A Cry for Help

It’s practically 2006, but here is my much anticipated (by Bil) best of 2004 music list. At first when I looked back I thought that 2004 was a great year for music. Upon further examination I realized that 2004 actually was a misstep - what actually increased was my love for music. [...]

Free this week from the iTunes Music Store, Bright Eyes - When the President Talks to God

When the president talks to God
are the conversations brief or long?
does he ask to rape our womens’ rights
or to send poor farm kids off to die?
does God suggest an oil hike
when the president talks to God?
when the president talks [...]

I like to listen to Dennis and Callahan on WEEI Sports radio in the morning. It’s an amusing sports show, and they would sprinkle in little things about the election and the news. One guyis a big Bush fan (which isn’t surprising for a high-earning white guy) and one is not too big on [...]

The Providence Journal Sports sections has rolled out a new feature in the past few weeks: a “print blog.” I assume (yes, yes…) that this comes from the excellent and well-wired sports editor Art Martone, but something seems to have been lost in translation. For instance, the B in blog is short for “web”.
Now, the [...]

And now for two links that require no further description:
Before
After
In related news, I’m 75% done with my waaay to late best albums of 2004 list. At the moment I have it together just about as well as Mark Mathis does…

The Daily Show is the both the best and most important show on television. It’s just that good.

I thought they’d win. I was wary of broadcasting that, but I thought they’d win. Never did I imagine they would absolutely paste the Pittsburgh Steelers to the tune of 41 points. This team, these New England Patriots, are just phenomenal. Wow.
I think you’ll probably hear this a lot in the coming weeks, but the [...]

Five hours, fifty-four minutes. Yeah, I’m excited for this game. I have no idea what to expect, except a great, hard hitting game. This group of Patriots is undefeated in seven post-season game, went 14-2 this regular season. They’re playing against a rookie quarterback that lost last week’s game, yet managed to move on to [...]

Back in the day, you used to be able to sign up for an email list to be told when there was a new Cry for Help. That function didn’t survive the move to Movable Type two Octobers ago. However, with the rise of aggregators and rss-readers, it became something of a moot point. Well, [...]

Just watched Joe Lieberman on the D-show. Sometimes I wish he were a more public figure, because then everyone could probably ridicule him to the point where he’d no longer drop John McCain’s name EVERY. OTHER. SENTENCE. No, seriously, he called him “brother McCain” at one point. It was bad enough during the hip, cool, [...]

No, not because the temperatures have been single digits here while I’m used to wearing shorts this time of year. I’m missing New Orleans today because of stuff like this:
To the tunes of old church spirituals, a jazz funeral rolled through the streets of the French Quarter on Thursday with hundreds of protesters mourning what [...]

Check out the video for “We Will Become Silhouettes”. [from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, no less -bil]
I’m in love with Jenny Lewis. Her and the chick that sings with Broken Social Scene. If you don’t know Broken Social Scene; run, don’t walk to the record store and buy “You Forgot It In [...]