Rocko's Modurn LifeJournal

I'm teasing myself and allowing myself to be teased too much lately. It's taking me out if comfort zone. Which isn't good because a hazy brain leads to bad decisions. It's time to stop that nonsense.

1. Pick a lane
2. Stay in that lane
3.Prior to changing lanes, use your turn signals. (Studies have shown that using the turn signal in the direction of the lane you would like to switch to to be most effective method.)

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

After reading this article I realized two things:

1. Try as the right might, barring a terrorist incident on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama will be a two term president.

2. Talk radio isn't a dying medium, contrary to the article's suggestion.

1 because the Republicans can not effectively counter him. Part of the reason for this is the visceral reaction to right-wing pundits from the left and the center-left and the malaise of the moderate Republicans in the article. They blame each other for ( Read more... )

Atlas Shrugged as a film? Preposterous. According to Wiki, John Galt's speech, the heartbeat of the novel, is 3 hours long. Let's not get into the complex dialogue, the length and philosophy of the story itself and the explicit sex (without consequences). If someone turned it into a film, I'd be ready to hate it.

Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aya Strange Flower
Ayumi Hamasaki Duty
Bjork Post
Bleach (Okinawa) 気炎
Bob James Angels of Shanghai
Claude Debussy "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" | La Mer | Nocturnes
Collective Soul Collective Soul
Dark Tranquillity Projector
DJ Spooky & Dave Lombardo Drums of Death
Dream Theater Awake
Eastern Sun In Emptiness
Elastica Elastica
Eric B. & Rakim Follow the Leader
Everything But the Girl Amplified Heart
Foo Fighters Times Like These (UK Single)
Heart Dreamboat Annie
Holly Cole Holly Cole
Infected Mushroom Vicious Delicious
John Petrucci Suspended Animation ( Read more... )

I had no idea there was a tour of Ground Zero. Not the actual hole but the landmarks around the hole. It's surprising in one sense but not in another. It. makes sense because tourists do come and it makes sense to have a guide so there is money to be had. And if there's money to be had in America somebody is ready to take it.

On the same subject but entirely different I was at Diana Krall's free album promotion concert and overheard these three ladies talking ( Read more... )

Part of my problem is I'm staying up too late. Good night.

From the Economist's Gulliver blog:


Lookit me puttin' up a free advert for Southwest.

Stop having sex America!

Certainly not a slow news week: government fires the CEO of a government subsidized corporation, President Obama's first meeting with world leaders, and North Korea has a missile ready to go.

No time for silly stories this week.