tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311591972011-11-27T16:21:37.599-08:00There ain't no devil, that's just God when he's drunkWharf Ratnoreply@blogger.comBlogger901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-80120260398853649762008-01-04T12:27:00.000-08:002008-01-04T12:33:16.307-08:00

I was wrong, I have 4 readers and one of them is not on MySpace. Sorry, Dave. The link to the new blog is here. If that doesn't work, copy and paste: http://www.myspace.com/wharfratmusicin to your browser's address field.

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When I first decided to dabble in blogging, I chose Blogger because it was one of the first widely available services that offered free hosting and content management. This is before I knew anything about html and before Blogger was acquired by Google.Soon after, I became somewhat enamored with MySpace, mostly because I had so many friends (including ones I hadn't seen in years) on there.

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Wharf Rat IntroAdd to My Profile | More Videos

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-40772217419053270402008-01-01T15:13:00.000-08:002008-01-01T15:46:53.449-08:00

I'm really getting sick of projection. If I hear one more person accuse another of the exact same shit they're doing, I'm going to scream.I'm sick of closeted conservatives who bash homosexuals, sure. Forget Larry Craig, this winner of a trend has been going on since Roy Cohn or J. Edgar Hoover.I'm sick of fundamentalist religious types accusing atheists, homosexuals, liberals and anyone else

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Check it out on on my MySpace music page!

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Free documentary.

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I was just re-reading some of the last few month's posts and it occurred to me that the author/illustrator of the cartoon posted 11/06/07 forgot one subtle but important difference:Jesus: JewishJeezus: ChristianReally, that says it all, don't you think?

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-2081200807828965042007-12-19T17:32:00.000-08:002008-11-12T18:02:01.425-08:00

Hmm, better have this one too...

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-45447099056821925132007-12-18T05:50:00.000-08:002007-12-18T05:55:54.863-08:00

Despite my misgivings about MySpace, it's still one of the best ways to get your music out there.*sigh*So be sure to visit myspace.com/wharfratmusic. All the tunes are Public Domain, due to MySpace's terms of service.N-joy!

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-47770903331954441812007-12-17T14:37:00.000-08:002007-12-17T14:42:25.469-08:00

I've linked the .mp3s to the top left hand column. Who Will Sing For Me is available for your listening enjoyment. I'm real proud of the backing vocals I did.Also, check out my new MySpace Music site!

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As a little teaser before my show at Ten West, allow me to share my rendition of Uncle John's Band. Login: mynameisaugustwestPW: pearlySorry about the quality; it was recorded on my laptop with Audacity and an old mic with one of those colored coordinated (pink) jacks.Update: There's also a Christmas present (too bad I had no way of hiding it. Wouldn't it be cool if my Christmas present was an

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-73950708789152921282007-12-15T15:05:00.000-08:002008-11-12T18:02:01.591-08:00

Bonus: for all you sci-fi fans out there, Talking Meat!

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-37359837118837222822007-12-13T12:21:00.000-08:002007-12-13T12:47:26.176-08:00

I've updated the look and feel of my blog. It's far from perfect, and there's no more fancy .xml, but at least I can say that I designed most of it myself.Ah reckon I'll have to start resizing my pix & vids now, too. I'm not gonna go back and redo them all, tho...Update: OK, so I went back and did one lousy pages worth. Whattaya want? I'm obsessive-compulsive!

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-46081469790839075032007-12-08T13:20:00.000-08:002007-12-08T16:50:26.398-08:00

This morning afternoon (I was out last night & forgot that I didn't get up 'til 3) , I was watching C-Span and they were playing the audio of the president's weekly address. After the part of it that I saw, the Democratic rebuttal came on.While I was having a good time chuckling to myself about them all blowing so much hot air about petty issues and ignoring several very large elephants, I

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-62525210950284270892007-11-22T16:05:00.001-08:002007-12-13T12:37:07.421-08:00

-and-Not funny, but poignant - Bonus DVD content from Sicko.

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Are you on the internet? Check and see!

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-4604901428074867252007-11-18T10:31:00.000-08:002007-12-13T12:42:53.033-08:00

Decide for your self (or let Rowan Atkinson decide for you).

