Ari and I have just learned that one of our friends has died. Keyur was only 23 years old. He had just graduated from UT and was celebrating with a trip to India to visit his relatives. He slipped and hit his head in the bathroom, which caused internal bleeding. I don’t know what else […]

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Listening to The Church yesterday lit my 80s fire and I feel compelled to mention a few albums I miss:
The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses, with I Wanna Be Adored, 1989)
Pale (Toad the Wet Sprocket, released Feb. 1990, which is still officially the 80s as far as I’m concerned)
The Hurting (Tears for Fears, 1983 - […]

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And while we’re already on the subject here’s bass for Wild Boys, guitar for Pale Shelter, and guitar for A Strange Kind of Love (from Peter Murphy’s Deep, which I didn’t list as an “album I miss” because I still own it). Next time we get together, we’re going to play all three […]

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Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty / Sound of their breath fades with the light / I think about the loveless fascination / Under the Milky Way tonight
Found a copy of that old Church song on a CD that Kafkaesque sent to Ari a while back. Those first four chords at the beginning […]

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Here’s what Gabriel now says on a regular basis: car, doggie, bird, shoe, star, bath, and bubba (which really means brother, but Ari and I have condensed it to bubba). Of all of those words, his favorite is car. You know I’ve been working on my car a lot lately. He’s been helping. He really […]

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SCO CEO Darl McBride: “You’ve got all of these guys [Red Hat, Novell, Linus Torvalds, and basically the entire open source community] and it looks like the whole world is coming against SCO. It’s really IBM that has wired in all of these relationships…. It’s us [SCO] fighting a whole bunch of people that they […]

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Komlenic has a new house, and a lovely one at that. Of equal interest is the cemetery directly across the street from it. Reminds me of my youth in Grants, New Mexico. For two years, we lived at the end of a long row of apartments. There was a worn truck path outside my bedroom […]

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There’s a great story over at CNET about how Sterling Ball, CEO of the Ernie Ball guitar string and accessory company, dumped Microsoft in favor of open source (Linux, Open Office, Mozilla) and “lived to tell the tale” [via Linux.org news].

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So in case you hadn’t heard, Ashcroft (really Hatch, but what’s the difference?) has just pulled the “VICTORY Act” out of his butt. Yes, he wants more power. Hard to believe, I know. Part of this new Act would allow the US to classify certain drug offenses as “terrorism.” Soon, simply criticizing the president will […]

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How sad is this? I found myself over at CNN this morning (even though I swore I’d stop reading CNN) (yes, I know, that is sad). Anyway, I was skimming over a story about some bit of new violence in the middle east and saw this picture and thought to myself, “Poor little Beetle.”

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