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Tom Waits
Last night I saw Tom Waits playing the Fox Theater. The show was wonderful; he did about half the songs I was hoping he would do. The only fly in the ointment was the massive array of hoops that TicketMaster made everyone jump though; only two tickets per household, original credit card required to enter, ticket checks every 20 feet, etc. It was a bit like the old Soviet Union. Security was much tighter at the show than at my visit to the capital last year actually.
And an addendum – I was talking to a long time Waits fan after the show and she said that the security concerns probably were Waits’ idea; apparently he’s willing to go a long way in his vendetta against scalpers.
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Here’s a first
I actually donated money to a political candidate for the first time in my life. Go Barr!bob
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From yesterday’s photo shoot
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Bob Barr on BloggingHeads.tv!
A pretty good interview as these things go. Barr comes across pretty well.
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Random links
- Joel Spolsky “If something seems possible, that’s probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can’t possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.”
- Female Patriarchs in Albania – apparently they swear virginity, live as men, and take over the male role as head of the family. Very weird.
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Bob Barr Interview
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Brushes with greatness
I went to college with this guy. Ward Anderson was a comic then too, but in much worse shape.
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A tree grows at the Freedom House
I just planted a Royal Empress sapling; it’s currently about one handspan tall. We’ll see if it grows as fast as the experts say.
Incidentally, I got it over the internet, which makes everything available online these days…
I haven’t been blogging much, but not much has been going on besides work these days.
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The Republicans effort to hit rock bottom, and start digging
It seems that John McCain knows that the Republican party needs to rebuild, and wants to make sure they start from the ground up. Case in point, this quote where he seemingly doesn’t know the meaning of habeas corpus. This misstatement seems so flagrant, in conjunction with his lack of anything new in his campaign platform, that it seems intentional.
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McCain’s first wife
Check out this story about McCain’s first wife. Oddly, the hero of the tale is Ross Perot; a crazy nut, but a classy guy.