Why? Why? WHY?!?!? Why did I let myself think it would be any different then the last few years?
There needs to be a MTV2 Awards show. No – better yet – a real competitor to MTV needs to stand up. There is great music out there – and I’m sure great videos – they deserve to be seen and heard.
Johnny Cash don’t need MTV and it’s a shame that MTV missed a chance to be something more then just advertisement.
Man did it suck. It was like a car wreck. Never – never – never again!
Yahoo!: Johnny Cash May Steal Show at MTV Awards. via saint some days. No video since Metallica’s “One” has been so powerful.
Anyone care to tell me who is better and why? I can see a distinct difference in who is using which. But why?
Philadelphia has more murals then any other city. Nice to find a site to share some of them with you. Pictures do not do them justice. via Metafilter.
Saying my prayers for those affected by power outage. We have not been hit here in Philly. To have a single point of failure effect so many people is unacceptable and frightening.
ajc.com: Don O’Briant: Millennials: The Next Generation. Flies in the face of what many think.
O’Reilly Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript Part 1. Timely.
Flash MX makes it as easy as VB to build GUIs – except they are cross platform – and fast.
via the new dangerousmeta!. Now looking good sporting MovableType. Man oh man I wish I could bring my links back down to one page like that!
Swiss Cheese? Kerry continues to unimpress.
And hey – Whiz is overrated! If you come to Philly and that is too much, try Provolone or American ok? No one will look at you cross-eyed. Promise.
Good News! Looks like Retired Gen. Wesley Clark is preparing to run!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – bad times brings good music. Honest music. Read Kelefa Sanneh’s piece in the NYTimes on Dashboard Confessional, and the long existing, just getting noticed (mainstreamed) emo scene. People who say today’s music sucks only look where the marketers tell them to – or where their nostalgia drags them.
In my off time I’ve been reading “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. I highly recommend it. Speaking from experience – it is a clear look into reality for the forgotten America – the working poor. Ehrenreich, by jumping in the trenches with those that actually make this country work has written a highly readable book. Not facts and figures, but stories of daily struggle thru the eyes of an observer. The kind of stories that are lost in the daily din.
Are there any related weblogs people would recommend? I’m not talking about hard-core rant sites. I’m talking about sites that are as focused as this book is on the daily struggle, with additional tips on how to not only survive it, but overcome it.