The book debut from the Get a Life and Cabin Boy star is billed as a parody, but this murder mystery wrapped in laughter is simply straight-up enjoyable. Jack the Jolly Thwacker is leaving dead bodies all over 1882 New York City. Chris Elliott, a modern-day researcher, is tracking the serial killer through time. Elliott's wry humor fastens on the burgeoning, Boss Tweedified city, giving it a hilarious and vividly imagined set of anachronistic technologies and accoutrements (New York's Mayor Teddy Roosevelt, who has mysteriously disappeared, has a navel piercing). The narrative leaps back and forth in time, as 1882 police chief Caleb Spencer chases the Thwacker through the streets, and Elliott, convinced the killer is from the 21st century, chases him through time. Elliott's ability to time travel is facilitated by Yoko Ono (don't ask) and a willing suspension of disbelief, but the results are very amusing (if often infantile in the style of There's Something About Mary), with asides on every page that bring in everyone and everything from Typhoid Mary to Skyy Vodka. If Shroud feels like an extended, Americanized Monty Python skit, it's also a rousing good yarn.
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256788.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)
It is entertaining enough, especially if you have read the whole Holy Blood, Holy Grail business
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
― amon (eman), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)
DNAInfo and the entire Gothamist set of sites appears to have been immediately iced, all links lead to this from Ricketts
https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html
Per this tweet:
Breaking: @DNAinfoNY and @Gothamist were just shut down, a week after newsrooms voted to unionize. Story coming shortly.— Andy Newman (@andylocal) November 2, 2017
Full story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/nyregion/dnainfo-gothamist-shutting-down.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:14 (eight years ago)
fuck the cubs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:18 (eight years ago)
Aww man, I liked dcist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:23 (eight years ago)
r.i.p. my old sfist posts
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:24 (eight years ago)
i still have my jpgs though
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:25 (eight years ago)
deleting the archives with no warning is breathtaking assholery
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:25 (eight years ago)
granted they redesigned the sites a bunch of times, and the archives weren't that thorough as of late. (at least iirc)
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:28 (eight years ago)
Billionaire Ricketts will be getting a nice tax cut that I'm sure he will use to bring them back (not).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:29 (eight years ago)
When I sat in on Chicago bail hearings, the only one in the gallery who wasn't family was a local DNAinfo reporter. https://t.co/nd0Bx5w1Cq— Matt Ford (@fordm) November 2, 2017
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:07 (eight years ago)
deleting the archives is class war (not kidding)
― it me, Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:57 (eight years ago)
seems that it is viewable again
― chinavision!, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:06 (eight years ago)
my habitual bored-at-work "G-O-T-return" keystrokes continue unabated
― chinavision!, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:07 (eight years ago)
Walmarts done this for decades, Sam Walton explained in his 1992 book why ideological opposition to unions was profitable in the long run. https://t.co/KqsVofnT7F— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 4, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 November 2017 09:34 (eight years ago)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2017/11/09/a-d-c-jazz-singer-started-a-blog-to-replace-dcist-the-sites-billionaire-owner-is-threatening-to-sue-him-for-100000/?utm_term=.3a543fe19a71
Aaron Myers was furious when he heard that Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of the D.C. local news blog DCist, had abruptly shuttered the site after employees voted to unionize. Myers, a 34-year-old Dallas native who has been active in D.C.’s jazz community since he moved here in 2008, says he saw the move as an affront to the community.
So he bought the DCistNow.com domain name and on Monday launched a local news blog of his own.
...Ricketts does not appear to have the same enthusiasm for Myers’s idea. On Wednesday Partridge Partners, an intellectual property law firm that said it represented DCist’s parent firm DNAinfo, contacted Myers requesting that he cease and desist....The letter said Myers’s blog may also violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, a 1999 law that concerns deceptive domain names. The firm said Myers may be liable for $100,000 in damages not including attorneys’ fees.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2017 19:42 (eight years ago)