BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arctic Monkeys win Mercury prize Woohoo!! I love me some Arctic Monkeys. They make me feel not middle-aged (which I really am). Arctic Monkeys have won this year’s Mercury Prize for their album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. The Sheffield-based band, whose album became the fastest-selling debut in the UK in February, were strong favourites to take the award. Now maybe I’ll figure out how to get Last.fm and Audioscrobbler working. iTunes: Arctic Monkeys: Dancing Shoes: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not [2:21]
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American Routes: radio show from New Orleans Monday, 9–11 am: For four months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, American Routes stayed on the air in the French Louisiana city of Lafayette. In this two-hour special, host Nick Spitzer revisits many artists who were displaced by the storms—including Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, David and Michael Doucet, and Aaron Neville. Plus, music and conversation by Wynton Marsalis and Ghanaian master dummer Yacub Addy, recorded live in New Orleans’s famed Congo Square. I’m listening to the Labor Day show of this excellent music program. It’s outstanding, and they just played one of…
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ABC News: Stingray Kills ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin No, it wasn’t a croc that got him in the end, but a stingray thwapped him in the chest with the barbed tip of its tail. Irwin will be immortalized as the “Crikey!” guy who got right up close to dangerous animal. In this case, a few times too many…but I’ll always remember him as yet another celebrity baby-dangler.
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UPDATE: We’re back up, we’re rollin.’ David and I returned early from our weekend trip to Michigan to see what was wrong. I posted this at Razzberry Vinaigrette. Since Blogula Rasa is down until we get home, this one is going to have to do for the moment. We’re heading back home a day early because the system that our blogs run on also runs some other sites that David considers critical, including the archives for his discussion lists. We’re currently in Grand Haven, MI – we stayed last night at our second choice hotel, a Best Western that’s had…
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I had the day off today, asked for it months ago in November, back before everything changed. Tomorrow would have been Mom’s 91st birthday, and the original idea was vaguely “go to Salt Lake for the long weekend and spend it with Mom,” since I missed part of her 90th birthday celebrations last year due to not asking for the Friday off of Labor Day weekend back in the November before that. Vacation days are hard to get around holiday weekend. Well, we’re not in Salt Lake. But we’re gallivanting around. We’re in St Joseph, MI, on the shores of…
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Remember way back when I sprained my foot? That was almost 2 years ago, and my foot still bothers me. I never did get around to going to physical therapy, and I haven’t been wearing very good shoes. In fact, the last 8 months or so, I’ve been wearing flip-flops and Birks, because my sport shoes were actually a size too small, as my feet have gotten larger. I had some arch supports in the sports shoes, but they never really felt that good. So, like others in the family, I ended up seeing a specialist about my feet. Here,…
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Via: Flickr Title: Pedcast By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 30 Aug ’06, 9.49am CDT PST
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Arrest pits resident vs. police – Hoffman Estates Review [08-24-06] A former mayoral candidate in Hoffman Estates says he was brutally harassed and unjustly arrested by police last week.Christopher L. Bollyn, 49, of Hoffman Estates filed a written complaint against the chief of police and village manager complaining of a false arrest. But Village Attorney Dick Williams said the papers are merely a summary of his account of the arrest, and have no legal effect. Hoffman Estates police received a 911 call from Bollyn just after 8 p.m. last Tuesday, complaining of a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood. The vehicle,…
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Okay. Work: busy. Holy Moly: busy. Home: somewhat busy. Folks in Utah: incredibly busy. There’s so much going on in various arenas lately that there’s not a lot of time for blogging. This bothers me, because I keep having experiences that are worth blogging, or seeing oddities that deserve to be noted. I used to do a lot of blogging at work, but things keep changing there, and the call volume is high. So it doesn’t really do to spend a lot of time farting around on the web… so I’ve been using del.icio.us a lot lately to keep track…
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Things are about to get really interesting at Holy Moly, my small Episcopal mission parish that I love so well. For one thing, we’ve got a new vicar, and the old one has a new job, and this all happened really quickly. For another, we totally changed our service time to 9am. It’s the tag end of summer, and attendance hasn’t been very good, so the time change could potentially be really damaging. But. I talked to a reporter earlier this week. 😉 The supplemental food pantry we started last Christmas during Advent has slowly been gaining ground, and in…