Oh KUT, you are the most awesome public radio station in the universe! First you bring the Dalai Lama to those of us who could not attend his appearance. Then you bring President Bill Clinton's speech to those not fortunate enough to get one of the 500? wristbands distributed for his appearance at the Texas Book Festival. KUT is fundraising now. ( Read more... )

Everything I read lately is like this or this. I get it. I need to pick the brand of cat food I'll be eating in my retirement years now.
*sniff*

Dear Sebastien,
Despite weeks of listening to FrenchPodClass, my ignorant ass is not making with the witticisms in French.
No love, and phooey on French fromage too,
The Wedge of Spite

If there was a test on Son Volt, however, I would score very highly...

Uh, I want this toy?

I was never interested in hi-fi or electronics before. I think the iPod was my gateway drug to electronics...

In other news, I today acquired Kage Baker's latest Company novel (in hardback *groan*), as well as the trade of Graveyard Game. Tee-hee-hee. What are the odds I get to sleep before 3 ( Read more... )

So one of the most emailed NYTimes stories today is that Sheryl Swoopes came out. Well whoopie-ki-yi-yay. I am vastly diverted by this, since I recall a long-ago Texas Monthly article on women's college b'ball in Texas. In this article, Swoopes was asked about her transfer from UT to Texas Tech, and said something like she was "not comfortable" ( Read more... )

First, a correction. I've been told that the Red Sox came back from a 3-0 hole in the pennant race last year, not the series ( Read more... )

So far this has been an incredibly exciting World Series. It's like the pitchers on both sides forgot, and left their good stuff at home or something. And really, the Sox and the Astros seem fairly evenly matched. But the 'Stros fell again tonight, after yet another marvelous effort, coming up with two runs in the ninth inning to tie up the game. ( Read more... )

Go ahead and gloat. Dance on my prone, bleeding body. I'm used to it. "In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not cried aloud."* You can't possibly do anything to me that the Astros haven't already done to me in my 25 years of suffering fandom. You surely couldn't do anything more painful than thisSo go ahead. Do your worst ( Read more... )

Looks like I won't have to keep kissing up to my kids, hoping they'll feed me occasional scraps when I'm old and grey-greyer-cuz I've got a new retirement plan.

So long suckas!

Well I guess you won't be calling me a wacko lefty conspiracy theorist any more, not now that this bad boy got my back. Talkin' 'bout the astonish $11 m. being spent on hotel rooms for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, and the glacially slow progress toward the FEMA trailer parks and/or housing vouchers for said evacuees. Ronald Utt was quoted today in a ( Read more... )