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Archive of entries posted on September 2007

130,000

(from the depressing milestone dept.) Since January 16, 2006, over 130,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 10,000 spam comments since July 29, 2007 and more than 67 times the number of legitimate comments posted to this web site since June, 2001.

Friday Random Ten: 2007-09-28

Name Artist Album Genre
1.  How Many More Times Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I Rock
2.  Ying Tong Song Jon Anderson State of Independence Rock
3.  The Sheik Yerbouti Tango Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti Alternative & Punk
4.  Desire Toad The Wet Sprocket Coil Alternative & Punk
5.  All For One Monty Python’s Spamalot Original Cast Recording Soundtrack
6.  Yo Mama Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti Alternative & Punk
7.  It Can Happen (Cinema Version) Cinema 90125 Rock
8.  Big Bang Backwards Thomas Dolby The Gate To The Mind’s Eye Alternative & Punk
9.  Solo in 4 Movements – Prelude: Temenos Terry Bozzio Solo Drum Music (Disc 1) World
10.  Soul Kitchen The Doors The Doors Rock

If we elect Rudy Giuliani president…

(via Eschaton) It’ll be so awesome if we elect Rudy Giuliani president, because then we could celebrate 9/11 every day! If Rudy is elected president we can mint a special coin worth exactly $9.11. (It’ll double as tokens to his fund raisers, of course.) If Rudy is elected president, then every year we can sing [...]

WordPress 2.3

I’ve gone ahead and upgraded to WordPress 2.3. Everything pretty much worked after a few minor changes to this site’s theme.

Doctors Prefer…

Is he still surprised? (2007)

A year from now I’d be surprised if there’s not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. – Richard Perle (September 22, 2003) (more…)

Friday Random Ten: 2007-09-21

Name Artist Album Genre
1.  Anxiety/Taurian Matador Billy Cobham Spectrum (Remaster) Jazz
2.  Camouflage Stan Ridgway The Big Heat Rock
3.  Wonderful Wino Frank Zappa Zoot Allures Alternative & Punk
4.  Coming Back To Life Pink Floyd The Division Bell Rock
5.  Happy Phantom Tori Amos Little Earthquakes Alternative & Punk
6.  The Breaking Of The Fellowship Fran Walsh and Howard Shore The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Soundtrack
7.  Star 69 R.E.M. Monster Rock
8.  Somewhere In Between Kate Bush Aerial: A Sky of Honey Alternative & Punk
9.  Red Rain Peter Gabriel So Rock
10.  Baby Snakes Frank Zappa Baby Snakes Alternative & Punk

_The Hobbit_ Published 70 Years Ago Today

Sept. 21, 1937: The Hobbit is first published.

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Leave President Bush Alone!

Pirate Pickup Lines

Since it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day… Top Ten Pickup lines for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly? Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm? Come on up and see me urchins. Yes, that is a hornpipe in [...]