October 2008

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Music
Corruption
10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Earlier this month Mrs The Fyd and I witnessed Weezer bringing the rock music. I write now not to praise Weezer, although they were most definitely praiseworthy that evening. I write to mock the second opening band, Angels & Airwaves. We arrived after the first opening act was finished, so I cannot [...]
Books
Recently Read
10.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The Dreamstone, C.J. Cherryh
The Tree of Swords and Jewels, C.J. Cherryh
Darwin’s Radio, Greg Bear
Post-Mortem, Patricia D. Cornwell
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Jonathan Eig
The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, J.N.D. Kelly
Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
The Damnation Game, Clive Barker
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement, Susan Ferris & Ricardo [...]
Walks with the dogs
Haiku
10.27.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

“What the fuck’s wrong with people?”
Drag dogs down sidewalk
They mourn dropped dirty diaper
Music
Next up is a Thompson Twins cover
10.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Thirty years ago AC/DC used a set of bagpipes in one of their songs. That accomplished, they promptly ditched innovation with grim resolve, such that listening for the first time to their new album, Black Ice, I just now found myself asking, “Is that a freakin’slide guitar?” And answering, “Yes. Yes it [...]
Politics, Work
A wild guess
10.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Because I get irritated by all the anti-mark-to-market bloviating going on, here is an apposite observation by Pierce Scranton, Chief of Staff to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (feel free to discount any and all of his opinions if you: (a) hate advisors, (b) hate chiefs of staff, (c) hate the gubmint, (d) hate [...]