Baby, Take Off Your Beret
Posted on May 30, 2007 - Filed Under
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WikipediaTonight 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 - Chapel Hill [...]
Read More..>>What’s in yer bathroom?
Posted on May 29, 2007 - Filed Under
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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 Rajasthan. I found [...]
Bad “Lemon Juice”: essn(tm) sparkling meyer lemon juice
Posted on May 29, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI 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
| 2 Comments1. 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 web site, [...]
Saturday Song
Posted on May 26, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA blast from the past… Foo Fighters - Fingernails [MP3]
Read More..>>Iconic?
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThus 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, LLC (colloquially as [...]
How it was for me
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under
| 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 it [...]
Friday Time Suck
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under
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Read More..>>I will DARE
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment44 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 Pennsylvania. [...]
I heard they were naked when they got busted
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBob 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 long-standing puzzles [...]
Progression
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHere is a large photo of some art.
Read More..>>Song of the Day
Posted on May 14, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBecause I said so.
The Mountain Goats - Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
Today was a good day.
Posted on May 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt 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 [...]
back in the saddle
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentLast 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
| Leave a CommentI’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?
who’s dumber now
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGot 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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