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Below is a review I was asked to write for the new Paul Lewis CD, Trading Horror Stories (hence the somewhat overwrought, out-of-character stylism of certain passages – it’s a review, after all). In the interest of full disclosure: Paul is a close friend. I co-wrote one of the songs on the record. Ergo, I may not be fully objective.

For those of you who know and love drdenny – got this in the morning e-bag from a mutual friend of ours: Don’t know if you heard about Denny. Here’s the condensed version: Bicycle accident. Ruptured/shredded Achilles tendon. He had surgery Friday. Lengthy recuperation/rehab expected. Maybe you could encourage all your cyberfriends who know him to send him words of

Cody over at Mojo City News is calling for asses. If I were so inclined, I could argue that we should table the hangings until after we’ve saved the victims, but it’s also true that nothing motivates contemporary American “leadership” quite like very public, poll-threatening, displays of outrage while the cameras are rolling. In this sense, calling for the heads

Thanks to Dr. Frank Venturo for passing this link along. CNN, which is providing us with an unusually good job of reporting (given how abysmal they have been at times in the past few years) stacks the sanitized government version of how well things are going in N.O. up against other, more dramatic eyewitness accounts. For instance: FEMA Chief Michael

Spencer Peavey at SBU forwards this on. Refer any affected Gulf Coast students you know of… _____________________ St. Bonaventure is offering free room and board and one-half tuition scholarships to students from higher education institutions in areas affected by the hurricane

The magnitude of the tragedy in New Orleans is just off the charts – really, it’s pretty much past my ability to fathom. And at the moment I don’t have any brilliant ideas about how to solve the city’s exploding crisis other than send money, send troops, send food, send everything. Which I guess is finally happening – Congress just

This rule is operative for most projects, but is especially true for packing the house to move. The first 90% of the work will take 90% of the budgeted time. The last 10% will take the other 90% of the time. Back to packing…

I introduced everybody to the new Brother Paul archive (brother_paul) a few weeks back. Not sure how many have checked it out. If you haven’t, we just posted another bit, this from 1996. This one examines Ross Perot’s VP short list…. Have a look.

First, feel free to ignore this post. Seriously. You’ll see why in a second. I recently made a decision about my life – if you read the blog entry entitled “More lullaby, less pit,” you know what I’m talking about. One of the things this has translated into is that I want to get this alleged book of poetry I’ve

Goodnight, Doctor…

Arjen Robben isn’t so sure about Jose Maurinho’s system: If you play two or three matches and one match is bad, you are immediately on the bench and that’s not good. It’s bad for a player’s self-confidence because you can’t get a rhythm. The problem now is that if you have a dip in form or play badly then you

Thoughtful column on Cindy Sheehan and the war protest from Mary de Juliis of the Muskogee Phoenix. In concluding, she does a nice job of summing up how I feel about the whole issue, as well: I am not antiwar. As long as it is possible for people like Adolph Hitler to come to power and persecute people, then there

Oh dear lord, this was on the Success Stories page.

Yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News column by Dave Krieger updates a thread he kicked off on Saturday, where he noted the rage with which Colorado Avalanche fans have greeted the signing of former Vancouver Canuck Brad May and the difficulty they’ve had in finding a way to let the organization know about their feelings. In his Saturday column, he posted the