Monthly Archives: July 2008

@bpp

Today was the last show of the Bryant Park Project on NPR. The heavy use of the shows blog and twitter made it feel less like a radio show, and more like a conversation with friends. It was canceled earlier … Continue reading

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

I hope everyone has seen this. It’s a project by Joss Whedon and his brothers, staring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day. Act I and Act II are up. Act II goes up on July 19th. All three … Continue reading

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I couldn’t help but fall in love again

Typically when a well-known actor releases an album, it’s some bland teenage pop vanity piece (Lindsay Lohan), or something Shatneresque. Occasionally you get something different, like Scarlett Johannson’s album of Tom Waits covers, which isn’t bad, but is relatively inaccessible. … Continue reading

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Mauna Loa Summer

My friend Jess is spending the summer working at the Hawai’i Volcano Observatory helping with a geological survey of Mauna Loa. She is an entertaining writer and an excellent photographer and fortunately for those of us who are not able … Continue reading

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