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The Mountain Goats new EP, Dilaudid, is available for digital download in DRM-free AAC or MP3 format for about $5.72 (3 GBP).
A great album for a great price. We really should encourage this method of distribution, so I encourage you to go check it out.
It also includes “This Year,” which is a freaking awesome song. Go get it. Now.
I know everybody else will be doing it, but I figured I’d post some thoughts as well.
The nice thing about doing this on a Tivo is you can pause, rewind, and catch up with the live broadcast.
9:07PM - If only Tivo could fast forward through all the clapping…
9:10PM - Elections in Iraq/Afganistan = good
9:11PM - Its like a Blue & Gold Dinner, everyone has to clap for everything (come on you ex-Cub Scouts, you know what I’m talking about).
9:13PM - Fiscal responsibility… Right side of the aisle stands and claps, left side grumbles. Any surprises yet?
9:16PM - I think the Democrats must have hurt their hands clapping at the beginning. They look unhappy.
9:18PM - Ooh… Hydrogen cars are back!
I thought I’d relate a story about something that happened to me today that I don’t think you’d find it outside a culture like metro Detroit (which has the largest Muslim population in the US).
Today when I was getting my hair cut, the 20-something man to my right was getting his hair done because he was having an impromptu wedding this weekend. He was getting married early because he was being shipped off to Iraq on the 27th of December. He was enlisted as a medic in an Army engineering regiment and was looking forward to his assignment.
The woman cutting his hair was born in Iraq, and grew up in Mosul. He was asking her questions about what to expect when he got over there, and she was telling him stories about what it was like growing up in Iraq under Saddam’s rule.
The woman cutting my hair was Jordanian, and was telling me about her Chaldean husband who worked construction. Chaldeans in Iraq were heavily persecuted for their Catholic faith under the Ba’ath party and many of them fled to the west to escape. Her husband was thinking about returning to Iraq to work on its reconstruction. Apparently you can make $100,000 US for a six-month tour as a construction worker - more than enough to buy a house in Detroit.
On my way out I wished him the best of luck and told him to take care of himself. I don’t think there was a soul in the room that wasn’t proud to have him there.
So it looks like Bush has won once again, and by better margins than I ever really expected. He just has to wrap up Ohio and make sure that provisional ballots don’t become the new hanging chads. Whether you like it or not, it looks like he may have this one locked down.
This is the point where I remind all the liberals of their promise to “like, totally move to Canada if Dubya gets re-elected.” Go go… shoo… leave now…
My Canadian friend Arthur has even provided a step-by-step guide on how to immigrate to our socialist neighbor to the north. You have no excuses.
Update: In case you live in a cave and haven’t seen the news, Kerry has conceded.
Well, its that time of the year again. As a responsible blogger, I feel I’m supposed to post something deep and intellectual about today’s election.
It’s going to be ugly. If the election is anything even approximating “close” (especially if it’s in favor of Bush) we’re not going to find out who won until January. This morning the media was already complaining about the Republican monitors in Ohio and the evil punch-card ballots. The litigation is going to start tomorrow and last until they either lose all their appeals or the election is reversed in favor of Kerry.
In the meantime, I’m going to watch the polls and be hopeful. Most of all I just want it to be clean. I don’t think I could handle another 4 years of election bitching.
Some good URLs to watch for coverage on todays events:
Update: Somehow I managed to completely miss that the mind behind electoral-vote.com was Andrew Tanenbaum, the inventor of the MINIX operating system, precursor to Linux.
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