I will not be able to match the words written by Pejman or Erick – and I don’t even want to try, really: I am very comfortable with having them speak for me in this matter. But I do wish to add one thing. When I heard of the circumstances of Mark’s passing from this life, I was reminded of what VP Thomas Marshall said of Teddy Roosevelt:
Death had to take him sleeping- if he had been awake there would have been a fight.
Because that’s just how Mark rolls.
Note tense.
Crossposted at RedState.
Rand Simberg makes an excellent point: it’s hard to stamp “Tax Cheat” on every dollar bill with Geithner’s signature on it that you’ll see in the future if you don’t actually use dollar bills in the first place.
I mean, soda machines and strip clubs are pretty much everything that you need dollars for these days; and I don’t use either. Not that I’m especially virtuous; I’m just kind of a cheapskate.
Man, the future just sneaks up on a person, sometimes.
I’m biased, but I think that Mike’s band (The Stone Soup Band) does a better job.
Moe Lane
PS: Seriously, if you have any kind of musical ability, an interest in actual traditional/folk music, and decent recording facilities, put some songs up on YouTube. It’s begging for the attention.
I just got sent the link to this from the guys over at The New Ledger:
…and it’s clearly a work of staggering genius. I’d have hired the guy on the spot – and then told him to give me a conventional resume for his personnel record.
Erick has written everything that I would have.
I will miss Mark. My prayers for him and his family.
…OK, no, they didn’t. No way I’m passing up a title like that, though. Anyway, Bill Gates took a big step today towards getting his own volcano lair:
No, really.
Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.
“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
First reported on social networking site Twitter, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin blogged, “Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED.”
I’m including that last sentence because the more I look at it, the more volumes it says about Twitter.
Anyway, no actual malaria in the mosquitoes, so I guess that Bill Gates is merely teasing us with his Mad Scientism. Or he hasn’t leveled up yet.
(Today’s author: Manly Wade Wellman
Tracking down the work by this one may take some doing; this particular author’s not exactly obscure as much as his popularity is cyclic. Wellman is probably best known for his John stories, which are essentially some of the best Appalachian-themed horror/fantasy short stories that you’re ever going to read. Wellman more or less breathed that region’s folklore, especially musical folklore, and it shows in his work: you can find the collection of it in John the Balladeer
I should also note that Wellman wrote a variety of pulp material, including quite a bit of science fiction – but, honestly? It’s the John stories that are going to be his legacy.
And there’s nothing at all wrong with that.
Moe Lane
*The cover doesn’t do the stories justice, by the way. We’re talking magic as the people stuck in the middle of stories think of it, not magic as the people reading the stories sometimes wish it was like.
…just as you’re getting out of the car, and you can’t get it out of your head afterward?
More accurately, don’t you hate it when a song comes on the radio just as I’m getting out of the car, and I can’t get it out of my head afterward?
Continue reading Don’t you hate it when a song comes on the radio…
A gracious and kind soul has purchased Mad Men – Season One
Hey, some people like to be anonymous benefactors. Then again, I’m not exactly the March of Dimes or the Salvation Army, either…
…looks like:
I’d say who sent that to me, except that I’m not really sure that they actually want to take credit for that. I mean, don’t get me wrong: Lego Star Wars
