Led Zeppelin

Unless you are under a rock or live in the mining hills of northern Michigan like some crazed hillbilly gun runner, you probably have heard that Led Zeppelin played a concert last night. I found a good write up by David Fricke here. There are some nice photographs if you scroll to the end of the article.

You can view a few videos here.

The core bullshit issues people really care about

I didn't know The Onion did video.

A Quote

I am currently reading Steve Martin's memoir entitled "Born Standing Up." As you may have guess from the title the book focuses on his ten years as a working stand up comedian. Here's a great quote from the book concerning his decision to attempt to make a living by making people laugh: "I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naivete, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do."

Howdy

I knew moving three households into this house was going to be challenging. I had no idea how much work this was going to be. We're getting there, though. The living room is set up and has surround sound ready to go. The downstairs den is also ready to go and it also has surround sound. I got my clothes unpacked but I have five boxes of CD's that I have absolutely no idea where to put. Right now they are stacked in my bedroom. I tried to give the CD's to Chris and then told him to get his CD's the hell out of my room but that didn't work.

How about a few pictures of the new place?
Here's a shot of the house from the backyard?

Here's a shot from the street.

Here we see Melanie doing proper women's work.

Yesterday afternoon, while listening to while listening to radio broadcast of the Panthers' most recent meltdown, I put up some Christmas lights. I was really enjoying working outside. I only wish we had a competitive football team so I could have had something worthwhile to listen to. I guess I should have turned the game off and listened to some tunes.

Saturday afternoon I hooked up some outdoor speakers to an extra receiver we had sitting around the house. Sitting on the back porch on a mild winter evening, sipping a Gaelic Ale by Highland Brewery and listening to you 100 most listened to songs set to shuffle on the Ipod is an ideal way to spend time.

Coincidence?

What happens when a conservative knucklehead becomes president and starts supporting more abstinence only sexual education? Why you have a rise in teenage mothers. Jackass.

Why worry about creationists?

John Scalzi gives the best answer yet. Yes, sometimes the simplest answer is the best answer.

Speaking of War Mongers...

As usual, Josh Marshall is on the ball concerning Bush and Iran. Patrick Lang also has a rational view of the situation.

Our new neighbor, Crash
Originally uploaded by zzazazz

The first neighbor we met at our new house was an extremely friendly black kitten named, according to his collar, Crash. He lives two houses down from us and his owner saw Crash walking among us and he hollered down, "I see you met Crash." I hollered back, "Yeah, he seems to be the neighborhood welcoming commitee." "Be careful," the owner said back, "He likes to climb inside cars." "Yeah," I said, "he's already been in my trunk." We both laughed.

Crash and Melanie's miniature dachshund have had a few spirited races around the yard. I've thrown Crash over the fence a couple of times to save him from Isaac but he keeps coming back. He's on his own now. He's younger and faster than Isaac and they both seem to enjoy their chases. Hopefully the chases won't evolve into captures.

This picture was taken through the kitchen window. He really wanted in but with three cats and a dog of our own he can go inside at his own house.

Big Hit

One of my favorite bits that David Letterman did back in the 80's was dropping things off a five story tower. I found the following Youtube video where he has his employees drop a safe onto a car. Now, that's good television.



What the?

I love the public. This lady just spent the last 30 minutes trying to recover her Yahoo email password. I was helping her and she couldn't remember what answer she had given to the secret question. I told her if she didn't know that answer I had no way to recover her password. She decided to use the Yahoo help system and, in doing so, logged in with her Yahoo ID, the password of which she had written down in a notebook. I never thought to ask her "You do know your Yahoo ID is tied into your Yahoo email account, right?" The public offers me a new challenge every day.

Shit Shovelers

Well, it looks like Bush and Cheney were completely full of shit in regards to Iran . Big surprise, I know. At least this time they were stopped before they started another war. They really wanted this one, too. Right now they have more wars than they need but not more wars than they want.

Howdy

I haven't posted anything for a few days because I have been moving all weekend. And I do mean all weekend. From Friday until yesterday I spent over 8 hours a day hauling boxes and furniture from three different apartments into one pretty big house. I don't ever want to do that again. One of my new roommates (an old friend of mine) didn't even bother to pack his belongs until we were at his old place and ready to put his stuff on the truck. I still think he's not aware of just how close he came to getting killed by me, Wendell and Melanie. He set us back a good three or four hours on Friday. Considering Friday was already going to be an 8 hour day you can understand why I was unable to articulate my rage into words. Word of advice, if you ever have to move try and box up your belongings before the day you actually are supposed to move.

New blogger

Jim Bailey, guitar player, reader, mountain climber and Yeti wrestler, now has a blog. He has joined the ranks of the chosen millions. He's the second new blogger to emerge from my group of lifelong friends in the last month. You can read his blog right here.