Monthly Archives: October 2004


Pickin’, Stompin’, and Bouncin’

We spent the evening with the Yonder Mountain String Band and we are spent!
Some preferred the first set and others, including me, the second. Perhaps because they opened the second set with my t-shirt of the evening: Morning Dew. It was interesting to hear this in blue grass rendition except that, as through the rest of the show, Jeff Austin’s vocals were pretty buried in the sound. One of our group, one who can often listen to a Dark Star and tell you year and venue, said he didn’t recognize it until half way through.
They were all blue grass all night and the crowd of 8-900 loved it. And, except for the vocals, we did too.


Who Dies?

Sure, you all hope it will not be one of your favorite characters:

“Yes, sorry,” Rowling said, when asked yesterday on her Web site whether there would be casualties in her upcoming book, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
But, I suspect that Professor Bainbridge has this one correct:
Personally, I suspect that Dumbledore’s days are numbered. Rowling has hewed pretty closely to Joseph Campbell’s Hero Myth thus far in the Harry Potter series.
The Professor has more.


Back on His Meds

Kevin Drum wonders whether bush was off his meds tonight:

It’s one thing to be passionate, but it’s quite another to look like you’re off your meds and need to be restrained.
I’m not the only one who noticed this, am I?
Perhaps, though, it is the other way around as Lauren suggests:
Did Bushie resume his 1970�s penchant for nose candy? He seems awfully jumpy. Perhaps edgy is a better word for it.
Well, this would explain the hyper early behavior and the relatively more controlled behavior later in the presentation.