Oct 31

Owl Pellets: Mitt, Monster Research, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol

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Today I’m heading into San Francisco with a few hundred thousand of my closest friends. A World Series victory parade on Halloween seems like a decent way to see the city for the first time.

I bet it looks like the back of someone’s sweaty head.

I just hope I get close enough to Buster Posey to smell him. He always looks so fresh and clean.

Anyway, your not so special Halloween owl pellets:

Red Cross had to divert staff to deal with Romney’s phony “relief effort”: Nice job, Mitt.

12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research: Reminds me of the time I used Clamato, Tabasco Worcestershire sauce and ample amounts of vodka to help father with his research.

Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960): While it’s Halloween here’s some more Orson Welles.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: PETER SCHJELDAHL ON “REGARDING WARHOL”: And some Andy Warhol. Not sure what holiday he gets.

On the Headphones:

PURCHASE

"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."

The Sunburst Award Jury