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-14814261072950754142007-11-17T13:43:00.000-08:002007-12-13T12:38:40.802-08:00

Not as sexy as FOX - not as ugly as PBS.Seriously, PBS and NPR are already doing this. Nobody watches or listens, that's all.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-37782090812811803362007-11-09T03:51:00.000-08:002008-11-12T18:02:01.794-08:00

Er... John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, that is.

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Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-42583985162073025852007-11-03T11:36:00.000-07:002007-12-13T12:45:18.790-08:00

From the Why Didn't I Think Of That? department...

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Talk to your kids about sex...they sure won't get to learn about it in school!Talk to Kids PSA on FunnyOrDie.com

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-35900854023316140192007-10-23T16:16:00.000-07:002007-10-23T16:36:18.135-07:00

You like bubble wrap, don'tcha? Sure, everybody does! So what would you give for bubble wrap that never ends? Nothing? Really? You cheap bastard...fine, here you go.Also, the new Ween album - La Cucaracha came out today. If you don't have a streaming music subscription like I do, run don't walk to your nearest music store and pick up a copy go to Rhapsody.com. They give you 25 free plays a

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-72403588511638559272007-10-22T15:05:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:02.142-08:00

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-1223167049557733332007-10-21T09:28:00.000-07:002007-10-21T09:31:02.579-07:00

Mostly, I'm content now to stick most of the wackiness I find on my shared page, but this one had to make it here:

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Click here and subscribe to the rss feed. I really can't figure out what "shared items" are for otherwise...

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Just a sample. Visit Kreepsville to see the rest. Again - Happy Hallowe'en!

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The original 1922 silent film starring Max Schreck.Happy Hallowe'en everybody!

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Please visit Students for Sensible Drug Policy for more information.

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This has to be the most surreal/unintentionally funny thing I have ever seen...and that's saying something!WTF?

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Somebody asked me today, "Where is the internet?" Like, in physical space.Swear to God.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-21083528746016537912007-10-10T10:49:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:02.501-08:00

Ok, I couldn't make it animate (oops, guess it does), like the site that sells it, but it's a T-shirt that shows how much WiFi signal you're currently getting.

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A clawhammer/frailing tutorial free to read and distribute under Creative Commons.Here's the first video lesson from the same guy. I like his attitude and teaching style. Wish I could afford the DVD...----------------Now playing: Earl Scruggs/Watson/Skaggs - Who Will Sing For Me?via FoxyTunes

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-88313683959151551222007-10-06T06:54:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:02.642-08:00

I've been sorta passively following the story of the "$99 laptop" (AKA One Laptop Per Child) for a couple of years. It's gonna actually cost about double the initial target price but considering an entry-level desktop from Dell starts at $350, that's not too bad.The only thing is, while this project may have the best of intentions, I can't help thinking that it'll probably just end up

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Guy comes up to me and says, "I wanna download that there internet. Do I need a bigger hard disk?"Download the internet here!

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The Disney princesses (no, not Britney and Lindsey) talk about chlamydia. Best satire this side of the Onion, I swear.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-9090502516966174562007-10-02T05:19:00.000-07:002007-10-02T10:47:51.511-07:00

The Dove Self-Esteem Fund has released another spot:In case you've been living in a cave, it's the follow-up to this short film:Now, the message in these ads is a good one - one shouldn't measure oneself by the standards of beauty magazines, especially since they cheat; first with air-brushing, now with Photoshop. Lots of news organizations, both citizen and professional, have given them

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Since they didn't tase or pepper spray her, I guess everything's just fine and dandy! I'm so glad I'm afraid of flying, especially since The Day When Rudy Became A God. (I absolutely refuse to speak the two numbers in the date again in this lifetime.)----------------Now playing: Flaming Lips - Put The Waterbugs In The Policeman's Earvia FoxyTunes

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From Thursday's AlterNet. They're usually too ultra-liberal for me - but the author, Richard Behan, really did his homework on this one.----------------Now playing: Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take Itvia FoxyTunes

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No, not the Robot Chicken/Calvin and Hobbes bit, either.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-64456562073770552042007-09-28T07:32:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:32:35.607-07:00

I think that the point the author of this Economist article is trying to make is that these differences are symptoms of depression rather than the cause so trying to treat them independently is pointless. It does, however I think, bring up another interesting point when it comes to another common symptom of mood disorders: chemical dependence.Obviously, not all suffers of mood disorders are

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Breathalyzer tests ruled unconstitutional for pedestrians. Goes along with the last post, I guess. Could this be the start of my predicted domino effect? Let's hope so.

