Hammer Mill Days

Hot enough for you? 450 degrees Kelvin, Mitch tells me. (That's about 350 for all you Fahrenheit fiends.) Urich, you got your eye on that splash-down point? That's it? Are you sure? Looks like freaking solid ground to me... Well, as you may have surmised, Big Green is just now wrapping up its launch tour for our new album, International House , and is headed back home through that ever-thickening blanket of atmosphere that surrounds planet Earth (our seasonal home). And as the more discerning amongst you may have noted, our re-entry method leaves a bit to be desired. You see, Big Green's pilot on this outing - a certain Urich Von Braun, reputedly the last surviving member of a little-known German kamikaze squadron - is a "driver" (as George W. Bush would put it) of airplanes. Spacecraft? Well, not so much. Anyway... this re-entry phenomenon is kind of a new thing for him, and while he's a quick learner, it's the sort of situation that doesn't allow f...

Welcome to the third presidency of this humble blog. I started posting this screed back in 1999. (Who can doubt that cawing pterodactyls carried my postings to the server in their enormous, leathery beaks?) Certainly this is the most highly anticipated administration of the three and, I firmly believe, of the past 40 years. The phenomenal crowd at Obama's inauguration was evidence of that. I don't know that I've ever seen so many people that happy to be standing out in the cold. Expectations are high, no doubt of that.... perhaps unreasonably so. Still, it is a little hard not to feel uplifted by that spectacle, just as the sight of those people in Chicago on election night was something of a thrill. It makes you feel as though we've arrived at a whole different kind of place in America, even if just for a moment. Nice feeling. Though, speaking personally, an even nicer feeling was had when I saw Bush climb aboard that helicopter and fly away, far far away, to the land ...

Don't usually post on a Tuesday, but since this is such a momentous day - i.e. Bush's last as president - I thought I'd drop in for a quick YEEEE-HAAAA! Just think of it... today is the day all of those 01-20-09 stickers briefly turn into calendars. Be that as it may, here is (for those of you who haven't seen it) Big Green's "High Horse" video, a ludicrous farewell to the Bush administration. Celebrate, kids. Download free MP3>