Archive for March, 2009

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Tournament

What, no bracket love?

Car Stereo

Besides the radio, I always thought the 8-track was the first automobile music player. Not so. Everyone ever seen one of these? http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html

What’s Your Take Seattleites?

How long before newspapers are totally obsolete. In another 10 years is there going to be any semblance of life as we’ve known it? Andy Rooney had a dissertation on this subject on 60 Minutes last evening. updated 4:06 p.m. CT, Mon., March. 16, 2009 SEATTLE – The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news […]

Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html Here is a link to a quiz to determine if you lean right or left. I scored 231 on a scale of 400. Take the quiz & share your score. Might be kind of fun to find out the composite blog score. No hard feelings allowed.

Love Song, "Annie Had A Baby"

By Hank Ballard and The Midnighters 1954 Annie had a baby, cant work no more NO, no, no, no, no, no, no Annie had a baby, cant work no more Every time she start to working She has to stop to walk the baby cross the floor She had to walk with the baby Instead […]

MRRC Stretch

I know this is a stretch for the Rock Coroner, but it has been recorded by several rock artists. Jimmy Boyd, ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa’ singer, dies March 10, 2009, 4:18 PM EST SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Boyd, the child singer and actor best known for the original rendition of the Christmas […]

Less Intelligent, More Intelligent

http://imgur.com/EYY9.png Look at the number of google searches. What does this say about society? Does this make you laugh, cry, angry, hopeless, clueless, apathetic, philosophic? Maybe the internet (google) is too easy. Doesn’t make you think. Possibly getting similar to television in that respect.

Rockin’ Love Songs?

Okay, we all like the rockers. And we should admit we like love songs too. But what about love songs that are rockers? Is there such a thing? Initially contemplating this I said that all love songs are slow. But thinking more about it, love songs should be more about a mood or the mood […]

Thanks to our Vets.

I have been doing some reading of some books checked out of the MR Central Massive library. (Library of Congress eat your heart out) I have just finished a work about the LRRP Teams in SE Asia. It was one of the best books on the war I have read. What those guys had to […]

The Fireman

Check out the newest offering from Sir James Paul McCartney Done as his alter ego “The Fireman” I have been listening to it on his dedicated channel on Sirius-XM and I think it is one of his best works in a while. I am finding out this his 3rd project as “The Fireman” The 1st […]

Do You Realize??

I’ve always thought that the Flaming Lips are one of the coolest things about Oklahoma. This is even cooler: A song by the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips has been given a big statewide kiss in Oklahoma. Their tune “Do You Realize??” was named the state’s official rock song, beating out more famous songs […]

GREEK TO ME

Amazing how much this holds true thru the ages. No better thing befalls a man than a good wife, no worse thing than a bad one. –Semonides of Amorgos The kind of events that once took place will by reason of human nature take places again. –Thucydides We hang the petty thieves and appoint the […]