EchoBooming in Birmingham

White contacts and suits will be present!

Or so the rumor goes…

I *just* found out yesterday that Virgos Merlot is playing a 10 year reunion show at WorkPlay Friday night.

MUST find babysitter!

PS Brett will not be on vocal duties (some guy named Chase that supposedly sounds incredible) but the rest of the lineup is back (and will be playing double duty with Red Halo that night) AND they’re working on a 3 song EP!

Newsweek takes a look at pop-culture and the influence a “post 9/11″ world has had on it.

Their piece on Television highlights what I’ve been saying for years.

Battlestar Galactica fraking rules!

Newsweek article

That was DrWife’s Gmail status today, 4 days after we found out that we lost our baby. She was 11 1/2 weeks pregnant with our second child.

Other ways nerds/chronic planners/worriers deal with/question/grieve a miscarriage:

1. “Rock Paper Scissors for who’s gametes were at fault?”
2. Maybe I shouldn’t have done that 30 minute pregnancy yoga workout
3. “Dammit, I wanted a Gemini baby!”
4. “That due date was perfect, I wouldn’t have to deliver in the Winter (yuck), I would have just enough time after your birthday to prepare another birthday party, and it was right around the same time as Joby’s birthday”
5. “Maybe we had sex a few too many times around my ovulation and the sperm got damaged cause there were so many of them fighting for the egg”

Don’t think we’re not hurt from this because of my statements above. We are, but we have no control over it (despite all that DrWife did/does/will do to change that). Lack of control brings an inner peace to me in times like these. A peace that allows me to let go, forgive, forget, move on….. try again…

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Turns out nearly every single democrat who changed their vote on the FISA bill earlier this month did so after being paid by the TELCO industry…

You remember hearing about the FISA bill? It’s the one that give the TELCOs immunity from civil lawsuits brought by people who get spied upon by them in the name of the “Global War on Terror”.

Looks like my Congressman fell victim to the dollar too… Here’s the email I just sent:

Congressman Davis,

I was upset with the way you voted on the FISA bill in June, but I figured you were doing your best to move some legislation through to avoid a deadlock in house.

However, I was shocked and thoroughly disappointed with you as a person to learn that between your no vote in March to your yes vote in June you accepted $5000 from PACs associated with Telecommunications companies.

Had I known that $5000 would have kept your vote a no, I would have sent it to you myself. Five thousand dollars is a pittance to pay for preservation of privacy for the citizens of this country.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin - 1755

SPOTLIGHT: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Their Vote on FISA Bill

Telecom Amnesty Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Dollars via WIRED

I love Kyle Whitmire….

Proclamation of the Hypocalypse via. Birmingham Weekly’s Mixed Media Blog

I’m sure Chapter 4 will be all about the the Federal case the SEC just filed against LaLa.