Memorial Day 2009

Happy May Day!

Happy Easter!

"Who let the dogs out?"

Yeah, a few people complain about dogs on our local beaches. But this video shows one of the reasons I love living in Pismo Beach.

Gratuitous bouncing for a Sunday morning

"C for Cookie"

"Chimes Of Freedom" - Jefferson Starship

"It Just Doesn't Matter"

Meet the new boss...

Corporate capitalism explained

Voting and YOU!

"Good Girls Don't" -- The Knack

This video was recorded by Mark Frauenfelder at a free "concert in the park" last weekend in Woodland Hills, California. I think it's amazing. For two reasons. First, it's a great performance by The Knack, a band now three decades old. Second, the band's performing one of their all-time raunchiest songs to what appears to be a group of blue-haired ladies and little kids. Might not the song selection be a tad questionable, guys? Oh well...this particular crowd seems totally oblivious.

(Thanks to Boing Boing.)

2008 Summer Olympics coverage

The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?

Advice for the embarrassed nonvoter

Today Now!: How To Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election

Book at Bedtime: WAR OF THE WORLDS

The H.G. Wells classic has never been presented more brilliantly.

Bo Diddley RIP

Hey, was that Sam Riddle?

The Kinks - 20th Century Man

Ray Davies was the original Paleo-Libertarian Leftist. Listen.

Space: 1899!

Roy Scheider RIP

Roy Scheider's greatest performance ever, in one of the half-dozen greatest movie musicals of all time, Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979).

La Jetee

While I'm away a few days, enjoy Chris Marker's classic 1962 short La Jetee, which inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys a few years ago.