Archives for June 2000

Props to Jenn:

June 8, 2000 by Michael Boyle

One might call the redesign an example of web-age chinoiserie. Or not.

now. My Webloggers ring neighbour to the right is none other than Mr. Joe Utsler, aka Crazy Uncle Joe and the venerable host of Metacubed, the meta weblog for meta webloggers. To the right is a very green Prattle, from Toronto as near as I can tell.

It’s going to change

June 7, 2000 by Michael Boyle

the WORLD, man! Like, nothing’s gonna be the same, dude! Really! Heads and tails, for sure! The stock market’s going to melt down! The economy’s gonna be in a shambles. Dogs and cats – living together. Picture every molecule in your body being simultaneously vapourized and then re-constituted in a millionth of a second!
Yes, the Microsoft Decision is expected today.

How’s this for diversification?

June 7, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Roots Clothing is going to be the name partner in a new airline venture. RootsAir – you can see it in the original business plan too… “Yup, here’s what we’re going to do: 1980 – shoes; 1985 – shoe stores; 1990 – clothing boutiques; 1998 – those wicked Olympic hats; 2001 – airline.” All according to plan.

Ok so I’m just

June 6, 2000 by Michael Boyle

sitting here minding my own business and I read Saturn’s bookmarks which leads me to some site with the improbable name “westernhomes” who I notice does a lot of record reviews. And so I’m wondering what a kid who’s probably 10 years younger than I am could possibly understand about the magic that the ‘Mats represented to someone living in the midst of hair-band early 80s hell. Well, it turns out quite a lot. A whole lot, in fact. And he has a damn good turn of a phrase as well, as this quote from a review of a shitty Cracker CD (Garage D’Or) demonstrates: “Eurotrash Girl,” with its thieved Van Morrison bassline and weird nightmare travelogue narrative, became the biggest eight-minute radio single since, like, “Stairway.”