http://blog.paulbarrett.net These days, seems like everyone has a blog. Well, this one's mine. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:35:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-07/rafting-down-the-san-lorenzo/ Xxxx \ ʒʒʒʒ \ n: any word that rhymes with the word in question For example, a xish means or refers to any word that rhymes with fish. Dish is a xish, for example, as are swish and Gish. Telephone is a xelephone. Shoe is a xhoe where through is a ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-06/great-idea-005-2/ California Northern Magazine is a biannual publication exploring the region's cultures, environments, histories, and identities. It provides a rare California-based forum for exceptional essays, long-form journalism, literature, and photography, and distinguishes itself from traditional regional media by balancing its local emphasis with a level of sophistication and depth typically found ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-06/california-northern-magazine-a-new-regionalism/ We have a stand-up comic saying something like, "No, I love women. I do." Typical stand-up rhetoric. With the pauses and the wry demeanor. "But man," he says. "What's with all the shoes? Am I right, guys?" A man in the audience leans over and whispers to his friend, also ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-05/described-comic-003/ http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-04/state-license-plates-spotted-while-honeymooning-august-2010/ Can you shake a beer can or a coke can or any soda or carbonated beverage in an aluminum can hard enough so that the pressure just builds and builds and eventually just pops? Just bursts the hell open? I'd like to build a machine that aims to find this ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-03/great-idea-005/ - 1 -Once upon a time, in the woods deep under all the brambles their was a castle that belonged to an ogre. Everyone would tell storys like: All of the kings knights and the Emperor's best warriors tried to kill the ogre but every time someone went to the ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-02/three-fairy-tales-i-wrote-when-i-was-a-kid/ Two men at a bar. The man on the left is overweight and has an open pack of cigarettes behind him; also a rocks glass with liquid. He stands with his back to the bar, leaning, legs crossed at the ankle, a cigarette balanced insouciantly between two fingers as smoke ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-01/described-comic-002/ 1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica  (2000) 2. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People  (2002) 3. Radiohead - In Rainbows  (2008) 4. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward  (2001) 5. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP  (2000) 6. Panda Bear - Person Pitch  (2007) 7. Liars - Drum's Not Dead  (2006) 8. ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-12/albums-of-the-decade/ 1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 3. Atlas Sound - Logos 4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - - - St. Vincent - Actor Song: Animal Collective - My Girls Best of 2009 Mix Previous years' lists http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-12/best-of-2009/