space babies who made crap music that was totally awesom and happiness came out

I totally forgot. How could I have forgotten I wonder.
States Rights Records of Portland OR: I almost wept.
Of particular note, Bobby Birdman, The Blow and whatever ((((VVrSSNN)))).

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BLOGGING IN CENTRAL AMERICA

I was about to publish a big sloshy foam of generalities regarding the need for Central America to blog when I decided to do a bit of research before I declaimed. Sure enough, there are quite a number of blogs in the region.
Here is my incipient list.
CENTAM BLOGS
Guatemala
Directorio de Blogs Guatemaltecos from Guat360
El Salvador
Ayvevos Blogs
Brevespacio
Honduras
Opiniones [...]

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TV Pitch: The Siam Society

This is a hip, Thai cooking show featuring recipes, call-in, travel and history remotes, guests (non-cooking, Asian-American), DJs and bands (again, Asian-American or Asian), recorded in the swanky bar of Mekala’s Restaurant.
Thai cuisine is the fourth most popular in America. It is also a “young” cuisine in the sense that people 40 and younger have [...]

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TV Pitch: Hell Hole

Let’s replace the fulsome eructations of E!’s “Celebrity Homes” and MTV’s “Cribs” with something closer to real life. Our Host, a person without a slavish devotion to either Architectural Digest or Vibe and with just a wee smidgen of common sense, takes the place of the bobble-head doll or the transparent pseudo-chum in front of [...]

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TV PITCH: Dressing For Dinner

Thank goodness for blogging. What would I do with shit like this otherwise?
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Dressing For Dinner is a travel show that will take the viewer to exotic locations, both far-flung and close to home. What makes it unique is the fact that the Host, traveling with his manservant, Brooks, concludes each episode by ‘dressing for [...]

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BLOGFIRED: Precursor

I received an email from Ken Hollis, who told me he had been fired from NASA for posting publicly-available materials not to a blog, but to a Usenet group.
In 1998 testimony submitted at the request of The Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Science Committee, Keith Cowing, the editor of NASA Watch, said:
When [...]

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New and Improved Gypsies of Granada Book Proposal (My Life on the Holy Mountain)

 
[Here is a piece on the same subject I wrote for Salon.]
 
[And here is what Prof. L.P. Harvey said about one of my models for this book, Richard Ford's Handbook for travellers in Spain: "I am glad to see that Ford still has the capacity to set people thinking. They don't make guide books like [...]

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NYT ARTICLE ON BLOGGING POLICY

Today, the New York Times published a reasonably complete article on the conflict (and dialogue) between employers and bloggers. (Though it does seem eerily familiar somehow…)
The only truly goofy part of the article is the end, where the author quotes Adam Hertz, the Vice President for Engineering at Technorati.
Mr. Hertz stressed that the company had [...]

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The Dog Watches: IV. The World Eater

The stellar scholar etches on his zinc,
Past the space the father kills the bride in,
The micaceous glitter of the colored sands
Whose thousand-rainbowed grains flash blazing by
In scintillating rains, in cracking standards,
Diaphanous mineral flags that sheet the light
In silvered paper, golden foil, spans of fire,
Prismed back in atoms—rose-quartz, pearlescent.
Trillions of glass grit, gas-lit particles
Cloud again and [...]

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Add-ons

The
sky
is
the
color
of
hominids
The
space
chimps
of
Tuscany’s
porphyry
eye-holes
Where
hang
gliders
turn
into
flight
suits
And
things
that
are
dirty
and
bright
Like
fruit
that
is
overly
ripe
Or
pants
made
of
candied
rinds
My
candies
are
chalky
sometimes
My pants
are
The
words
are
wrinkled
like
white
silk.
poetry

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