Songs I listened to in the car today: “The Sorcerer” – Miles Davis “Point Me at the Sky” – Pink Floyd “Coalminers” – Uncle Tupelo “No Matter Where You Go, There You Are” – Luka Bloom “Man on the Moon” – R.E.M. “Seance on a Wet Afternoon” – John Barry “Scratched by the Briar” – …
Warning: spoilers and extremely critical thoughts ahead. Do you remember the feeling you got in the pit of your stomach when you saw your best friend kissing the girl you’d never gotten the nerve to ask out but pined for night after night and who you just knew would fall in love with you if …
From Devilstower’s post on Daily Kos: If Republicans were appearing on your news broadcasts and insisting that Barry Goldwater was the 38th president of the United States, or that the Chinese bombed Pearl Harbor, surely you would take a moment to halt the conversation and correct them. At least, I’d like to think so. So …
Auguste points out why those of the reactionary, conservative, and wingnut variety are so terrified of offering a fair and even playing field to the American people.If you could play Scrabble on your iPhone with friends using Facebook, would you? Or are we reaching a point of digital saturation in our lives?Way to go Vermont. …
Music I listened to on the way to work and back: “A Sorta Fairytale” – Tori Amos “World Without End” – Laurie Anderson “Sultan, So Mighty” – Vic Chesnutt “Big Ugly Wheels” – The Beat Farmers “Tell Me about the Forest” – Dead Can Dance “Not Now John” – Pink Floyd “I’m Sorry” – Hothouse …
There are TONS of music releases either recently released or soon to be released that that I’m excited and sad about. Excited for the new music, sad that I can’t afford to just go out and by all of them the day they hit stores. You can help by using these links if you plan …
4 1/2 years ago, I lived in a small studio apartment in Richmond, Virginia where I was attending Virginia Commonwealth University and quickly coming to the realization that it was the wrong school and program for me (not quickly enough, however, to avoid nearly doubling my student loan debt in that one year). Joya was …
(For those of you just joining our show, this story is part of an ongoing series of stories based on titles given to me by people either here on the blog or on my Facebook page. For more info, see this post.) dedicated to Kris, the namer of this tale His name is Matthew and …
My reaction to the use of the term “octomom.”
With support for page creation and editing, comment moderation, and, most useful in my opinion, landscape typing, this version is a whole lot more powerful and usable for blogging while on the road (or when you are in bed already and don’t want to get up to post an entry). While certainly not the fastest …