Getting back to my Spring theme, today's song is Something To Do With Spring by Noel Coward. Noel was kind of the anti-Formby but in this day and age I have no problem being a fan of both. I enjoy the working class double entendres and ethnic humor of Formby as much as the high brow wit of the other guy. In fact, for our next rock 'n' roll anthem ( Read more... )

I'll keep the spring theme going for a few more days: Mad March Hare - Cleaners From Venus

I watched the Al Gore's Senate Testimony on CSPAN last night for almost 3 hours. The soundbite that's getting all the media attention is Barbara Boxer's scolding of the monumentally stupid James Inhofe, but the whole thing was fascinating. Gore even gave a ( Read more... )

Springtime's Here Again - George Formby

This Sunday is the US premiere of the new David Attenborough series Planet Earth, not to be confused with Life On Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), State Of The Planet (2000), The Blue Planet (2001) or Living Under The Planet (I made that one up). OK, so he's not great at coming up with titles, still, ( Read more... )

Today's song: They Say It's Spring - Erin McKeown

Expect many more spring themed songs this week.

2 camera-phone photos:

An emu in my office. How did it get there? I think we can rule out flying.

Flyer from a kiosk in downtown Mountain View. If you can't read the small print it says "help aid the genocide in Darfur", and then it looks as if ( Read more... )