you hatchet faced nutmeg dealer:
October 30, 2010
Boston
Holy schmack, Boston’s background singers can scream. E above high C? Are you kidding me? Full voice, too. Who says rock singers don’t have pipes?
(bonus points if you can name that tune)
October 29, 2010
Natural Law
Bill Whittle, on Natural Law vs. Political Law. Whittle spells it out more clearly than I’ve heard. If you like this, don’t miss parts 1-3 of his series What We Believe.
October 28, 2010
Adults Ruin Everything
Halloween taught marketers that parents are willing to be warned about anything, no matter how preposterous, and then they’re willing to be sold whatever solutions the market can come up with. Face paint so no mask will obscure a child’s vision. Purell, so no child touches a germ. And the biggest boondoggle of all: an adult-supervised party, so no child encounters anything exciting, er, “dangerous.”
Think of how Halloween used to be the one day of the year when gaggles of kids took to the streets by themselves—at night even. Big fun! Low cost! But once the party moved inside, to keep kids safe from the nonexistent poisoners, in came all the nonsense. The battery-operated caskets. The hired witch. The Costco veggie trays and plastic everything else. Halloween went from hobo holiday to $6 billion extravaganza.
And it’s worth noting: “No child has ever been killed by poisoned candy. Ever.”
October 27, 2010
Doc Brown, Temporal Terrorist
Who is the real villain of Back to the Future? Why, Doc Brown, of course.
October 26, 2010
A Harmonica Sang in Carnegie Hall
This is brilliant. Stick with it to hear some real mastery.
October 25, 2010
October 20, 2010
Quoth
“One of the underappreciated virtues of good manners is that they help you to avoid making an ass of yourself when you are not as smart as you think you are.”
Glenn Reynolds.
Words to live by, and that are on increasingly rare display in our culture.
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October 19, 2010
Quoth
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.”
Michael Mangino (h/t Sean)
October 14, 2010
Quoth
“Entrepreneurial motivation is not confidence, it’s an insatiable desire to improve. It’s not about thinking your ideas are better than everyone else’s, it’s about never accepting any idea as being best.”
wise words from Jason Cohen
Title Expurgated
I thought this would be a cool gift idea, until I looked at the price. Are you kidding me?!!? Still, it seems like a potentially cool thing to make from scratch.
(I had three or four clever ideas for a title to this post but decided to forgo. Too easy…
October 13, 2010
One Big Happy Family
I love the news this morning that genealogists have announced that Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh are all related via common ancestors. Heads exploding all around. 
Of course, go back far enough and I guess we’re ALL related, but it’s still funny to see people freak out about this, as if it matters.
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October 12, 2010
Beastly
“And then, just when other hypercars — Lambos, Ferraris, Paganis and even rarer isotopes — run out of steam, the Super Sport accelerates harder. This experience quickly exhausts one’s supply of Old Norse oaths and curses and one is reduced to childish wows and holy cows. At full throttle in the Super Sport, the world comes at you in one ferocious, howling, soul-shaking, Newtonian sneeze.”
There’s a new kid on the block. The brand new Bugatti Veyron. Oh yeah….
Paradise Recovered
Paradise Recovered has been named a Top Pick at the Heartland Film Festival. It’s been getting some very good press and is featured in not just one, but two film festivals. Not bad for such a small-cast, small-crew film!