Gene Simmons on NPR

Terri Gross interviews Gene Simmons (of Kiss) on Fresh Air.

Drugs are bad, kids.

http://www.maniahill.com/funny/Gene_Simmons_Terry_Gross_NPR_Fresh_Air_broadcast_02-04-2002.mp3

Originally published at chris.dwan.org. You can comment here or there.

Marion Barry

It occurs to me that it may make my political views more comprehensible to remember that I grew up near Washington DC. My somewhat cynical views on politics probably stem from Marion Barry more than anything else. Of course, years of early exposure to the washington post couldn’t have helped.

In our random junk on . . . → Read More: Marion Barry

Chicken

Back from the first trip. It was good.

. . . → Read More: Chicken

The Plan

Headed for a wedding in Kalamazoo today. Drive out today, wedding tomorrow (plus, conveniently, a bridal shower in St. Joe, MI tomorrow morning), drive back on Sunday. Pack Mon – Thu, load the truck on Friday. Say goodbye to our stuff for a while. Sleep on the air mattress until we close out of the . . . → Read More: The Plan

This guy

This guy is a genius.

Spinach Soup

I got back from the gym this evening with a singular vision: Spinach soup. I don’t think that I’ve ever even eaten spinach soup before, yet I was filled with this wild desire. So I looked online. There is wide variety among the available recipes for spinach soup. It is a dish eaten either hot . . . → Read More: Spinach Soup

Riddick

Pitch Black was a pretty good movie. It was a B movie that made it into that rare and slender category of movies which, on a low budget and starting from a sci-fi horror film plot, create a character or two whose development I actually care about…even a little bit. In general, I appreciate truly . . . → Read More: Riddick

Damn humans

My in-laws had their car broken into last night. Four years in this town, and in the last month here my guests get victimized. They had their car parked in the hotel parking lot (out front of the building) directly under a light. The thieves destroyed the driver side back-door window with a rock, cleaned . . . → Read More: Damn humans

Zombie power?

An analysis of how long the power grid would last if the zombies started to take over. Stolen from jwz.

What I want

(picked up from capital_l)

A summer vacation with an honors reading list to work through A hammock to do it in An extra two weeks to strip, paint, sand, and otherwise fix the new house before the furniture arrives A job: signed, sealed and delivered. A big pile of spare cash to cover weekend trips . . . → Read More: What I want