So, you know how I have this friend Karl, who's getting his songwriter friends to send him recordings tangentially based on this song "Garbage" he wrote? You know how I keep going overboard recording different versions? ...Yes, I'm afraid you've guessed where this is leading ( Read more... )

So, I was wondering (because I have gone completely insane) what's the cheapest food you could eat and still have a semi-healthy diet?  You know, just in case we're all standing in bread lines and re-enacting The Grapes Of Wrath sometime soon here?

Turns out, this is actually an old, classic example that people back in the 30's and 40's used to ( Read more... )

I went to my Congressional representative's Web site and fired off an e-mail, all by my lonesome. Would be curious to know what you think of it ( Read more... )

...it's just killing me. I have to post it. (Thanks starflow!)


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So I shook the mint over a piece of white paper and looked at the dots that came off of it. Several were tiny and red and slowly crawling around. Yup, mites eating my plants. So we got a spray bottle, and I mixed up some soapy water, and dutifully sprayed them ( Read more... )

My mere presence seems to kill houseplants ( Read more... )

Two interesting developments on the touch-screen voting front, for those who haven't seen ( Read more... )

Rhino has just put out a "Brit Box" box set, with 80's and 90's Britpop, shoegaze, etc. Insert dreamy fanboy sigh here ( Read more... )

"In Russia's troubled region of Chechnya, run by pro-Kremlin President Ramzan Kadyrov, electoral officials have said a partial count showed United Russia won more than 99% of the votes on a 99% turnout ( Read more... )

Here's the pirate fairy:


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