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Flying Through Hyperspace In A Computer Interface

July 1, 2010

Happy Canada Day! Almost typed Canada Dry, whom we all know makes the best ginger ale. Here’s Living On Video from one of my favorite 80s bands, the Québécois Trans X. Lyrics suggest they invented the internet, too. Tweet

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No Wedding Cake

June 25, 2010

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Panorama Brass Band

June 14, 2010

I love that they feature prominently in Treme. Tweet

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The Bob Edwards Show In New Orleans

June 9, 2010

Guess what I’m listening to: Bob Edwards in New Orleans showcasing New Orleans music! It’s as epic as the Bill Moyers – David Simon interview. From BobEdwards.info: Bob went to New Orleans for the first weekend of the city’s annual Jazz & Heritage Festival. Today, we offer a sampling of the 12 interviews which range [...]

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Don’t Knock The Rock

June 2, 2010

Now that Tipper Gore is in the news because of her divorce from the man who invented ”took the initiative in creating“ the interwebs, all I can think of are: – this video of Jello Biafra pwning Tipper and her PMRC Crusade on The Oprah Winfrey show (turn up the volume; Harpo doesn’t want you to hear [...]

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No, Not With The Google Maps!

May 28, 2010

Slashdot | High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana Burglars and terrorists should be careful not to use Google Maps if they plan on committing crimes in the state of Louisiana … a bill approved 89-0 by the Louisiana House will require that judges impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years on [...]

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Volcanic Behavior

April 20, 2010

@vicchi says AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl. I say AY-yuh-fyalla-YO-kel. Let’s call the whole thing off. Then again, I call this a row-ter, while he refers to it as a roo-ter. Hmph. The media and public are all OMG ICELAND VOLCANO ASH CLOUD MEESA SAY PEOPLE GONNA DIE, like it’s never happened before. We geologists were introduced to the [...]

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Four Dead In Ohio

April 16, 2010

Flipped through radio stations yesterday and stopped at a DJ announcing the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Kent State University shootings. “Kent State University will be holding a multi-day event to mark the happenings of May 4th, 1970,” she said. “A celebration of what happened on that campus.” Celebration? “I guess the word isn’t celebration, [...]

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Morgens um Fünf

March 23, 2010

The Swinging Tuxedos, with Petra Bassus on vocals and my friend Thomas Hoffmann at the drums, perform a tribute to fabled German singer and actress, Mary Roos. Tweet

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Warren (Zevon) Go Bragh

March 17, 2010

An unwritten law of physics: Every town on this planet worth its salt has an Irish pub. A fellow literate reprobate, Killer (no, really), is in the throes of Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life & Times Of Warren Zevon.  He reports back with the following anecdotes about where a couple [...]

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