Jeepers. I’ve been hit with the 123 meme again, this time by my friend Peter at Detectives Beyond Borders. Okay. Rules: 1) Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!) 2) Turn to page 123. 3) Count the first five sentences. 4) Post the next three sentences. 5) Tag five …
Today’s fun included a second visit to the endodontist for a second root canal. Think happy thoughts for Mom, who had to deal with that today (twice in three weeks!). Her dinner tonight was cream of broccoli soup.
How does one persuade a recalcitrant CD/DVD standalone player that it should send its tray out from inside the box? At the moment it just whirs for a few seconds and then gives up in what sounds like disgust. It’s a cheapie: a Coby DVD-218, which isn’t made anymore if you can believe Coby’s website. …
Wow. Via Avedon, here’s a link to Wolfgang’s Vault, which bills itself as follows: Wolfgang?s Vault is the home for the past, present and future of live music. This is the exclusive destination for The Bill Graham Archives, the King Biscuit Flower Hour and the Record Plant along with a dozen other archives that live …
IcyHot acts as advertised. It goes on cold and gets warm. It doesn’t seem to get sufficiently warm for the neck and shoulder problem to go away, but. . .
In yet another example of why one should carry a camera at all times, I was driving back from the store this afternoon when a red convertible Mini-Cooper went by. It was driven by an older lady, and it pulled up at the light ahead a minute or so before I did. While waiting, I …
The pooch had her bandage removed, but the wound reopened, so the vet put a new one on. She’s actually pretty beansy, despite all these indignities. She’s walking reasonably well — there are a couple of other photos at the Flickr link of her walking around the yard with the older bandage/cast.
From comment #100 at a thread on Dodger Thoughts: “I’ve been paying $20 for parking and $10 for a beer, I want to see a team that has better players than the other team.” Boy, isn’t that a universal thought.
Discussing the Gibson/Stephanopoulous performance last night, here’s Michael Bérubé at TPM Café: The point is that we are not dealing merely with a “corporate” media. That would be bad enough. We are dealing instead with a deeply decadent and deeply entrenched class of courtiers in the late stages of Bloated Beltway Media Empire, one of …
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In my considered opinion, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley would have been absolutely ashamed of the job their respective successors did “moderating” that debate (Transcript). Every Republican talking point in recent history was touched on, from guns and affirmative action to taxes and flag pins. Not a single Democratic one that I can think of …