mumblings and ramblings

ratan is not amused

Got a nice long list for yer today!

April 29th next-to-last Shuttle launch
MLB to run Dodgers

The world’s most complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
Shortwave weekly propagation forecast bulletin

Police frees woman from jaws of python
Camel meat could be next Australian export Oh those whacky Australians!
German circus family in shoot-out over tent space Oh those whacky Germans!
One of the strangest balks in MLB history
New radio waves detect alien planets
Alien in Siberia video a fake DUH
A painfully hilarious way to go
Canadian authorities make arrest in webcam murder Oh those whacky Canadians!
DOJ shutters ‘obscenity’ task force This is one thing I’ll give Obama credit for…
Australian politician busted for CP Gary Glitter has competition now

Well, until later…

R.E.M. doesn’t write enough dirges (see also Low and Country Feedback from earlier this month).

Standard disclaimer applies: I didn’t draw these. They were found on 4chan’s /c/ etc

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I apologize folks. I’ve been sick the past week or so and haven’t felt like looking for links. Which is to say, it’s been difficult to post links to news stories that Daily Rotten has already posted. Yeah…

Anyway, for better or worse I plan to post a bunch of links tomorrow.

No matter what anybody says, Up was a really good album. It can’t touch the stuff they did in the 80s, but most music can’t…

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Bonus:

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One of those little heard songs from Out of Time. When I was younger the harpsichord thing kind of bugged me, but now I think it’s one of the better things R.E.M. has done.

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Standard disclaimer applies: I didn’t draw these. They were found on 4chan’s /c/ etc

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Last month I had one day where I had cartoon girls on a month of otherwise of human girls. So here is a human girl in the midst of cartoon girls…

In retrospect, Fables of the Reconstruction might be my favorite REM album.

Here is Maps and Legends:

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Along with Low, this seemed like an odd song out for an album like Out of Time. Hard to believe this song was recorded in the same session as Shiny Happy People. And really, the song begs the question, why don’t more country music artists put howling feedback on their records? Goes perfect with the pedeal steel.

Standard disclaimer applies: I didn’t draw these. They were found on 4chan’s /c/ etc

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