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Parking

Apparently, I have been in seclusion under sedation after the tragic realities of that last Wiggles post set in. Either that, or the holiday festivities + my birthday world tour* left me with...

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My Blue Period

Below are two photos I took a few years back. For some reason, I uploaded them to blogger last February in a draft post and never did anything with it. I don't even recollect why I uploaded them. Both...

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The Modern Age in 7 Words

Few headlines have summed up the times in which we live more so than the one just read:Runaway Bride Story to Become Rock OperaI haven't even read the story. Why bother? It can only be anticlimax.You...

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Why did Mike spend an unintended night in Jamaica, Queens last night?

Here's Reason Part 1:A magician who recently performed for a Super Bowl party at the Versace mansion inadvertently caused flights to be shut down for two hours Saturday at Palm Beach International...

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Bee-lated?

Bee vanishing act baffles keepers:Honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 US states, threatening the production of numerous crops.The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than...

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"A Super Huge Rock Band Is Forming Only Group Thats Going To Matter"

So says the Google AdSense ad, rife with bluster and a casual attitude towards punctuation and syntax. I didn't want to click on the ad, so I Googled the phrase instead and read what someone else had...

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The Music Minutiae Strikes Back!

I re-added my "Music Minutiae" music news "sideblog" on the right-hand side of the page. The previous incarnation was via free service that went kaput. Now it's using an RSS feed from the music blog I...

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Introducing No Band...

So I was scheduled to introduce Robert Randolph & The Family Band on Friday (6/1) for a free performance at the opening night of the Three Rivers Arts Festival (the annual June series of free...

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Quote of the week...

If we can’t restrict the use of the words "fuck" and "shit" during prime time, Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want.Those are the words of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on...

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Flashback Quote of the Week

A flashback to March 5, 1990:"Musically, we are more talented than any Bob Dylan," announces Robert Pilatus, 24, with very little prodding. "Musically, we are more talented than Paul McCartney. Mick...

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What the heck is electronic mail?

Computerworld is running a collection of their favorite old computer ads, including the above one from Nov. 1981. Honeywell, for some reason, chose to depict email as a frightening and dangerous new...

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One Thing I've Been Up to Lately...

In June, I got married (and since then, alas, I've had little time to blog: moving in, honeymoon, home improvement projects, usual summer hecticity, etc.). Anyway, my wife and I married ourselves using...

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About 19 years ago....

From Time Magazine, Nov. 14, 1988:It is one of the least publicized achievements of the computer revolution: a huge, arching communications network connecting 60,000 computers by high-speed data links...

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Someone ate the brown acid

Last year, an outlet mall north of Pittsburgh opened at midnight after Thanksgiving to get a jump start on the shameless day-after orgy of shopping that has become wedded to the holiday tradition. The...

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Flashbacking: Jan 30, 1997

Recently, I was poking around in the dark recesses of my computer and I found a couple of archived files of old emails. These were from around 1996-1997, when I was more obsessive about backing things...

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Flashbacking: January 31, 1997

Here's part of an email I received on that day, from a listener to my radio show:I have a small album collection and have been trying to obtain a copy of a song I heard back in the early 1980's. It was...

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New Post??

Not really. But I have cleaned up some dead link and updated some of the "College People" section in the side column. IC friends take note.

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"Virtual Tour"

Why oh why does a business systems company in Syracuse, New York need a 360 degree virtual tour of their offices? It reminds me of a videogame without objectives, purpose, and much in the way of...

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Signage for the Ages

A lot of learned folks have been bending gray cells of late trying to figure out how to send messages to the future. Not via time machines, but through simple physical signs designed to last for...

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Sing along!

Here's the story of a lovely ladyWho was bringing up five very lovely kidsAll of them eat their mooseburgersAnd one of them's knocked up.Here's the story of a man named McCainWho was busy with a bimbo...

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Dear Jonas Brothers

Or, more specifically, to the attorneys of the Jonas Brothers:I happened to follow a link which resulted in me ending up on your official website, and realized that I hadn't read your site's Terms of...

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Headline of the Year

Man who claimed puppy saved him now charged with arson.

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TV News as a kid

Have no idea why, but the name "Warren Doremus" just popped into my noggin earlier today. After treating myself to a momentary blank look, a mental eureka: he was a local news anchor in Rochester, NY,...

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Anybody on the internets know anything about this?

While perusing some '66 Beatles press , I just saw this notice in Billboard (Jan. 22, 1966) in an article about Polydor Records:Polydor will press and distribute Reaction, a new label founded by...

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The list of Living Hitchcock Actors

Fewer and fewer. 2015 has been a rough year for Hitchcock actors. We're down to about 55 left. On the positive side, Norman Lloyd will be turning 101 in two days, and he's still working...

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