I have gotten two E-mails today (real, person-to-person E-mails) that addressed me as "Mr. Damerell."

:-(

Isaac Hayes (voice of "Chef") quit South Park, reportedly because of an (excellent) episode last season that lampooned Scientology.

I'm dumbfounded.

How could anyone -- even a practicing Scientologist -- work through nine seasons of South Park, which slayed just about every sacred cow imaginable, and then quit because they made fun of a "religion ( Read more... )

^ is my current heavy-metal obsession.

Small updates:

- I finally got an Xbox 360 and it is awesome. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is fantastic, and Burnout: Revenge comes out this week.

- Work is going well, and my term as LPVA Chair ends in April... dunno what comes next on that front just yet. But things are going well in general.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/06/btsc.lavandrera.funerals/index.html

Reading that makes me feel ill.

Apparently this is band-break-up season. This time Cold broke up. Sad, but actually long overdue since they peaked on their second album and declined somewhat rapidly thereafter. Nonetheless I will miss them.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022000977.html

"[B]y some calculations, the government is on track to spend about $250 for each person it enrolls, and even then it would have only 2 million poor ( Read more... )

http://www.finchmusic.com/

Well, shit, Finch broke up. That one actually upsets me a bit.

There's a repeating pattern to my concert-going that has not yet generated a Pavlovian response in me. There's a 7-11 a couple blocks from the 9:30 Club, on my way out of DC. So after a concert -- sweaty, tired and stinky -- I stop in to get a cold drink. Concerts usually end well after my normal bedtime, so I have a false feeling of hunger. So ( Read more... )

I stole this from Dorothy. Do me a favor, click this link and just pick the things you think describe me:

http://kevan.org/johari?name=punkrawka