For anyone who is even considering voting Republican, I ask that you please check out this blog: http://mudflats.wordpress.com/.

It's an Alaskan politics blog by Alaskans, and the insight is has been offering is amazing.  So, take some time to learn about the blble thumping, gun toting, science hating, theocracy supporting woman that McCain thinks ( Read more... )

Joe  Biden as the vice presidential nominee ( Read more... )

When the whole process of this year's presidential election started, I wasn't too worried.  Things had gotten so so bad under 8 years of a Republican president that I didn't think that the American people as a whole would be dumb enough to elect another one.  However, I'm starting to worry that I'm being naive...

First off, disclaimer.  As I'm sure ( Read more... )

Last night while we were making our sloppy joes, Tim and I revisited one of our very favorite topics, our favorite vocalists. There is a distinct difference between how I catalog singers: my favorite voices (people like Dave Gahan) and my favorite vocalists (people like Wayne Coyne). Now, my favorite voices are the ones who were lucky enough to be ( Read more... )

Lollapalooza was, for the most part, quite a bit of fun. I spent a lot of it complaining, as it has gotten far too big and corporate, but there are always a few performances there that make me glad I went. This year, Holy Fuck, Battles, and NIN were were amazing. Radiohead, Saul Williams, and Love and Rockets were a lot of fun. Tim and I got to ( Read more... )

My attempts to shoot death rays out of my eyes at the reps from the outsourcing company has failed. Doomsday will proceed as planned ( Read more... )

Pitchfork was a lot of fun. Tiring, but fun. Highlights included Mission of Burma, Public Enemy (far more entertaining than I might have thought, and historical to boot), Fuck Buttons, Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker, Caribou, Spiritulized (wow.), and Spoon. And, in less than two weeks, Lollapalooza ( Read more... )

The more I read about the climate crisis, and how much is not getting done to help prevent it worsening, the more I feel like we as a race are doomed.

Better start terra-forming Mars...

Ok, so the deposit on the caterer for our wedding went in the mailbox this morning...so with that, the big three things (venue, caterer, photographer) are set ( Read more... )

So, as weekends go, despite the fact that this one was a long one, it wasn't terribly interesting ( Read more... )