June 2009
19 posts
Neil Young - Till the Morning Comes
I have always...
“If a guy wants to ruin his life trying to hit balls out of the park, why can’t...”
– Todd Snider, explaining his point of view on steroids in baseball to the AV Club
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mokoyfman:
David Gray, You’re the World to Me
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Todd Snider - America’s Favorite Pastime
I...
Fast Company's 10 Most Creative People in the... →
catbird:
(via annielin)
I don’t know if I can take this list seriously since it doesn’t include Ian Rogers
Or since it includes Dave Stewart, who doesn’t appear to be involved in anything music related at the moment (after the raging success of PlatinumWeird) and A.R. Rahman, who was apparently super creative when he came up with the theme for Slumdog.
Todd Snider, Balladeer of the Just Getting By →
Love that Todd is getting some serious attention. The new record (and pairing with Don Was) is fantastic.
“Almost none of the major players on the Lakers and Magic spent more than a year,...”
– Studying The Finals: News Desk: Online Only: The New Yorker
Hopefully, Bill Simmons is lessening the time it takes him to provide this sort of analysis, and will be on TV soon instead of Jeff Van Gundy.
Ed O'Bannon Has Gone From the Hardwood to the... →
What becomes of the old college athletic greats?
The pursuit of justice
Yesterday I was pulled over by a motorcycle police officer for not having my seat belt fastened. The problem with this was my seat belt was fastened. He claimed that when he drove past me in traffic, with both of us going about 35-40 mph, he saw the buckle up near the top of the door. My mind has been spinning because this seems to make me instantly defenseless, my word against his, with a price...
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“It was snowing hard when the bank called Nick Popovich. They needed to grab a...”
– The Learjet repo man
Fascinating.
0.000000435%
dihard:
is roughly the percent of GM that we each own.
$362 is what each of us paid for that equity stake.
That’s because $50,000,000,000 is the total amount the US Treasury has spent of GM’s survival. (That’s $30.1 billion for 60% of New GM’s equity + $20.6 billion that we spent trying to keep them out of bankruptcy.) And that’s just the beginning of it.
So $83,000,000,000 is what New GM would...
Activist Cindy Sheehan in Dallas to renew... →
Last time I checked, Bush wasn’t the one who could stop the war anymore. So what is Cindy Sheehan doing outside his house? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a supporter of the war in Iraq, but I don’t see the point.
I usually try to stay away from political talk on this thing, and don’t want to even touch op-ed. I am going to stick to facts.
Please remember the following.
1. Bush and Cheney are out of office. Sure, some policies they enacted still have fallout, but hating them doesn’t make America any better, it just misdirects potentially useful emotion.
2. Going on a date with your wife makes...
IGN/GameSpy Shutting Down Classicgaming Fan Sites →
Saw this link and wondered why more companies that shut down unprofitable sites don’t just turn them over to the community - and by “turn them over”, i mean hosting, upkeep, everything.I suppose the domain has value, among other things, but it seems like the people are always let down by this process are the most interested ones.
That said, for sites directed at affinity groups,...
Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen - Lens... →
To this day, the identity and fate of the man in the picture remains unclear. A riveting documentary, “The Tank Man,” by PBS Frontline in 2006 explored his fate. Yet still no one knows for certain who he is or what exactly happened to him. The image is largely blocked on the Internet in China. Despite its iconic status and historical significance elsewhere, most young people there do not recognize...
“Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year....”
– MichaelMoore.com : Goodbye, GM …by Michael Moore