Two big sales for those who like music and magazines...

- The iTunes store is currently offering 101 "great" albums, each for $7.99. They're the ones who call them great, but they're all pretty damn worthy -- these are the original albums, not bargain-basement collections, and the selection goes from Louis Armstrong to Nirvana. I suspect that if you ( Read more... )

Well, flamingatheist came over this afternoon with a USB DVD drive. Before attempting that, he took off the back cover, fiddled with a few connections, twiddled this and diddled that...

And the thing started again once we replaced the cover.

I repaired permissions (suddenly this thing is speedy again - it took about 20 secs.) and so far so good.

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My iMac G5 (with the six-month-old hard drive) went into screensaver mode this afternoon, and then froze, making beeping sounds. Of course, when I tried to restart, all I got was the blinking question mark.

Here's where I'm at:

- will not boot in safe mode

- will not boot despite zapping PRAM

- will not boot into single-user mood

- will boot into open ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's not very good - Don sounds bored out of his mind, he doesn't even attempt to give it a Hawai'ian twist, and the video is pretty lame, but, still: it is Don Ho performing "Shock the Monkey." What do you people want from me?

It's from this album, which also contains Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan dueting on Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable," ( Read more... )

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Lovable nutball/alleged murderer Phil Spector is working overtime to come up with striking new looks for his date with Dame Justice. Remember this fashion statement from his arraignment?


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I'm not shy about my fondness for the international chanteuse Wing. (And I would kill anyone who hurt her feelings. She's a treasure.)

At last, someone has made public a video of one of her performance. It's about damn time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Wing performs one of my favorite Elvis Presley hits, "In the Ghetto."

(DO NOT LAUGH. I love her. ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me know I've got nearly zero fondness for presidential candidate John Edwards, nor am I surprised by just about anything in what passes for public discourse these days, but this statement in a speech delivered today and broadcast on C-SPAN managed to shock jaded old me:

“I was going to have a few comments on the other ( Read more... )

Now that Mardi Gras, the Oscars, and the Anna Nicole hullabaloo are over, the Virgin Mary is back posing for the paparazzi and making a personal appearance on a cookie sheet in Texas:


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I suppose, in this tricky-martini town, it was inevitable...

Actually, no. No, it wasn't. It could have been avoided. But it wasn't.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you:

The Pad Thai Martini.