So, it has come to my attention that people really like my Song of the Week. I’m flattered when this takes the form of a few downloads. However, when I start getting people downloading songs over and over again, I quickly run into my ISP’s 25GB/month bandwidth limit.
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So I went into Longs Drugs to get some pomade this evening. Two of the clerks, looking very much like seniors in High School, were fooling around, one while he was ringing me up. The other one gave him a card with a black and white photo of a “sexy hunk” on the front and walked away laughing.
“Man, you’re sick!” said Cashier.
“Well, it is Pride Weekend,” I joked, as he was yelling at his coworker. As he returned his attention to ringing me up, he realized I had said something.
“Hmm?” he asked. I repeated myself and he continued to stare blankly at me.
“The Pride parade in San Francisco? It’s this weekend.”
“Oh... I... I don’t know anything about that....”
He may not have been closeted, but he sure as hell was a shut-in. I have no idea how you could be that out of the loop. Live 105 has transformed itself into KGAY for the weekend, for God sakes!
I wish Moore had spent a bit less time exploiting the grieving mother of a U.S. Soldier killed in Iraq and a bit more time deriding the USA PATRIOT Act. But that aside, Fahrenheit 9/11 was significantly better than Bowling for Columbine when it comes to fact and insinuation. There was just enough cheap isn’t-the-President-dumb! humor to keep the film from being too much of a downer, and plenty of God-that-ticks-me-off facts.
I think we all know the way I’ll be voting in November.
And to my friend Republican Joe, there’s still time! You’ve got a whole five months to work up a gut-wrenching, soul-crushing hatred for our present Commander in Chief.
Get crackin’!
I never use Caps Lock. It’s a stupid key, occupying prime real estate on the keyboard. I pretty much agree with the Sun layout, which switches the Ctrl and Caps Lock keys on the left side. (Having said that, I will note that it made switching between my Mac at home and my SunRay at work difficult when I worked at Sun several years ago.)
Anyway, I’m a pretty good typist, so I rarely turn Caps Lock on. It’s only ever by accident. Which is how I noticed this the other day:
How friggin’ SWEET is that?!? Let’s hope this catches on. One of these days, maybe phone support people (shout out to all my Service Desk homies!) will be able to stop asking wheter Caps Lock is on.
The family is in town for the weekend. We’re driving down to SLO for the ceremony on Saturday.
Yesterday evening my mother came in and asked what was up with the tickets. It seems we had been given 10 tickets to the 9:00 ceremony, when my college is graduating in the 14:30 ceremony. I was afraid there would be some problem with this, but when I called and explained everything to a girl at the Bookstore, she said I just had to come in and exchange them. So I’m driving down tomorrow afternoon with my cousin to get the right ones.
This better be as painless as that girl made it sound on the phone!
This being one of my last days on the Cal Poly campus, I decided to stop by KCPR during my friend Eric’s show and rip a few CDs. I grabbed:
I am very pleased with the Iron and Wine and Matt Pond PA full-lengths. The former keeps the great vocals and quiet songs that I loved about I&W’s previous releases and yet manages to be more addictive, hook-wise. The production is certainly cleaner, and it works just great. The latter has a disproportionate number of songs about young people making out/sharing a summer fling, but that only serves to makes it the perfect summer record. (Said songs are top drawer, too.)
And as I was writing that, I took a listen to Good News, which I’m pleased to report has some real standout songs as well. “Float On” and “The World At Large” are particularly great --- so great, in fact, I haven’t gotten all that much further into the CD. Sadly, it was released on a major label, so I won’t be buying it. :-(
Hello Ladies and Germs! Sorry about the lag between updates; I’ve been busy living it up before The Job starts.
I wanted to let everyone who reads this (yep, all 3 of you) know about a really great site I’ve been showing everyone lately:
Check out some of the songs on that site. The explanation at the top and the e-mails below each entry will help the songs make more sense. Three of my favorite ones are in the archives (“Lame Bodybuilder Boss,” “I am Bjork” and “Celtic Techno Burrito”), while “Kazookazookazookazookazoo” is on the main page.
Give it a listen-hear!