Category: Everyday Stories
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Les Ballets Jackson “Fiesta Hippie”
If you’re offended by circa 1960s partially nude French people (well, I’m guessing they’re French) in Barbarella togs doing the “Fiesta Hippie” dance then don’t click to watch Les Ballets Jacksons below. It’s a Scopitones which was a jukebox video. And I’m…well…I’m on my 6th watching. It’s that wonderful. OK, so the first part of…
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Wake Up Call
They have been working on the streets, digging them up. The Don’t Park signs were up all weekend but people still parked and the street is still full of cars this AM. Instead of having the cars towed, the street workers are using this HUGE bulldozer-mounted jackhammer, hammering it on the steel plates that were…
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Road Work
Road Work View On White They’re replacing the water main in our street which means that today it’s all one big long hill of Georgia red clay out there.
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Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix at Youtube
The link doesn’t want to say what this is but it’s “Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix” with an HP ScanJet 3C supplying the vocals. No effects or sampling. Awesome. Seriously, I’m dumbfound. The end is perfection.
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Filed under Silly Things. The perfect music for a book store stride? White Stripes’ Cannon. Pop in the ear buds and walk. Then the song ends but it’s all right because you’re now in the back of store looking for the book with at least a modicum of text that your artistic kid might possibly…
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Boy Scouts Bring to Mind “Cabaret”
I thought this kind of bizarre, Boy Scouts (well, an affiliate) being trained to confront terrorists, run down illegal immigrants and raid marijuana fields, using kids as young as 13 and 1/2. A competition is described where “looking at 9/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like” and authenticity being their goal, a…
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My 11 year old’s version of a science experiment
There is glass full of green goo on H.o.p.’s desk. He calls it “an experiment”. A bendie straw is stuck in it. And I think to myself that the next time he brings me a glass of chocolate milk as a nice surprise, I might want to think twice before drinking it. (P.S. I allowed…
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin
He also has one of a traditional dancer set to electronica. This provocative piece of Galanin’s was featured on BoingBoing today.
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Taste the Difference
I could swear that coffee tastes far better in my Marvin the Martian mug than the plain blue mug.
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More of the same
Hold-the-phone music hasn’t changed in 25 years.
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Opinions on Biber recordings?
Trying to decide if I want to spend money on Biber done by Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln or Romanesca or John Holloway? Listening to clips, I hear things I like in them all. OK. I got Holloway’s “Der Turken Anmarsch” because there was one left in stock and it made me dizzy (in a…
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Prurient
So, the pentagon has up to 2000 pics of prisoner abuse, 44 of which will be released through actions of the ACLU (bless ’em). The CIA called the ACLU’s push to release the photos “prurient”. Prurient? Prurient??? Is that really the word they were looking for?