June, 26, 2004 archives

attending home entertainment 2004 (the video industry trade show) would cost about $1000. ($500 for the show, $300 for the air and hotel, and $200 for incidentals, more or less.)

i’ve certainly spent similar amounts of money on more frivolous things but i’d still give the likelihood of me ever going through with this video store idea pretty long odds.

jeremy pointed out the spurt in investments of RSS-related companies lately (although i think blogging-related would be a better data set). if i can just convince some venture capital that opening a video store is part of the overall strategy for blo.gs, maybe i’ve solved the start-up capital problem.

age of miracles by john brunner is probably the weakest of his books i’ve read so far, which still puts in the category of pretty good. it starts slowly, but the idea of an indifferent alien presence appearing on earth and causing chaos is strong enough for a good story to gel.

lamb: the gospel according to biff, christ’s childhood pal by christopher moore is a modern-day apocrypha: a (very) humorous story about the life of christ from the point-of-view of biff, his best friend. it’s a new gospel, through the lens of a coming-of-age road-trip buddy story. (and with a hearty disclaimer that it’s just a story. make of it what you will.)