Category: Musicology

  • 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…

  • When did the Nation get weblogs?

    Someone on the Well just pointed me to Katrina vanden Heuvel’s blog. They’ve got RSS feeds too.

  • Spring comes to San Francisco

    Rich Frankel’s got foxgloves coming up everywhere.

  • Ten years of public blather

    Today marks the tenth anniversary of my first post to Usenet (May 11, 1993). I actually posted four times that day, all to rec.music.gdead. None of the posts are especially memorable (though one gives a fair idea of my other favorite bands of that time), but I still find it noteworthy to mark the passing…

  • Product placement on the news

    Jeff Green exposes how some companies pay to have their products mentioned on the TV news.

  • Real convergence

    Geoff Faulkner has posted an informative article describing how he set up a computer-mediated entertainment center. His solution converges the functionality of his TV and stereo system with a computer for controlling everything.

  • Oakrageous

    A week ago today, before I realized how sick I was getting, I made it down to downtown Oakland for (second?) Oakland bloggers’ (and auxiliary) luncheon at the Pacific Coast Brewery, aka Ladies (& Gents) Who Lunch (or: A much-needed excuse to leave the house). What a great gang of folks, some familiar to me…

  • Insert bathroom joke here

    Jeff Green, who’s been on a roll lately, has some choice words for us about iLoo. I suggest he go back and read my “Information pooper-highway” entry from The Internet Dictionary (Sybex, 1994, now sadly out of print). Weirdly, just a few weeks ago I was riffing with another friend about the idea of putting…