Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92. Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-o...
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This realit...
For good or ill, all the music from the 90s is coming back. Sure, the return of Limp Bizkit, Sugar Ray, and that guy from Smash Mouth making a country record isn’t really good news, but at least we’ve got Sunny Day Real Estate and Blur reunions to...
OK, so far it seems like a one-off thing, but how incredibly awesome must it have been for Seattle concertgoers to witness 3/4 of Soundgarden reunited onstage together with Tad Doyle this past Tuesday night? (Thanks to fellow twitterer Mark Carrass for alerting me to this. Social networking fucking rules.) Sure, the [...]
Seattle's Crocodile Café reopened last weekend after being closed for a little more than a year and last night some of the original stars of the Northwest grunge scene showed up for a surprise performance at Tom Morello's Justice Tour. Seattle P.I....
Nick Licata and the rest of the Seattle City Council are making pedestrian safety a top priority. He says he's consulted with the city's ethics commission and follows its directions for keeping city and family concerns separate(Josef Robinson was injured three years ago.)Seattle City Council President Nick Licata, whose stepson was seriously injured on a city street, wants Seattle to become a ...
I finally got around to watching Casino Royale the other night and barring a wiggy-ass chase scene in the pre-theme song intro segment, it wasn't really anything to write home about...man, that franchise just doesn't have a place in the post-Cold War world...I should've known it was going to be a pointless exercise when I heard the movie's theme song ("You Know My Name"?) being performed by Chr...
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From The Wiki...Ultramega OK, released in 1988, was the debut album by Soundgarden. The album was nominated for the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 1990. Chris Cornell stated the album title was conceived by Kim Thayil as a joke.The songs "665" and "667" are parodies of the idea of Satanic content in rock music, the idea being that if 666 is such a powerful number, then the surrounding num...
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This realit...
...'cause it's the middle of the day, kid...if you're feelin' a little "Minnesota" right about now...pump your fist to this:...and I'll top that off with a litte "A/C" video which holds one of the baddest vocal taglines for the last song on dark-assed LP: "Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?"...that's still hot, yo......two of my favorite albums to this day....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. Robotic Technolog
Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92. Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-o...