Taking Myself Way Too Seriously Since 1999
How do you make the music of Radiohead better?
No, not “burn all copies of Kid A. The answer is to remake it in bluegrass style!!
Check out Rodeohead, a medley of various Radiohead hits done in the style of bluegrass.
It’s quite awesome and a half. I’m dead serious.
A recent WTHR/Channel 13 poll showed that 50% of Hoosiers support either gay marriage or civil unions.
You wouldn’t know it by reading the headline in the Star, though.
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Those lies about the air quality around Ground Zero after 9/11? Worse than we thought.
*Sept. 13: The EPA draft release — never released to the public — said: EPA “testing terrorized sites for environmental hazards.” The White House changed that to EPA “reassures public about environmental hazards.”
*Sept. 16: The EPA draft said: “Recent samples of dust … on Water Street show higher levels of asbestos.”
The White House version: “New samples confirm … ambient air quality meets OSHA [government] standards” … and “is not a cause for public concern.”
And the White House left out entirely the warning “that air samples raise concerns for cleanup workers and office workers near Water St.”
(source:NBC News: What Was Known ABout Post-9/11 Air)
Jeebus. Just go read Kos for a better summary.
The Bush White House lied to the heroes of 9/11 and they try to pass themselves off as their biggest supporters? No thanks. We need regime change in Washington ASAP.
From Kos:
This is a war that Rumsfeld insisted could be won by 100,000 troops. Now we are scraping the bottom of our active reserves and starting to eye the inactive reserves with hungry eyes.
Betro has a deeper explanation.
And on something completely different, a big fat good God WTF is going on in the White House to the revealation (no pun intended) that the White House may just be basing their policy on Israel on Christian fundamentalists that beleive that Israel is, to use the Villiage Voice’s words, “The Jesus Landing Pad.”
But now we know.
Yikes.
From the Democrats’ very own crazy turncoat, Zell Miller (Wishes He Was A Republican-GA):
Did he just compare the torture of the Iraqi prisoners to being ashamed in a public shower? Sweet jumpin’ Jeebus!
You know, I didn’t much like the whole communal showering thing in gym class, but as far as I can remember I was never beaten, raped, sodomized, forced into sexual acts with other men, turtured and nearly killed.
Guess I musta went to some wimpy liberal commie public school. /sarcasm
Sign the petition to Kick Zell Miller out of the Democratic Party. When’s the last time he actually stood for a Democratic policy?
Want to see a picture of Jason when he was ~3 or 4 years old? This would have been taken sometime around 1981 or so. Back then my family was into Arabian Horse showing (as they have been again for the past 8 years so so since my sister has been involved with it, quite successfully I might add). Anyway, at that age the little kids do a thing called “lead line” where they dress up and get on a horse and are pretty much paraded around the ring, and all of them get 1st Place ribbons and everyone applauds and smiles and says “aww how cute”.
So here’s little 3 or 4 year old Jason (and my father too. Did he have that much hair then?) Continue if you dare.
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This is a followup to the previous entry if you’re curious.
I think I’ll go ahead and narrow down my choices to the following products:
The Darkhorses….. I MIGHT still consider them.
We’ll see what I end up with. I may just put it off for awhile and keep goign with my current MT version.
Mena’s Corner: It’s About Time
MT 3.0 is out, but its free version restricts you to one author and three blogs. Considering I have two authors (myself and Kelly, for editing some of my more atrocious misspellings and grammar) and currently three blogs running (This blog, my Travelblog and a test/template blog) that doesn’t give me much room for expansion.
To get more, you have to shell out nearly $70. Even for that price you only get 3 authors and 5 blogs. Sorry, no thanks.
So I’m soliciting suggestions for good, extensible and FREE blogging software that’s out there. I looked at Drupal a bit but had trouble installing it on my current webhost on another site I briefly worked on then gave up on. Don over at Blah3 is switching to GeekLog and I’m curious to check that out more. Looks like it has a forum plugin too that might be pretty cool. But their install recceomends having telnet access to your server, which I do not have.
Anyway, if anyone reading this knows any other good free blogging software I can install on my webhost drop a comment.
In the end, when I finally make a decision to switch, that will mean this site might be down for awhile. I’ll probably set up a temporary blog on blogspot or something and blow away almost everything on my server to try and get a clean start.
Hopefully whatever solution I move to allows you to import MT format entries and even comments. I’d hate to lose the history of the site….
Update: Just took a look at the features list for WordPress. Looks nice.
(Edit: Sorry for the atrocious formatting. Didn’t preview before I posted…)
List courtesy of K.
I really need to be more well read. I think the problem is I read a bunch of these in high school when I had to, and then neglected to keep reading ‘classics’ after that. There are some glaring deficiencies though, and why Les Miserables isn’t on this list bewilders me. Anyway, the list with those I’ve read in bold.
Once I finish my next two books on my reading list…
Obviously, Louisiana is involved in midriff-bearing related program activities. Why do low rise jeans hate America.
It’s good to see soem state legislatures focusing on what’s important.
Jeebus. That’s just SILLY! Oh well, good for a laugh.