Archive for 2006

top ten update 12/29/06

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

top ten update

No new records in the top ten for the past two weeks, which gives me the opportunity, after the jump, to sum up a little. I

Snoop Dogg on James Brown

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

will that include the domestic violence rap?

Snoop Dogg on James Brown: “He’ll be missed, but his music and his legacy will live on through me, in every way you can imagine.”

Gerald Ford frontpage

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

size matters

In the Seattle Times, at least, Gerald Ford gets the kind of coverage James Brown deserved. Maybe that’s just my pop music bias, but, my goodness (as Ford appointee Rumsfeld would say), you’d think God had died or something.

James Brown TAMI Show

Monday, December 25th, 2006

JB on the T.a.m.i. show

A great performer at his peak.

James Brown, R.I.P.

Monday, December 25th, 2006

doin

top ten 12/8/06

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

top ten update

After another long break, I

black belts at Amazon.com

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

why I could never work for Amazon.com

I’m sure there’s all kinds of research supporting this approach to systems analysis and such (or whatever the hell this job actually entails). But the mystical quality of this ad makes Amazon sound like some sort of cult, or maybe an exclusive quasi-religious organization like the Freemasons. Is there a secret handshake? Murmured incantations of power in a long-dead, or newly invented, language? Sacred underwear?

quitting the post office

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

postal no more

After going through all the hassles and bureaucratic hoops to transfer from Pasco to Covington, on Friday, after being there a little more than a month, I decided to give up on working at the post office, and on Saturday I quit. Now I can go looking for a part time job in Seattle that

Soy

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

that is so soy!

We are not a big soy, tofu and other soy byproducts eating household. We are, as anyone can tell, pretty much anti-soy. But we’re not this much anti-soy. In fact, if we really thought soy made you gay, we might want to try it for awhile, just as an experiment.

top ten record review update

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

top ten update

There I go again. Just as I