I wanted to post a reaction to W’s speech last night, something along the lines of, say, WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. I wanted to write something about the Federal Election Commission holding hearings to consider whether to extend campaign finance rules to blogs, especially those that espouse a particularly political point of view. Like… Read More solid.
It’s not quite as hot in our apartment as it has been, but it’s still warm enough that all I really want to do is have a couple more bottles of beer on the porch and then go to bed. But there’s so much work to be done: Burning (at least as many copies as… Read More hard labor.
I found out about this survey from the Knowledge Problem, a blog founded by Dr. Lynne Kiesling, who is a just couple weeks away from getting a perhaps-jarring reminder of her past at Upper Arlington High School. Lynne is an economist who works at Northwestern University and, apparently, for dozens of associations, think tanks etc.,… Read More m.i.t. wants me.
Chet Helms died late yesterday, a couple days after he had a stroke. Helms, who was 62, had a hand in shaping the San Francisco music of the 1960s that still informs much of what I am, musically and otherwise. Helms was the “leader,” if there really was one, of the Family Dog, a group… Read More a swell dance concert.
The new Turbo Pinto is shaping up very nicely. A few hints: Dead/Stones get more of the attention they both deserve. The requests helped. A bunch. It fucking kills me that Peter Gabriel’s So wasn’t recorded until 1986. How’s this for a sequence: Pretenders, Cheap Trick and the B-52s? The Velvet Underground saved my ass… Read More tease.
I just heard a bit of a news conference by John Rigas, the owner of Adelphia Communications who was convicted of stealing $100 million from his company, basically just for fun money. I’m not clear on whether the news conference was from today, when the 80-year-old Rigas was sentenced to spend 20 years in jail,… Read More oops.
