Elvis Costello setlist, Caesars, Atlantic City, NJ - March 8, 2014

• Brilliant Mistake
• Blue Chair
• Watch Your Step
• American Gangster Time
• Man Out of Time
• Girls Talk
• Either Side of the Same Town
• Secondary Modern
• Everyday I Write the Book
• Come The Meantimes
• Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (!!!)
• Strict Time
• Alison
• Monkey to Man
• Watching the Detectives
• Walk Us Uptown
• Clubland
• Beyond Belief
• Sugar Won't Work
• Pump It Up
• (What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

Encore:

• (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
• Cinco Minutos Con Vos 

Setlist courtesy setlist.fm

Spring 2014

A hard wind blows outside, this dark March evening on the first day of Spring... the longest winter in recent memory won't give up, and we struggle against the darkness, a long January that lasts three months, bitter and frigid. The house creeks like something ancient ... weird sounds bubble up in the night, and wind chimes ring like distant church bells. Daylight is coming, and we wait.

but February made me shiver...

Really, it did. A long, frigid night that lasted weeks -- darkness and cold, blamed on the groundhog, a winter of our discontent, while corporate America and Washington fought over who could be more incompetent. Sigh...

But Spring approaches, as it always does, with the promise of Easter, of life, of love -- a new baby, a blossom white and gold breaking through fresh earth, a sky of wonder...

Cold

I am so sick of winter.

Elvis Costello setlist, Kirby Center, Wilkes Barre PA, Nov. 25, 2013

• Possession
• Accidents Will Happen
• No Dancing
• He’s Got You (Hank Cochran "She's Got You" cover)
• Green Shirt
• You Little Fool
• Pony Street
• Five Small Words
• Domino (Donovan cover) / Living In Paradise
• Pardon Me, Madam, My Name Is Eve 
• Blame it on Cain
• Mistress and Maid
• (Not sure what this song was, sorry ... lyrics included "You can't beg")
• Everyday I Write the Book
• Walking My Baby Back Home (Roy Turk cover)
• Stella Hurt
• Watching the Detectives
• One Way Love
• Allison

Encore 1:

• Big Boys Cry (Bobby Charles cover)
• Almost Blue
• Shipbuilding
• Let's Put Out The Lights (And Go To Sleep) (Bing Crosby cover)
• Radio Soul (early version of Radio Radio)
• I Want You

Encore 2:

• Radio Radio/(Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
• A Slow Drag With Josephine
• Veronica
• Jimmie Standing in the Rain
• Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (partial)
• What's so Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

For all my web designer friends...

Seriously, what the **** else do you want?

Lou Reed, American Poet, Magic and Loss...

Lou Reed wrote the soundtrack for my life. I remember the passage of time by what Lou Reed album I was listening to at the time … Mistrial, New Sensations, New York, Songs for Drella, Magic and Loss, Set the Twilight Reeling, Perfect Night Live in London, Ecstasy… (not to mention all the earlier stuff that was interspersed among these…). I last saw him a few years back in Philadelphia, front row. What a show.

“There’s a little bit of Magic in everything, then some Loss to even things out.”

Lou Reed, 1942-2013

Insight at the heart of "TED talks are lying to you" (Salon article)

There's a really fascinating insight at the center of this article, TED talks are lying to you - that the privileged elite, who control the whims of our economy, justify their very existence by imagining they are the creative class by exploiting the output of the true creatives. And authors of management tomes espousing creativity are really catering to this bizarre supposition by retelling the same tired examples (Dylan, 3M, Beatles, Apple).

IPhone fingerprint lock already hacked

That didn't take long. Instead, use passcodes with auto-erase after 10 failed attempts (you do backup your phone, right?).

Time to dump the iPhone?

Apple patents tech that lets government disable iPhone video, camera and wi-fi. Because letting the government shutdown your phone's camera can only be to protect you, right? Because, you know, we wouldn't want people to take pictures of the terrorists, right? Or... huh?

Seriously, what could be a legitimate reason for this, other than letting militant thugs patriots beat up protesters terrorists without fear of repercussions I don't know flowers?

Alice Cooper setlist, Reading PA, June 18, 2013

Good (if short) show. I caught "diamonds" during Dirty Diamonds.

