Haggard Communes With UFO Enthusiasts

Proud to be an Okie from Alpha Centauri...

But you gotta love the Hag, especially since he's part of a dying breed of no-shit country musicians. What happens when we lose all of these people? Have you heard what's coming out of Nashville?

Cellphones become jukeboxes as ring-tone sales take off | csmonitor.com

OK, somebody explain this to me...

Why is it that I can go to iTunes or any other music download site and buy an entire song for 99 cents, but Cingular charges more than twice that much to purchase a ring tone version of the same song?

The music industry has made a lot of noise about sagging CD sales, blaming it all on file-sharing, naturally. How much are they raking in from this new market?

On the bus this morning looked up from my book for moment and glanced out the window just as a car was passing. Through the car's window I could see a middle-aged couple, the woman driving. They were holding hands. Something about the image struck me, a feeling that this wasn't a romantic moment, but rather one of comfort or consolation.

I'm getting sappy and sentimental in my old age...

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

Moments ago, while watching a scene from the original 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate, I noticed something very odd. In the scene, Maj. Marco (Sinatra) enters his apartment carrying a newspaper. The headline on the newspaper reports the murder of a senator and his daughter. But on that same newspaper, clearly visible in type at the very top of the page, is a headline for another story, which reads, "Violent Hurricane Sweeps Midwest."

Hurricanes in the midwest? Hel-lo! We don't get hurricanes in the midwest. We get tornadoes.

Why is this important? It isn't. Not at all.