Monday, March 17, 2003Christopher Reeve, who is perhaps best known for playing "Superman" on the big screen, is able to breathe on his own thanks to electrodes doctors have implanted in his diaphragm. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Naturally, I love stories like this.
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Sunday, March 16, 2003Repairing the World. I wish President Bush would turn over leadership on the whole Iraq crisis to Tony Blair, who has an international vision that Mr. Bush sorely needs. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]
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Friday, March 14, 2003The antiwar sampler. Download a selection of the new protest songs from the Beastie Boys, Ani DiFranco, John Mellencamp, Chumbawamba and others. [Salon.com]
Right on!
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Reporter Takes His Weblog to War. "Sporting a cameraman's vest and lugging a satellite phone, Christopher Allbritton may be no match for heavy artillery. But he's apparently got enough guts to be the Web's first independent war correspondent."... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
Well worth a look. Support independent journalism.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003Beware of flying sheep-heads at Norwegian death-metal concerts [bOing bOing]
whatever happened to innocent rock & roll fun - you know, stuff like line dances and smashing amplifiers?
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003NOTE:
The tiny e-mail envelope is back below the search box where it belongs (now on the right).
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PHP Programming and Recursion Tutorial. If you're interested in PHP or want to know what recursion or recursive functions are, take a look at this tutorial.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
For Steve.
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Winamp 2.9 is Coming. "So the question that people might be wondering is, what does this mean for Winamp 2 vs Winamp 3 etc? Well, here is the plan: We release Winamp 2.9 with a lot of the bulk functionality that we have in Winamp 3 (video and media library support being two of... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
Very welcome news for those of us who hate 3.x but love 2.8.
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R&B Award Winners Are Left Waiting for Their Prize Money. Winners of this year's Pioneer Award from the R & B Foundation did not receive the honorarium checks that have always accompanied the awards in the past. By Lola Ogunnaike. [New York Times: Arts]
it's a cryin' shame
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Sunday, March 09, 2003The Other Beach Boys
A new compilation proves that Brian Wilson needed them, too.
Why haven't the Beach Boys gotten their due? I mean the other ones: Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, and Mike Love, whose glorious vocalizing is one of the pillars on which Brian Wilson's reputation as the Mozart of pop music rests. (Slate)
can you say "Garfunkel?"
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9/11 Mysteries In Plain Sight - By Jim Hoagland
Analysis and commentary are my bread and my butter. But detached perspective is in short supply when it comes to Khalid Sheik Mohammed. I hate this murdering terrorist chieftain even for being captured. (Washington Post)
Good questions...
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Saturday, March 08, 2003 Friday, March 07, 2003Kinky Friedman - A 60 Second Interview
We're always mighty happy to spend time with Kinky.
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Understanding the Net. Doc Searls and David Weinberger: World of Ends. What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Ah ha - hmmm - smart guys. They articulate what you already know.
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Thursday, March 06, 2003Also:
Bush is out of control. Bush is out of control. Come and get me. truthout Read William Rivers Pitt's missive. Then, if you can find it in your heart, publish the statement "Bush is out of control" somewhere, in solidarity. They're watching. They'll know. But can they come for all of us? [Follow Me Here...] [Steve's No Direction Home Page]
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An Aging Hippie, Making Both Love and War. Frances McDormand displays exceptional dramatic range in the role of a pot-smoking, Champagne-swilling, free-loving Los Angeles record producer. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Arts]
This sounds great.
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Doc Watson. Here's a real nice pice on guitar player and singer Doc Watson, who got a Grammy last week. Doc should get a Grammy every year. [Steve's No Direction Home Page]
Hey Craig, didn't we see Doc & Merle with Mr. A at the Mainline (or was it the Second Fret) in '67/'68? And didn't the Savoy Brown Blues Band open? Man, what an unforgetable night! Southbound is a true roots music classic, and a flatpicking clinic.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003In Garcia's Shadow, the Dead's New Guitarist Has His Own Sound
I haven't heard Herring yet, so I have no opinion, but the guy must be a great player to land this gig. It's impossible for me to imagine any other sound but Jerry's, so I'm gonna check with my Deadhead sources for a tape.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Two lawmakers left the floor of the Washington House of Representatives during a prayer by a Muslim religious leader this week, citing patriotism and a lack of interest.
Republicans Lois McMahan of Gig Harbor and Cary Condotta of East Wenatchee walked to the back of the chamber during Monday's invocation by Mohamad Joban, imam of the Islamic Center of Olympia.
McMahan said she did not oppose having a Muslim deliver the prayer but left because ``the religion is the focal point of the hate-America sentiment in the world.''
``It's an issue of patriotism,'' she said. ``Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America.''
[Eschaton]
Yeah, these guys who say they want more religion in government means they want more of their religion in government; they want less of the other guy's religion. They want to spend your tax dollars supporting their religion, but not any one else's. This is the wisdom of the first amendment: keep it all out.
[Steve's No Direction Home Page]
A pox on all of 'em.
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Monday, March 03, 2003"I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness."
Nicholson Baker
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Three World Premieres, Measured Against Zappa. Steven Sloane incited his players to turn out arrangements of Frank Zappa's originals with the energy they require. By Allan Kozinn. [New York Times: Arts]
Frank Lives!
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Sunday, March 02, 2003Eureka!!! I got comments.
To my friends: I have not read any of your comments since late December. This is because I haven't been able to see the tiny numbers on my blog that let me know that comments have arrived. Plus, the comment window wouldn't open when I clicked the link.
All of this changed last night when I switched browsers -- from IE 6.x (which used to work fine) to the outstanding Opera 7.01.
Eureka!!! Imagine my delight when I discovered all of your thought provoking and amusing contributions. Thanks for making this experiment better than it would otherwise be. Since no one has reported any problems, it appears that the craziness is local. I have had many Windows problems in general. Big surprise, eh? Please let me know which browser (including version) you are using.
Mike
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The Prime of Frances McDormand. Frances McDormand has made 26 films. She's gifted, versatile and utterly distinctive, but cinematically she's been underused. By Karen Durbin. [New York Times: Arts]
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A Country Fiddler Who Swings. It wasn't a stretch for Mark O'Connor to move beyond his bluegrass roots into jazz. He's been in that groove for years. By Terry Teachout. [New York Times: Arts]
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Spinning Blues Into Gold, the Rough Way. B.B. King, the last of the great bluesmen, furthered the blues tradition by salting it with jazz, gospel, country and even Frank Sinatra. By Bernard Weinraub. [New York Times: Arts]
With out a doubt, the best live performance I've ever seen was B.B. King at a black club in Atlantic City, late summer of '72. I was 21 years old and just a couple of weeks away from moving to Boston to attend Berklee college of music. I stayed up that night until dawn, playing my cherry red Gibson ES-345 with the band inside my head.
If you've only heard King on television, or on record since some time from the late sixties onward, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of "Live At The Regal."
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