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Please, oh please, let this start one.Part of Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional.

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Ah, I have fond memories of 50¢ 24 ounce sodas, 99¢ fo'ties and 25¢ ice cream treats*. One of the rare things I miss about urban life, BTW. What our hosts fail to mention though, is that the prime reason you can't make it by going to Pathmark or Food Lion is that there isn't one that isn't three bus fares away.Yes, some white people know what it's like to live be poor and live in the ghetto,

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I've said back since the first Iraq war that if we must be in the business of deposing despots (AKA regime change), the first place we oughta do something about is Burma. Why, I understand even Dubya has managed to take time out of his busy schedule to sanction the junta there. What, did someone strike oil?Oh, well, thank goodness once again for Buddhist Monks. Let's hope they don't have to

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-35592684607968789132007-09-24T10:18:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:03.054-08:00

I used to work in a kiosk in the Plymouth Meeting mall that sold the kind of crap that this parodies. I used to find it hard not to snicker at the yuppie types who bought it and wonder just how upwardly professional they really were if they were here bothering me and not at King Of Prussia.

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Can't taze me. Now, why didn't I think of that?

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-86608751602285095862007-09-20T09:06:00.000-07:002007-09-20T09:16:04.698-07:00

Stephen Colbert made a good point on last night's Word.And that's only referring to the folks who blog about something, not us idiots who blog about our mundane lives.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-13753451088925624002007-09-18T10:05:00.000-07:002007-09-19T06:44:31.457-07:00

Transparent rolling papers? Yup, Naked Papers, as seen on last nights episode of Weeds. Gotta get me some! They're giving away free shit, so be sure to take advantage.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-47151873162546453332007-09-15T12:23:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:03.257-08:00

While reading today about a man who spent three days in jail because he insisted on using tokens to pay his toll after his state switched back to cash, I started thinking about financial legerdemain and all the ways it's used to scam. I'm also thinking about building a computer, so the "rebate" scam is in the front of my mind.Last year, the boss wanted me to help him out in obtaining the rebate

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Interesting article in yesterday's Washington Post about sporting equipment made from sustainable resources. Reminds me of a character in a William Gibson novel jamnturtl lent me recently, who had a bicycle made from reinforced paper.In other news, I'll probably be offline for some time today as I'm doing some beta testing. Wubi is a Ubuntu installer for Windows which, amongst other things,

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Ok, GoogleAds, do your worst.----------------Now playing: Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sundayvia FoxyTunes

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-20975259981662959572007-09-10T12:07:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:02:03.653-08:00

Here's an album cover I designed. Not great, but I think it speaks for itself.

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-15967026831103918292007-09-10T08:49:00.000-07:002007-09-10T11:16:06.695-07:00

Let me preface this post by saying that I have not watched MTV, much less their meaningless VMA's in 15 years at least. Not surprising, since the big M (remember when it stood for music?) is geared toward young people, a group I haven't been able to say I'm a part of in a good long time. In fact, I'm almost a little embarrassed to be posting on the subject of everyone's favorite Mouseketeer at

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Here's what kind of nerd I am, in case you wanted to know...Thank you for your concern!----------------Now playing: Flatt and Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdownvia FoxyTunes

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Usually I leave the celebrity obits to Hunter Kesey, but I seem to have scooped him on this one. Funny, I was just revisiting her books and doing a little research on her life not more than a month or two ago. Folks like her who try to rectify science with spirituality (Carl Sagan is another good example) intrigue me.----------------Now playing: Son Volt - Drownvia

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-12534995870163841812007-09-07T18:54:00.000-07:002007-09-10T11:18:41.868-07:00

One of the first examples of "camp" in cinema is Beat The Devil, a 1953 crime spoof. Directed by John Huston, co-written by Truman Capote, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollabrigida, it was a parody of the film noir (including those directed by Huston, like The Maltese Falcon) popular at the time.A critical flop, it has since fallen into the public domain and may be downloaded and streamed

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----------------Now playing: Ween - Mr. Richard Smokervia FoxyTunes

