Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Monday, 16 June 2003

# 8:50 PM

Leonard proposes TV shows destined to be cult classics. My own humble contribution is called No User Serviceable Parts, and features ordinary folks taking apart things which they really shouldn't have. This is not entirely unlike Leonard's own show, but I wouldn't be cruel; it would be more of a thriller. Like this:

MARVEL as our guest dismantles a DLT cartridge to find out why it is making a hideous rattling sound when used!
SHUDDER as he discovers just how many springs are inside!
WILL he be able to put it back together again?
WILL it work afterward?
WILL the rattling noise go away?
FIND OUT on the next exciting episode of "No User Serviceable Parts"!

# 12:30 PM

cracks in the wall

Very interesting Washington Post profile today of a gentleman named Rand Beers who resigned from the National Security Council's counterterrorism division two months ago ... and is now working as national security adviser for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

(From Talking Points Memo.)