So this happened…classy. A police officer was assaulted on the job in Iowa City, Iowa. The cop stopped to talk to a man because he was disrupting traffic. They got into a struggle, with the man choking the officer before fleeing. A local news reporter posted a screenshot of the reward/wanted poster on Facebook. And [...]
Open Wide
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Twenty-one little pink salamanders pass me by tonight Twenty-one little red tongues are flickering in my sight Amphibious thoughts are flowing with the salamanders showing Of the “touch of evil” tinted black and white Seventeen fat ripe rats hold stacks of juniper pie aloft Thirty-four clever rat hands are juggling tarts on high These rodents [...]
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
May 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said That we would meet again Some sunny day Vera! Vera! What has become of you? Does anybody else in here feel the way I do? Bring the boys back home Bring the boys back home Bring the boys back home Don’t leave the children on [...]
In Memoriam Alex Chilton
March 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One year ago today, the music world lost a little known Big Star. Alex Chilton was a renaissance man of the music world, starting out as the teen vocalist of the Box Tops, well-known for songs such as The Letter, Neon Rainbow, and A Whiter Shade of Pale. Interestingly, the Vietnam Conflict was at least [...]
Happy Birthday Townes Van Zandt
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best-known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including “If I Needed You,” “To Live is to Fly,” and “No Place to Fall” are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him “one [...]
Happy Anniversary Old Friend
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Happy Anniversary to the Sinclair ZX81, my first computer. I still have fond memories of building it from the kit, connecting it to a black and white TV for a monitor, and recording programs on cassette tape for use later. The Sinclair ZX81 was a wonder in its time. The ZX81 was a home computer [...]
Olbermann On Giffords Shooting
January 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gabrielle Giffords is a politician; her Navy captain husband is an astronaut. It was his occupation that was supposed to be dangerous. But Giffords, the moderate, three-term Democratic congresswoman who survived a bullet’s trajectory through her head, has already had brushes with danger on the job. Last March, after the House approved healthcare reform with [...]
And so the robot uprising begins…
December 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A belated Merry Christmas, with evidence of how the robots will lull us into a false sense of safety before rising to enslave humanity: The Flying Machine Arena offers a safe, controlled sandbox environment allowing the testing and validation of mobile robots. Thanks to its large size, it allows the testing of fast-paced motions, be [...]
A Thousand Psychic Wars
December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of limbo roar And I’m young enough to look at, and far too old to see All the scars are on the inside I’m not sure that there’s anything left of me Don’t [...]