I get to witness this awesomeness in 3 nights!



More clips here .

Love that drummer.

Is "please put your smaller carry-on under the seat in front of you" the most ignored statement in the world?

No one offers any 'free if you eat the whole thing' promotions on starchy food" because we are designed to get fat when we eat Carbs, and one way our body accomplishes that is by depressing the hormone that makes us feel satiated.

I'm pretty sure Tallest Man on Earth put out the album of the year. And the Coens put out the best movie.

Did any of you get Rolled by me this week? I know I'm lame for doing it, but it was the perfect trap.

How is that Florence + The Machine album?  I was going to buy it, and then started hearing it everywhere...  I even heard Dog Days on Glee.   

Yeah yeah, I watch glee.

I am engaged.. To Karen.

Saw the Skinny President pics a month ago .... remember what i said about him golfing so much?         I hear he gave a good speech at the Safeway service.   I feel the whole post-shooting brouhaha was pretty manipulative. Not by him, per se, but definately for him and for that speech.

Dave just sent me a link the best thing on the internet at the present moment.

Lileks, Goldberg, Steyn... and Sajak!

That's good radio.

They poke fun at the New york times for their unintentionally  hilarious editorial full of stuff like this:
Mark Steyn just responded, sarcastically:

"I think  in a multicultural society it is offensive that people of many different cultures to read to them  the constitution of the country they are living in". He continues brilliantly: "I hope in that spirit the democrats read the European Union Constitution on the floor so then we'll go home till Jan 2013 because they won't have wrapped it up by then"

Heh.  There is some funny stuff.

Park tavern's flirtation with supra-mediocrity has died, not by fire, but by ice.  There hjust wasn't enough ice to chill the Sashimi AND the ice rink,  but the Crab stick was pretty frozen.   Yes, normal programming has resumed.

Titus Andronicus on the other hand, is good.   (Its got two movements, so stick with it).





And here  (UPDATED LINK) is a  video of a whole mini-set. Enjoy.   And check out the solo-humor at 4:40.

I wrote to a friend who wanted to know what dietary studies had been done in the last 10 years.  After I sent it, I wondered if Taubes had his blog up, since he would be able to tackle this better than I.  Turns out he just started his blog and his first entry was on the exact same two studies I dug up.  His remarks were substantively  identical.  This is less extraordinary, and incriminating, when you accept just how far up his ass I have crawled.  I am quite comfortable here.

Mine:
Kudos to the NIH for grudgingly admitting that low-card diets are better.... but shame on them for hidingl the bankruptcy of the low-fat diet they themselves have advocated for decades.


His

Second Ten Shots at 30ft.

Ok, so Taubes released a short version of the poorly named Good Calories / Bad Calories. This version, called 'Why we get fat", is great.  It even has a chapter devoted to the same topic of my recent screed: How the logical conclusion of the incorrect Calorie Hypothesis is to blame the victim and then smugly  pat yourself on the back for not being sick.

You can read on in two hours, and probably should.

I need to go see social Network, now the True Grit is out.  From what I hear , Social Network is flawless. From what I saw, True Grit is flawless.