Last night was the first Deadenders show, the only Rumsfeld tribute band that I know of. I promised Dave I wouldn’t say anything on the website to embarrass him, so I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves. They’re not so big here, but they’re REAL big in Iraq, so catch ‘em while you still […]

Eating my first cobbed corn of the season I am reminded of a unique cobb experience in Mexico City a few years back. While wandering about, I think on my way to the Frida Kahlo house, I came across the steamiest little street vendor I’d seen in all my days. And when I say steamy […]

Here are some of my favorite journalist names and reasons why.
H. L. Mencken - sounds like H.P. Lovecraft
Grantland Rice - any first name with “land” in it is a champion name
Elijah Lovejoy - indeed, Elijah, indeed
Robert Capa - i like his photos, he was one brave mother
Seymour (Sy) Hersh - Still alive and kickin’…go Sy!
COKIE […]

Wes Clark makin’ good sense. Too late guy.
Nick Drake narrated by Brad Pitt.
Lawrence Lessig on the future of copyright.
Free Tommy Chong.
Beat Bush stickers. Anyone want to go in on a 500 pack?

Is Bush even a conservative?
Interviews with an array of conservative thinkers and policy-makers reveal a rising disquiet on these matters among people who have spent most of their lives proudly identifying with the Republican Party and the philosophy for which they’ve long assumed it stood. At the root of their discomfort is a feeling not […]

They (they being the scary men in black, some nebulous governmental force, or your parents) want to boot one of the the last bastions of smoker freedom left, the who’s-who-of-the-future-cancer-ward of our own airport.
While I’ll be the first one to admit that smoking is indeed not as good for you as the liberal media […]

Some photos of us playing at Art Farm (thanks Sean). Art Farm was a total blast. Great times, great bands. Anyone who hasn’t seen or heard A Fir-Ju Well, check ‘em out.
And I almost forgot to mention, Pat’s photos from his intrepid travels in Italia.