Baby, Take Off Your Beret
Posted on May 30, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Tonight will be my 3rd Hold Steady Show — this time at Slim’s (previous shows were at The Casbah in San Diego and The Great American Hall back here in SF). As a warm up, here’s some of my faves youtubes steel-o: Most People Are DJ’s – Brooklyn Show [link]: Cattle and The Creeping Things [...]
Read More..>>What’s in yer bathroom?
Posted on May 29, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Books | Leave a Comment
TEV asks Currently t chateau d’BMK: skyscraper (issue #22, in particular): an indie music magazine that has lots of content (as opposed to the glossy ad-age of filter, below the radar, et al.) one of the few mags I will buy Rajasthan(title unsure): a mid-1980′s travel guide with lots of photographs and historical notes for [...]
Read More..>>Bad “Lemon Juice”: essn(tm) sparkling meyer lemon juice
Posted on May 29, 2007 - Filed Under Drinking | Leave a Comment
I went to safeway in search of a sixer of purity.organic lemonade, but they did not stock it. In its stead, I bought a 250mL can of essn(TM) sparkling meyer lemon juice. After chilling it in an ice bath in my cubicle for about 15 minutes, I popped the top and began my disappointment. A [...]
Read More..>>Power Rankings: Lemonade
Posted on May 27, 2007 - Filed Under Drinking, Food, Power Rankings | 2 Comments
1. Burma Superstar – With ginger in their recipe, this lemonade is a must-get when eating lunch or dinner. 2. Brickhouse Cafe – Good fresh lemonade at one of my frequent lunch stops. Lots of ice with a good fresh lemon flavor. 3. Purity Organic – Good lemonade for on the go. According to their [...]
Read More..>>Saturday Song
Posted on May 26, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
A blast from the past… Foo Fighters – Fingernails [MP3]
Read More..>>Iconic?
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Money, Photographs, Sports, Statistics, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
Thus spake the Associate Press (at ESPN.com) [emphasis mine]. NEW YORK — The Upper Deck Co. has made a pitch to buy The Topps Co., a bid that would join two iconic baseball card makers that have sold sports memorabilia to generations of fans young and old. And if you trust wikipedia: Upper Deck Company, [...]
Read More..>>How it was for me
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under About Me, Music | 1 Comment
[Editor's Note: If I had more time, this would be shorter....and done. Instead of actually finishing it, I'll post this in its current incomplete slate. A la Microsoft: shipping is a feature. Further errors are unintentional, and left in place due to laziness. Enjoy.] At the Guardian, Craig Finn wrote an excellent account of what [...]
Read More..>>Friday Time Suck
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under Photographs | Leave a Comment
http://flickrvision.com/
Read More..>>I will DARE
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Language, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
44 Years in the making, the final volume of DARE (Dictionary of American Regional English) will soon* be upon us, Andy Erdman reports in the Wisconsin State Journal: For example, DARE explains that the children’s game most Wisconsinites call “duck, duck, goose” is called “duck, duck, gray duck” in Minnesota and “duck, duck, drake” in [...]
Read More..>>I heard they were naked when they got busted
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under Faith, Music, Philosophy, Robot Brains, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
Bob Holmes at New Scientist reports: Fruit flies have free will. Even when deprived of any sensory input to react to, the zigs and zags of their flight reveal an intrinsic, non-random – yet still unpredictable – decision-making capacity. If evolution has furnished humans with a similar capacity, this could help resolve one of the [...]
Read More..>>Progression
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Birth, Deformities, Photographs, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
Here is a large photo of some art.
Read More..>>Song of the Day
Posted on May 14, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Because I said so. The Mountain Goats – Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
Read More..>>Today was a good day.
Posted on May 12, 2007 - Filed Under Diversions, Drinking, Statistics | Leave a Comment
It started with a walk to Fairway, to pick up some organic bacon or whatever for Mother’s Day. A good view of the Statute of Liberty. Then we got some plants and tried to make our stoop a garden. I’m pulling for a cucumber, carribean pepper, basil mixture–hopefully in gin or some such. A tamale [...]
Read More..>>back in the saddle
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Food, Music, Now Reading, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Last weekend (the 5th of May for those scoring at home), I went to North Beach for the first time in a while. I guess I tend to steer clear because it can be a little crowded with enough tourists & striped shirts to dissuade me — my own feeble hangups, I know. Regardless, a [...]
Read More..>>confusing laws
Posted on May 9, 2007 - Filed Under Crime, Language | Leave a Comment
I’m no lawyer but…how can one simultaneously be guilty of “malice murder” and “involuntary manslaughter”. As in: “I didn’t mean to hurt them, but the murder was malicious” PS: what’s the deal with grape nuts?
Read More..>>who’s dumber now
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Got an amazing trivia question for you. Who do you think made more money last year, Tiger Woods or Carrot Top? And when they inevitably say “Carrot Top” I can say, “No, Tiger Woods … what are you, some kind of moron? It wasn’t even close. Tiger Woods made like 300 million dollars. Carrot Top [...]
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