Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy Birthday, A Long Tough Blog

Four years ago today this insipid silliness began. Woe be to the internets that it limps on still.

If you wish to help A Long Tough Blog celebrate this day of great lament, you can hop on over to any of the many music sites listed under "Songs for sale - cheap!" at the top right of the page (or just go to CDBaby by hitting the baby below) and purchase a song or three from my CD, Bottomfeeders. I suggest the song "Sigh," simply because it has the most musicians on it who aren't me.

Happy New Year everyone, and may 2011 indicate a much better decade than the last.

LT

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Deep Thought

Pants wetting, hand-wringing, and generally being an overreacting crybaby is the New Macho.


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Friday, December 18, 2009

Tastical Illusions

I just saw this very cool video over at Boing Boing, and it got me wondering: Would it be possible to create something similar, except with something that tricks the sense of taste, rather than vision? That'd be cool. I'm going to have to look into that.




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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Deep Thought: Reconciliation

When Republicans used the reconciliation process in both 2001 and 2003 to pass massive tax cuts, primarily for the most wealthy in the country, it was Holy reconciliation. If it's used to pass health care reform, which would overwhelmingly help the poorest in the country, it will be like killing Jesus again.

Extra.

Extra.

Extra.

Extra. (This one is a really good explanation and history of reconciliation.)


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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Epitaph

Like most people, I assume, I haven't given a lot of thought to what my own epitaph might be - you can't put an epitaph on a plastic bag of ashes anyway, can you? - but this one appeared to me as if in a dream, and I don't think my working brain could do a whole lot better:


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Says it all, really.


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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Air Stagnation Advisory

The voice on my teevee just told me that the region wherein I reside is under an Air Stagnation Advisory:

Air stagnation is a phenomenon which occurs when an air mass remains over an area for an extended period of time. Due to light winds and lack of precipitation, pollutants cannot be cleared from the air, either gaseous (like ozone) or particulate (like soot or dust). In the United States, the National Weather Service issues an Air Stagnation Advisory when these conditions are likely to occur.


Yep, sounds like the Rogue Valley wintertime.


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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Breaking: Global Warming Scientists Hiding Icebergs Off New Zealand

Damned lying scientists.

Large numbers of icebergs last floated close to New Zealand in 2006, when some were visible from the coastline — the first such sighting since 1931.


The second time since 1931. Woo hoo!

More on the email fiasco here.


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German Robin Hood Gets Suspended Sentence

Never even heard about this story:

The 62-year-old branch head of one German bank was hailed as a hero after she confessed to transferring money from rich customers to help her poorer clients. Already, she has been dubbed "Die Robin Hood Bankerin".

She was given a 22-month suspended sentence after moving more than €7.6m (£6.9m) in 117 transfers between 2003 and 2005. The court in Bonn was told that the employee, who has not been named, took no money for herself.


That's about $11 million US. I smell a movie.


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Friday, November 20, 2009

"Where Were the Tea Parties?"

Good question.


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Hit the Baby

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Hit the baby and you can get my CD, Bottomfeeders, or just a song or two, at the great Oregon internet store, CDBaby. You can even listen to some samples over there.

Or get it by the song straight to your digital device at iTunes.

Thanks. That is all.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

I got a line on you, babe

Spirit, 1968.

Spirit trivia: Guitarist Randy California (who wrote this song) was born Randy Craig Wolfe in Los Angeles in 1951. His family moved to New York City in the mid-1960s, and when he was just fifteen Randy became a member of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames - Jimi Hendrix's band. The bass player's name was also Randy. He was from Texas, and Hendrix dubbed him "Randy Texas." Randy Wolfe became "Randy California" - and he kept the name for the rest of his life.




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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Deep Thought

if I were a captured terrorist, I'd rather be treated like an awesome and terrifying terrorist than a simple thug.


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Friday, November 13, 2009

Wow: India To Move All Zoo Elephants to Wildlife Parks

Hopefully we do the same some day soon.

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Reverend Moon is one Crazy Sumbitch

How can any serious journalist ever work for this guy?

"Father [Moon] said that he had originally trained Kwon Jin Nim to be the president of the United States. He said that Kwon Jin Nim might be appointed as a leader in the newspaper field.

The fifty states of America offered to create a statues of Rev. Moon but Father did not allow them to do so."


More very weird Moon looniness here.


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They're Teabagging Each Other Now!

My goodness, hide the children.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009