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Personal Finance > Spending & Saving (Other) Book reviews: Mad Money, Watch TV, Get Rich by Jim Cramer: 1 of 1

The Bottom Line: read it now or forget about it. This book is very dated and much of it may be obsolete by 2008. The lack of depth gives a feeling that Cramer is luring his viewers into buying a $25 book or else you'll feel left locked outside the gates of Cramerica. This book is not as enlightening as the average Cramer fan...
Entertainment > Concert Reviews Concert reviews: The Raconteurs, at the Hard Rock Hotel, Vegas: 1 of 1

This 2008 show was more structured than their first tour, mainly because they only had ten songs the first time around. On the first tour in 2006, they filled out the show with several covers, sampling the likes of David Bowie and Nancy Sinatra. With the 2008 tour, they stuck to their own material playing every track from th...
Local Guides > Seattle Seattle: Capital of rock music: 1 of 1

Art, with emphasis on music, is a chakra of Seattle culture. Seattle is a melodic black hole that seduces and tractor beams every rock band in the United States. It's the only American town where a motley group of fifteen-year-olds who barely know how to strum a power chord can score a gig on the same stage where Modest Mous...
Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Religion: 32 of 50

Jesus wearily opened the chrome-laden door of the road-side diner. His boots smeared mud across the linoleum floor as he trudged to the nearest stool at the bar. He slung off his dusty cloak, draping it over the stool before taking his seat. Fluorescent lighting flickered above him. He ordered a twenty-ounce stout and a baco...
Relationships & Family > Marriage Psychology Can marriages between introverts and extroverts work?: 4 of 6

A true loner and a social butterfly cannot coexist in a fulfilling relationship, for this gives us the following expository scenario: Let's say for some dubious reason an introverted loner and extroverted socialite find themselves attempting to exist as a serious couple. The loner is content with a monogamous vicissitude, an...
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Not Too Late, by Norah Jones: 4 of 5

Miss Jones is making a not-so-subtle shift away from jazz pop into darker territory. This album is divided into two halves. One half is the radio-friendly contemporary material we all expect from the top-selling female musician of the Twenty-First Century. These predictable tracks are "The Sun Doesn't Like You", "Thinking Ab...
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Comparing Facebook and Myspace: 13 of 13

Facebook focuses on your network; Myspace focuses on the individual. Their respective domain names accurately reflect their underlying themes: Facebook is indeed nothing but a book of faces. You don't bother to read your new friend's profile. Your eyes are immediately drawn to Who They Know, the network. This is my deck of c...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings: 2 of 2

The media lusts for violence. They're bloated leaches sucking the blood off the campus sidewalks. Carnage is the reporting business' forte. Did you see the fire in Geraldo's eyes? Nancy Grace wakes at dawn singing, "It's a beautiful day to be alive, because people have died." They disrupt us by flashing images of the drillfi...
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Broken Boy Soldiers, by The Raconteurs: 2 of 2

The Raconteurs' debut album is not as poppy as allmusic.com makes it sound. Similar to the White Stripes, they display a variety of musical styles that makes a straight listening session pleasurable. Indeed, it's poppy in an old-fashioned Beatles way, which means it isn't tacky pop. In fact, much of the album is very Beatles...