testing, couldn't post a comment on the scarcity thread - looks like a js widget is not loading. I'm testing to see if it's local to the post or if it affects me in all comment boxes.
UPDATE: I can't post in comment boxes, and I can't logout. Killing my browser, will be back to see if that fixes things.
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FF 3.5.4, Mac OS X 10.6.1, plenty of RAM (4gb), late-model MacBook Pro - the setup has been consistent for a fair while, I'd say the main variable in question is the version of Firefox.…
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Added by mike whybark on November 1, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Pursuant to Dr. Zink's notice of Miriam Linna's nascent narrative of the Ohio mafia, I found her linking to one
Houndblog. The Hound was a
key WFMU DJ specializing in older regional sides but years ago he relocated toe NOLA (so I am told) where he owns a bar. Persons who actually live in NOLA and play the rock and/or the roll may have better 411 than I on such matters.
So, like, listen to the airchecks, read the…
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Added by mike whybark on May 25, 2009 at 11:15pm —
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Bob Gulcher diligently sent
along this remarkable blog entry from one HT who apparently signed MX-80 to Island Records back in the day:
Asking my boss David Betteridge if he'd "uh, like to go to to Bloomington?" I was, frankly, a bit surprised when he said "yes". So we found ourselves de-planing in Indianapolis and being driven for roughly an hour to a coffee bar/health-food joint (with ashram attached) in Bloomington…
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Added by mike whybark on December 21, 2008 at 10:32pm —
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Originally composed by me and posted on my blog last December, this essay is fast becoming one of America's favorite holiday traditions. I hope you savor it as do I, perhaps with a warming cup of tranya. - M
Every year, as Osiris Claus prepares to take his chariot to the skies in celebration of his birth, it’s helpful
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Added by mike whybark on December 13, 2008 at 1:01pm —
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Bob Gulcher alerts us via email to a Grant Alden piece on ex-Gizmo Tim Carroll in the revivified and
webiste No Depression:
http://www.nodepression.com/articles.aspx?id=4865
Bob's original linkset:
The Devil Is A Busy Man CD Review:
http://www.nodepression.com/articles.aspx?id=4865
Tim Carroll @ MySpace:
http:…
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Added by mike whybark on November 25, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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Lostronaut is a short story by Jonathan Lethem that is in the current print issue of the New Yorker.
It's an epistolary SF piece, vaguely reminiscent of
Solaris, about a disastrous space marooning, set in a not-distant future.
Why the hell am I posting about it here?
Well, Lethem published a novel not too terribly long ago, called
You Don't Love Me Yet, and said that the title was partiall…
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Added by mike whybark on November 19, 2008 at 1:00am —
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Hey, Hoosiers, if you haven't figured it out yet, it looks like the Obama campaign is seriously going to try to take the state in November. Make me proud!
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-new-albany-indiana.html
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Added by mike whybark on October 9, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Dancing Cigarettes,
Burn in Heaven. Beautiful. This just shuffled up in my iTunes and at first I thought I was listening to a demo for something considered and then discarded for
Koyannisqatsi.
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Added by mike whybark on September 8, 2008 at 5:34pm —
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Kurt/Yukki, fount of rock wisdom that he is, pointed out the amazing
60's indiana band szene blog for your historical edumafication over in the
3 billion singles thread..
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Added by mike whybark on July 1, 2008 at 11:30am —
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I gotta say it.
George Carlin?
Bigger loss than Tim Russert. Better-spoken motherfucker, too. But, as George pointed out, mayflies live ony one day. Sometimes it rains.
This old MetaFilter post might help with the appreciation of my perspective, o…
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Added by mike whybark on June 23, 2008 at 2:00am —
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As I was going through tapes to digitize, I was quite surprised to discover a long-forgotten direct-to-four-track recording which Dan Willems kindly executed for us sometime in 1990.
The…
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Added by mike whybark on June 7, 2008 at 4:33pm —
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Thanks and as the kids say BIG UPS to Dr. Holly for sending along a copy of the RFNR DVD.
Zac and I and Holly have mentioned watching it in passing to one another here, but prolly it needs more than a passing chat.
I watched Eric work on the damn thing for five years, checking in on his progress on visits back as I went through a move, a marriage, and a divorce and Eric went through a couple of painful breakups of his own. I had frankly assumed the video was not fated for completion, so it was…
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Added by mike whybark on May 21, 2008 at 12:08am —
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As I realized yesterday that someone important in the lives of many of you had passed away, I was of course taken back to reflect on my own experiences of loss.
I don't believe I ever met LonPaul, although it's equally possible that we were introduced briefly during one of my infrequent visits to Bloomington. I've still been aware of his importance to so many of my musician friends back home, it seems to me roughly beginning when I moved out here in 1990.
My thoughts are with LonPaul's family…
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Added by mike whybark on May 8, 2008 at 11:19am —
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Jon Nelson reminded me today is the anniversary of the Easter rising in 1916, and I realized I had a little recording of me and pals Greg Brotherton and Karel Trubac from 2005 playing the traditional number
The Foggy Dew, which recounts the rebellion in fairly gripping manner.
As I told Jon, I had forgotten that our pe…
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Added by mike whybark on April 24, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I'll see your earthquake and raise you snow, accompanied by lightning and thunder:
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Added by mike whybark on April 18, 2008 at 9:59pm —
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Some of you will know that my music listening habits over the past fifteen years or so have been largely dominated by old-time and traditional music.
Others of you will know that my parents moved to North Carolina the same year I moved to Seattle. Recently, I was visting them, and while there I took the time to visit the metaphorical birthplace of the American murder ballad, the grave of
Omie Wise, in Randolph County, North Carol…
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Added by mike whybark on April 13, 2008 at 1:53pm —
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