End of Silence

From a Statesman article on rising home prices:
In Area 9, which includes East Austin south of Town Lake and just east of Interstate 35, prices rose 35.4 percent to $188,200.
Guess who lives in Area 9, baby!
P.S. The Statesman’s 7 day archive policy will break the link on Tuesday, Nov. 2. After that, if you’re an [...]

I was posting a comment on Stepan’s post about the new Eminem video and noticed that A Perfect Circle is making one song a day available from eMOTIVe until it’s released on Tuesday.

I’m guessing most have already seen Triumph’s trip to spin alley after one of the recent presidential debates, but I just watched it today. It’s as funny, if not funnier than when he visited the Bon Jovi concert or the Star Wars movie line.

A recent poll (registration required, use bugmenot.com) finds a reality gap among Bush supporters. This follows the NY Times magazine article that I blogged about earlier this week which talks about the Bush administration and their own reality. It’s nice that so many people can live in their own little realities while the rest of [...]

HST on GW. Testify.

Wiley points out that Slint is reforming. Sweet. I wonder if more will come out of that show. I first heard about Slint from a guy who I met when I was looking for a new band in NYC in 1994 or 1995. The same guy is also responsible for turning me on to Shellac.

Following up on this post, there’s another story in the LA Times. I also just got a response from the e-mail that I sent Lloyd Doggett yesterday about this. I guess he can’t actually do anything himself since he isn’t on the House Intelligence Committee. If you live in an area represented by one of [...]

I found this via a comment on Pandagon.net. UT had a class on the Cuban Missile Crisis when I was an undergraduate. I really wanted to take it, but it didn’t work out.

This is appalling, but not surprising.
Let’s all hope “Trooper Carlson” gets what’s coming to him.

If this is true, it’s huge and it’d better be released before November 2nd. I’ve e-mailed my congressman and both senators about this already. This needs to get top billing from all of the major networks once it’s confirmed. We all need to demand the release of this report and we know that Porter Goss, [...]