Proposed new treaty will allow govt to seize your PC. #tcot

Well, after a week off from blogging I’m back. Here’s a palatte cleanser for you. H/T: The Fat Guy

Here’s Webb Wilder’s Human Cannonball.

Here’s a video from Los Straitjackets.

Paul Mawhinney began collecting records (for you kids out there, a “record” is a flat disc you put on a “record player” in order to hear music) 60 years ago. He now has over 1,000,000 records and his collection is worth millions. But he’s put the collection up for sale due to declining health and [...]

Artists want to be paid when radio stations play their music. I say it’s a bad idea. #tcot

Plant and Krauss won 5 Grammys. They’re not worthy.

Since the title of this blog came from a song by Webb Wilder, I think I’m going to try to start blogging more about music. So, here’s a video of a song that was originally done by Rush on their Signals album (yeah, I have the vinyl album). But this guy, Jacob Moon, does a [...]

The One Laptop Per Child folks have taken advantage gotten Yoko Ono’s permission to use John Lennon’s likeness in a commercial begging asking folks to help with their cause. Using what’s obviously a Lennon impersonator for the voice, and some video tricks that aren’t even as good as 1989′s “collaboration video” between Hank Williams, Sr. [...]

Up to now, I’ve held the belief that our military didn’t torture prisoners. Waterboarding and other techniques to me didn’t seem like torture (if someone volunteers to be the subject of a “torture” technique, then it’s not torture). But I’ve just read a shocking (shocking!) article that does in fact prove we’ve tortured these poor [...]