• Hello Hooray
• House of Fire
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Billion Dollar Babies
• I'll Bite Your Face Off
• Is It My Body
• Under My Wheels
• Hey Stoopid
• Poison
• Dirty Diamonds
• Welcome to My Nightmare
• Go to Hell
• Feed My Frankenstein
• Ballad of Dwight Fry
• Killer (excerpt)
• I Love the Dead (excerpt, refrain only)
• School's Out

Encore:

• I'm Eighteen

Doobie Brothers setlist - Penns Peak (Jim Thorpe), July 7, 2013

• Jesus Is Just Alright
• Rockin' Down the Highway
• Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)
• Depending on You
• Clear as the Driven Snow
• A Brighter Day
• World Gone Crazy
• Neal's Fandango
• Slack Key Soquel Rag
• South City Midnight Lady
• Eyes of Silver
• Takin' It to the Streets
• Don't Start Me Talkin'
• Black Water
• Long Train Runnin'

Encore:

• China Grove
• Road Angel
• Listen to the Music

Setlist courtesy of setlist.fm.

A couple cool Jack Kirby links

• Jack Kirby’s Lone Ranger - Artwork for a board game put out by Mattel in the 1970s.
• A Flickr set of Jack Kirby's double-page spreads, which were one of the coolest things in comics ever.  After you look at this, you should really head over to your favorite bookstore and buy some Kirby comics!

Tumblr brightens my day

• Screenshots of Despair 
• Batman Sits (yes, this is a Tumblr about Batman sitting)

Twitter does not respect time's arrow

Cool sci-fi story in the form of a Twitter bug report.

Adobe Creative Cloud's terms of service

Here's an interesting look at Adobe Creative Cloud's terms of service. I've been a big fan of Adobe software for many years, but these terms are a little chilling...

Escape of the killer dolphins

Seriously, this is the world we live in now, a dystopian sci-fi adventure where even dolphins are now dangerous. From BoingBoing:

Using old Soviet Union techniques, Ukrainian scientists trained dolphins to attack and kill swimmers using knives and guns strapped to the heads of said dolphins ... Today, the dolphins escaped. No word on whether they are armed.

Peter Gabriel wants to talk with animals over the Internet

Because the world keeps getting stranger, Peter Gabriel is teaming up with Internet pioneer Vint Serf and others to talk to animals online. Including a touchscreen device for dolphins (hmmm... bottlenosePad? No. porpoisePad? No. iSqueal?...).

Great Employees Are Not Replaceable

In an age when Wall Street and short-sighted CEOs push the myth that employees are replaceable cogs, a good counterargument: Great Employees Are Not Replaceable.

Restoring my faith in humanity

Spanish locksmiths won't help banks evict people from their homes.

(via Boing Boing).

Trippy Logan's Run music video

UFO over Denver

In the Waiting Room

In the Waiting Room is an insightful poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop about the awakening of existentialism. Fascinating.

What comics were on the newsstand...?

Mike's Amazing World of Comics lets you enter a month and year and will then display all the comic books that were on the newsstand that month.

This has got to be the coolest use of the Internet ever.

Bob Dylan, Hershey PA - Sept. 9, 2012 - setlist and review

Bob Dylan is of course a legend, so anyone would be foolish not to catch him in concert. The Hershey show featured a great setlist (see below; 3 songs from Highway 61 Revisited, plus other classics).

What almost ruined the concert was the ridiculous security staff at the Hersheypark Star Pavilion. They took a "no photos" mandate to the extreme, barring people from even talking on their phones under threat of ejection from the show. The woman behind me was told to put away her phone even after she explained she was talking to her babysitter. I tried to write down a setlist and was vehemently ordered to put away the phone (luckily I was able to find a setlist online). This ridiculous behavior -- preventing people from tweeting, posting to Facebook, or even making a phone call -- was egregious, disheartening, and absolutely uncalled for (and the stifling of speech/expression in the United States by corporations is just sad). At a show opened by the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead (who let fans record audio of their shows for decades), this behavior was especially appalling (I'm sure Bob Weir did not mandate this). I will not be attending any other shows at Hersheypark Star Pavilion unless they address this behavior by their staff, and I strongly urge everyone considering attending a show there to reconsider.

