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Monday, August 25th, 2008

While driving to get a haircut with T2 yesterday, I was listening to the radio.  The DJ on the stationtook off on a tangent about Jackson Browne and that, of course, led to him talking about the McCain ad over which Browne sued the campaign, the RNC and the Republican Party of Ohio.
First, the campaign [...]

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Jeff Simmermon, a blogger at And I Am Not Lying, and a fellow cable industry shill, links to what may now be my favorite stop action animation piece of all time.  It’s a music video for Zombie Zombie’s Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free.  The video, features footage of the band performing interspersed [...]

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

If you’re into really good music, regardless of genre, you owe it to yourself to check out Rodrigo y Gabriela.  As a couple of metal heads from Mexcio, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero drifted to Dublin, Ireland and began playing high energy Spanish influenced guitar.  They count among their inspirations everything from Salsa to Black [...]

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

A few weeks ago I launched a Twitter project called @MoviesIn120. The idea was to share movie reviews in 120 characters or less. I’ve been having a good time with that and it’s starting to build a good base of followers.
Today I decided to kick off @MusicIn120 or less for much the same [...]

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Monday, April 7th, 2008

If you’re a fan of the Muppets and Rick Astley, you’ll love this.
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