The Wednesday 15...

Because when I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye, here comes the Wednesday 15:

• Feeling Gravity's Pull, R.E.M.
• Old Man, Neil Young
• Beautiful Girl, INXS
• Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd
• Hands All Over, Soundgarden
• Jealous Guy, John Lennon
• Situation, Yaz
• Crocodile Rock, Elton John
• Squeeze Box, The Who
• You Spin Me Right Round, Dead or Alive
• Like to Get to Know You Well, Howard Jones
• The Trees, Rush
• Black and White, Three Dog Night
• Noah: Me and You, Lord, Bill Cosby
• Girlfriend is Better, Talking Heads

What's on your shuffle?

Reality TV in Frank's World...

...Wouldn't it be cool if the Predator started stalking the cast of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here?

My money would be on the Predator eating a stew made of Lou Diamond Phillips, Stephen Baldwin, and Sanjaya Malakar out of Janice Dickinson's skull.

The Wednesday 15...

Because no one can save us from Kim the waitress, here comes the Wednesday 15:

• Sinking Ships, Sloan
• I'm Always in Love, Wilco
• Kim the Waitress, Material Issue
• Parklife, Blur
• Always the Last to Know, Del Amitri
• 96 Tears, Question Mark & The Mysterians
• Drive-In, Love Jones
• So Far Away, Social Distortion
• Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd
• Don't Cry, Guns n' Roses
• Spill The Wine, War
• Saturday in the Park, Chicago
• Getting in Tune, The Who
• Famous Last Words, My Chemical Romance
• World of Summer, Love Jones

What's on your shuffle?

Looking for 12,000 more songs...

My iPod holds approximately 20,000 songs. I currently have a little over 8,000 loaded. I would like more.

Heard any good music lately? Let me know. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

So Long, Phil Spector

Hope that "Wall of Sound" protects your ass when you bend down to pick up the soap in the shower...

In Nerds We Trust

The Sirmarco Letters has listened to President Obama's call for more nerds, and has come up with 10 ideas aimed at increasing the nation's number of nerds:

• Change National Anthem to Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
• National Day of LARPing (Live Action Roleplaying)
  
• All sporting events decided by Opposed Grapple Checks
• Convert nation's phone numbers to Binary Code
• Farm Subsidies awarded to players of Harvest Moon series
• World Series of Magic: The Gathering
• Extreme Makover: Parent's Basement Edition
• IRS allows Second Life characters to be claimed as dependents
• Gary Gygax Memorial in National Mall
• President's Day replaced by Hobbit's Day (September 22nd)

Excelsior!

Reverse Racism?

I'm no etymologist, but isn't reverse racism actually tolerance?

Maybe I'm wrong - I always thought that racism was the belief that race was the determining factor in human traits and that these factors made one race superior over another. If that's the case, then wouldn't the reverse of that mean that race isn't the determining factor in human traits and that no one race was superior over another?

I just get confused when people like Rush Limbaugh and New Gingrich use the term reverse racist to describe Sonia Sotomayor. What do you mean, guys? That she hates white people, or that she's tolerant of all races?

One meaning - that she hates white people - doesn't make sense. Because in context, what Sotomayor said is valid - sure, it's an incindiary comment, but it could hardly be classified as racist.

The other meaning - that she's tolerant of all races - is exactly what this country should want from its Supreme Court Justices.

The Wednesday 15...

Because Father Mackenzie is darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there, here comes the Wednesday 15:

• Give Blood, Pete Townshend
• Shattered, The Rolling Stones
• It's So Easy, Guns n' Roses
• Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles
• Beat It, Michael Jackson
• Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones
• Blue Suede Shoes, Elvis Presley
• My Sharona, The Knack
• Listen to the Music, The Doobie Brothers
• Jaibreak, Thin Lizzy
• I Think I Love You, Michelle, National Drag
• Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin
• Amie, Pure Prairie League
• Pass the Dutchie, Musical Youth
• Working for the Weekend, Loverboy
  

What's on your shuffle?