I'm super excited #1 that DM has a new album released yesterday and #2 that today it's Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal. $3.99! Get it now and support one of the best bands of all time.

Sounds of the Universe

No "best of 2008" from me, but I will state my opinion that Dragonette is the best new band in the past two years. Their debut album is a tour de force. Top marks across the board: great songwriting and lyrics, catchy pop hooks, interesting and unusual harmonies and instruments (including lots of synthesizers and dirty dirty saw waves), and ( Read more... )

I heard a great quotation today ( Read more... )

Half a block away from me I discovered a Concord grape vine. It is growing up a tree and on a fence in someone's yard, but many bunches hang down over the sidewalk. When walking by, the air is sweet and fragrant. I have been plucking a couple of bunches per day, eating some right away and storing others in the fridge. They are so far superior to ( Read more... )

Reading about depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents. Inside: the cozy bedroom in my new apartment, cat on the bed, snifter of E&J VSOP, neat, on my desk. Outside: the late-summer symphony of crickets enjoying the humid air.

TEN out of the 15 pages of ads/coupons in the latest local "Fistful of Dollars - The Savings Magazine" are for pizza or calzones. Carbohydrate addicted much, are we? Yes, I'm talking to you, western civilization.

As you can see, it was a very blunt message, but I am grateful to Dr. Braun for alerting me to my heretofore unnoticed problem and emotional issues stemming therefrom, and for providing me the means to solve it quickly.

from Dr. Veronica Braun
to me
date Nov 20, 2007 7:27 AM
subject Girls do not like you because your dick is too small.You are ( Read more... )

I completely disagree with this review of Depeche Mode's "The Love Thieves". Granted, it's not the most uniquely DM of all DM songs, but it's a fantastic song all around. Ultra is such a great album (with so many other great trax, of course!)!)!)!)!

Also, courtesy of le vieux Monsieur Drippy, here is a hilariously eighties-esque Ron Paul ad.

I am off to the Dominican Republic to volunteer for two weeks in the town of Yamasá. I go mosquito-net equipped! Then I shall fly to Logan and live free or die in my favorite place in the whole wide world. One week with extended family at our house known as Graywood, formerly owned by a Mrs. Gray, and built before the United States existed. ( Read more... )

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