Hammer Mill Days

Well, we managed to pull the Bill O'Reilly sound-alike tirade off the audio. But the logo... oh, the logo... Glad you could make it back. (Back where ?) Still hanging in there at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, just me and the fellows. And robots. And root vegetables. And mad scientists. And wayward planets. Shall I go on? Perhaps not. Anyway, when last you checked in, we were hammering out the details of our record release. Not such a difficult task, you may have supposed, inasmuch as we live in a hammer mill. Sadly, this was not the case. Our label's law firm - Hegemonic Legal Services and Worm Farm, Inc. - is pretty well checked out on entertainment law, being as they are a subsidiary of our old corporate label, Hegemonic Records and Worm Farm (or "Hegephonic" as they came to be known). They know the ropes. And they know how to use them. What went wrong? Couple of things. First of all, our legal representation was handled by two artificially recovered denizens of...

Looking for something to take your mind off the media marathon they call the Olympic Games? I know I am. Never been big on sports, frankly - I just can't get interested enough, particularly in the win/lose part of it all. Anyway, if you're like me and constitutionally disinclined to sit in front of the television hour after hour watching athletes run, hop, swim, or do something with a ball, join me in thinking about a few other things this weekend and beyond. Stuff like: The Cheney War Plan - Sy Hersh said last week that one of his sources related a story to him about some high-level planning meeting regarding how to get up a war with Iran. According to this source, Cheney was fond of a scheme to assemble a small fleet of bogus Iranian PT boats, man them with disguised Navy Seals, and have them fire on U.S. vessels in the Straits of Hormuz, thereby provoking a kind of Gulf of Tonkin incident (except even more contrived than the original). This brought two things to mind. Fir...