My cubicle got moved down to the first floor while I was gone last month and now I'm learning the voices of all my new neighbors. It's kind of a fun game. Is that Mayo? His voice is deep like Mayo's, but Mayo is never civil to someone for that long...must be one of the Park Service employees who's name I probably don't know. Is it just me or is ( Read more... )

Well, the honeymoon will be over for the Democrats soon enough if Pelosi is half as fucking stupid as she's acted this week. On Monday she officially endorsed John Murtha for majority leader of the House, over the current #2 Dem - Maryland's own Steny Hoyer. When Pelosi was running against Hoyer for minority speaker two years ago, Murtha managed ( Read more... )

I watched Episode 9 of the Wire OnDemand last night and I'm positively shitting a brick until next week (or until I can bribe Zalamia into burning the rest of the season on DVD for me). I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet or is planning to catch up sometime soon, but this might be the most intense ending to a season yet (and thats ( Read more... )

Its usually at this point every two years or so that I'm overcome with a frightfully strident case of hope. I've usually been marinating in Washington Post poll numbers and exposes about the vulnerability of the status quo to the point where I actually believe that some kind of big, sweeping change in our country's government(s) - or at least our ( Read more... )

[Foreward: Is there an "Ides of November"? What is an Ide ( Read more... )

Just got home this morning from a week and a half on the road with the band, darting up and down the coast and in and around the Smokey Mountains. We did 9 shows in 11 days, with a show every night for the past week. We had ridiculous amounts of fun and drank an equally ridiculous amount of PBR, which is apparently the only cheap beer south of ( Read more... )

It's been awhile. The last two weeks have been absolute hell on my nerves, and I've maybe slept more than five hours one night out of the last ten. I hope things either start slowing down a tad or I can find some peace in the ebb and flow of days like these ( Read more... )

Been reading "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason" by Sam Harris for the last week. Its incendiary to the say the least, but it's really been resonating with certain ideas that I've had for sometime but had been unable (or unwilling) to form. His central tenent is that religion is the prime cause of nearly all global ( Read more... )

So I'm approached last week about this mapping project that some guys around the office need help with. Basically, we were given a paper map with all 300-odd "public access sites" along the Bay and tributaries marked, but this info was subsequently proven wrong and was in need of a fix. The end goal was to produce an internet map that had the ( Read more... )

I've been in the midst of some mini-panic attacks over the last two days over our show tomorrow night at the Ottobar. We're opening for Peelander-Z, a band from Japan by way of NYC, who drew over 300 people when they came through town last time...assuming a certain amount of overlap between our crowd and there's - as well as another decent show ( Read more... )