Interactive Post

So I don't know if anyone other than Morgan and Sam are reading this, therefore I am going to test you. Please answer the following by leaving the appropriate word as a comment:

Ann Coulter makes me feel _________.

An Ending for Lost!

I don't know whether to be excited or exasperated. ABC has announced that Lost will be airing for THREE more years. On one hand, that means three more years of semi-enjoyable but mostly frustrating viewing. On the other hand, that means I have to wait THREE years to figure out what kind of crack those crazy writers were smoking when they made this show. Sigh.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/07/television.lost.reut/index.html

Claymation Homo Love

Once upon a time I was reading Shakespeare's brilliant play Troilus and Cressida. It's a bit of an obscure play, but it basically retells the story of the Illiad with a Shakespearean twist. For those of you unfamiliar with the Illiad, it's basically the story of how Achilles goes bonkers when his male lover, Patroclus, is slain. It's actually quite sweet in that super masculine kind of way. The point of this post? Youtube is without a doubt the strangest thing on Earth...

I've got famous friends...

So for all of you who like a little bit of old-time meets honky tonk, let me introduce you to:

THE SWEETBACK SISTERS

Now I'm going to share their music in just a second. But let me tell you: This little band just finished 2nd place out of 700 bands in a talent show. Okay, but guess which one? The PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION talent show, as in the radio show hosted by Garrison Keillor on NPR with an average weekly listenership of 4 million people!!! Snap, snap!

Now for fun trivia, Emily Miller, left, attended Brown. She also lived with me (or rather I squatted at her apartment, which she happened to be sharing with her good friend and my soon to be free-rent giving boyfriend Sam). And she taught me all I know about playing the fiddle (which is unfortunately not that much because I don't have a teacher anymore). AND she grew up spending several weeks every summer at the Augusta workshops in my tiny hometown of Elkins. Strangely enough for a town of 7,000 people, I didn't meet her until after I moved to Providence. AND STILL MORE, after I meet Emily, she totally went back to Elkins to find a super-duper, guitar-picking, fiddle-cracking, harmony-yowling man, Jesse Milnes, right. To make matters even more fun, Jesse grew up about a block and a half away from my home. I probably splashed around in the creek (read "crick") with that boy.

I know you are bored, it's just that the world is so small, kind of makes me think you are all robots, and I'm in the Truman Show or something (God, I'm old and lame to reference that one). SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... without further adieu, I invite you to click on the following links to discover just about the freshest band I've heard in a decade: The Sweetback Sisters.

First click below to hear their music:
http://www.myspace.com/thesweetbacksisters

Click here for their blog:
http://www.thesweetbacksisters.com

And then click on the video to watch Garrison Keillor at get creepy yet wonderful with the band:

If Mandy and I morphed into a single person...

I think we would be Janet from this fabulous little story by Richard Russo. Please, read this.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200608/richard-russo

They don't call gay people "queens" for nothing!

If you are fed up with your country start a new one! Why haven't we thought of this guys? Below I'm going to link to two very informative pages. The first, an excellent wikipedean study of the phenomenon known as the "micronation." The second is the "micronation" that I heart the most. I think these people are on to something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
http://www.gayandlesbiankingdom.com/index.htm

Before we were bloggers

Jonc
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/johncspageoffun/

Moplumsy
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/moplumsy/

Oh dear...

UPDATE:
My marvelous find of Morgan's old Web page has led her to delete it. Sigh.