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Dear GoogleAds,As I understand it, you put advertisements on my blog using your mystical algorithm to best match up to the content of the posts. What, exactly, does your crystal ball see in my occasional blurbs to warrant an ad for "My Big Gay Life", whatever that may be?It's not that I'm particularly offended, mind you. Just wondering...Update: it's back to hawking mandolins and banjos. Whew

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-53200646206105823872007-09-06T11:12:00.000-07:002007-09-06T11:16:07.834-07:00

76%The Movie QuizFilmCritic.com - Movie Reviews

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And, just for fun...----------------Now playing: (WXPN Live. Support the Music)via FoxyTunes

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Spent Labor Day weekend house sitting for friends and keeping an eye on an special needs kid that lives there while his mom was gone. Got to play Calamity Bill's sweet Deering folk banjo, so that was cool.Also went to an interview this morning with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. I thought maybe they'd give me some idea at this point what services I might be eligible for but it was

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-88537643520779624122007-08-30T16:35:00.000-07:002007-08-30T16:37:57.802-07:00

Found some photo's of Hickory Fest on MusicMoose. Thanks, yankexpress!

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Broke a brand new @#%& string while putting a new set on. The old ones were pretty rusty from having been camping so many times this summer and I just wanted a new set anyway cuz Calamity Bill said it'd feel real good. Gives me an excuse to play guitar, so I'm not too upset. MusicMoose, here I come!In other news, yet another gay-bashing Republican turns out to be a surreptitious men's room

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-37186711515921298722007-08-27T13:52:00.000-07:002007-08-27T14:08:05.529-07:00

Unless you live in a cave, you've heard about Comcast allegedly throttling upload bandwidth to foil users of the BitTorrent protocol. Apparently, the company has denied these rumors despite numerous anecdotal accounts. The scientific validity of that kind of evidence notwithstanding, I will say that 2 connectible seeds out of a total of over 400 is something of a novel experience for me.

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Annoying, yet creepy...

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Saw it. Thought it was stupid. Was glad I didn't pay for it.

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Hickory Fest was great as usual. I actually got to be about a foot away from Tony Rice! I worked and played my ass off. For those of you who didn't get to go, here's a link to Grass Is Dead's 2006 performance from the Live Music Archive. Also, just for fun - Hickory Project at the Kennedy Center.

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I wouldn't mind, personally. Go ahead and leave me behind but Jesus, I sure wish you'd hurry up and take all these fucking believers with you.

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So I was bored today and sometimes when I get bored I like to google my screen name and see what I've been up to lately. This way I can be relatively sure that I'm not up to no good (or that there's no evidence, anyway). Surprisingly enough, the second entry was unfamiliar to me.When I clicked on the link, I was intrigued by the fact that it was a paper about the online puzzle notpr0n. I had

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I was looking at a site I had found on the second page of reddit, 35 weird facts you never heard of, and I was pretty sure that some of them were false. One of the ones I was pretty sure of was the old chestnut that Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were named after the cop and cab driver from Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. As a big fan of Capra, I wanted to know the truth once and for

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-9976898864274715112007-08-09T18:45:00.000-07:002007-08-09T18:55:57.112-07:00

Well, YouTube made me and a bunch of other people take down our Venture Bros. clips. I guess the official ones are all right...I just can't get enough of Col. Hunter Gathers, the combination of Hunter Thompson and Nick Fury is hilarious.div#main{overflow:visible;}div#main{overflow:visible;}div#main{overflow:visible;}They don't, unfortunately, have the best Hunter appearance of all; when Brock

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If you are interested at all in playing music (especially bluegrass), wouldn't it be cool to be able to take lessons from the likes of Dave Cavage, Jeff Wisor, Anthony Hannigan and Billy Gilmore? Well, now you can and it's all free, free, free! Just click on the Music Moose button on the right hand of the screen or follow this link.Have fun!

