As I often do, I was scrolling through my music library tonight, and starting thinking about how most of the music features blues, folk, or rock guitar. It suddenly struck me as very funny when I remembered that up until I was maybe twelve, really intense guitar, I'm talking the harder stuff, really annoyed me, and when I was really little, like ( Read more... )

I love the Onion for it's satire of politics and college life, but sometimes they'll just do something delightfully random, like this ( Read more... )

White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat ( Read more... )

Apparently Al Qaeda is threatening to attack more Saudi states. I can only assume this is a scare tactic to turn Middle Easterners against the US, because if it's supposed to move the US in some way, they obviously haven't yet figured out that if it doesn't hurt white people, Americans don't care...oh, unless there's oil involved. But we'll just ( Read more... )

I'm announcing my Oscar picks ( Read more... )

I was listening to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles today, and, to my unexpected delight, discovered that their song, "Tears of a Clown," has a BASSOON PART for Christ's sake. You don't exactly see a lot of bassoon in pop music in general, but other than maybe speed metal, Motown is the last genre from which I'd expect to hear bassoon ( Read more... )

This conversation actually took place last September, but it's so lovely, why keep it hidden away ( Read more... )

It's evil.

I was very sad to learn that the Boondocks links I have been putting up here are not the actual cartoons, but rather take you today's strip, whatever that may be. Oh well ( Read more... )

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