http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ This is me... I think it's apparent that I need to rethink my life a little bit (Ratatouille) en Vox Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:41:02 -0700 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/baxters-back.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/baxters-back.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/baxters-back.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:41:02 -0700 Hi there. I'm back, after not posting since April. My life has been complicated for the last few months, both personally and professionally. But it's not something I ever wanted to write about; this was never an autobiographical, let-it-all-ha... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/baxters-back.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00e3989e79480004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music random ten http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/thank-you-bob.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/thank-you-bob.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/thank-you-bob.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:56:03 -0700 Bob Worral was a hell of a guy. He could make you feel like a lifelong friend after one conversation. Because he was intensely interested in other people, he could quickly find out which of his many interests overlapped yours, and soon you'd be ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/thank-you-bob.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d09e661bd4be2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> family bob http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/random-ten-4.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/random-ten-4.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/random-ten-4.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:29:19 -0700 1, Colorado - Stephen Stills 2. Believe In You - Amy Rigby 3. Broken Arm - Winterpills (available as a free download at the SXSW website - highly recommended) 4. Second Brain - Kaki King (different track available at SXSW - wonderful guitaris... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/random-ten-4.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41429c0b36a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music random ten http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/movie-notes.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/movie-notes.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/movie-notes.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:26:56 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/video/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd971d5fc74cd5.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd971d5fc74cd5-50si" alt="Black20 Trailer Park: 300 - PG Version" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The movie 300 is reprehensible, knuckle-headed, ridiculous, completely wrong, and totally awesome. It's a movie you either go with completely and have a great time, or don't and find yourself continually amazed at how terrible it is. The second ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/movie-notes.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41424ead2685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> movies 300 breach tmnt http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/the-apples-in-stereo.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/the-apples-in-stereo.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/the-apples-in-stereo.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:31:31 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d09e5ec995be2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d09e5ec995be2b-50si" alt="New Magnetic Wonder" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> There's a fine power pop album in here, but you have to dig through some layers of whimsy to get to it. The Apples have some catchy songs and put them across boldly,but they indulge themselves too much, mostly in between-track nonsense - instru... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/the-apples-in-stereo.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd971ce8ed4cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music apples in stereo http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/connelly.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/connelly.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/connelly.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:19:58 -0700 Since I'm on a mystery kick, I thought it was time to give Michael Connelly another try. His work is bestselling and critically acclaimed, he's the leading light in the genre of Modern American Noir, but he hasn't moved me. I'd tried him twice ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/connelly.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd971bc82d4cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mystery michael connelly angels flight http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/premonition---ive-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/premonition---ive-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/premonition---ive-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:57:56 -0700 Yesterday, I heard a radio commercial for the new movie Premonition. It contained this phrase: "Critics say, Premonition is a sensational supernatural thriller. Four stars." It didn't name the critics who said these things, I couldn't find the... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/premonition---ive-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d4142237b6685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> movies premonition http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/end-in-tears-by-ruth-rendell.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/end-in-tears-by-ruth-rendell.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/end-in-tears-by-ruth-rendell.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:54:25 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/book/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41422250d685e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41422250d685e-50si" alt="End in Tears: A Wexford Novel (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Hardcover))" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Mystery writer Ruth Rendell is one of the best at what I think of as the Modern British Style, which combines elements of the police procedural and the deductive whodunit. End In Tears is the latest book in her Inspector Wexford series, which... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/end-in-tears-by-ruth-rendell.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d4142642ed6a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mystery books ruth rendell http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/music-notes-with-the-random-ten.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/music-notes-with-the-random-ten.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/music-notes-with-the-random-ten.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:43:08 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d4141d2f9c685e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d4141d2f9c685e-50si" alt="West" /></a> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd9715a0e44cd5.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd9715a0e44cd5-50si" alt="The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. [Fold-out Digipak with 14 page booklet]" /></a> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d09e5780a5be2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d09e5780a5be2b-50si" alt="All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Hi, I'm back. Trying to get back into the habit of blogging, with some record reviews and a random ten. This is the record I've been hoping Lucinda would put out for some time - melancholy without drowning in self-pity, meticulously crafted... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/music-notes-with-the-random-ten.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00cd9715a1264cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music explosions in the sky lucinda williams rickie lee jones random ten http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/book-of-the-week-the-italian-secretary.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Baxter) http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/book-of-the-week-the-italian-secretary.html?_c=feed-rss http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/book-of-the-week-the-italian-secretary.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:23:28 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/book/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41423a2c33c7f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d41423a2c33c7f-50si" alt="The Italian Secretary" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> When I was about 12, I read a book that really changed everything for me, affected my relationship with literature, set me on a path that I still travel to this day. I wish I could say that the book was something cool like On the Road or The Bro... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://baxterblog.vox.com/library/post/book-of-the-week-the-italian-secretary.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e235b4094f00d4141d29da685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mystery books sherlock holmes caleb carr book of the week