Blah, blah-blah, blah-blah, blah-BLAH. The excellent Fox News Alert! Theme Music is available for your listening and freaking out pleasure, courtesy of Joey. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Theme Music for “FOX News Alert”
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BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin gets around, finally, to making this observation: “We are being lied to.” Yep, we sure are. Finally, several days after I first heard part but not all of it, here is the link to This American Life’s Guantanamo report, “Habeas Schmabeas.” This is the one where part of it, in explanation of the origin of the legal concept of habeas corpus, entails a visit to Westminster Abbey. I was wrong about the guide, his name is Tony, and thus is not the same one we had when we visited the Abbey year before last. And remember, the…
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Huffington Post, that haven for lefty slebs, has a new blogger, and I say “Right on, right on, see you at the barricades.” The Blog | George Clooney: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It! | The Huffington Post The fear of (being) criticized can be paralyzing. Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the run up to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were saying, where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden? What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? We knew it was bullshit. Which is why it drives me…
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Oh, boy! Time to infect (or re-re-reinfect ) my husband David with The Geek Rivalries Meme! Star Trek or Babylon 5? Tough one. Very tough. Although Trek informs a lot of my SF psycho-DNA, B5 never betrayed my trust by making me shell out the ducats to watch Drek VII: Teh Resurrection Wot Shunt’a Been. My mind says B5, my heart longs for chest-thumping Kirk and cerebral Spock. In the end, I have to say Trek. I miss not having it to watch (and occasionally, mock) on TV anymore. Because Enterprise, the most recent entry, was just starting to pick…
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Hey, the WKJ is up for a Lulu Blooker prize – this is awarded to books that started out as blogs. It’s one of 5 finalists in the fiction category. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is one of the judges. Cool! Good luck, Gus!
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Man! I want me one of these!! Riley would be up near the top of the scale, he has a relatively high-pitched voice. Usually, he says “Mee! Mee!” and occasionally says “Meu. Meu.” I’ll have to get out the pitch pipe and figure out his most usual “note.” Stuey, on the other hand, would have been a non-musical sound effect near the lower end of the scale, making his trademark nasal “Ow. Ow. Error. Error.” sounds. Guess he would have been a contiuno kitty. Via Boing Boing: Cat piano
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The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Dad Ah, no! Joey’s father has passed away. My condolences to Joey DeVilla and his extended family for their loss. I’ll try to light a candle for Dr. DeVilla later and think of the good he did and the joy he brought into the world – he was an OB-GYN.
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… because listening to a short clip of the adowwable tune nearly sent me straight into diabetic shock. But if you want to listen, it’s here. And thewe’s a wingtone for you cewphone, too, snookum snookums! Thanks to the nefarious machinations of Boing Boing Technorati Tags: Cuppycake, Annoying Music
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We get swag sometimes at work – usually it’s squeezy foam objects shaped like cows or hockey pucks or airplanes. Today, though, it was lobster pens. We’ve already got a bunch of Mickey pens, and star-shape pens, and heart pens, but a Boston hotel came in today with lobster pens. Not that exciting, I know, unless you happen to be a devotee of His Buttery Succulence, Lobster, the Lord of All Crustaceans. Either that, or you hang out at Fanatical Apathy. Via: Flickr Title: Lobster pens! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 16 Feb ’06, 4.17am PST
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WorldRider: Journey of Adventure & Discovery Allan Karl’s epic motorcycle ride came to an abrupt end in a post dated January 15th. His travelblog, stuffed with fantastic photos, has followed his journey from California up into Canada and Alaska, and down through Mexico, Central America, and South America towards Tierra del Fuego. Something went badly awry a few weeks back in Tica Tica, Bolivia, and at last report Allan was laid up in a local medical clinic with a broken leg, waiting to arrange med-evac back to the States. He just went “under” anesthesia. Way to blog the moment, Allan!…