If I open my windows …
06-07-2005, 15:42News / SportsPermalink... and turn my stereo up really loud and you sit outside in your car listening to my music, are you breaking the law?
It seems to me that if someone is dumb enough to set up a wireless network and leave it open to the world... oh, well ...
It seems to me that if someone is dumb enough to set up a wireless network and leave it open to the world... oh, well ...
iTunes is currently playing: Steal Me Blind from the album Alf by Alison Moyet.
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A Blast from the Past (almost)
03-07-2005, 20:33Family / Misc. PersonalPermalinkI went to a concert/dance tonight. (For those who find that hard to believe, I have the video to prove it! Someone even asked me to dance. Imagine that :) )
A local band called Together played at the East Chicago Marina (near the floating casinos). I never knew that East Chicago had a marina. Maybe it is new (as in "built since I moved away in 1979").
In any case, the band was great. They played soul from the 60's (Temptations, the Dells, Rare Earth...) along with salsa, Sinatra, and a bit of disco thrown in for good measure. Robin says that some of the guys played with the Enchanters, a band we danced to in high school. If I ever throw a party with live music, I'll get these guys to play.
Here is a picture of a little girl who attended the concert but was more interested in the fireworks show which was to follow the music and dancing. Isn't she cute?
iTunes is currently playing: Dance Away from the album Heart Still Beating by Roxy Music.
A local band called Together played at the East Chicago Marina (near the floating casinos). I never knew that East Chicago had a marina. Maybe it is new (as in "built since I moved away in 1979").
In any case, the band was great. They played soul from the 60's (Temptations, the Dells, Rare Earth...) along with salsa, Sinatra, and a bit of disco thrown in for good measure. Robin says that some of the guys played with the Enchanters, a band we danced to in high school. If I ever throw a party with live music, I'll get these guys to play.
Here is a picture of a little girl who attended the concert but was more interested in the fireworks show which was to follow the music and dancing. Isn't she cute?
iTunes is currently playing: Dance Away from the album Heart Still Beating by Roxy Music.
Dear Brooke Shields:
01-07-2005, 04:37News / SportsPermalinkTom Cruise is a f***ing idiot and everybody knows it.
As my mother always says, consider the source.
As my mother always says, consider the source.
iTunes is currently playing: When Sunny Gets Blue from the album 16 Most Requested Songs by Johnny Mathis.
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POSITIVELY GIDDY!
27-05-2005, 15:21ShoppingPermalinkThat's how I felt as I drove my new Scion xA off the dealer's lot.
Is it cute or what?!
iTunes is currently playing: Driving from the album The Language Of Life by Everything But The Girl.
Is it cute or what?!
iTunes is currently playing: Driving from the album The Language Of Life by Everything But The Girl.
Book Report: The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
07-05-2005, 18:59Lit / Art / Music /PhotoPermalinkDo you think life sucks? Do you look around, take note of the pain that bombards us relentlessly as we move through life, and wonder why we don't all just blow our brains out and get it over with? If so, DO NOT read Alice Hoffman's "The Ice Queen". I cannot remember when I've read a drearier book. Not that the story and characters won't hold your interest. They will. But if you are prone to depression, you will pay the price for reading this book.
You have been warned.
You have been warned.
iTunes is currently playing: Tears All Over Town from the album Idlewild by Everything But The Girl.
I Love Cemeteries
28-04-2005, 16:12Family / Misc. PersonalPermalinkThey contain so many stories, the details of which we can only guess. These gravestones, located near my family's plots in Northwest Indiana, are two of my favorites. I want to know so much more than what appears on the stones...
iTunes is currently playing: Lost Child (String Quartet Remix) from the album Moto.Tronic by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
iTunes is currently playing: Lost Child (String Quartet Remix) from the album Moto.Tronic by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
No wonder he chose to write fiction
11-04-2005, 17:58Lit / Art / Music /PhotoPermalinkThe current (March/April 2005) issue of Poets and Writers magazine includes an article about a young fiction writer from Thailand named Rattawut Lapcharoensap. The article says of Lapcharoensap, who recently published a collection of short stories called Sightseeing:
When he lived in Chicago, his parents frequently took in political dissidents and foreign refugees. One day, an old, scraggly man, a diswasher at a local restaurant, showed up and took over the family's couch. Lapcharoensap asked his mother who the man was and what kind of work he did. "He's a poet," his mother replied.
iTunes is currently playing: The Book I Read from the album Live at the Sun Palace (Tokyo) by Talking Heads.
2+ mil for the lawyer, 49 cents for the plaintiff
11-04-2005, 15:53News / SportsPermalinkAn interesting article in today's L.A. Times explains how sleazy lawyers get rich by filing class action lawsuits and then negotiate settlements that give them millions while giving each "injured" party less than a dollar. Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that many of the plaintiffs don't even know they are a party to the action until they get a check that isn't worth cashing. Strange but true...
iTunes is currently playing: The Game from the album Another Place by Hiroshima.
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How can we get reporters to stop talking to this guy?
06-04-2005, 19:14News / SportsPermalinkFrom Drudge:
En route to Rome, Clinton told reporters the pope centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a very conservative theological doctrine. "There will be debates about that. The number of Catholics increased by 250 million on his watch. But the numbers of priests didn't. He's like all of us - he may have a mixed legacy."
En route to Rome, Clinton told reporters the pope centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a very conservative theological doctrine. "There will be debates about that. The number of Catholics increased by 250 million on his watch. But the numbers of priests didn't. He's like all of us - he may have a mixed legacy."
iTunes is currently playing: Your Cheatin' Heart from the album 24 Greatest Hits by Hank Williams.
Zogby has restored my faith in mankind.
06-04-2005, 18:25News / SportsPermalinkA Zogby poll completed after the controversial death of Terri Schiavo finds that eight-in-ten (80%) likely voters say that a disabled person who is not terminally ill or in a coma, and not being kept alive by life support should not, in the absence of a written directive to the contrary, be denied food and water.
By a three-to-one (44% to 14%) margin, likely voters say that, when there is conflicting evidence on the wishes of a patient, elected officials
should order that a feeding tube remain in place.
The same poll also finds a majority (56%) agree that Schiavo's husband Michael should have turned guardianship for the severely-disabled woman over to her parents based on his decision to have a long-term serious relationship with another woman.
By a two-to-one (44% to 24%) margin, with one-in-three (32%) undecided, the survey finds that an incapacitated person should be presumed to want to live in the absence of written instructions such as a living will.
By a three-to-one (44% to 14%) margin, likely voters say that, when there is conflicting evidence on the wishes of a patient, elected officials
should order that a feeding tube remain in place.
The same poll also finds a majority (56%) agree that Schiavo's husband Michael should have turned guardianship for the severely-disabled woman over to her parents based on his decision to have a long-term serious relationship with another woman.
By a two-to-one (44% to 24%) margin, with one-in-three (32%) undecided, the survey finds that an incapacitated person should be presumed to want to live in the absence of written instructions such as a living will.
iTunes is currently playing: Life Holds On from the album Beth Nielsen Chapman by Beth Nielsen Chapman.
