8, 2004. N=1,008 adults nationwide. MoE ? 3. Need To Don’t Need To […]
Fun with Polls: Sex, the Media, and You!
Posted by Ben on February 21, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/fun-with-polls-sex-the-media-and-you/
This list will probably make no sense, and that is how it should be
Ingredients: Bates College, for, well, whatever; Rumor Vroom, for being so damn thoughtful; Running Dog (Don Delillo) and Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robbins), for disproving that you can’t judge a book by its cover (caution: links do not lead to said covers, but to other covers for th’ same books); Various movies, for instance: Starship […]
Posted by Ben on January 6, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/this-list-will-probably-make-no-sense-and-that-is-how-it-should-be/
Just try and shake yer stick
More top 10/best-of/favorites of 2003 lists than you can shake a stick at, courtesy of those fun DJ-type people at WFMU. Best experiences. Favorite music. Everything. Most-liked numbers. I can only dream of living in Jersey City. (And, as much as I dig WFMU, I’d basically like to keep it that way.)
Posted by Ben on December 23, 2003
https://www.swordbilled.com/just-try-and-shake-yer-stick/
An interesting spread (no, not that kind)
From an article about Wes Clark in the Washington Post, we learn the assets of certain other Democratic candidates: Wesley Clark: $3 to $3.5 million Sen. John F. Kerry: $500 million Sen. John Edwards: $13 to $16 million Howard Dean: $2.2 to $5 million Rep. Dennis Kucinich: $2,000 to $32,000 (article via RandomWalks)
Posted by Ben on December 16, 2003
https://www.swordbilled.com/an-interesting-spread-no-not-that-kind/
Favorite Delillo Books
Okay, I confess: this list is intended to replace actual thought. It’s a substitute for a well-constructed argument, it’s a distraction to divert attention away from the lack of substantive ideas. But here it is: my Favorite DeLillo Books
Posted by Ben on October 28, 2003
https://www.swordbilled.com/favorite-delillo-books/
places
44n06, 70w13 40n11, 76w11 40n34, 78w03 40n48, 77w52 40n11, 76w11 44n03, 71w03 44n06, 70w13
Posted by Ben on October 3, 2003
https://www.swordbilled.com/places/