Hammer Mill Days

Holy hell. Is that thing on again? Well then, what's that little red light for? And the countdown box.... Twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-three.... Oh well. While we're trying to figure out what's going on there... What's been happening here at the mill? Usual stuff. Keeping the roof on, as they say, and the fridge stocked with lunchables. (Or, at least, snackables.) You have to be versatile to please the mix of tastes we have around this joint. Take Lincoln (please). Now, he's a fan of chicken fricassee. Of course, being a vegetarian, I won't have anything to do with the stuff, but that doesn't stop him. He keeps putting it on the shoplifting... I mean, the shopping list. And I keep coming back with tofu. (He's no happier now than he was in 1863.) But it takes more than food to make a life. We've been working on the next album, as you know. Quite a process. Some of you have been on the inside of our album construction activities, some not. For tho...

Was listening to NPR the other morning, much to my annoyance (no, I'm NOT going to contribute anything, thank you very much!) and I heard a story about a former high official of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia facing possible war crimes prosecution in the United States (where he now resides). Some of his torture victims now live in the U.S. as well, and would like to get some justice. Fair enough. While the correspondent took the time to describe how heinous that regime was, she neglected to mention the fact that our government had sent them something like $1 billion over the Carter, Reagan, and Bush I years. Small detail. Also heard reports about Radovan Karadzic's trial for war crimes. I have to admit, the first thing that came to mind was the happy accident of Dick Cheney's having been born in the United States. What a pity that Karadzic hadn't started the Iraq war instead of killing tens of thousands of Bosnians! He would be enjoying his comfortable retirement righ...