December 2009
60 posts
Just to think - only 102 years until Neil Peart’s Randian, dystopian future is upon us. Eep!
For tonight’s slow dance with your sweetie: King Curtis - “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?” http://tinyurl.com/y8olgv5
Fifteen hours left to lose that 30lbs.
“Juice was really flyin’…” Peppermint Harris, 1951 - “I Got Loaded” http://tinyurl.com/ydjgtry
Our new Wii thinks I’m an obese 57yo. I’m sure this Cheetos-stained Snuggie adds 30lbs. Anyway, Matlock’s on.
First day back at work. You know how it is. Gene Autry - “Back In The Saddle Again” http://tinyurl.com/yak7bm3
Slept in until 10am. O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING?
Failing to sygyt while failing to transcribe a Bulgarian choral piece. I need easier hobbies and/or Ritalin.
“Entrance to the Waffle Shop at 522 10th Street NW, Washington D.C. Circa...”
– Waffle Shop II: 1950 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
MIDNIGHT POT PIE, BITCHES.
Maybe if I start using a decent hand moisturizer, all these sexual harrassment complaints will become sexual harrassment *compliments*.
Help! My kid’s in a local production of Amahl this weekend, but I can’t find my monocle nor my opera-length pearls ANYWHERE.
I wish I could remember the sage guidance Granddad gave me about swapping out the MPI layer in a numerical weather forecasting subsystem.
My cow-orker just now: “I don’t consider the S-word to be swearing.”
Does the Christian concept of grace extend to those who write bad inner-join SQL queries? ‘Cause I think I might be going to hell here.
My wife’s not home so I’m eating my supper out of the 4-cup measure I nuked it in JUST AS GOD INTENDED.
Gotta get over this mid-afternoon slump. Another coffee, or should I perk myself up by randomly assaulting a another street person?
I don’t really enjoy Radiohead’s music. THERE. I said it.
Well ain’ this just the funnest thing I’ve heard in a while: Joe McCoy - “It Ain’t No Lie” http://tinyurl.com/ycg58jl
Nice take on a Booker T. instrumental: Roy Buchanan - “Soul Dressing” (Live) http://tinyurl.com/ybqnz9q
No, YOU’RE just rehashing @sween’s old jokes.
Her pulse exploded as he gently holstered his iPhone and tenderly noticed her existence.
Teddy Darby - “Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues”, 1929 http://tinyurl.com/yb8lqvg
If I don’t start walking more I’m gonna be completely spherical. Which, now that I think of it, would make the downhill parts easier…
Props to the woman in the silver Jetta with the “247PMS” license plate.
I won tickets to a hockey game. Is that the one on ice?
Funny how these Bon Iver tunes haven’t beat the melancholy out of Monday yet. Bring on the Mastodon! No-one’s cheerier than Brent& the boys.
At Echo Chamber studio, rockin’ with The BBQ Kings for posterity. Bonus: take-out from Jimmy’s.
Apparently my awesome new man-bag is actually just a purse. Whatever. All I know is that it looks fabulous with these shoes.
“Prayin’ to heaven, give my heart ease…” Darby and Tarlton - “Birmingham Jail”, 1927 ” http://tinyurl.com/y8ua692
Bowling party with cow-orkers yesterday. I want my new nickname to be Rollin’ Forty-Four. ‘Cause that’s how I roll. Apparently.
Hi Henry Brown - “Hospital Blues”, 1932 http://tinyurl.com/ykdr4r6
The Carter Family - “Diamonds In The Rough”, 1929 http://tinyurl.com/y9b4jz4
“I’m troubled, lordy, here below…” Charley Patton and Bertha Lee - “Troubled ‘Bout My Mother”, 1934 http://tinyurl.com/yhyjj9x
Eight of my best pals await me tonight at band rehearsal. Four of them are tins of Guinness. Four are not, through no fault of their own.
Beautiful, serene instrumental from The Krüger Brothers - “Up 18 North” http://tinyurl.com/yzsa3nf
The thought that medical science will soon be able to perform dog-to-human limb transplants gives me pause.
creepy exotica/lounge blues from 1958: Chaino - “The Breather (a.k.a. Gone Ape)” http://tinyurl.com/yk5ewfb
No word of a lie: I just threw down in a moonwalk competition here in the office. Sometimes Mondays don’t suck completely.
A gorgeous take on an old field holler from the Leadbelly legacy: Sweet Honey in the Rock - “Sylvie” http://tinyurl.com/ybau9mf #mm
Someone just sent me a link exchange request email. I hadn’t realized it was still 1996.