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Yahoo Media Player Issues

February 19, 2008 – 12:04 pm

Though it seems to operate fine on most systems, there have been a few problems with the Yahoo Media Player I’m using for the site. It seems the problems are somewhat widespread, and are being tackled by Lucas Gonze, the developer on point for the software and are well documented over at aurgasm.us. So I’ll [...]

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Nicole Atkins Interview at Allmusic

February 12, 2008 – 10:10 am

The Allmusic Blog sports a brief interview with 2007 fave Nicole Atkins, in which she talks about her writing process, the album cover art for Neptune City and the hunt for the perfect bagel. See also here and here.

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Putting the Strike Into Perspective

February 11, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Interesting article over at Variety that turns the telescope of hindsight back on the past few months. As the strike wraps up (it’s not over yet, folks!) and we wander among the rubble there will be a lot of articles like this, asking whether it was worth it. Answer? Yes.

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Site Redesign

January 22, 2008 – 10:23 am

Just a quick aside (literally — look at the category) to say that the big red letters reading UNDER CONSTRUCTION above are serious. This site is about to get a complete makeover. It hasn’t looked the way I’ve wanted for a couple years. So stay tuned. The theme’s almost ready to go, but, as usual, [...]

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After Insomnia

September 1, 2007 – 7:26 am

From this morning’s dream log: “His combination of social humor, gallows humor and towering, lizard-man humor seemed inappropriate at the hospital bedside. Especially this morning.”
I can’t help but wonder what it is about that morning that makes towering lizard-man humor less acceptable than others.

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