This is an original tune by this guy: Same dude, singing Red River Valley: How come you guys never told me about Julia Nunes? And a new cover from Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn:

I’m really not sure what I think about this. Several years ago I made a video of me playing cowbell along to Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix. I was walking along, the song came in my head, and I immediately thought of adding this cowbell part. Here it is: It’s only 35 seconds because my [...]

So like, if you remember what you were going to comment about on something I wrote a few days ago, you can go comment now.

First up: am I the only person in America who feels sorry for Kanye West? I don’t even think that what he did was that bad. And I’m not sure how controversial this statement is in general but I suspect most of my friends disagree that Lady Gaga is on track to be one of [...]

Yes, I know. I upgraded the weblog software the other day but forgot about a bunch of custom hand-coded stuff I did to deter comment spamming. Sadly, half of that code is in the template (big wordpress no-no I guess but hey screw you wordpress) and half of that code is in some random system [...]

The other day I was musing on meth production, how we’ve moved from meth labs (a horribly inefficient chemical production facility inside your neighbor’s house!;[1] you’d be better off with a prison or garbage dump next door) to shake-and-bake meth. It occured to me that shake-and-bake meth doesn’t go far enough. We don’t need to [...]

Today’s dream featured BoltTech(tm), a corporation which developed some software to scour the internet and all public discourse, to make sure that Usain Bolt gets paid every time someone mentions his name.

“Speaking as someone who used to have a severe drinking problem, as someone who smokes a pack a day, as someone who once had a 400 dollar a week marijuana habit, as someone who has used cocaine, as someone who used to eat vicodin and percoset like candy on a daily basis, i can say [...]