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princessofcairo

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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #615 on: February 09, 2011, 11:07:52 AM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #616 on: February 10, 2011, 02:18:30 PM »
Dude! It's Prog Beatles!  Hadn't thought of this cover in ages. Yes does the Fab Four:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QAmw9YsJU
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #617 on: February 10, 2011, 11:44:43 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on February 10, 2011, 02:18:30 PM
Dude! It's Prog Beatles!  Hadn't thought of this cover in ages. Yes does the Fab Four:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QAmw9YsJU

They did a live cover of I'm Down in the mid-70s, too, when they were at their proggiest. No video on Youtube from that era, though, just one with Jimmy Page circa 90125 that sounds like craaaaap.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #618 on: March 02, 2011, 01:15:56 PM »
Country Joe McDonald (hearts) nurses! I'd've never known about this if I didn't work for Kaiser...

http://www.kaiserpermanentehistory.org/latest/country-joe-brings-florence-nightingale%E2%80%99s-legacy-to-life/
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #619 on: March 07, 2011, 07:18:56 PM »
Sili Valley gets a new area code: 669

http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/669-your-new-area-code/

Why do I think some group of evangelical prudes are gonna be upset?
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #620 on: March 09, 2011, 01:57:26 PM »
Very cool, early color photos of post-quake SF in 1906:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/07/MN6K1I4BU4.DTL
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #621 on: March 16, 2011, 06:01:47 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 07, 2011, 07:18:56 PM
Sili Valley gets a new area code: 669

http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/669-your-new-area-code/

Why do I think some group of evangelical prudes are gonna be upset?

No danger in being the Neighbor of the Beast, I don't think.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #622 on: March 21, 2011, 02:18:19 PM »
You may recall some time ago I discovered this music blog:

http://moistworks.com/

aka "An MP3 Boombox", with some good writing about interesting, often obscure recordings.  Hadn't looked there in a while, and when I pulled up the page I found that the most recent post is from almost exactly a year ago: March 17 2010 -- a eulogy for Alex Chilton.  There are some recent comments posted, of a "what happened to you guys?" "WTFF?" nature, but no explanantion of why a blog with 4 or 5 regular contributors and a slew of other occasional writers just.... stopped.  It's almost as if Mr Chilton's death was too much for them. Weird.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #623 on: April 07, 2011, 05:25:22 PM »
I guess this can go here as well as anywhere else.  CW Nevius takes on sfgate comment trolls:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cwnevius/detail?entry_id=86578

I agree with most everything he says, except that I don't truly understand why he (and the people he mentions in his stories) take it so personally when trolls go a trolling.  Yes, trolls are awful little cowards: as such should be ignored (in real life and in comments sections of the web).  After all, it's difficult to take anyone who lives in their parent's basement very seriously.

However, trolls do make it more difficult to sort out the wheat from the chaff -- actual comments that are informative, interesting and/or humorous.  It would be nice to limit the trolls, but doing so is easier said than done.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #624 on: April 18, 2011, 10:00:21 AM »
posted by one of AL's FB-friends, on the subject of Rush (the band). I'm in the "whack you upside the head" camp myself.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/nerdliving/2011/04/10/rush-is-right-or-horribly-horribly-wrong/
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #625 on: May 16, 2011, 01:12:19 AM »
Gaz posted this on FB, but I thought it was worthy of sharing here. Paul Simon makes a fan's night at a show last week in Toronto:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/05/14/136305513/paul-simon-and-a-moment-of-pure-sobbing-joy?ps=cprs

(Good quality video, sound is less so.)
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #626 on: May 26, 2011, 10:56:33 AM »
Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas.  Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.

http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story

Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #627 on: May 26, 2011, 11:18:05 AM »
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Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas.  Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.

http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story

Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.

Dollar beers?  Praise the Lord!
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #628 on: May 26, 2011, 11:22:04 AM »
Quote from: Tinka Cat on May 26, 2011, 11:18:05 AM
Quote from: RGMike on May 26, 2011, 10:56:33 AM
Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas.  Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.

http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story

Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.

Dollar beers?  Praise the Lord!

TANC: this NTM tune that is very funny... "Jesus & Johnny Cash"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYT8x7utQV4
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #629 on: June 02, 2011, 06:38:14 PM »
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