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Harmon Killebrew enters hospice care This fills me with great sadness. When Kirby died, I bawled. Didn't bawl for this, but did get teary and do every time I think about it.

In honor of Stevie Wonder's 61st and Friday the 13th, I shared this with my students today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

I like it when Bruce doesn't take himself so seriously. That was brilliant and funny as hell.

I always liked that Beck/Stewart version. I think it's the first I remember hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu2OVCGM

As a middle school teacher, let me tell you, there are plenty of Nirvana fans out there who have no idea what context the music belongs in. Pretty much anything made before 2000 is "classic rock" to them, which makes sense considering they were born around 1997. But still, to them The Beatles = Kiss = Van Halen = Nirvana. Kids going to a Miley Cyrus concert may hear that and think, "Hey, I heard that on my dad's radio station once, cool!" But the kids who stay into it will because they heard it on their dad's radio station, brother's iPod, or friend's house, not because Miley sang it. Sh

It might fit the dictionary definition for odd and incongruous, but so does an outfit with plaid and stripes. This was beyond odd and incongruous.

One wonders if she fully appreciates the irony. She, like Debbie Gibson, has her own perfume.

Still wrong thread, getting closer.

I made a new thread for that Miley Cyrus video if someone wants to post it up here.

Wrong thread

I follow my older brother like a lapdog when it comes to music. EXCEPT, I take credit for turning him on to Wilco. In the late 90s, we were both frustrated with most of the rock scene. He really got into jazz, and I followed. Then he got really deep into classical, esp. opera. I learned a lot from him, but opera requires a big investment of time and focus to really get into. It was around that time I got him into Wilco. I'd bought him Being There when it first came out. He liked it, but didn't love it. Then came YHF and it blew him away. We went to residency night #2 together. Anyh

YAY for Liriano.

We have killed, we have built. We have killed for sound reasons (WWII) and crappy (Vietnam, Spanish-American, etc.), but we HAVE built up. bin Laden has not. Counting dead bodies is a pretty crappy and wholly incomplete way to evaluate the legacy of a 230+ old country vs. that of a 57 year old man.

My kids turn 6 Wednesday. They go through phases and we're definitely in a Star Wars drought. I hope this changes soon. I'd watch any of the Star Wars (even the new ones, hell, even Clone Wars) for the rest of my life than be exposed to any of the schlock my kids have gotten hooked on from the Disney Channel. It all started with Phineas and Ferb, which is great, now it's all the crap. Lemonade Mouth, Wizards of Waverly Place, Zach & Cody, Good Luck Charlie. The best thing about this is it's easier for me to enforce T.V. time limits because they're watching crap that I cannot stand.

The 1st part of this statement is true, but entirely incomplete. As often as we have killed we have built. No, we aren't innocent and no, we are not perfect. But to say the U.S. is worse that bin Laden (or even in the same ballpark) is to have a very incomplete view of history. bin Laden's focus was destruction.

I'm in shock. This is OBVIOUSLY huge and good news, but there will be a shitload of angry jihadists out there. ETA: How am I supposed to find out if Nene got fired on Celebrity Apprentice?

Nothing as heartwarming as watching a five year old sing, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die". Can't wait to hear his take on "Gin & Juice".

Sorry you feel like this is some sort of competition. Best of luck to you, too.

I never said the news was good, but there are plenty of articles that are less than apocalyptic.

Meet the Wilco

I think the problem many have with your posts and links is that you seem to seek out the most frightening and pessimistic articles about this tragedy and accept them at face value while discounting the rest. I am not sure why governments (other than Japan's trying to save face) and "mainstream" news agencies would want to lie to us about the dangers this poses. It will probably be the worst environmental disaster in history, at worst nuclear accident (and those are, probably the worst and most long-lasting kind). But reading your posts seem to give the impression that you believe this accid

Buddy was of huge transitional importance from the 50s to the 60s. He took more control of his career, wrote more of his own material than most, produced or co-produced much of his material, added strings and other flourishes to rock music. We'll never know, he could've ended up playing Reno casinos, but my sense of it is that he would have continued to be respectable and important.

Thinking about the short-lived brilliance of his career in these terms gives me goose bumps.