Monthly Archives: October 2003

Ecuador, the Dowbrigade’s favorite country in South America, a land of unparalleded natural beauty and beautiful women (including Mrs. Dowbrigade), is also a founding member of OPEC. For years, most of their oil was sucked up by Texaco (now ChevronTexaco), … Continue reading →

Dowbrigade has been digesting the discussions from last nights Thursday Night’s Blogger Group, which is groping to find a future apart from its role as backup singers to the inestimable Dave Winer’s Traveling Circus and Roiling Rock Extravaganza. It’s a … Continue reading →

For the Halloween aficianados, here is a delightful little diversion/perversion. Some of the items on this "Halloween Countdown" score a 6 or 7 on the Dowbrigade’s Personal Grossout Scale, which means that while not suitable for small children or users … Continue reading →

Attendants at the Tate Modern museum in London say the Weather Project installation is making them feel like they are on drugs. The chemical haze created for Olafur Eliasson’s display in the museum’s Turbine Hall has been slowly creeping into … Continue reading →

A very bizarre and eerily erotic set of photos from the kind of carnival strip shows which traveled around to smaller towns and county fairs in the 50s and 60s, offering many men in those sedate and innocent times the … Continue reading →

The makers of Monopoly are suing the man behind a satirical version called Ghettopoly in which ‘playas’ compete to build crack houses. "The Ghettopoly knockoff has generated a firestorm of controversy for its highly offensive, racist content," said the lawsuit. … Continue reading →

This is a big week for Apple . Last week the company unveiled the Windows version of its popular, free iTunes music-downloading software – and tomorrow, it will release Mac OS X version 10.3 ( or Panther), the next edition … Continue reading →

And they mean the natural snakes and lizards, not the human political kind…. Why did the snake cross the road? On one U.S. Forest Service Lane, it had the whole thing to itself.Federal officials say Road No. 345 is the … Continue reading →

Next Thursday, Oct. 30th, my BU Business class will visit Salem, MA, for a full day of museums and one of the more bizarre exhibitions of American culture. Besides being a historic New England fishing village, colonial shipbuilding and whaling … Continue reading →

As the ratings have rolled in for the first three weeks of the new television season, one question has dominated the conversations inside the industry’s executive suites: what the heck is going on? Network executives are baffled by a season … Continue reading →

The 108 bus – Malden Station, Lebanon St. – was a cacophony of idioms this afternoon, carrying the Dowbrigade and a cohort of working-class heroes home from the labor wars.  I boarded the bus at the Malden Center stop – … Continue reading →

Champaign, Ill. — Your eyes play tricks. And your brain makes it worse. Both teenagers and adults misjudge how much they pour into glasses. They will pour more into short wide glasses than into tall slender glasses, but perceive the … Continue reading →