Category: Music

  • Album-cover knockoffs

    Michaelz send along a pointer to the knockoff project, which documents album covers and the biters that bit them.

  • Album-cover knockoffs

    Michaelz send along a pointer to the knockoff project, which documents album covers and the biters that bit them.

  • Who lost the WMDs?

    Instead of accusing the governing U.S. and U.K. executive administrations of misleading, exaggerating, or even lying to the public about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, I’d rather stipulate to their existence, especially the chem and bio weapons that western countries helped him develop. I have another question entirely: Where are they? Have we indeed made…

  • Bottles and cans, just clap your hands

    Off to the Greek Theatre (in Berkeley) today to see a three-act show headed by Beck, whose journal is remarkably ordinary and down-to-earth, for a cockeyed Scientologist art-family rock superstar.

  • Origin of 'off the hook'?

    I first heard “off the hook” meaning “totally wild” or “out of control (in a good way)” a few years ago. (Example: “We’re hiring bellydancers and fire jugglers for the party – it’s going to be off the hook.”) Like so much innovative American language, it seemed to arise from the African-American community. But it…

  • Bill O'Reilly unites left and right

    The loathsome, overblown, mendacious bullying TV host Bill O’Reilly has grabbed a tiger by the tail by using his mass-broadcast media pulpit to castigate the Internet. Bloggers of all stripes bite back.

  • Bill O'Reilly unites left and right

    The loathsome, overblown, mendacious bullying TV host Bill O’Reilly has grabbed a tiger by the tail by using his mass-broadcast media pulpit to castigate the Internet. Bloggers of all stripes bite back.

  • Pavlov's slug

    Well, this LiveJournal post showing pictures of a slug navigating a maze of salt have been circulating now for months but it only just hit my inbox yesterday.

  • Layoffs at Boston archdiocese

    I was reading B headlines from the Times this morning and I saw that in the wake of the priest-molestation scandals the Boston archdiocese is announcing a fiscal crisis and impending layoffs. “They’re going to lay off Jesus,” I said. “No,” said B, “they’re going to lay off some disciples.” “That’s right,” I said. “Actually,…

  • Rusty Shackleford's revenge

    Is evil Tom DeLay the inspiration for Hank Hill’s neighbor Dale Gribble on King of the Hill?

  • Saddam family values

    Iraqis agog at Saddam family video: Jaber Qazem was buying a copy for his family, thinking they would prefer it to their usual favorite

  • The only good terrorist

    Orcinus hits the nail on the head (again). He was writing a while back about how Christian extremist terrorists in the U.S. are described as lone nuts or wackos and not identified as terrorists by the FBI or Justice Department. They are always treated as exceptional. I really don’t see the different between Eirc Rudolph…

  • 'Dead' to sell instant morning-after

    ‘Dead’ to sell instant morning-after shows. (via Sue W.) dead.munckmix.com? Welcome to an exciting new offering from The Dead. For the upcomingSummer Getaway 2003 tour, the band is printing and selling CD recordings from most of the tour concerts as soon as each respective concert is over. The concert recordings, called “Official Concert Recording Series”,…

  • Keeping beer cold in the

    Keeping beer cold in the sun. Per Arnesen has come up with a device for keeping beer cold on hot days. We like his choice of Guinness for the test brew.

  • Keeping beer cold in the sun

    Per Arnesen has come up with a device for keeping beer cold on hot days. We like his choice of Guinness for the test brew.

  • still lives

  • Oakland happy hour wednesday

    Deadlines have killed my urge to blog lately. I’ve been in more of an unblogging mood. But news that Gwen’s Ladies (and Gents) Who Lunch is having its long promised post-work happy hour edition this week, Wednesday night have got me back typing into this here teeny text box. Teaser at Finally, a happy hour…

  • Radial Freemasonry Blocked

    Crummy.com ate my word endings. [via Zeldman]

  • diamond joe

    now playing: “Diamond Joe (Previously Unreleased)” by Bob Dylan [Exclusive]

  • Get your facts straight

    I’m getting tired of these “anti-blog screed so please, bloggers, all link to me” pseudcontrarian protobacklash articles. Most of them are as glib and boring as the worst blogs and they don’t tend to even get their facts straight. For example in, Blog eats blog, the author talks about ETCon and A List bloggers, writing…

  • Near-total eclipse

    Alerted to tonight’s lunar eclipse, B and I started looking outside around 8:40 pm hoping it wouldn’t be too hazy to see the moon clearly. It came up looking kind of vague, not nearly light enough to register on my camera lens, but after about 10 or 20 minutes the croissant edge got much brighter…