Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 504 points today on the news that the Palin Bump has erased Obama's lead. Investors are worried, should John McCain win the election, that he will appoint the first former beauty queen with an accounting degree that he can find to Secretary Of The Treasury.

I've tried, but I can't seem to find anything to like in Frank Zappa's music. I can find things to like in his approach to music: eager to do his own thing, no matter how odd, or out of step with the times, no matter how challenging to the listener, etc.. But the music itself? Gack. Bad enough to make my teeth itch. Nonetheless he was right about the Right.

Great Gig In The Sky

Squirrel-Shaped Fish

Mom Becomes Daughter

Want to know how politics works? Read the first half of this. Want to see it in action as the GOP noise machine takes up arms against, of all people, Oprah ? Then you must read the second half.

Then you can begin to despair. Because, while the author hints that he knows how to combat it, it's perfectly clear that the Democrats don't.

Let's Do Eeet!

1. ZZ Top - Lowdown In The Streets
2. AC/DC - Soul Stripper
3. The Byrds - So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star
4. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
5. Smaller Animals - poopy
6. Spoon - June's Foreign Spell
7. Andrew Bird - Opposite Day
8. Spoon - You Was it
9. The New Pornographers - Unguided
10. Rolling Stones - I Got The Blues

Yay!

Writer David Foster Wallace commited suicide. Such a loss. He was a great writer.

His "Infinite Jest" is a huge, difficult, but funny and fascinating novel. I read it years ago, loved it, but felt like I probably missed 1/2 of it. So, I've been slowly working myself up reading it again. In my mental bookshelf, it sits right next to Pynchon and Joyce. And unlike the works of Pynchon and Joyce, I actually recommend it to other people.

"Infinite Jest" is now #14 at Amazon.