Hammer Mill Days

Check it out - Video for One Small Step, our new MP3 single (coming soon to a digital store near you). Lyrics at http://www.big-green.net/lyrics/one_small_step.htm

No, I can't hang upside down. Not for three hours, for chrissake... from a helicopter. Why don't you just turn the camera upside down? Never thought of THAT, did you? (You did... ?) Oh, hi. Just walked in on another acrimonious production meeting here at the Cheney Hammer Mill. We keep a tight production schedule around here, let me tell you, averaging as many as one music video a year (sometimes more). Yes, breakneck speed rivaling our audio production schedule. Punishing! Matt is our director, though he sometimes puts Mitch Macaphee in charge of the second unit. Video production does not come naturally to our mad science advisor, I'm the first to say. He tends to confuse special effects with reality. (I can't quite bring myself to ask him how he faked that exploding building in our last video.... too afraid of the truth.) Okay, so... we're releasing a single. A goofy little number called "One Small Step". All I can say about it is that it attempts to ex...

This hasn't been a good week for the Libya enterprise, despite all that has been said and done to push it along in the right direction. Seems like mission creep is taking hold a lot faster than anyone might have guessed possible. It's been reported that Obama has signed off on a finding to provide arms to the Libyan rebels and that C.I.A. operatives are on the ground and active in support of those forces. No surprise that the C.I.A. is there (it's the rare nation that has never been the dubious beneficiary of Agency visitors, either invited or not). But that we would learn about it a little more than one week into this campaign is curious. And the word is that they have brought in close air support, including A-10 Warthogs and the like. A report by Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman on NPR's Morning Edition was perhaps unintentionally illustrative of how badly this can go wrong: "If their defeat is to be prevented, it's inevitable that they get weapons from so...