Less Poverty but More Inequality in New York
Via: City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
Only the New York Times could come up with that headline and keep a straight face. The poverty rate declined in New York, but because the rich got richer, things are getting worse . . .
For all six readers I’ve got out there, some of you may have noticed that my site has been down for the last few days. My long neglected Tom Waits blog got hit by a massive number of spam bots to the point that my hosting provider was forced to bring my site down for an overabundance of CPU usage. I was forced to bring down the Tom Waits blog in order to get my service restored, which was not too much of a hurt since I haven’t found any time to really start that site back up. In any case, I’m back up and running now . . .
[Read More]Since, I’ve no longer got a seperate Tom Waits blog, I guess I can post stuff here. NPR’s All Songs Considered has published a recording of the Atlanta show available for a free download. You can grab the whole thing here (130MB, MP3).
I finally got a chance to post a few shots from Brandon and Amanda’s wedding back in May:
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An idea way ahead of its time . . .
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little.
Joe Martin, Porterfield
I don’t know, but I can’t get this song out of my head.
The Be Good Tanyas: The Littlest Birds
After long last, I finally got a chance to post the photos from this gala event . . .
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Finally answering the question, “How many Internet/You Tube jokes can be crammed into one music video.”:
I know I still need to finish the story of my adventure to New Orleans. Just been a bit busy. In the mean time, I finally got a chance to upload my photos from the trip.
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