Digging through the stacks again, I came across Rosie, by Fairport Convention. This was their ninth album; former members Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny and Linda Peters contributed but were not credited as part of the band. I’m not as negative about it as AllMusic’s reviewer; it’s got some bouncy stuff, but nothing particularly spectacular. Nonetheless, …
Via Rude Pundit, a very germane question from Bill Berkowitz, who writes Conservative Watch for Working for Change. Why have the ‘traditional family values’ folks erected a wall of silence around the Gannon scandal? They were livid over SpongeBob Square Pants’ participation in a video advocating tolerance, and fuming about Buster the Bunny’s visit to …
Ok, this is totally out of control. I currently have 100 invitations available. Anybody want one?
I just got back from lunch with Bunny and her husband. They’re here for their annual vacation. We met at Compadres and scarfed up fish tacos and enchiladas (half-price day on enchiladas, no less! No, I didn’t know that when I suggested the restaurant). It’s always fun to see bloggy friends.
Wow! Dan Froomkin laid out all the contradictions in what Bush says is his view of himself as a democratic leader: It was an amazing moment: After the introductory comments, Andrey Kolesnikov, a correspondent for the Russian business newspaper Kommersant, got up and said — albeit not so succinctly, and not in English — Hey, …
I just installed Firefox ver 1.01. The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix, among other bugs, a vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), a standard for handling special character sets in domain names that lets companies register domain names that appear to be the same in different languages. The IDN vulnerability allowed an …
From the Particles section of Making Light comes this photo exhibition: What about a Catapult?, starring Aragaron, Boromir, Elrond and Gandalf.
Now that was a switch. Ordinarily when I walk into a waiting room which has a television, I see either CNN’s Headline News or Fox News. Not this time. I was in line at the neighborhood Satellite City Hall renewing my automobile registration this afternoon, and there on the screen was Peter Pan! That was …
This project cries out for a blog: visiting each one of Vermont’s 251 towns, cities, villages, gores and grants. (What’s a gore? Not the former VP; read the story in the LAT). So I did a Google search, and lo and behold, there is one!. There’s login info to the Times story at the blog, …
If you’re late to the latest outrage, here’s the scoop, complete with photo. Apparently AARP is now a military-hatin’ gay-lovin’ organization. At least, that’s what Karl Rove and his band of clowns (the same ones who were behind the Swift Vets) would have you believe. Now, I was once a member of AARP until I …