Kindle 2 Is Here

Click here for the scoop on the second generation Kindle, just announced by Amazon.

If you're thinking about buying a Kindle, click here.

If you'd like to know why I love my Kindle so much, click here.

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Single Mother Of 14

I'll bet at least one of the networks that thrives on "Reality" programming is pursuing this sick and deluded woman to "star" in a new show.

I remember reading about the Dionne quintuplets and all of the publicity they generated at that time, but this story is a freakshow -- an out-of-control train heading for a major wreck, and at a staggering cost in both financial and human terms.

Somehow, it's just not the same as "Jon and Kate Plus Eight."

Cat Haiku

1

My affection is conditional. 
Don't stand up;
It's your lap I love. 

2

Toy mice, dancing yarn, 
Meowing sounds. I'm convinced: 
You're an idiot.

-anonymous 21st century haiku master

Linda Ronstadt Live - Tumbling Dice

It's back -- maybe not for long...enjoy!


Linda Ronstadt was a pioneer Rock and Roll woman who paved the way for those who came after.

We saw her at the Orpheum in Boston in 1974, before the era of elaborate stage sets, lighting and costumes. As this clip from that period demonstrates, she and her band absolutely kicked ass.

No frills, no smoke and mirrors -- just straight-ahead Rock and Roll in its purest form from one of the best singers of all time.

John Updike

John Updike is dead at 76. He has always been my favorite American novelist.

Michio Kakutani captures some of the reasons why in her remembrance:

"It is as a novelist who opened a big picture window on the American middle class in the second half of the 20th century, however, that he will be best remembered."

"In his most resonant work, Mr. Updike gave “the mundane its beautiful due,” as he once put it, memorializing the everyday mysteries of love and faith and domesticity with extraordinary nuance and precision."

"In Kodachrome-sharp snapshots, he gave us the 50’s and early 60’s of suburban adultery, big cars and wide lawns, radios and hi-fi sets, and he charted the changing landscape of the 70’s and 80’s, as malls and subdivisions swallowed up small towns and sexual and social mores underwent a bewildering metamorphosis."

Mysti Mayhem

It's always so wonderful to discover a new singer/songwriter with the kind of fresh, smart, and accessible voice that makes you want to hear her song again as soon as it's over.

Thanks, Andy, for telling me about Mysti Mayhem!

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Super Bowl 2009 - eTrade

2nd Runner-Up (Click on the Post Title, then on the video, to play):

Super Bowl 2009 - Castrol

3rd Runner-Up  (Click on the Post Title, then on the video, to play):

Super Bowl 2009 - Victoria's Secret

4th Runner-Up (Click on the Post Title, then on the video, to play):

Super Bowl 2009 - Pepsi

The Winner (Click on the Post Title, then on the video, to play):

Super Bowl 2009 - Hulu

1st Runner-Up (Click on the Post Title, then on the video, to play):

Super Bowl - Lizards

My all-time favorite.
Be sure to watch what happens after the grasshopper joins the dance...