Fans of Mazola Pony, Marigold, and Plasticine take note. I have just ordered Rob Szabo‘s new double EP “Late Bloomer”/”Sore Loser”. (There are downloadable MP3s of two tracks at Rob’s homepage). I have previously ordered Steve Strongman‘s latest CD from the same site, and had great service. I’ll let you know about Rob’s disc when it gets here. Read more →
Day: November 16, 2004
Growlin’ wolf
You know, I’m a reader. A very serious reader. Like a “more on books than mortgage” kind of reader. But my list of Living People I Really Want To Hang Out With For A Weekend doesn’t have an author at the top of it. The top of that list is something entirely different. Read more →
Bible stickers
Following up our earlier post on the evolution textbook sticker battle. I read with much amusement this post on BoingBoing about the controversy. And since it amused me so, I made up a Word document containing labels with Gary’s text, preformatted for Avery 8161 labels. For those of you without Word, I used the FastPDF service to convert the Word… Read more →
Iraq
I shouldn’t need to comment on Fallujah in general, the prisoner shootings in particular, or the unlikeliness that capturing the city really accomplished anything. The pointlessness is self-evident in the one case, and the other is the obvious result of giving guns to young men, scaring the piss out of them, and demonizing an entire culture. The bigger picture, on… Read more →
AG Catch-up Post
Well, I’m still trapped in a hotel, with no sign of power to return at home any time soon, so I might as well catch up on the news I’ve missed over the last couple of days. Let’s start with the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to the post of Attorney General. My initial reaction is still “Even Torture-is-OK Guy is… Read more →
