Want to reach an understanding of our reliance on electronics? Try wandering through a dark house at 4 a.m. And why is Uncle Crappy wandering through his parents’ house at 4 a.m. on the Fourth of July? Hm. That’s an excellent question…

OK, boys and girls, we’re ready to roll. See y’all in Columbus tomorrow afternoon. And fuck those people if they can’t take a joke.

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.

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.