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...when you can get some other schmuck to do it for you!Let me for a moment, if I may, sing the praises of open source. It's a rare occasion when I can't find a free program on teh internets to do my bidding. I have kind of a hard time at the jam sessions that my good buddy Calamity Bill puts on once a month or so, 'cuz I don't have much of an ear yet. Since training your ear is very difficult

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Whew! Haven't been here in a while...I always feel bad when I don't write in my blog, cuz there's always plenty going on in my head that would probably make for interesting reading, but I just don't always have the wherewithal to sit down and type it out. Maybe if I could type as fast as I think...but no, that would make me a record setting typist (that's not a pat on the intellectual back so

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-87570054572936477842007-03-10T21:03:00.000-08:002007-03-10T21:26:27.092-08:00

I had been wanting to write a post about a recent trip I took to the ocean of sprawl located across from the Arnot Mall, but I just couldn't seem to put the surreality into words. Now, personally I usually don't like it when I check my RSS feeds, see a new post from a friend and then get let down by some lame video. In my defense, I did shoot and edit the video myself, even if I didn't write the

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-91364718442045843462007-02-27T13:16:00.000-08:002007-02-27T13:23:56.970-08:00

Just a short one today.I just wanted to say that the perception that women are attracted to musicians is total BS. I've been playing banjo (with a few minor excursions into the land of guitar) for some time now and it hasn't gotten me laid once.Harumph. :P

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Today's post is in response to the story of Jim Zumbo, who made the fatal mistake of exercising his First Amendment right to blog about the Second Amendment. Mr. Zumbo was a columnist for Outdoor Life magazine, had his own syndicated show on the Outdoor Channel, was well respected by the sporting press and was basically outdoorsman extraordinaire.To put the story in a nutshell, Zumbo made the

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Take a look at this photo:Lovely, isn't she? Those eyes; those lips; that flawless skin - the way all her features seem to be in perfect proportion (and they are, to some extent.)? I'm afraid I've found myself even developing a little bit of a crush on her, if you would call looking at her picture and sighing a crush.There's just one problem: she doesn't exist. She has no name; no identity.

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Now I know what "I got blistahs on me fingahs!" really means.Now I know what "played it 'til my fingers bled" really means.I don't think I'm the first guy to take up banjo as their first instrument but I often get a lot of cock-eyed looks 'cuz I don't also play guitar. Well, since I left my went and left my ax in the van of one Calamity Bill and the car is broke again, I've finally had to break

Wharf Ratnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31159197.post-5982566754437101452007-02-15T11:43:00.000-08:002007-02-16T17:42:09.100-08:00

This has nothing to do with the title but read it anyway. Great if it's true.I read an item in MSNBC today about Hershey Foods doing a substantial layoff and building a factory in Mexico. While this doesn't affect me directly, I lived in that general vicinity for some time (I still have family there as a matter of fact) and know a few people who work for or do business with Hershey.The article

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OK, so it's been a little while since I've written in this blog. I admit, I got a little over enamored with MySpace for a time and neglected this site altogether. Well, karma came around and bit me on the ass and I got just what I deserved; eventually MySpace pissed me off so much I deleted my account altogether and subsequently I was left with a bad taste in my mouth for social networking. I

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So the Washington Post did a survey of a neighborhood in the New Orleans area to see how many of those people would be coming back. The area was "one of the city's largest middle-class areas, just the sort of neighborhood that must come back if the city is to recover." and "Eighteen families, most of them African American, lived in the handsome brick homes facing the street, a pleasant suburban

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This month we feature guest blogger mattcl. He writes:(Read it like you're Joe Friday) An Open Letter to That Hot Chick at the Bar I see you there, Missy, shaking that tight little ass in those Daisy Dukes and badonka-donking your way across the dance floor to some God-awful techno-beat. Well, before you get any closer, let me tell you something: I may not know you, but I know your type.

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I once expressed the unpopular opinion that I was sympathetic to Palestine.In my argument, I evoked only one time-honored legal precedent:Finders v. KeepersWell, the fella I was talkin’ to got all bent out of shapeAnd shouted,”You’re an anti-Semite!”And proceeded to barrage me with facts and figures,Poetry and prose,Rumor and innuendo,And plenty of talking-head pundit philosophy,Explaining why

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“They’re only children.”That’s what Elanor Clift said in the article I read in Newsweek.comAbout Israeli soldiers she had met not long before the incident that sparked the recent violence there.You see, in Israel, military service is mandatory for four years right out of high school.Seems a little authoritarian, don’t it?But before we condemn, let us take a moment to reflect on the land of the

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