By the way, Bob Weir was fantastic too. It's a shame the Hershey staff put such a damper on the evening. You pay a lot of money for tickets, travel a great distance, pay an exorbitant parking fee, and then get threatened with ejection for writing down the songs? Wow.

Setlist:

• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
• Man in the Long Black Coat
• Things Have Changed
• Tangled Up in Blue
• Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
• This Dream of You
• Honest With Me
• Tryin' to Get to Heaven
• High Water (For Charley Patton)
• Visions of Johanna
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Simple Twist of Fate
• Thunder on the Mountain
• Ballad of a Thin Man
• Like a Rolling Stone
• All Along the Watchtower

Encore:

• Blowin' in the Wind

Selist courtesy setlist.fm.

Stan Lee explains "F**k You"

I've seen it all now:

Jack Kirby's granddaughter has a message for his fans

The Hero Initiative supports comic creators in need. It's a wonderful cause (yes, I'm a member, and you should become one too!).

Yes setlist, Sands Event Center, Bethlehem, PA - July 18, 2012

• Tempus Fugit
• All Good People
• America
• In the Course of the Day/Clap (Steve Howe solo acoustic)
• Fly from Here (suite)
• Wondrous Stories
• Heart of the Sunrise
• Awaken

encore:

• Roundabout

Alice Cooper setlist, Sands Event Center, Bethlehem PA - July 1, 2012

• The Black Widow 
• Brutal Planet 
• Eighteen 
• Under my Wheels 
• Billion Dollar Babies 
• No More Mr. Nice Guy 
• Hey Stoopid
• Is It My Body 
• Halo of Flies 
• I'll Bite Your Face Off 
• Muscle of Love
• Only Women Bleed 
• Cold Ethyl
• Feed My Frankenstein 
• Caffeine 
• Poison 
• Wicked Young Man
• I Love the Dead 
• School's Out

Encore:

• Elected

And the wonderful Blue Coupe opened for Alice. These guys rock (buy their album)! Their setlist:

• More Cowbell (?)
• Burnin' for You 
• You (Like Vampires)
• Cities on Flame (with Rock and Roll)
• Angels Well
• Waiting for my Ship
• Astronomy
• Godzilla
• Don't Fear the Reaper

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (and other cool pics)

If you're not checking the Astronomy Picture of the Day each day, you're missing out on some cool wallpapers (like today's). Just sayin'.

The Machine, Penn's Peak - June 16, 2012 setlist

• Learning to Fly
• Shine on you Crazy Diamond
• Happiest Days of our Lives
• Another Brick in the Wall, part 2
• Fat Old Sun
• Breathe
• Time
• Hey You
• (intermission)
• Pigs
• The Final Cut
• The Albatross
• Wish you were here
• Keep Talking
• Empty Spaces/ What Shall We Do Now
• Young Lust
• Brain Damage

Encore:

• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
• Comfortably Numb

Molly Hatchet, Penn's Peak - June 9, 2012 setlist

• Whiskey Man 
• Bounty Hunter 
• Gator Country 
• American Pride 
• Regrinding the Axes 
• Drum Solo 
• Beatin' the Odds 
• The Creeper 
• Dreams I'll Never See 
• Free Bird (with Jimmie Van Zant)
• Juke City 
• Flirtin' with Disaster

And opening act Jimmy Van Zant Band:

• That's How I Like It 
• Traveling Man 
• Double Trouble 
• Simple Man 
• That Smell 
• Ray Ray's Juke Joint 
• Ain't Quite MaryJane 
• Feels Like Freedom 
• Sweet Home Alabama

Unfortunately, no setlist for opening, opening act (yes, you read that right) Blackfoot. They did play CSNY's Ohio, I remember. Feel free to add more in the comments.

(setlists courtesy setlist.fm)

The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law

How the Greatest Generation dealt with corruption in government:

Spending less time online = more happiness

Here's a great little essay exploring the result of a recent Stanford study, that "spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy." I've said this before: turn off the computer and go outside; spend some time living out in the world. We are becoming a society addicted to social media, reality television, and infotainment. Much of the content we consume is vapid and uninteresting. Go read a book, fly a kite, ride a bike, or build a snowman. Live, man, live.

