Some shots taken after Uppercase Sound #1:
(some of these are slightly photoshopped)
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Uppercase Sound #1
April 19, 2006 – 12:44 pm
Last night, almost a year after the last time I made it out to absorb some local culture, CK, JMD & I (no TJICisphereans expressed interest) wandered over to PA’s Lounge for the first “Uppercase Sound” event (since people actually attended, apparently there will be an Uppercase Sound #2). On the bill were Rise|Set|Twilight, Asher, [...]
Undermining one’s own authority
April 17, 2006 – 10:08 am
Don Boudreaux writes:
Economist Paul Craig Roberts has joined recently with the likes of Lou Dobbs and Sen. Charles Schumer to denounce so-called “outsourcing” — that is, the importation of services.
Roberts is aware that, throughout history, free trade has raised the living standards of ordinary people. But, he says, this historical record is irrelevant to today’s [...]
He always tells the truth in D
April 15, 2006 – 5:17 pm
The Luckiest Girl in the World breathlessly reports that
On Wednesday, I was at work when I got a call for a Neil Young session the next day. Needless to say, I was excited about it - Neil Young is one of my musical heroes. When my husband and I got to Capitol, we found 98 [...]
Currently under consideration
April 9, 2006 – 12:48 pm
If I manage to get out of the house for these:
The Fun Years, April 18th, PA’s Lounge, Somerville.
Mogwai*, May 14th, Avalon, Boston.
Tag-alongs are welcome.
*Mogwai’s new release is excellent, btw.
Promises, promises
April 6, 2006 – 12:30 am
One thing that’s really grabbed my interest lately is East Africa (Somalia in particular). While I’m still waiting for Law of the Somalis to arrive, I’ve been bookmarking lots of interesting news items on the area, which I’ll try to push into some coherent blogform in the next week or two (after a work project [...]
Dear New York Times
April 4, 2006 – 10:54 pm
Congratulations on your newly redesigned website! Alas, the top-of-the-page horizontal flash ads are displaying against a white background three times taller than the flash ad itself in my browser (Firefox 1.5.01 on Linux), obscuring the top couple of paragraphs in each article.
Of course, this will force people (not many, I admit, but surely some) to [...]
Four-color world
April 4, 2006 – 12:45 am
Showing on various movie channels (I’ve got RCN) right now are Batman, Superman, Spiderman 2, The Punisher, and Judge Dredd.
WTF? Do these programming guys call each other?