Of the few of you who might read this post, most of you know of this already. But today, I just have to post a little snatch of dialogue penned by our buddy bdar. I'm not sure when it was authored, but I first read it...what? Has to be at least 3 years before this day. Anyway:

"This is a hopeful America. This America will want to be right, it will ( Read more... )

Yes we f***ing did! And I only voted and contributed a bit of money. I know there are those of you reading this who can feel even more ownership in this ( Read more... )

I wanted to plug my most recent podcast discovery, NPR's "Planet Money". This is a podcast that was spawned from a wonderful and well-received co-production between NPR News and This American Life on the housing mortgage crisis and a concept they called the "global pool of money". It distilled big, global economic concerns in a way that was easy ( Read more... )

In the world of sports, I just read this article about the court proceedings in former Colorado Avalanche player Steve Moore's lawsuit against NHL semi-star Todd Bertuzzi. In a Canucks/Avs game on March 8, 2004, Bertuzzi maliciously punched Moore (an agitator himself) in the back of the head, sending Moore, unconscious, face-first to the ice. The ( Read more... )

Yeah, I had a pretty bad moment upon reading this.

Bad in that my thoughts and attitude at that moment did not reflect well on me as a compassionate human being.

Joining in on bdar's and hannibalv's fun:

Sort your iTunes Library by album title. Select one album for each letter, A-Z, (ignore "a," "and," and "the") to create a list of 26 albums that you consider indispensable. Do not repeat artists on your list.I'm also going to refrain from doing greatest hits albums or anything like that. Except for one compilation, ( Read more... )

From bdar:

1 - Go to Wikipedia Random Article.
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random QuotationsThe last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. (If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will ( Read more... )

Taking this exercise from hannibalv's blog. He actually made CDs out of it, and for his birthday, which is way cooler. But I couldn't resist doing my own version ( Read more... )

Oh, man, this is ridiculous. Have you ever wasted time obsessing about some really, totally meaningless question of pop culture? For example, my friend Richard brought up the "Desert Island Disc" question the other day. We were talking and somehow got on the subject of Radiohead, and he mentioned that "The Bends" would almost be the album he'd ( Read more... )

Strange things are afoot in this election cycle. I won't reveal this person's identity, to protect the sanctity of the voting booth, but I just found out that a person I know very well who has become quite conservative over the last several years (turning into pretty much a pro-life/anti-gay marriage voter) voted for Barack Obama in their primary ( Read more... )