dillinger four's new record, civil war, dropped a little while back. i haven't had much of a chance to listen until this week. i had a copy of it in my car and after several repeats i feel comfortable talking about a record i had been waiting a long time to hear ( Read more... )

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after replacing season opening starting QB derrick anderson with brady quinn, the cleveland browns lost quinn to a finger injury. then, near the end of a terrible, terrible 10-6 loss to the indianapolis colts they lost anderson to a torn MCL. both are done for the season. i assume there is some thrid option out there...or maybe we can just get jeff ( Read more... )

melanie and neal are in the other room watching almost famous. melanie is my sister for those of you who don't know. she came down for the holiday. i think we all had a pretty great time. i know i had a good one. a few days away from work with good friends is always a plus. there was an epic potluck on thanksgiving. many department and non- ( Read more... )

check it. UA grad and awesome writer on mcsweeney's ( Read more... )

read about these ladies in the NYT today. while there is no real way to prove the claim, this would appear to be the first all girl band in modern saudi history and, most probably, all of saudi history. anyways, they are called the accolade, which, to be honest isn't a bad name at all. they are not allowed to play in public. they have to practice ( Read more... )

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screw me, kiddies. i just can't seem to write anything but presidential stuff. at least this time it is kind of funny. i just read that the secret service nicknames for obama and biden are renegade and celtic.

renegade and celtic...start making buddy cop movie jokes in 5, 4, 3, 2, ......

ok. i promise not to mention much more about obama until he is in office. i don't want everyone burning out too early know what i mean?

but this was impressive;

http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html

enjoy.

all. obama won. super nice ( Read more... )