carl sagan and the white stripe

By now, everyone’s seen the videos featuring Carl Sagan, Steven Hawking, Richard Feynman, etc. Singing! All singing by virtue of Autotune software. Personally, I find these two music videos emotionally moving, which shows that I’m a science geek, I guess. Then I heard Ann Druyan on the “Planetary Radio” podcast recently saying that Jack White [...]

a camp just for patriots

An outlaw took a stencil and spray paint and decorated the locker room at my health club. The black interior of many of the lockers had a message: “Google fema camps.” I did. It turns out that the vandal was actually a patriot, bravely and desperately trying to spread the word about the coming overthrow [...]

the high desert

It’s where I belong. Click photo for larger version.

seacompression 2009

Don’t put bacon on the cupcakes.

the sources of nothing

1. This blog is a excellent source of nothing. Or at least has been for several weeks. My spare time has been close to zero.
2. Nothing is also produced by the vacant stares of the people at Jiffy Lube. I won’t go into detail here, but the workers decided to pretend I was invisible, which [...]

The diving bell and the butterfly and other movie stuff

Maggie Netflixilated this movie for us and I was amazed. One of the best films I’ve seen in quite a while. Beautiful, brilliant, and intelligent. Nice soundtrack too. I noticed that many of my favorite films over the past ten years also had excellent soundtracks: “Children of Men,” “Lost in Translation.” Music is a big [...]

Blue Cheer and The Pains of Being Pure of Heart

Lately I’ve been revisiting the band, Blue Cheer. Sounds like a laundry detergent, but the name actually came from a type of LSD going around San Francisco in days of yore. Oldsters and psychedelic music aficionados will remember their famous cover of Summertime Blues. I think I first heard it from my older brother or [...]

another halloween gone

All praise to the Timmons’ for continuing their most excellent annual Halloween parties. Thanks to “A Wink and a Smile,” now Seattle’s burlesque stars are coming to the party, which seems to get larger every year.