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On The Air 2-5pm Eastern
(That's 11am - 2pm Pacific to you left-coasters!)
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Weekly playlist: 3-6 a.m. 11/08/09
The setlist from Saturday night/Sunday morning's WXYC show is up now, over here.Lots of new, cool stuff. Check some of these albums out if you haven't, especially White Mice, the Resonant Hole compilation, and The XX. Oh, and the new Harvey Milk live album rocks my little world ( Read more... ) -
9/12 Setlist
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Any Raleigh friends left in town?
Anyone left here that's not at Dragon Con? Was anyone planning on doing anything this evening or tomorrow? It'd be kinda nice to see people, but Trish and I are pretty broke so we're more in a go-for-coffee or hang-out-at-your-place (or our place) and have a beer or three kinda thing. Backyard grilling of brats and wings totally optional. Basically ( Read more... ) -
An open letter to Tom Wolfe: Quit whining.
(This was originally written as a commentary on a friend's post, which is friends-locked. I have reprinted it here, with limited editing, to make it available for friends to read and comment on.)
I'm sensing a touch of bitterness on this subject (the lack of manned, American space missions). We went to the moon! C'mon, man, that was pretty cool. ( Read more... ) -
And here's why I don't much miss politics in California.
I've been getting some surprising reactions from folks regarding the whole California special election. Now, I'm going to say a few inflammatory things here (*gasp* Effie no! Not you!), so it's important that no one here thinks I'm talking about them specifically. I was originally going to write this as a response to feyandstrange but I didn't want to send the ( Read more... ) -
I sure don't much miss California politics...
11:22 <@toast> Results for Tuesday's special election posted on the California's secretary of state's website showed more than 60 percent of voters rejected
the five fiscal measures on the ballot.
11:22 <@toast> A sixth measure barring pay increases for state officials amid deficits was approved by about 74 percent of the voters ( Read more... ) -
Sweet success
The conference went very well. I attended a couple of utterly useless seminars (more on those later), one decent one on stress and time management, and overall had a great time ( Read more... ) -
ZING OF THE DAY!
From Kung Fu Monkey by way of jason0x21:
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The ( Read more... )