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Last night Mrs. Random and I listening to the wonderfully awesome Elton John double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road while making and eating dinner. All my Elton love came rushing back. Well, it never went away. I just don’t listen to EJ that much anymore. But when I came across the album at the ARRRRRR! store, I couldn’t help but help myself. Heh. Fuckin’ kickass musical experience. We were talking about the lyrics, and Mrs. R reminded me that Bernie Taupin wrote most of them.
When I was a freshman in HS, a friend and I started a little company reselling our Columbia House record club records for profit (you know, get 12 records for a penny! you could do that several times before they caught on). We called our business Captain Fantastic Enterprises. In the wiki article on BT, I learned that he always wanted to be a “brown dirt cowboy”… and that he co-owned a world champ PBR bucking bull named Little Yellow Jacket. Now don’t you feel edified?
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Wow I just realized I haven’t tumbld since yesterday early afternoon. I hope you’re not worried! Hey come to Wandering Goat (3rd & Madison yo) at 8pm and see/hear Alpha Dahlia with me!
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"Superblogger and RSS pioneer Dave Winer got his internet cut off by Comcast. Why? Because he uses too much of his unlimited service."
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"ALL OF NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON WILL BE AFFECTED BY AN UNUSUALLY COLD SPRING WEATHER SYSTEM THIS WEEKEND. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS…ACCUMULATING SNOW TO ELEVATIONS AS LOW AS 1000 FT…AND NEAR RECORD COLD OVERNIGHT LOWS TO THE VALLEY FLOOR."
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Strange combination?
I just snacked on tamari-sesame brown rice crackers with a mediterranean olive spread. They didn’t really meld flavor-wise, but it wasn’t a bad snack with coffee.
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Yeah! Through that record store day link below, I found the website of my old hometown record store… it’s still open. HOT POOP RECORDS in Walla Walla… and Jim McGuinn is STILL there! Nice. I have so much prog rock that I bought used at Hot Poop in the late 70s. I would look for “synthesizers” in the list of instruments on a record. If it had ‘em, I’d buy the album. I still like prog rock.
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Dave waxes eloquent about local record stores and reminds us that Saturday is International Record Store Day. Go read his post!
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This is the big news of the past 24 hours or so, among a certain demographic.
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Some of the more elderly amongst you might be interested in this. Haha.
Perspective: Teh Randomz celebrated our 20th wedding anniv last May!
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I’m a gadget blogger, it’s true.
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Somehow we need to create mesh networks that avoid using the big telcos and cable companies for our “internet”… is that possible?
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