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http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

Comparing this world to one totally made up is something that I know I do on a regular basis, but I don’t get all bummed out when I realize that the bright lights and 3D glasses are just Hollywood FX.

I. Don’t. Get. It.

A while ago the site went down due to an exploit in the blogging software. When it went down no one complained. I emailed a couple of people to see what they wanted to do. It was quasi-decided, as per, to let the blog rest in peace.

Well, along comes Pete. He sees the ashes. And decides to piss on them. Here’s the blog Pete. Josh’s post included.

Note: Unfortunately during the reinstall process email addresses and passwords were lost. If you want your old username back, email me.

My friend Oliver is a musician. There is something so very cool about knowing a person well, and then putting a disc in the car or jacking into the ipod and have that person sing to you. Anyway, I love his solo stuff. He has been playing with a full band in Ohio, and some mp3s are now up on the web (the band just broke up so Oliver could go to law school). Road to Nowhere starts slow but has some killer guitar solos later in the song.

Check them out, and if you like, you can buy the band’s discs or his older solo stuff. His stage name is Oliver Buck.

And here are some YouTubes of his now-defunct band, in case you want to geek out (jb, this means you).

You may recognize these lyrics that I put in a mass email some time back, from his song

_Troubadour Life_

Oskaloosa to East Tennessee
Lawrence all the way to New Jersey
Dive bars and diners from here to L.A.
There’s no tellin’ just where I might be

Every time I leave I ask myself why
But the answer ain’t never quite clear
So we’re rollin’ on
Rollin’ on
Livin’ to play
And playin’ to live
It ain’t easy to explain or do

One thing I know about this troubadour life
Is you don’t choose it, it chooses you

So please keep me close in your heart
You know it’s killin’ me to part.

Today is the airing of the last new Reading Rainbow on PBS.  I understand their decision, but still sad…

I guess LeVar Burton needs to pray for a new Next Generation movie…

http://www.bust.com/blog/2009/08/28/the-end-of-the-rainbow.html#

I can’t describe how happy I am that baby Sola has come into the world. Welcome, little one.

In comparison to her arrival, the following seems trivial, but we are a bunch of folks that like trivia. In BabyBdayBetting, Holly guessed the date correctly. I guessed the weight closest. Nanny nanny boo boo : )

And consider this your official invitation to begin the guessing for Michelle’s delivery, due December 13. You can put your entry into the calendar on google — it still exists. Entries required at least a month before the event. If you don’t have access or are just lazy, simply email me and I’ll put your date and weight guess on the calendar. Go, team!

FYI:

Volunteers are needed to manually count bicycles and pedestrians at several locations across the city next month. The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization and the City of Lawrence will be conducting bicycle and pedestrian counts on Wednesday, Sept. 9 from 10a.m. to 12p.m., 5p.m. to 7p.m. and on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 12p.m. to 2 p.m. Those interested in volunteering for one or all of the scheduled count times are required to attend training session on either Wednesday, Sept. 2 from 6p.m. to 7 p.m. or Tuesday, Sept. 8 from 11a.m. to 12p.m. Volunteers will be taught the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project method created by Alta Planning and Design and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Data collected on bicycling and walking will assist city and regional leaders in estimating usage and demand for bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The counts will also be used to track the region’s progress on increasing the use of non-motorized transportation, strengthen grant applications to leverage additional federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects, evaluate existing projects, and help determine the location of future investments.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact:
Bart Rudolph, Transportation Planner at 832-3165 or brudolph@ci. lawrence. us.ks .

Hello, gang.

I’ve been sending sizable files to mi madre via yousendit.com, which gives me a gig of free file sharing. I can always reregister using one of my other email addresses and get another gb, but I was wondering if anyone knew another way to accomplish this task.

Just wanted to roll out a quick post from under the warm glow of MCI’s free internet service and let everyone know that it was good to be able to visit Lawrence this past weekend. Thanks for taking the time to visit when you could. It was much appreciated. Mary also says thanks for all the fish, and the hospitable way that they were thrown around.

I’d like to send a special Arsenio Hall shout-out to Pete and Michelle for letting Mary and I crash at their pad and also to Himay for the rental car sharing that took place over the course of the weekend.

To those of you I wasn’t able to meet up with: We’ll catch you a little further down the road.

“Let go of the pickle” – Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek

I’ve been digging out from under my RSS feed today. Along the way, I “shared” some really excellent music posts, along with some other miscellany. Rather than post a bunch of links here, you can peruse in an easy-to-digest form at

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/04271642933913253294

Gauguin cut off his buddy Van Gogh’s ear with a sword in a drunken argument. Note to friend group: no sharp instruments allowed in the Lyon.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/was-truth-the-biggest-casualty-in-the-case-of-vincent-and-his-severed-ear-1678988.html