I am no philatelist (though I was a half-hearted member of The Stamp Bug Club — and no, I didn’t know who Alain de Cadenet was, either) but this is the best thing ever: Muppets to appear on U.S. stamps.
The article says: Kermit and his friends are not the first puppets to be featured on a U.S. stamp
… That’s strange, I don’t remember seeing a stamp with George W. Bush on it.
It’s so nice to have a November 5th without having neds lobbing rockets and firecrackers about the place.
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Mayor McCa
Lee’s Palace, Toronto
18th June 02004
172MB, FLAC format
Set List
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I’m So Poor. Buy My CD : 4’13”
That’s A Wrap : 3’14”
Hey Man, You Gotta Nice Job : 4’58”
I Got A Haircut : 3’11”
Funky Fresh Beets : 7’45”
I Can’t Pay The Rent : 3’13”
You Better Watch Out : 4’34”
Recording Details
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Audience recorded by Stewart C. Russell
Sony ECM-909A microphone -> iRiver H120 digital WAV recorder
(Direct digital file transfer to host Linux box)
Tracks split using Audacity
Levels normalized using the ‘normalize’ command-line tool.
This recording was made with CA Smith’s permission.
About the Artist
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CA “Mayor McCa” Smith — One-man Band Singing Sensation, Cartoonist,
Tapdancer, almost-Mayor of Hamilton, ON — is probably best explained by
visiting his website: < http://mayormcca.com/>.
MP3s live here.
Whenever you have to defrost live bread dough, make sure you don’t do it in a sealed polyethylene bag. It looks like a squid has been at it …
(the resulting bagels were great, though.)
Okay, so now I have an Orkut account, it appears no-one I know is on it. Is this exclusivity, or something else?
I misread this CBC headline “Allawi accuses U.S.-led coalition of negligence in ambush of Iraqi recruits“, and I thought, wow, that’s a whole new coalition, and a whole new ballgame!
Legenadary BBC Radio DJ John Peel has passed away. Where will we get the weirdness now?
Scooby-Doo breaks cartoon record — but the BBC article is worth reading purely for the anti-Scrappy Doo feedback items alone.
I have to say, Scrappy Doo was perhaps the most annoying cartoon character ever.
Just been listening to Bing Hitler – Live at the Tron, that being Craig Ferguson‘s early stage act, back when he was much funnier.
Richard Iwanski phoned, and left me with this slogan:
Martyrs for Mammon & the American Way of Life:
a Vote for John Kerry is a Vote for Perpetual Purgatory
He and I are both not quite sure what it could mean, or what we can do with it.
I can’t believe this, but HarperCollins UK are making General Reference senior editor Edwin Moore redundant. Eddie’s a true mensch, knows everything (and everyone) there is to know about publishing, and is everything that was good about Collins in Scotland. He and I used to cycle to the Bishopbriggs plant every day, braving Scotland’s, um, interesting weather all year round.
As we were both active in the NUJ chapel, we used to wonder if the management, err, strategies of HCP UK were those of evil geniuses, or shambling morons. Now we know.
(An indication of this is immediately obvious from HCP‘s website; they can’t spell Dr Seuss, and they’re repackaging yet another bloody commemorative edition of LofR.)
Something has just changed on my Gentoo boxes; I can now display Unicode characters properly. John Wells’s International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode now displays as it should.
Now there’s nothing stopping me making weak pronunciation-related puns like “… to /Éš/ is human …”
A large chrome hash pipe has lain in the rather obsessively manicured lot of a local Ford dealer for the last few days. It looks almost, but not quite, like lawn-sprinkler hardware or piece of hydraulics from an SUV. I wonder when they’ll notice it?
No wonder folks in the USA get confused with ballot papers — there are just too many choices.
UK ballot papers are super-simple: list of candidates down the left, list of checkboxes down the right. More than one issue? More than one ballot paper. It’s not hard.
As a memento of actually seeing a chicken in Wingham, I decided to own the domains wesawachicken.com and wesawachicken.info. They both point here.
Friends who orienteer are the best, given that you (and they) know where they are.
We found a dead sparrow (= speug, in Scots, pr. sp-yug) outside the front window when we took the recycling out. It had hit the window. Sorry, little dude.
So that’s me used six months of the avian mortality of the ExPlace wind turbine.
