Frank and I have been making fun of Idaho senator Larry Craig for a couple of days. We’ve been greeting one other with “I am not gay.” to which the response is “I have never been gay.” This is inexplicably hilarious to us, and we hope our gay friends won’t disown us. Like most folks who know and actually like gay people, we see Craig as fully hypocrisy-compliant figure. His arrest and embarrassment, and possible loss of his office, should he run again next year, would be a just outcome. But when Republican officeholders yesterday (including John McCain) started urging…
Month: August 2007
Revitalized!
Posted in Random Personal Nonsense
And so we begin the next phase of the driveway project, with 12 yards of good dirt for the garden.I’ll be recording a new podcast tomorrow, most likely.
TV Viewing on the Decline: YES!
Posted in New Media and Tech, and Podcasting
Ever since I got into “new media” I’ve been struck by a real disconnect. Podcasters, bloggers, blog readers, YouTube watchers and other assorted users of the tubez are extremely vocal in their hatred of certain old media (commercial radio for the podcast set, and newspapers for the blog fans) but many seem positively addicted to cable and broadcast television. Why is this? Why are the same people who turned off broadcast radio for podcasts, or the-ones who make their living telling the New York Times how last century it is composing love sonnets to their TiVos? From where I sit,…
Frank asked me to put together a playlist to get hs blood going while he digs the driveway. Here, with great license taken, and a few blatant uses of songs with titles that are only loosely connected to the subject matter, is that playlist. *I added a few more last night. Song Artist *Diga Diga Do Mills Brothers *I Never Picked Cotton Johnny Cash *Po Lazarus Various Artists *Workin for the Man Roy Orbison *I Dig Your Voodoo the Naughty Ones His Hometown Cheryl Wheeler Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams Working in the Coal Mine Devo The…
Thanks to Joe, I am once again tagged. I confess that I actually enjoy being tagged. Wait, that sounds weird. If your life were a game of Jeopardy, what would your categories be? 1. Films of the 1930s and 40s 2. Fun things to do in Austin, Texas that do not involve chain stores 3. Blind girl workarounds 4. Politics are fascinating, but sometimes mind-numblingly depressing 5. Bourbons I have known 6. Folk & alt-country music 7. Strategies for storing excess computer cables Bonus category: Cat lady in training And in turn I will tag some usual suspects: Charles, Carolyn…