This year’s SXSW Music festival has joined the 21st century — they now have an interactive panel picker. That means you can vote for my panel Why Your Tour Needs House Concerts. Here’s the official description: Find out why house concerts make sense for your next tour. Learn how to successfully approach established house concert …
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I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg chats with the Times about the Supreme Court. Ginsburg likes Canada. Q: At your confirmation hearings in 1993, you talked about how you hoped to see three or four women on the court. How do you feel about how long it has taken to see simply one more woman nominated? JUSTICE GINSBURG: …
NBC Philadelphia reports on this shocker — a pool in Philly kicked a bunch of kids out … because they are black. “There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,” John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement. 1940 called. …
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I’m not much for mashups (the Grey Album didn’t do a thing for me), but this one is amazing: Beyonce vs the Andy Griffith Show theme. Update 2017-02-17: this link still works:
A couple years ago I came across stories of a 72-year-old ex-boxer and an 84-year-old beating the crap out would-be robbers. The trend continues. In February, 70-year-old Ellen Basinski beat up some robbers with a saucepan: The feisty Basinski was on the phone with her husband, a local judge, when the would-be robbers entered the …
Avid reader Jeff Potter sends this in:
How’s that for juxtaposition?
Margo Howard, Ann Landers’ daughter, is also an advice columnist. Recently, she received a question from some religious fanatics: Our daughter started college a year ago, and we’ve noticed during her visits home that she’s not the sweet, innocent girl we sent away for higher learning. We raised her with strong Christian beliefs, but lately …
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