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April 24, 2007

Mike's Spring Music Agenda

New Albums:
Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
Palomar - All Things, Forests
The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out

Concerts:
Pretty Girls Make Graves @ Black Cat May 20
Wilco @ Merriweather Post in June

iPod playlist for trip home on Friday:
Woah! - Palomar
What Light - Wilco
Cold Hard Bitch - Jet
Someone to Love - Fountains Of Wayne
What I'm Trying to Say - Stars
Normal Days - Denali
3 Libras - A Perfect Circle
No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
This Is Our Emergency - Pretty Girls Make Graves
My My - Menomena
Lay Down - First Wave Hello
True Affection - The Blow
Small Talk - The Ponys
Positivity - God Lives Underwater
Dead Disco - Metric
Anytime - My Morning Jacket
Australia - The Shins
Low Place Like Home - Sneaker Pimps
What's the Word - We Are Scientists
Sinning Hands - Iron & Wine
Skylark - Arrah and the Ferns
Hotel - Broken Social Scene
Boys, You Won't - The Wrens

And according to friends, my dog closely resembles a Muppet. This is a compliment as we all love the Muppets.

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April 16, 2007

Unable to Comprehend

I can't even begin to make sense of what happened at Tech today. How can this be explained? Rationalized? Surely all of us feel the profound sense of loss, and we have not even begun to get the picture of the lives that were so cruelly snatched from us. Like anyone who grew up in Virginia, I had many friends who went to Tech. I'm admittedly quite relieved that the people I know have all graduated, at least as far as I know. But that doesn't soften this feeling of profound sadness. Just senseless.

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April 12, 2007

A perfectly cromulent excuse.

"I don't know if Sen. Leahy is also an [information technology] expert, but I can assure you that we are working very hard to make sure that we find the e-mails that were potentially lost and that we are responsive to the requests, if there are responses that need providing, on the U.S. attorneys matters," [Perino] said. "We're being very honest and forthcoming."

Guess what. I am an information technology expert. The White House is full of shit. With the equipment I have on my desk at home I could recover any missing e-mails from their computers.

If this were the 19th Century, I would shout "FLIMSHAW!"

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Someday Lad, All This Will Be Yours

His asshole looked like this: *

Kurt Vonnegut died last night. So it goes.

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April 11, 2007

The Scourges of the Inter Tubes

It annoys me that legitimate comments from my friends get blocked by my spam filter, yet somehow asinine (heh heh...ass) spam comments get through. I believe that Drawing & Quartering should be used as punishment for spamming. Then after the mangled corpse is posted on the city walls, ice cream!

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April 10, 2007

Why Studio 60 Failed

The West Wing succeeded because people love watching politicos talk about politics. Sports Night was an underground classic because people love watching sportscasters focus on sports. Studio 60 failed because nobody gives a damn what actors feel about politics.

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April 9, 2007

Thought of the Moment

Claussen Pickles are quite delicious.

My dog is awesome.

MASN is in Richmond.

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