The music playing on the stereo just penetrated my consciousness, and it dawned on me that I never posted one of my favorite photos from our trip to Montreal this summer. This is Esperanza Spalding, who put on an amazing performance, and was one of the highlights of the trip. The MySpace page I've linked to here has a couple short excerpts from the show that give you some flavor of the energy. I highly recommend both her CD and seeing her live.
This must be what Zoey is trying to do when she drags her butt across the carpet after a partially-successful trip to the litterbox.
JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay. And there's apparently been speculation about this? I have to admit I missed the cues on this one.
I've been pondering the remarkable unity of Republicans, and how they follow Bush even on issues that are clear losers like denying healthcare to children. At first I assumed it was because they all were just unfeeling bastards, but surely their self-preservation instinct should override that on this issue. We are talking about sick children, after all.
Then it dawned on me-- in addition to Republicans being the party of Reagan, they're also the party of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and Bob Allen (not to mention Ted Haggard and Jeff Gannon). This leads to the only explanation that I think makes sense for why Republicans would continue to slavishly follow the President against all reason. He's promised them all happy endings before he leaves office. That may seem like an awful long time to wait ("Republicans: Our states are red, but our balls are blue?"), but then conservatives are known to be into some pretty freaky stuff...
At least, that's the only explanation I can come up with why he (a doctor, fer chrissakes) would vote against SCHIP. Twice.
This cracked me up. Saw an article on BoingBoing pointing at the Google Image Labeler, and played with it for more time than I should probably admit. I had just finished muttering to myself about the nitwit who didn't recognize the periodic table of elements, when on the next round I hit this shot that I recognized as being of a model/actress, but beyond that I was clueless as to the identity of said fräulein. My partner found this a little frustrating...
In this case, that's not "what the" but apparently "who to." LGB I get, and even LGBT, but LGBTTTIQQA? Even then, they seem to have left off the U.
