It’s a spoken word thing #2 (Pete Barbutti)
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- Wednesday 30th June 2010
(I imagine you’re wondering what the Grainger logo is doing here. And where is Pete Barbutti? Please be patient; all will be revealed in the fullness of time)
Last Saturday morning, I woke up to discover that our attic fan (known also as a whole-house fan) had ceased to work. I am not the most mechanically-inclined individual (pause here for raucous laughter offstage), but we don’t have a ton of money to piss away on the local fix-it guys unless it’s absolutely necessary. So I heaved my butt up into the stiflingly hot attic and made my way to the eaves in a sweaty, crouched shuffle to figure out what the problem was.
Latest newsletter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Tuesday 29th June 2010
The latest issue of Effector, the EFF newsletter, just hit my incoming mail. If you have even a hint of interest in the civil rights and privacy aspects of our society’s cute little online existence, you might ought to subscribe.
One of the highlights this issue is a new Firefox plug-in that protects privacy by encrypting…
civil rights, EFF, Effector, encryption, online privacyIt’s a spoken word thing #1 (Boris Karloff)
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- Friday 25th June 2010
I’m sitting on a real treasury of spoken word recordings in all manner of formats, and I want to bring some of these to a wider audience than just me, sitting alone in the basement and grinning like a fool. Both my cassette players busted from age, and until I get a replacement for them, and until I get the CD’s sorted out and shelved, I’m culling from vinyl, just picking out some…
children's records, Howard Sackler, just so stories, karloff, kipling, reading, spoken wordThe April Tour, or “A Wand’ring Minstrel, I” (Download link to the Moscow set)
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- Wednesday 23rd June 2010
So, I was on tour almost all of April. It was supposed to be three weeks – two of them booked by superagent Linus in Switzerland, and one booked by the gents at ChoiceCuts in Dublin. And if it hadn’t been for the golly gosh darned VOLCANO, it would have been smoove as silk. Oh well. Force majeure and like that.
First night in, I played RapHistory night in Basel, with the theme of 1980. Not…
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