I guess this means we've survived another winter. At times like this it is good to muse on the wonderful turning of the seasons that make life in our part of the world so interesting. The rebirth of life in the Spring prompts us to begin to make future plans again, to...
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I’ll have some thoughts on this soon. But in the meantime, if you missed it on PBS, you should watch this. Ashford University is mentioned in here.
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Indie meets Hindi. H/T my Director of Market Intelligence.
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This time last year, one could have been fooled into thinking that the progressive’s dream had come true. 60 vote in the Senate, a young, bold Democratic president in the White House, the Republican party utterly discombobulated. Stuff was going to get done. The Chicago Gang was going to steamroll. A year later we’re...
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Been a busy week. The Flaming Lips have been around since forever. I remember seeing them at the now-gone but legendary Crow’s Nest in Iowa City in the early 1980′s when they were just a moderatly interesting, albeit fun alt-rock band. When I worked at KRUI, they cut a cool faux-rap station ID. They...
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Friday Music on a Monday. The holidays and post-holiday catch up have gotten me off track. I heard this song over the weekend on Sound Opinions. It’s one of those songs that never got very much airplay but pretty much everyone of a certain age and demographic has heard a few times, maybe at...
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and draw another breath. Today is the 30th anniversary of the best album ever made, The Clash’s, “London Calling.” You beg to differ? You’re probably older than me. I wasn’t really consuming music when these others were released. Besides, even the Beatles were never called, “The Only Band That Matters.” The “official video” has...
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The Drums are from Brooklyn and are putting out some dancealicious pop music.
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Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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While tout le monde flakes off on their state-subsidized and/or mandates three week vacations, those of us who live in the utopian wonderland that is the USA continue to work away to pay for our bestest-in-the-world health care and stuff. Not a whole lot going on in technology and politics… But I look forward...
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