Hammer Mill Days

A little higher. Little more. That's it. Right, now ... slowly lower the winch. That's got it. Okay, a little too fast. Too fast. I said TOO FAST! Oh, Jesus. Right ... order another banner. No wonder I never get anything done. Oh, hello. Forgive me if I always seem surprised when you come along. I'm inclined to forget about the blogging version of the "fourth wall" and the fact that others can see what the hell I'm doing (or not doing). Today you've caught me and Marvin (my personal robot assistant) in the midst of constructing Big Green's new YouTube Channel , hot off the presses. You see, for the longest time we've been pointing our listeners/readers/browsers, whatever, to my personal YouTube channel, which has over the last few years become choked with political content, obscure linguistics and philosophy of mind lectures, comedic bullshit, and so on. It finally dawned on my dim little brain that the band needed its own space for video content...

Another one of those weeks when it's hard to know what to focus on. So many disasters and revelations in such a short time, I'm guessing that many of the media folks who took this week off (and you all know who you are) are chomping at the bit to get back. I, for one, am disgusted by what's happened this week, and frankly I can't find anything positive to say about it. It was a week that started with the obscene bombing in Baghdad, the death toll for which has exceeded 250. As has long been the case, this provoked some small response in American culture because of the magnitude of the crime, but the degree of "hair-on-fire" apoplexy about terrorism has been relatively minimal due to the cultural distance between Iraq and the United States. As these attacks move closer culturally to the U.S., our politicians get more worked up. Forget this export we call "freedom" - that bombing is our gift to the Iraqi people and it just keeps on giving. Decisio...