There’s a story I heard once about John Coltrane: that he spent his whole musical career looking for the right saxophone mouthpiece. He was searching for the sound he heard in his head. I was thinking of that Wednesday morning, curled up in the den reading as the snow fell outside. I’m in the midst …
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Albuquerque Transportation Center Originally uploaded by Malcolm Tredinnick. I never got around to blogging Malcolm’s visit to Albuquerque and other bits of our great land. It was lovely to finally meet face to face after years of one of those bit-driven relationships. He’s posted his pictures from his trip, and his caption on this one …
Bee Clue CandyOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Do you need some refreshment in your weariness? The only way of knowing the interest just by experiencing. Storage method: avoid the sunlight (Hat tip The Mother of The Boy, who has serious goofball cred.)
They are ritualized art, the movie summaries in the daily TV listings – usually less than 10 words to summarize an entire film. Today’s favorite: Patton: Gen. George S. Patton fights World War II.
The Internet has made it too easy to be a quack. In my desk drawer at work, I have a wonderful collection of old UFO nuttiness from the early 1990s. It’s wonderful stuff – wildly imaginative zines full of poor writing, even poorer graphical presentation and absolutely wonderfully muddy thinking. Back in the day, you …
if you please, for the 32 journalists who died this year serving you in Iraq: Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for the press in a single country that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever recorded. In most cases, such as the killing of Atwar Bahjat, …
From today’s Zippy (link will point to a different comic after 12/19/2006): Griffy: It isn’t what you say, Zippy. It’s how you say it. Zippy: Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky!
Benny and his posse showed up in force today on the Journal letters page, defending the humble bicycle: Pete Vera feels as though cyclists should not be allowed on the roads because much of the money used to construct and maintain them come from car-related fees and taxes. He needs to be reminded that cars …
Nora told me what turns out to be a very old geekjoke yesterday, about how the only legitimate use of an HTML blink tag is as follows: Schroedinger’s cat is not dead. Unfortunately, (well, fortunately for you, dear readers, but unfortunately for the joke) WordPress won’t let me add a blink tag to the not, …
I don’t know southern New Mexico water issues, so I’ll offer up this Las Cruces Sun-News story without comment, except to suggest that the issue is worth following: Local conservation groups are balking at the idea that the Gila and San Francisco rivers could be used to supply water to Doña Ana County as part …