Monthly Archives: August 2008

Wilco

... on a lovely night, near the lake at the lovely Koka Booth Ampitheatre, in Cary, NC.

Wilco.

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You weren't there, so you missed a great show.

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They played all of your favorite Wilco songs.

They played my least favorite Wilco song: "Spiders (Kidsmoke)". I'm sure you skip it, too.

But, it was better live than on the record.

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And they played a bunch you'd never heard (because you don't have all their albums). And they played one nobody had heard, because it was new.

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They even played one from Mermaid Avenue, that collection of lost Woodie Guthrie songs they did with Billy Bragg, way back in 98.

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What a shame you missed it.

Prayers For Rain

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it." -- Voltaire

A video producer for Focus on the Family is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Obama is giving his acceptance speech outdoor at Invesco Field at Mile High on Thursday, Aug. 28.

Stuart Shepard made the prayer request in his latest Internet video for the evangelical Christian group.

He says he's only partly joking.

"Sure it's boyish humor perhaps to wish for something like that, but at the same time it's something people feel very strongly about. They're concerned about where he would take the nation," said Shepard.

Ah... religion.

you shatter me, your grip on me, your hold on me
so dull it kills
you stifle me
infectious sense of hopelessness and prayers for rain
i suffocate, i breathe in dirt
and nowhere shines but desolate and drab
the hours all spent on killing time again
all waiting for the rain

Ah... The Cure.

Mmm BBQ

WRAL.com:

A man and a woman found a new use for a barbecue pit - one that landed them in jail. An argument over whether a third guest should stay in the house got so heated that the woman picked up the barbecue pit and hit the man over the head with it, police said.

The man picked up the barbecue pit and returned the favor and hit the woman in the head with it, police reported. The woman then told police that she picked up the barbecue pit and hit the back window of the man's car with it.

... and Cheetos

ST. PAUL — St. Paul police followed a trail of Cheetos in order to nab three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine. Officers were called to the Arlington Recreation Center on July 29, where they found a vending machine's glass had been broken with a chair.

Most of the candy and chips were missing, according to a criminal complaint in Ramsey County District Court.

The officers followed the orange, dusty trail from the rec center, around the side of the building and to a nearby home. Inside, they found numerous vending-sized bags of Cheetos and other snacks.

Police arrested three males aged 17, 18 and 19 who soon arrived at the home by car. The two adults are charged with third-degree burglary, while the 17-year-old is charged with criminal damage to property.

All three denied being involved, the complaint says.

Mmm Cheetos. Actually... blech.