In other news, premium.xanga.com doesn’t work unless you’re about to write a ‘blog on www.xanga.com, stating that premium.xanga.com doesn’t work.

I think they planned it that way.

Someone called ValleyFrog just subbed to me, and her website has this picture which made me laugh uproariously, so Everything’s OK.

A big RIGHT ON! to all you protestors out there!

“Bush Declares ‘Sanctity Of Human Life Day’“

Note abundance of pro-life rhetoric.

Today’s music du jour:

“Whose Who Are You?” by Klages, Green and Greer, performed by Duke Yellman and his Orchestra.

I was hoping to find some historical info about this tune, such as when and where it was recorded, but no such luck. Maybe I didn’t try hard enough. But my pal m759 will be delighted to know that during the search I ended up at this page.

One of the things I enjoy about ordering stuff over the internet is that you can track it on FedEx’s web site.

I’m looking at a package that is marked as having arrived in Chicago, IL, at 20:52, and then marked again as having arrived at 21:01. What happened during those nine minutes? Did someone mark a pile of packages, go smoke a cig, come back, and forget which pile had been marked? Was it unloaded, loaded again, and then unloaded again?

I like making up these kinds of stories. I imagine some FedEx guy in almost-warm-enough overalls, with bright red wool gloves with the fingers missing. He’s glad he has a job, even if it’s just moving boxes around all day. He and his co-workers sit around a formica table during break time, drinking bad coffee and eating donuts, but it’s good, because it’s so cold out there in the sort room. He tosses my package into a bin. After a while he wheels the bin over to a truck. He helps another guy toss them into the truck. The truck drives away while our guy’s working on another pile.

“Why Can’t The Pentagon Pass An Audit?“

notforprophet links to a story about a guy who made a floating tropical island out of empty plastic bottles and bamboo.

I think it’s mighty cool, myself.

A little searching found me the Library of Congress’ Edison Diamond Disc archive. Lots more old tunes archived as .WAV files.

Today’s music du jour: Stingo Stungo, a novelty song from 1923.