Brave response - Occupy Oakland

• Dear Oakland Mayor Quan, you do not need to call me, here is MY response to YOUR demands

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolution­ary act." - George Orwell

Verizon Releases Anti-Union Propaganda, CWA Strikes Back With Parody Video

Verizon Releases Anti-Union Propaganda, CWA Strikes Back With Parody Video (via Crooks and Liars)

The music of Occupy Wall Street

Wired does a nice roll-up on the music of Occupy Wall Street. The hacker radio show Off the Hook has also featured songs from the Occupy movement.

Ray guns rock

Here's an interesting article from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum regarding early ray guns (toys, unfortunately; you didn't think I meant real ray guns, did you? Those are top secret).

Why occupy?

This is why: writer of FamilyGuy describes his arrest in Occupy LA.

"Pine trees know when it's Easter"

Yes, it's the Christmas season, but I've been meaning to post this for a while: Pine trees know when it's Easter.

Social Security Administration comic books from the 1950s

Scroll down on this page to the heading The Comic Book Series.

Quote: You were not made to strive for the accumulation of wealth.

Great essay: A Life Worth Living.

Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman setlist, Sherman Theater, Stroudsburg PA - Nov. 5, 2011

• Intro 
• Starship Trooper 
• Sweet Dreams 
• Forever 
• And You and I 
• The Living Tree (Pt. 1) 
• Long Distance Runaround 
• America 
• Garden 
• The Living Tree (Pt. 2) 
• Time and a Word 
• South Side of the Sky 
• Wondrous Stories 
• Just One Man 
• Nous Sommes Du Soleil 
• Leaves of Green 
• 23/24/11 
• Your Move 
• All Good People 
• House of Freedom 
• Awaken 

Encore:

• Roundabout 
• Soon 
• The Meeting

Stand Up - Occupy Wall Street

Paris under water (future vision?)

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

What does Occupy Wall Street collectively want?

Apt insight via the New York Times: "The problem is that no one in Washington has been listening."

About describes it in a nutshell, doesn't it? It's not just the bailouts for the rich, or the unpunished, illegal corporate greed that brought the economy to the brink of ruin - it's Washington's ignorance of the problem, its refusal to obey the will of the people, and its blatant submission to its corporate masters.

We've had enough.

What we learned from 5 million books

What we learned from 5 million books (video on TED.com)

George Thorogood setlist, FM Kirby Center, Wilkes Barre PA - Oct. 4, 2011

• Sweet Little Rock And Roller
• Who Do You Love?
• Hi-Heel Sneakers
• I Drink Alone
• House Rent Boogie (One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer)
• Cocaine Blues
• Seventh Son
• Get a Haircut
• Bad to the Bone
• Move It on Over

Encore:

• Tail Dragger
• You Talk Too Much

Encore 2:

• Madison Blues

Compare to the last time I saw him.

Logan's Run remake gains momentum

Finally, word that the Logan's Run remake is going into production next year. Of course, I've been hearing rumors for years now.

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street has begun. Will the mainstream press ignore?

Steve Miller setlist - Musikfest (Bethlehem, PA), August 8, 2011

• Jet Airliner
• Take the Money and Run
• Abracadabra
• Living in the U.S.A.
• Swingtown
• Further Up the Road
• Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Jesse Hill)
• All Your Love (I Miss Loving), (Otis Rush)
• I Just Got Back from Texas
• Fly Like an Eagle
• Serenade
• Wild Mountain Honey
• Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
• Dance Dance Dance
• Rock’n Me

Encore:

• Perfect World
• Gangster of Love
• Space Cowboy
• Jungle Love
• The Joker

Pieced together from the review at the Lehigh Valley Music Blog.

Ted Nugent setlist - Penn's Peak (Jim Thorpe, PA), August 14, 2011

• Free For All
• Stormtroopin'
• Wango Tango
• Just What the Doctor Ordered
• Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
• Need You Bad
• Turn It Up
• Rawdogs & Warhogs
• Dog Eat Dog
• Hey Baby
• Fred Bear
• I Still Believe
• Motor City Madhouse
• Cat Scratch Fever
• Stranglehold
  

Encore:

• Great White Buffalo

Courtesy setlist.fm.

