Archive for December 2006

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Karen O: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Baby!

Karen O: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Baby!

One of my two favorite CDs* from 2006 is Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Show Your Bones“, which was released last March. In my opinion, there isn’t a bad song on the album. The band’s musical style is described as “art rock”, whatever the hell that means. All I know is that the three-member [...]

Time to Reintroduce Some Humor to this Blog

And so I bring you this headline from the Chosun Ilbo,
Silky Chickens Run For Cover
To avoid being casualties of the bird flu scare. Still, if you want to be completely safe from bird flu, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to choke your silky chicken.

Letter to a Departed Friend

Dear Friend,
I wish, on the afternoon of November 24th, that you could have stepped briefly into the future. Had that been possible, you would have heard the shaken voice of your good friend John, as unflappable a character as there ever was, as he told me over the phone the next day that you were [...]