June 2010
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Weekend Music Pure pop candy. Don’t try to pretend you don’t like it. It will probably get stuck in your head if you listen to it more than once, so just accept it. The video is just the lyrics, which aren’t exactly difficult or obscure, so no need to watch.
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(Hat tip to Ellen)
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I find this rather scary: http://www.emusic.com/album/Richard-Clayderman-The-World-s-Most-Popular-Pianist-Plays-Andrew-Lloy-MP3-Download/11309344.html
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Not a lot yet, but some. This is the view from the bay shore at my house about 7 this morning. The yellow stripe that you see in this picture wasn't there yesterday. It's an oil containment "boom"–basically a chain of floats that are supposed to stop oil on the surface (more information here if…
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Considering my vast international audience, I thought I should offer some comment on the World Cup, which I know is of immense interest in most of the world outside the USA. First, I would like to ask people who want to point out that the name of the game is “football”, not “soccer,” to get…
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Weekend Music From his 3-disk collection of out-takes and other previously uncollected stuff, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (this is one of the bawlers): You’ll be lost and never foundYou can never turn around Happily, that’s never true in this life; you can choose to turn around right up until the very last breath, though you…
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Observe: new search tool, over there at the top of the sidebar —> Try it. It seems to work pretty well. A few nights ago I finally (!) finished bringing ALL the posts from the old blog over here. I still have a lot of non-blog stuff at lightondarkwater.com to bring over, including about two…
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…that the men who died who died when that oil rig exploded got some recognition. Take a moment to look at each picture and say a prayer for them and their families.
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Click on panhandler's Flickr link on the sidebar for some interesting oil-spill-related photos. And by the way there's a whole set devoted to Emmitt.
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Probably you'll either fall over laughing at this or hate it. I fell over laughing. If you hate it, don't let it drive you into a hate spiral. (Warning: profanity) http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/05/sneaky-hate-spiral.html However, I really don't sympathize much with anyone who doesn't like "La Bamba."
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