Ted Nugent setlist - Penn's Peak (Jim Thorpe PA), August 14, 2011

Free For All
Stormtroopin'
Wango Tango
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
Need You Bad
Turn It Up
Rawdogs & Warhogs
Dog Eat Dog
Hey Baby
Fred Bear
I Still Believe
Motor City Madhouse
Cat Scratch Fever
Stranglehold

Encore:

Great WhiteBuffalo

Steely Dan setlist - Musikfest (Bethlehem PA), August 10, 2011

• Intro: Dizzy's Bidness
• Your Gold Teeth
• Aja
• Black Friday
• Hey Nineteen
• Black Cow
• Time Out of Mind
• Show Biz Kids
• Boddhisitva
• FM
• Godwhacker
• Dirty Work
• Papa Don't Take No Mess (James Brown cover)
• Home at Last
• Josie
• Peg
• My Old School
• Reelin' in the Years

Encore:

• Kid Charlemagne
• Outro: Last Tango in Paris

Courtesy setlist.fm.

Stone Temple Pilots setlist - Musikfest (Bethlehem PA), August 5, 2011

Yes, I'm way behind in posting setlists for the shows I've been to recently (August was a busy month). Anyway, here's the STP setlist (courtesy of setlist.fm):

• Crackerman
• Wicked Garden
• Vasoline
• Heaven and Hot Rods
• Between the Lines
• Hickory Dichotomy
• Still Remains
• Big Empty
• Silvergun Superman
• Plush
• Interstate Love Song
• Big Bang Baby
• Down
• Sex Type Thing 

Encore:

• Dead & Bloated
• Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart

Alice Cooper, Scranton Cultural Center - August 23, 2011 setlist

• The Black Widow
• Brutal Planet
• I'm Eighteen
• Under My Wheels
• Billion Dollar Babies
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Hey Stoopid
• Is It My Body
• Halo of Flies
• I'll Bite Your Face Off
• Muscle of Love
• Only Women Bleed
• Cold Ethyl
• Feed My Frankenstein
• Clones (We're All)
• Poison
• Wicked Young Man
• Killer (excerpt)
• I Love the Dead (excerpt)
• School's Out (and excerpt from Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall)
  
  Encore:
• Elected

Setlist courtesy of Setlist.FM.

Logan's Run remake

Interesting article on IO9 about the "never seems to get anywhere" Logan's Run remake.

We're All Crazy

Slashdot has a great discussion on the over-prescription of anti-psychotic drugs in the U.S. (big pharma influencing doctors, maybe? whatever happened to professional ethics, anyway? or personal ethics, for that matter...).

And yes, this post's title refers to the great Alice Cooper song (off From the Inside).

U2 setlist - Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, July 14, 2011

I was in the nosebleed section, so the sound quality wasn't great. Still a good show by Bono and the gang, though unfortunately no Running to Stand Still (sigh). Also, they did not play In God's County, despite what the guy on WMMR said. Here's the setlist, mostly courtesy of U2gigs.com:

Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
Mysterious Ways
Until The End Of The World / Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (snippet)
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / The Promised Land (snippet)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (snippet)
Elevation
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
Miss You (snippet) / I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On

Encore(s):
One
Hallelujah (snippet)
Where The Streets Have No Name

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
Happy Birthday (for Nelson Mandela)

You can't read it all (I'm still going to try)

NPR article which I find overwhelmingly relevant to my mindset many days - I'm an infojunkie.

Brave New World Revisited

 In Brave New World Revisited (1958), Aldous Huxley was eerily precognizant of today's media and our reaction to it:

In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationaliza­tion — the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationaliza­tion of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manip­ulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these tech­niques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrele­vance the rational propaganda essential to the mainten­ance of individual liberty and the survival of demo­cratic institutions.

The quandaries of modern web development

As the browser wars begin anew, Slashdot has an interesting post on the issue. The answer is, of course, develop to standards and let the browser do what they will.

Monty Python Star Trek mashup

Found on Space 1970:

Stop time?

My stove has a button that stops time! Tremble, puny humans!

Classic essay: The Right to Read

The Right to Read by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation chronicles the inevitable result of DRM technologies. Timely, with the recent "forced obsolescence" espoused by publisher HarperCollins.

