I've yet to use it in anger, though, so I only have crappy boring photos so far.


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Jorge Ben recorded, I think in 1972, a song called "Taj Mahal," in which he essentially sung the words "Taj Mahal" over and over together with a catchy little wordless tune that he sung for the chorus. (A very famous catchy little tune, since Rod Stewart plagiarized it for his hit "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy ( Read more... )

The doctors don't know how long I've got to live.

China bans meals served on naked women(Agencies ( Read more... )

Same song as last entry. The author and performer, Zé Manel, lives in Oakland, too. I wonder if he plays shows around here.
The following is not all of the lyrics-there's a fast stanza that's untranscribed, and I left out a couple other ones. Tchico Té, ke ku matau
Disastri falado ma po ku matau
("Tchico Té, what killed you / Supposedly an ( Read more... )

From Zé Manel's song "Tchico Té," in the album Maron di Mar, as transcribed and translated in the lyrics booklet, with my corrections (the language is Guinea-Bissau Creole): É bin [na] falano kuma, eih
Disastri ku mata Tchico Té.
Kamarada, oh, kabalido
Kamarada abo [ki ku] matal.
(They told us that, "hey, / an accident killed Tchico Té." // ( Read more... )

I just discovered that a kid who was in my high school is now a pro wrestler in the WWE.

An alert unlike any other (LA Times, May 3, 2006)

The monumental task of warning future generations (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management)

1. Various Artists, Golden Afrique, Vol. 2. Highlights and Rarities from the Golden Era of African Pop Music (1956-1982): The Great Days of Rumba Congolaise and Early Soukous. 2 CD box set.
   This set is KILLER. Well, ok, I'm only on track 3 of the second CD so far, so I really have only listened to the whole of CD #1, which was dominated by Franco' ( Read more... )

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