The greeting banner on my cell phone announces its name as “Vavatch Hub”. This is a reference to Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas, which is only one of the greatest SF works of our time. I also have a download of this image of Galaxy M104. Looks like an Orbital to me, if I squint right. One day I […]
Shuffle just cued up AC/DC’s cover of “Baby Please Don’t Go”, which naturally brings to mind the recent release of their Plug Me In DVD box set. Just about everything on that is a gem (I have footage of some of the earlier shows from other sources and enjoyed them, but the re-mastering for the box set is so […]
I’m entranced by Lucinda Williams again today; this morning it’s Happy Woman Blues. There are other plates on the musical menu, however. I downloaded a two-song e.p. just released by The Accused on their website. As reluctant as I am to imagine the band without Blaine Cook, the new singer sounds sufficiently like him that it’s not a jarring […]
The 2008 calendar above my desk here at work shows a different Wayne Thiebaud painting each month. January displays this. I like Thiebaud’s work for a sense of fun and detail, but not so much for creepy. More than two-thirds of the month to go before I can stop looking at the devil’s toy closet. This week I […]
I just walked over to the windows here at the office and it looks like we’re under water. On the eleventh floor. It’s been pouring rain lately. Yesterday evening I drove in the downpour and wished I had not. We’re used to rain but in these amounts even the locals develop apocalyptic twitches. Earlier today […]
We had a house guest this Thanksgiving weekend just past — Camas, a husky-mix with one blue eye and one brown eye. Camas is a nice dog with a dumb name. Camas does not like other dogs much, so when his owners want to board him, he stays with us instead of at the dog […]
Yesterday was a busy Sunday. Additionally it was somewhat emotionally fraught for me. So this morning I was very tired. That tired as to require more caffeine, in addition to the iced mocha Mrs The Fyd made for me this morning (thanks! and also thanks for driving me to work!). I went and purchased a mocha from […]
My headphones, Koss PortaPros, seem to be about to fail. Recently they have been yielding more distortion than music, leaving me with the feeling that I will hear the beep of Sputnik at any moment. Luckily I have spare headphones, and more luckily Koss will repair for free (with a small s/h charge) the product […]
According to iTunes, I have 10 hours, 3 minutes, and 29 seconds of Napalm Death songs in my collection. I could fly from here to London and listen to Napalm Death the whole time. And there’s a similar amount of Napalm Death albums I don’t yet have, so if I complete the collection, there’s my […]
In the song “Extradition”, off the album War & Peace Volume 1 (The War Disc), Ice Cube begins with a soliloquy to his mother explaining that “If some people came by the house lookin for me/I’m innocent of anything they say I done,” and promising to see her in the future. How does he sign off on this […]
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