Heroes, # whatever

HST: OK.

Heroes #7

For lyrical and musical honesty.

Geckos of Ecuador

actually a small subset thereof

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Heroes #6

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Dead Kick Ass

Nassau was pretty good musically and fun personally; MSG was awesome in both departments. Hoo!

Approach of The Dead

So it looks like I'm going to both the Nausea Mausoleum Nassau Coliseum and Madison Square Garden shows this weekend, Friday and Saturday. Never seen a show at either venue, so I pick up a little East Coast deadheadcred.

I'm looking forward to seeing some old friends (people with whom I saw Grateful Dead shows as far back as 1980) and enjoying some improvised music and well-crafted songs. The setlists have been interesting and wholly unpredictable so far, eight shows and only I think 3 repeated songs, so that's fun. I'd love to hear certain tunes, of course (Here Comes Sunshine, Morning Dew, Crazy Fingers, etc.) but whatever.

It's a different band, and there's nothing wrong w/ that. *shrug* Nothin left to do but smile, smile, smile...

Heroes #5

I quote from Blair Jackson's excellent liner notes to the recent archival Grateful Dead release, recorded in Feb. 1968:

...hipster hero and Merry Prankster Neal Cassady, of On the Road and Acid Test fame, driver of Kesey's psychedelic bus and one-man living conceptual art piece....[Bob Weir:]"He was the guy who was the most completely in-the-moment of anyone I've ever met."

S,AICWCSoA

Soon, all internet communication will consist solely of acronyms.


You read it here first. (Or not.)

Heroes #4

Miles Davis, finest musician of my lifetime IMO.

Love in vain

I was inspired by this post over at Darren Naish's always-fascinating Tet Zoo blog to post one of my favorite photos (h/t Joe Bidwell)

My car is famous!

Yes, my 1996 Jeep Cherokee is featured on Google Maps' Street View! See here.

Heroes #3

That's George A. Bartholomew, my intellectual role model. Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and inspiring, if low-key, teacher of ecologically relevant physiology (his favored term). I was privileged to know him during my years at UCLA (his last few there), and I believe I was the last PhD student to have Bart on my committee. You can read about his many scientific accomplishments here, marvel at his academic genealogy (I'm on there!!!) here, and read his UC obituary here.

Missed it by that much...

Where "it" was comment #1000
and "that much" was an hour and 41 minutes.
*shrug*

Countdown to crankiness

PZ Myers sez: "if this turns into another thousand comment thread, I shall be very, very cranky." Current projections, based on data shown above (click for sharper view), are for crankiness to hit at or shortly after midnight tonight (dashed line is an eyeballed extrapolation). Quake and tremble, ye believers, for we should soon witness some serious crankiness.

Aaaaaa what's the point?

You know? I mean, who cares?

Heroes #2

In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead

Heroes #1

Darwin's Reach, an interdisciplinary conference, March 2009

ceremonial inaugural post

"I blog, therefore I yam what I yam"
-Popeye Descartes