Things have been a little slow here at McCrappy lately, so I took the downtime to update the site’s wordpress installation. In the same vein, our theme was looking a little bland and outdated, so I started playing around with some new themes. I’m not a huge fan of the one I currently have up, so if anyone has a favorite, point me at it. Maybe we’ll have to have a vote if there’s a couple of popular options.
The new House of Blues is opening up in Boston next month, where the Avalon and Axis clubs used to be. I’ll definitely miss the old clubs, they hosted a level of artist that won’t be able to book the new HOB. The good thing is that Boston has a good number of smaller capacity clubs like the Roxy or the Middle East that hopefully will pick up the slack, and the lineup for the opening month at the HOB is pretty sweet:
B.B. King, P Funk, Gypsy Kings, and The Disco Biscuits, along with the St. Patty’s day shows of the Dropkick Murphy’s.
I imagine things will slow down, but it’s great to have another pull for shows to come to Boston.
How many times do you think you’d have to listen to a song to be completely sick of it? Could you go crazy? I hear they do this kind of thing to ‘enemy combatants’ to keep them up. I was thinking about it when we were watching possibly the best Family Guy ever, the Surfing Bird episode.
So in honor of Peter’s love of Surfing Bird, I’ll try to listen to the song 100 times in a row today and see what happens. 100 plays comes out to something just short of 4 hours of playtime. Will I go mad? Possible, for sure. Will I burn an undying fear of Surfing Bird into my conscious? Likely. At least I’ll be able to rock this song for karaoke. I’ll write a quick summary at the end if I make it that far and I’m still able to visualize the keyboard.
Well it looks like the bailout is going down in flames, at least for today. If you’ve been watching the whole thing unfold, it’s been interesting to see who has opposed and who was backing the bill. It definitely didn’t fall along party lines, and opposition came from both the far left and the far right. Techdirt has a really great write-up covering the basics from a non-political viewpoint, and is definitely worth a read.
Haven’t been following the whole breakdown of modern society? Well, This American Life (an awesome show on NPR) had a great piece a couple of months ago in conjuntion with NPR news that profiled how the whole thing happened. It’s downloadable as a podcast, and really goes into depth about what happened and why.
Don’t know what a house is? Hmm, here’s the Wikipedia page. Good luck.
There’s no country we as Americans like to hate more then France (that’s what they get for helping us in that revolution). France, to most Red state folks, represents the pinnacle of bad socialism: forced work weeks, public health care, and wine at lunch. Time magazine has an interesting commentary piece about how we’ve co-opted thier ways, and how America has taken all the bad parts of socialism, without getting free wine at lunch (among other benefits). It’s a good read considering the huge bailouts of companies owned by extremely wealthy people that have rocked the country. Check it out here:
Well I finally managed to sort and upload the pictures to Flickr of my summer in Africa. It was an unbelievable time, and some of the pictures really came out great, especially the wildlife. Check them out here:
It’s only proper etiquette to know which hand shake to use when accepting a new job, and which to use to celebrate when KG dunks over an accused rapist from the foul line. In case you didn’t know, simple hand shake for the first, possible death metal hands for the second. What about the kid n’ play heel-kick-lock spin? When can I use that you ask? Oh don’t you fret, someone’s laid it all out for you; explaining all the in’s and out’s of acceptable (and unacceptable) male greetings. Check it out here. Oh, and just in case you don’t have time for the read: a big no to the sideways peace sign, unless you want to end up hotchickswithdouchebags.com…
For all the trouble the Chinese have had so far on the Olympic torch relay, they apparently have learned one thing: the less people the better. So how does Mt. Everest come into play? Well that was going to be the crowning achievement of the torch relay, to carry the flame (or at least the flame’s half-cousin twice removed) to the summit. The problem? Well, pesky Tibet has some pretty decent climbers in their Sherpa ranks, not to mention international mountaineers who sympathize with the cause of Tibet.
The solution? Close the mountain to all people not associated with the torch, in the very few weeks of the year a summit attempt is possible. It’s not like the Olympics were devised as a way to bring peace and togetherness to the world after all…I’m glad I’m not 3 years of training in and 60K spent on something that’s going to fail because of China’s fear.
Well it looks like the current owners group, as much as they’ve said to contrary, is going ahead with plans for a new stadium on the Southie waterfront. Now I’m not a fan of the tight seats in Fenway, or how ridiculously hard it is to get seats these days, but I don’t think they could ever make the new place the same experience as Fenway. Check out the Boston.com article, it’s looking like they plan to have it up for 2011 if development goes as planned.
What can giant mutant space hamsters tell you about global warming? Watch and learn. This is a great video focusing on what we can really affect in climate change, and what our practical choices really are. Reason to the rescue.
That makes it sound way too official, but I’ve been burning through new music lately at work, and I’m always looking for more suggestions. Though I’m not here to reveal some of the shameful crap I listen to day-to-day, I am willing to share some of the better stuff that’s made my playlist lately. Without further ado, here’s a short list of who’s playing today at my desk:
Adem
Jamie T
Waylon Jennings
Tom Petty
Planet Smashers
Share up anything good you’ve heard recently. That way if I catch myself cranking some sweet tunes from Hootie and the Blowfish, I’ll have only myself to blame…
For some reason the beginning of March is birthday season for a bunch of folks in the McCrappy family. Well, we all know what goes with mid-twenties birthday parties: crappy shots. Most people know some of the common ones, like the three wise men or the four horseman. Well how about the smokers cough? Or (as pictured) the tapeworm? Didn’t think so. Thank god no one had this list back when we all were celebrating our 21st birthdays, or I would never be able to stomach Hellmann’s or Tabasco again.
Apparently this last summer was brutal on the hops harvest: bad weather in the Northwest, a fire at one of the largest hop warehouses, and high demand have made it impossible for small brewers to get their hands on the good stuff. If you were wondering (like I was) why a six pack went up to 8-9 dollars this winter, the shortage is apparently the biggest reason.
The good news: Sam Adams is selling a portion of their supply, to make sure the small breweries can stay in business. It’s really generous of them considering this isn’t exactly excess. Currently, it’s only available to registered brewers (I don’t know what a home-brewer would do with 88 pounds of the stuff). So next time you’re out it might be worth picking up something of theirs for the good deed.
Though this list is far from exclusive, here are some great shows coming to Boston. I’ve pulled any that I know would be sold out (that means you Dropkick Murphy’s), but all-in-all some great music coming through here:
Now that Japan has decided to start adding Humpback whales to it’s annual “scientific” whale hunt, Greenpeace has been working to prove how unscientific the research really is (Sadly eating something doesn’t automatically make it science). They’ve decided a better approach is to team with scientist and tag the animals, tracking their movement through the ocean. Unconventional, I know. To draw attention to their effort, Greenpeace has put up a contest on the web to name one of the tagged Humpbacks, with traditional names like Aiko (Little Love in Japanese) or Babu (means ‘grandfather or old man’ in Swahili). Well thanks to the power of the internet, the current naming front runner by a wide margin is Mr. Splashy Pants! So hurry up and vote, because nothing makes a day at the beach better then knowing Mr. Splashy Pants is out there having a splashtastic blast under the waves.
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