Damian Marley

Beautiful


Zion

Bruce Bonner

Searching "Brooks Bollinger" on youtube is well worth it.

death watch/monday thoughts

Late last night I made a trip to Blockbuster to get the final disc of season 2 of The Wire (which is in my opinion among the best TV shows ever- check it out if you haven't seen it). And as I was walking out I saw INLAND EMPIRE on the shelves. I had just read an article mentioning this movie so I decided to get it. This film is done by the same guy who did Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr., so I had a general idea of what I was getting into. Then I watched it. The whole thing. And my challenge is to each of you to watch this movie uninterrupted the entire way through. It is quite a journey. But the second and most important point of this post is that Saturday the Minnesota Vikings cut Brooks Bollinger. Another great Viking field general has fallen and I thought he deserved at least a mention. That's all. Oh, that and the fact that, following my mugging this past Friday night, the police managed to recover only my Hennepin County library card. A police sergeant came to my apartment this morning and delivered it to me. Hopefully it wasn't used.

Daniel Tosh

McCain Chooses Sarah Palin as VP

So yesterday John McCain suprised almost everyone when he announced that his VP/running -mate would be Sarah Palin (Gov. of Alaska).

So the question is why would McCain do this? Here are some reasons that I have heard with my comments as well:

- Sarah Palin will draw Hillary supporters to the McCain camp.
+ Palin & Clinton could be more different as far as their ideologies go... if someone is going to vote for McCain only because he as a woman as a running mate they are an idoit

- McCain also wants to do something "historic."
+ He could have picked Carly Fiorina to be historic as well. The problem with Palin is that she will appeal mostly to same conservatives that are already for McCain... she will not draw an additional base of voters for McCain

- Palin has a good story. "hockey mom turned governor."
+ She does have a good story, but that doesn't carry much weight when you are potentially the next President of the United States

- Palin has executive experience
+ She was the mayor of a town with 9,000 people & the Governor of a state with 670,000 people... the US has a population of 300,000,000

In my opinion, this pick was a bust but I'm pretty biased so we will see.

All I know is that when I saw the pick I was like

More pics with the new camera

My Morning Jacket with Special Guest

Pardon the sound quality, but watching the whole video is well worth it...around 3:30 in the special guest graces the stage. Recorded 8/23/08

Legendary Performer: Neil Diamond

Following a poor performance at a concert in Columbus, Ohio, singer Neil Diamond felt it necessary to say sorry to his fans. But instead of just issuing an apology (which he did) and promising to perform better his next time through Ohio (which he said he will), Diamond will instead refund the tickets of every single person who attended the August 25th concert at the Value City Arena. To break it down numerically, that’s 11,000 tickets that the Solitary Man will refund.

Diamond is in the thick of a U.S. tour, and during the last few shows, the singer had been suffering from acute laryngitis. He still made it to the Columbus stage, but fans were soon greeted onstage by a hoarse sounding singer. “Dear Fans in Columbus,” Diamond said in a statement, “I haven’t let you down before, and I won’t let you down now. Until you hear from me again remember, You are the sun. I am the moon. You are the words. I am the tune. Forgive me. I love you. Neil.”

Face ---> Off

First of its Kind

"In Radiohead's new video for 'House of Cards', no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."