Bravery

Live Rocket Propelled Grenade removed from soldier.

"If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange"

Oh, the irony

Quote from Pharma Buys A Conscience:

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is planning a $590,000 initiative to educate doctors about the ethical problems involved in accepting gifts from the drug industry. That initiative is funded by gifts from Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., Pfizer, U.S. Pharmaceutical Group, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Corporation, Procter and Gamble Company, and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical.

Comic Sans

For all you Comic Sans haters...

Calvin And Hobbes: Fight Club

via BoingBoing.

How to make a Real Rorschach mask that changes and moves.

Fun with HTML5 and comics

Microsoft released this great demo site that shows off what you can do with HTML5. If you have a very modern browser (I got it to work in Safari 5.0.3 and Chrome 8 on a Mac, though without the background soundtrack; it's built for Internet Explorer 9 [which is still in beta]; neither Firefox 3.6 or Opera 11 seemed to work entirely), it's a pretty interesting look at where web comics might go once all browsers are up to speed.

Alice Cooper makes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Yes, it's extremely odd that he wasn't in there years ago. He should have been a founding member, almost. But finally, after all the lobbying we've done (and not lobbying in that sleazy Washington DC way, but more like thousands of fans going "WTF" every time the nominees were announced), Alice Cooper has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hear him say thanks here.

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

Is a Digital Comic Really Yours to Own?

This is something I've posted about in various places -- I'm glad to see it getting some notice in the online comics press.

Roger Waters - The Wall Live - Pittsburgh, PA setlist - Sept. 26, 2010

• In The Flesh?
• The Thin Ice
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
• The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
• Mother
• Goodbye Blue Sky
• Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?
• Young Lust
• One Of My Turns
• Don't Leave Me Now
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
• The Last Few Bricks
• Goodbye Cruel World

Intermission

• Hey You
• Is There Anybody Out There?
• Nobody Home
• Vera
• Bring The Boys Back Home
• Comfortably Numb
• The Show Must Go On
• In The Flesh
• Run Like Hell
• Waiting For The Worms
• Stop
• The Trial
• Outside The Wall

Elected

Alice Cooper has been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yes, he should have been in there years ago, but at long last, he's in the running.

Rush setlist, Allentown Fairgrounds, Aug 31, 2010

• The Spirit of Radio
• Time Stands Still
• Presto
• Stick It Out
• Workin’ Them Angels
• Leave That Thing Alone
• Faithless
• BU2B
• Free Will
• Marathon
• Subdivisions

[intermission]

• Tom Sawyer
• Red Barchetta
• YYZ
• Limelight
• Camera Eye
• Witch Hunt
• Vital Signs
• Caravan
• Love 4 Sale
• Closer to the Heart
• 2112 Overture / Temples of Syrinx
• Far Cry

Encore:

• La Villa Strangiato
• Working Man

Norah Jones setlist: August 7, 2010 at MusikFest in Bethlehem PA

1. I Wouldn't Need You
2. Tell Yer Mama
3. Light As a Feather
4. Even Though
5. Young Blood
6. It's Gonna Be
7. Chasing Pirates
8. Broken
9. What Do You Think Of Her Now
10. Sunrise
11. Waiting
12. Back To Manhattan
13. Sinkin’ Soon
14. Dauphin Island
15. Man Of The Hour
16. Don’t Know Why
17. Stuck
18. Come Away With Me

Encore:

1. Creepin In
2. Lonestar 

Thanks to the International Press Association for the setlist.

Reviews:

• Norah Jones throws intimate party with Musikfest audience as guests (Lehigh Valley Live)
• Norah Jones's Musikfest show is different, but still cool (Morning Call)

Net neutrality takes a hit from former proponent Google (everybody panic!)

Wired has a great explanation of how the Google-Verizon announcement betrays Google's "don't be evil" motto.

Time travel

Will someone explain this to me: Quantum Time Machine Lets You Travel to the Past Without Fear of Grandfather Paradox? Thanks.

My current favorite flikr set

Passive-aggressive wi-fi.

Oh, and the "Woot acquired by Amazon" letter from Woot's CEO is pretty hilarious, too.

Logan's Run remake news

Slashdot covers the Logan's Run remake. Finally, it appears this may see the light of day.

