I was in one of those traffic jams this morning where you just have to suck on it and like it. It took me twice the drive time as normal. Not really sure where the accident was on 480, but there was fire, and EMS and more fire. It took me an hour to get from Ridge to 77 today. So, it was roll the windows down and crank the music time.

Oddly enough, Elvis came on with "Welcome to the Working Week". But I heard stuff from Nine Inch Nails, Sublime, The Used, the new one from Beck, Talking Heads, T. Rex, Public Image amongst others, so I was able to tolerate it.

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Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Jack White were at the Ryman last night? And, pray tell, who was here in Podunk last night? Damn it.

This time, it truly was a last lecture. More here.

"The View" picked another gem as a host. Seriously, if you don't know the world is round, how do you get on a nationally-broadcasted show and offer opinions? On anything. And to say it's unimportant and try to change the subject is just ridiculous.

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Floyd Landis is mercifully running out of appeals. It's too bad that one of the coolest things I ever saw became tainted and has retained its joke status.

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