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Rants
Jon Stewart At His Best
The Daily Show has been a bastion of sanity for me during the last half decade or so, and I was worried about what would happen to the show after Bush left office. After all, it has a definite liberal slant, which I like, but with our team in the driver’s seat, I was left [...]
Pre-WPPI Wisdom
Have fun at the tradeshow, everyone! Wish I could be there, but Chenin’s about to pop any minute now, and I wouldn’t miss baby Max’s 0th birthday for all the photo-blankets and Fong-Dongs in the world. So go out and buy some photo shit that you don’t need and will regret buying later. [...]
Getting Personal With Me ‘N’ Chenin
Even though this was posted earlier this month, I’m a schmuck and let it get buried in my emails. Anyway, Ron Dawson, videographer extraordinaire, did a telephone interview with me and Chenin a while back (excuse me, Chenin and I). If you want to know a little more about who we are, what we think [...]
Last-Minute Musings On California’s Prop 8
Quoting John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty:
“Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant — society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it — [...]
Election-Year Soapbox
I don’t usually post about hot-button things that will get people riled up, but things are boiling over in my head right now, and I need a place to vent some of them. There are a lot of arguments being made about the direction America should go under the next president. I have to take [...]
Back from New Orleans
And tomorrow it’s off to San Francisco, then LA, and then, finally, back home for a while. Been on the road so much that it’s been hard to keep up with the real world. ImageX was a blast, and New Orleans is a great town, full of wonderful people. And yes, it’s still all fucked [...]
Double-Vision
I saw a couple clips recently on YouTube that reminded me of one another, so I thought that I’d get a reality-check… are these two minute-long clips eerily similar? Or am I just another elitist, radical, country-hating liberal… Seriously… Someone please explain what the hell is going on in America right now.
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Fungus 53 R.I.P.
Well, it had to happen sooner or later… XM Radio channel 53 has been taken off the air, apparently indefinitely, and replaced with “AC/DC Radio”, which is, you guessed it, a 24/7 AC/DC station. Fungus was a station that played punk/ska/hardcore, and was the whole reason I subscribed to begin with. It was one of [...]
Purse Dogs…
Just a random thought on dog ownership:
If you’re going to be a guy with a purse, that’s cool (hey, I’m one of them, and proud to be). If you want to also have a purse dog, and keep it in your man purse, well I guess that’s fine, too. But geez, do you [...]
More Album Picks
So… I buy probably an average of a couple CDs a week. Yes, I know – so uncool in an age of .aac files delivered right to your pretty little iPod for $0.99 a song. But just like it took me about 10 years to switch from tapes to CDs, so I imagine [...]
Ticketmaster is the Devil
Just wanted to write a quick note to say that Ticketmaster is evil, and that they are helping to kill live music, all the while lining their pockets with our money. I think it’s a horrible injustice that many of the bands that I like to see have to hold down part-time jobs half [...]