Emerson and Lake setlist, May 14, 2010 - Stroudsburg, PA

Great show at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg.

• From the Beginning
• I Talk to the Wind
• Bitches Crystal
• The Barbarian
• Take a Pebble/Tarkus

[intermission]

• C'est la Vie
• Prelude to a Hope
• Milonga for Piano Op. 3
• Pirates
• [Question and Answer session]
• America

 Encore:

• Lucky Man

Living in the coal region...

Bruce Springsteen had a classic line in Thunder Road:

"It's a town full of losers
and I'm pulling out of here to win"

(the "and" is from the piano version on the live box set, for all of you nitpickers).

Anyway, growing up in Schuylkill County, I always thought that was a great line. It was only later when I realized what the region had to offer. I'm glad I found my way back (well, most of the time; there's still the modern-day coal barons to deal with, who peddle everything from culm and wind energy to prisons and river sludge to a populace grown too cynical to care, but that's another day's battle). There's a great article about what the area has to offer here, and something I needed to read today.

Half-naked run through Shops at Prudential Center (Boston)

For some odd reason, a throng of half-naked college kids (I presume this was some type of fraternity thing, or perhaps spring fever) ran through the Shops at Prudential Center in Boston this past Friday. At least this one wore a cape:

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I Cost More, but I’m a Specialist

What if newspaper columnists behaved like our health care system? (from the New York Times).

Logan's Run: Last Day link roundup

A roundup of links regarding the new Logan's Run: Last Day comic book published by BlueWater Comics:

• William F. Nolan Talks Logan’s Run: Last Day
• YouTube: Creator William F. Nolan's STORYTIME the reading of the new Logan's Run comic book
• A Comic Book Orange's video review
• Best Shots Advance Review: LOGAN'S RUN: LAST DAY #1
• Famous Monsters » Comic Review: Logan’s Run Last Day
• The World of Logan's Run: Bluewater Publishing's 'Logan's Run - Last Day' Comic Series
• Dueling Review: Logan’s Run #1

Previously: Logan's Run: Last Day covers

The Indymac Slap in our Face

The Indymac Slap in our Face, or your tax dollars at work. Like a reverse Robin Hood, our government continues to take from the poor and give to the rich.

The Known Universe

Leaked ACTA documents

Leaked documents concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement are available here. Some believe that the eventual adoption of these agreements could create "back-door" laws, imposing rules on citizens that were not written by their government. Link via boingboing.

Student killed by exploding chewing gum

I kid you not.

Via Warren Ellis (of course).

Hey Google: whatever happened to "don't be evil"?

From boingboing: Google CEO says privacy doesn't matter. Google blacklists CNet for violating CEO's privacy. Disclaimer: This here blog is courtesy of Google's Blogger service. If they were really evil, they wouldn't let me

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While we're on the "cat" theme...

Failed experiment.

Feline dietary preferences

Sure, I can blog about cats. Why? I'm not an old lady. Stop it.


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Alice Cooper setlist - Sept 22, 2009 - Scranton, PA

So it only took me a month to post this:

• School's Out (part only)
• Eighteen
• Wicked Young Man
• Ballad of Dwight Fry
• Go To H*ll
• Guilty
• Welcome To My Nightmare
• Cold Ethyl
• Poison
• The Awakening
• From The Inside
• Nurse Rozetta
• Is It My Body
• Be My Lover
• Only Women Bleed
• I Never Cry
• The Black Widow (instrumental)
• Vengeance Is Mine
• Devil's Food
• Dirty Diamonds
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Killer
• I Love The Dead (part only)
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Under My Wheels

Encore:

• Schools Out (full version)

Logan's Run: Last Day covers

The MTV website has a look at all four covers from the new Logan's Run comic being put out by BlueWater. Looks like the release has been pushed back to January.

Some fun sites for today

• Garfield minus Garfield (it's so much funnier without the cat - kind of a weird, existential thing).
• FMyLife - Murphy's Law in a few hundred characters (it's antonym: MyLifeIsAverage).
• GraphJam - "For people who love charts."

My gift to you, InterWeb denizens.

Fun site for graphic designers

Your logo makes me barf. Heh.

Link via the Central Penn Adobe User Group.