I've been ingesting lots of politics. My dad visited the other night, and he and I ended up at Alterra talking about the election. My dad is extremely liberal, and from Cambridge, Mass, so he'd probably be tagged an elitist by anyone on Fox News ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_vehicle

Has anyone else heard about this? This is fantastic!

Erin and I woke at 6 am, and took the 10 bus to the Amtrak station. We took the Megabus to Chicago, walked to the L, took the L to O'Hare, flew to New York, and then flew to Edinburgh ( Read more... )

Whenever I say anything snarky about Bill Clinton, people always come up with one or two things: He's a likable guy, and he's much better than Bush. I think both are pretty foolish reasons to support a president. Is being good in comparison to Bush so hard? Bush's FATHER looks good compared to W Bush. Probably NIXON stands up pretty well against ( Read more... )

I have a Wisconsin phone, now. The old one is not deactivated yet, but I'm not really carrying it around at all.

My new number is 414-364-4167

Get into the Salty Halloween spirit at www.thepianohat.com !

Inspired by Andy's account of his dream encounter with Jackie Chan a few weeks ago, I have decided to write of a dream I just had. 'Cause it was bizarre ( Read more... )

We had a show in Chicago last night. I bussed down to Bayview and walked to Michael's, past glinting Christmas lights and bulbous snow drifts. At Michael's we discovered that Joel (drummer) had been in an accident that day, and had totaled his car. Michael W. was in a foul mood when he arrived, having just discovered that Michael M.'s girlfriend's ( Read more... )

I went over to Michael W's house to play music, and arrived as he was watching CNN and eating dinner. We watched TV for a little bit, and then the CNN voice-over person started talking about "new DNA evidence in the Italian Sex Murder." Or at least we thought he said "Italian Sex Murder," and ended up Tivo-rewinding it about four times just to try ( Read more... )

I've rediscovered the album "Fire" by Electric Six.

It's too good.