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Joan Armatrading's Drop the Pilot

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I like the Ben Folds Five.

I don't particularly like this song.

On the other hand, I rather like the video of it.

So here it is.

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(Via the blog of Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell.)

Napkins From Work.

Via a friend whom I have called "Mr. Obsessive" before (still hasn't punished me for it, so I guess it's okay).

I have never played Mass Effect, nor have I ever seen anyone play the game. So this was... yeah, just click it.

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A friend was visiting this weekend. Friday we saw Laurence Hopgood (jazz pianist who has performed with Kurt Elling and Robert Pinsky -- not at the same time, alas) at the Green Mill,.

Saturday we saw "Fuck You, I Love You, Bye: The Rahm Emanuel Story" at The Annoyance Theatre. And I wish to apologize to whomever I sprayed with water after a ( Read more... )

(Yeah, that's grossly unfair, but that was my first impression)

Sometimes the names stick with you, sometimes they don't. A friend of mine got me a disc ("The Goat Rodeo Sessions"), and I went "wow, but who's this Stuart Duncan guy?"

I guess I'll be able to find out Tuesday, as there's a live broadcast1 of a performance being piped into movie ( Read more... )

One of the side-effects of clearing out old papers is finding ... interesting ... clippings of things I'd intend to look up later. Of course, now I can just search on-line instead of looking in the indexes of books that might pertain to the subject, so everything is simple, right?

Like a late-'70s article from the Detroit News on the stopped ( Read more... )

Question first: What podcasts do you listen to (or plan to get around to listening to)?

I currently download thirteen podcasts. All of them are radio programs that I have listened to in real time and either wanted to get in case I missed them, or which are no longer being carried by my local station.

In relative order of listening importance:

• On ( Read more... )

I went back to Michigan for a brief memorial for my mother. Since it was so close to Labor Day weekend, I extended my visit and went with a friend to the Arts, Beats & Eats festival in Royal Oak last Friday, and the Detroit Jazz Festival Saturday through Monday ( Read more... )