Neil Young’s latest, much anticipated album went “live” on this website yesterday. The music is streaming for free, but not for download, so it’s not quite “free.” But you can listen, and the lyrics are sort of available – you click on the song title to see them stream across the screen ticker-style (and if you click the license plate to see the title list and get to where the ticker scrolls, the music cuts off). It sounds pretty rough – reportedly, it was written, recorded, and marketed in a hurry. There’s a lot of feedback – and I bet…
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What the hell, I used another online “Write a letter to your Congresscritter” form to add my little voice to the rising chorus calling for impeachment. Dear [Decision Maker To Be Filled In Later], Why have I chosen a form letter to write to ask your support in a grass-roots effort to Impeach George W Bush? Because it’s easy, yes, and also because I was reminded of this issue just now while I was working online. Actually, I’m all for a package deal – impeach the whole pack of lying, warmongering, spying war-and-energy profiteers, I say. I appreciate the work…
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David sent this link to me just now via email (from downstairs – I’ve been up listening to music and blogging most of the day, we’re weird and wireless like that). He added “These kids have WAY too much time on their hands.” Home Made Light Saber Battle Video Sure, it’s a fan-produced movie with a light sabre battle. But it’s got near professional-grade production values, it’s got extremely good fight choreography, and the camera work, editing, soundtrack, and sound effects are very, very good. The ending… actually almost ruins it. It’s left unexplained in a way that’s very unsatisfying.…
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And after that rant, I need to just chill and get in touch with my inner Pink. Whose video Stupid Girls, by the way, is awe-inspiring if a little raw. Stupid girl, stupid girls, stupid girls Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back Porno Paparazzi girl, I don’t wanna be a stupid girl Go to Fred Segal, you’ll find them there Laughing loud so all the little people stare Looking for a daddy to pay for the champagne (Drop a name) What happened to the dreams of a girl president She’s dancing in the video…
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This item was right at the top of my Google News today – I have it set up to find articles about the Episcopal church (but also filtered so that I mostly see stuff about my own, progressive wing of said church, rather than endless polemics from the small but extremely vocal conservative wing, who are forever yammering about how the consecratioin of Gene V. Robinson as a bishop (remember, he’s the one that wishes he’d be remembered as “the good bishop” and not just “the gay bishop”) forces them to hold the threat of schism over the rest of…
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Here’s irony for you – yesterday, I was doing a laundry run for the local PADS homeless shelter yesterday. It was absolutely the last day to do it, because the shelter we at Holy Moly volunteer for is a Friday night, and they needed to have the soiled laundry picked up, dropped off at the local hospital that donates the bedding sets, and clean sets returned to the site. Normally, I do this (about once a month or less) on Sunday after church the week I’m scheduled, but it can actually be done any time between Saturday and Thursday. But…
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Here’s why I wonder if Republicans think the rest of us are stupid: They line up to howl about issues that they think will get them attention, then quietly slink off and do exactly as they please. Case in point: the Republican Congressional leadership are all loudly calling for lower gas prices, energy efficiency, and anything that makes them look like they’re doing something about the problem. So they held a press conference recently at a BP gas station in Washington DC, and Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-IL) showed up in a hydrogen fueled car. Very nice, very…
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Oh, it was only matter of time, but still it’s sweet as candy on the tongue to type the words “Rush Limbaugh Arrested.” I about had convulsions just now when we were watching the tail end of Numb3rs, and a news teaser came up with the news that Rush Limbaugh had been arrested (oops, I did it again). Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In On Fraud Charge In Rx Drug Probe MIAMI, April 28 — Talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh surrendered to authorities Friday on a charge of committing fraud to obtain prescription drugs, concluding an investigation that for more than…
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If you only knew how many fogless shower mirrors we’ve bought over the years, and Chad Everett reminds us of the perfectly simple solution that was… staring my husband David in the face the whole time. That’s right. Spit. I know, it isn’t pretty. It works. When I was learning how to scuba dive, the instructor told us not to buy the de-fogging stuff for our masks because a: it didn’t work very well and b: it cost money. Instead, we should just spit in the mask, then spread it around and rinse. What do you know? It worked. I…
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Unlike ***Dave, we had a ton of young visitors today for Take Your Progeny To Work Day. They started out being taken around on a tour to meet all the team leaders, and then they were in various activities all day. Toward the latter part of the afternoon, however, the rot set in. Their minders had other duties and tasks that needed attention, and eventually most of the boys ended up in the break rooms watching cartoons, while most of the girls wandered back and forth between whereever the activity room was and their mothers’ desks. Can’t help but wonder…