What are your favorite covers of Leonard Cohen songs?

Working on a playlist.

Considering planning a roadtrip along this route. There are other roadtrips I also want to take, though. This one seems awfully productive, though, with three points along the way and all that. Wonder if there's a way to make it even more productive. More productive, of course, means it will require more days off. Hrm ( Read more... )

As a decent chunk of you know, I sent out an email to a group of people this week regarding issues that affect most members of the group. On the original to and cc lists, there were seven girls and seven guys. I received replies from four of the ladies and two of the men, which was about the anticipated response. What I noticed about the replies-- ( Read more... )

So, I think this totally makes up for the teapartying that was going on downtown last week. Anyone else interested in attending any of the Tuesdays? June 22 has some sentimental significance for me which clicks pretty fucking perfectly with the theme of Kindness, so that's got the most appeal. Probably doesn't hurt that it's far away and thus ( Read more... )

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[22.34.10] Dustin: It strikes me as the Japanese interpretation of metal by way of the fucking Monkees ( Read more... )

Poll Spinny Things

She and three others (another undergrad, a grad student, and a faculty mentor, whatever that means) have been invited to present their research to the American Psychological Association at their annual convention in Toronto this upcoming August. Their project, as I understand it, is about how people communicate online and, particularly, the ( Read more... )

I don't get the uproar over the recent 'conscience rule' and imagine I must be missing something.

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J and I caught Tom Moon on Radio Times on WHYY (90.9FM) on the way home from visiting with Eric on Wednesday. I can't say I know who the guy is, really, but apparently he's written a book called 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List. It got me thinking... I don't know that I could certainly compile a thousand albums, hell ( Read more... )

So, talking with someone yummy the other night, we got to discussing gender and sexuality. There was a point or two about which we disagreed. So, I figured I'd ask you. Why not ( Read more... )