I’m guessing that this is why, in New York state, vehicle registration stickers are affixed to the inside, lower-left-hand corner of the windshield. We’re sensible up here, though. You won’t find that butterfly-ballot crap going on in New York, nosiree, Bob!
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I’d like to thank the idiot, nitwit, attention-starved because he’s most likely shut in his grandmother’s basement, titanic putz who was behind yesterday’s denial-of-service attack that took out Blogger and BlogSpot for at least unleashing his hackery on Saturday, which is always my worst traffic day anyway. But still, grow up.
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As long as I’m lazily borrowing-and-linking stuff, I might as well pilfer something from MeFi: the worst cover songs of all time. I don’t know…many cover-versions really are lousy, but I do like some of the ones they list here. I actually prefer the Phil Collins “You Can’t Hurry Love” to the original, and I found the Dolly Parton “Stairway to Heaven” interesting. So what do I know?
(How the article fails to mention William Shatner’s take on “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds” is inexplicable.)
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Good Star Wars news: according to TF.N, Ewan McGregor has reported being “very pleased” with the script to Episode III. That’s good news because McGregor has made it pretty clear that making these movies, well, hasn’t really been his cup of tea. He’s complained about the amount of bluescreen work and the amount of acting he does all by himself, reacting to nothing; and he loudly complained when he heard the title Attack of the Clones for the first time. So if he’s giving this one a stamp of preliminary approval, well, things might be going great for the final chapter.
(Not, of course, that I’ve ever thought things were going wrong, mind you.)
I’m glad that a year-and-a-half are going to elapse between the arrivals of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Episode III. Hopefully that time will cut down on the silly comparisons a bit. (Yeah, probably not. But I can always hope.)
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This little news item, courtesy of the martini-swirling Mr. Harris, puts me in mind of something George Carlin once said in the course of castigating modern Americans for their germ-paranoia:
You know what I do when I drop food on the ground? I pick it up and eat it! Even if I’m at a sidewalk café, in Calcutta, the poor section, on New Year’s Eve during a soccer riot!
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My current snacking obsession seems to be Newman’s Own Organic Pretzel Rounds, in the salt-and-pepper flavor. These suckers are just a bit spicy, so the first one or two you eat aren’t hot at all – – but by the time you’re munching your tenth or eleventh one, you have the most wonderful urge to drink a bottle of water. Yum. (I don’t really care that they’re organic. I bought them because they were on sale at the local store the last two weeks, and I do dig the whole “donating profits to charity” bit that Newman’s Own does.)
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Further comments on my bit about cities and downtown sports venues can be found at City Comforts (on sports venues in general) and at Archipelapogo and BatesLine (both from the specific standpoint of Tulsa).
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Courtesy Paul Riddell (whose journal is sporting a spiffy new design), I see this op-ed about the future of manned space exploration. After years of “NASA sucks, NASA sucks, NASA wastes our money, we hate NASA, NASA sucks”, it’s nice to read something different from someone who believes that space exploration is still important, essential, worthy, and basically unavoidable. I’ve despaired of this view of spaceflight ever since Carl Sagan died.
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Earlier today I smashed through the 20,000 hit barrier. While it feels good, it’s also humbling to note that Corrente will break that mark sometime in the next week or so, and they’ve only been around for about two weeks total. Ach, it breaks the heart.
Anyway, for the lucky reader who was actually Hit #20,000, claim thy prize: the online edition of the collected essays of Steven Den Beste.