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Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Misunderstood

The Pernice Brothers are putting the new album, Yours, Mine, Ours up for pre-sale off their website here. As incentive, they’re offering a special autographed lyrics booklet with each order. The catch? Only available to Americans. Blah blah blah.

This is interesting – last week’s entry about information overload from the Iraq War has been added to Stop Watching The War, a blog about critical analysis of the media coverage on the war. That’s my entry right above an article from newly-unemployed former NBC correspondent Peter Arnett about his getting turfed for speaking his mind on the state of the US war effort. Apparently even when I comment on not wanting to comment on the war, I’m commenting on the war.

np – Wilco / Live 7.30.02 – Minneapolis, MN

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

U.S. Out Of My Pants

There is a new dispatch from Luna-land over on Fuzzy Wuzzy. Dean offers some thoughts on the war, talks about upcoming touring plans and offers hope for a new Luna album to be recorded this year. He’s also posted a new ‘What Dean Is Listening To’ elsewhere on the site. None of this constitutes news, really. I just wanted an excuse to use “U.S. Out Of My Pants” as an entry title.

You want an interesting POV into the opinions of folks on the war in Iraq? Go surf around Usenet – nothing like an unmoderated, anonymous international forum to bring out the best in people. People apparently believe that only Sadaam is causing Iraqi civilian casualties, that Iraq paid the hijackers who attacked the World Trade Centre, that any Iraqis who would dare be ungrateful to their invaders – excuse me – liberators – probably deserve to die anyway. Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling in my chest… oh wait, that’s bile.

Dig this – a random ICQ chat has resulted in Lake Holiday’s “Awake Too Long” (available in the MP3 section) being played on 2NUR Newcastle University Radio, 103.7 FM, in Newcastle, Australia last night. How cool is that? We got squeezed into an eclectic setlist, rubbing elbows with Cake, The Posies, Zwan and, um, The Vines.

np – Velvet Crush / Teenage Symphonies To God

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Snow?!? Redux

You’re not going to top this April Fool’s gag. I wake up, and there’s a lovely blanket of white on top of everything outside. March came in like a lion, and went out like a lamb. A big, white, fluffly lamb made of snow that apparently exploded all over the city.

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