Don't make fun of people jogging.

[JET]

Thanks for all the well wishes for my newest born.  Everyone is doing great, as they say.  Other than no sleep and two solid weeks of in laws living with us.  

So, for the third time in a row, I am driving home and about to turn on my street and see this weird man jogging in black socks, hiking shoes, kahki style shorts and a t shirt.  It is a strange outfit.  I swear that the first day the person had sun glasses on.  Well, it turns out that the person is Bobby.  Now, I am really not making fun - those of you who know me, know that I am somewhere between moderately to morbidly obese.  This is not an exaggeration - verily I say unto you, I am super duper fat.  Anyway, yesterday, Bobby is running right in front of my house when I get out of the car and I say to him, "what kind of jogging outfit is that?"  I don't think he thought it was funny.  There is nothing worse than trying to better yourself and have people make fun of you for it.  I once rode my bike downtown to work and when I couldn't make it up a hill and had to walk it, people actually drove by and honked their horns, pointed and laughed.  Not helpful.  (But actually, it was pretty funny).

Anyway - I don't even know if Bobby comes on the board, but if you do - you keep jogging!  Even if you do look really strange doing it.

[Tripp]

HAH

He mentioned that at band practice last night. He thought it was pretty funny.






but not me......

[Doctor Rock]

For those who worry too much about their weight:

From the Scientific American - Obesity: an overblown epidemic?

You should still exercise moderately (frequent walks will do it) and eat right.  But stop worrying about those few extra pounds.  And don't fucking go on diets!  It doesn't work, and it's bad for you.  Unless you have elephantine proportions, a bit of fat is probably not that bad.

[Doctor Rock]

So... Anyone know of a few cool mp3 blogs?  Now that they shut down Brave New waves (the show had been around for 20 years, it was Canada's equivalent of the John Peel show), I need a new source of new music.  

[Tripp]

MP3 Blog?

Isn't that one of the droids in Empire Strikes Back?

[Tripp]

Jared's band, NICE DIGS, returns this friday night at the Hi-Tone opening for Vending Machine.

[brainfiber]

dan,

check out this site...

http://hypem.com/

[Doctor Rock]

dan,

check out this site...

http://hypem.com/

Thanks!

[Tripp]

YES!!



Hate is so last year. From Eric Boehlert:

    [W]hereas CNN last year traded away its good name in exchange for debuting Beck's factually challenged and hateful brand of broadcasting, at least CNN execs were getting a ratings boost out of the Faustian bargain. Today, Beck's still making a mockery out of CNN's reputation on a daily basis, as he disparages liberals, gays, Democrats, blacks, immigrants, and Muslims at will. But in return, CNN's now stuck with a Beck program that's trapped in neutral and shows signs of sliding into reverse.

    Well played, CNN....

    It truly has become amateur hour at CNN.

    James Zogby got it right late last year. After watching Beck's nearly year-long McCarthy-like crusade against Arabs and Muslims, the president of the Arab American Institute wrote, "While [the CNN] network may have hoped that Beck's flamboyant style would increase ratings, the cost to their integrity has been staggering."...

    Indeed, the dirty little media secret is that Beck's show has hit a ratings brick wall. Despite the glowing press from The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others, which showered Beck with profiles because his show was being touted as the fastest-growing program on prime-time cable news, Beck in recent months has been flat-lining. In fact, he's actually losing viewers.

And Beck's ratings are plummeting. Advertisers should have been already skittish aligning their products with a show that worries that every single Muslim-American is working with the terrorists, but add poor ratings to hate and you've got a recipe for an advertiser exodus. Not to mention, it's hard for the senior brass to defend Beck against the very real inside-CNN insurgency taking place against the hate jock when Beck isn't even bringing in viewers, but rather is simply tarnishing CNN's good name.

    The Nielsen rating numbers from April were particularly telling and highlighted how Beck's show appears to have completely maxed out less than 12 months after its debut. April was a news-heavy month, which produced a huge spike in cable news viewership following the campus massacre at Virginia Tech. Except, that is, for Glenn Beck. (On the night of the VT shooting, Glenn Beck finished last among prime-time cable news programs, excluding those on CNBC.)

    Overall, for the month of April, ratings for CNN Headline News' prime-time lineup, which is anchored by Beck, were up a microscopic 4 percent, compared to healthy, double-digit gains posted by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

    A hot show? Please, Glenn Beck has become as cool as the other side of the pillow. For the month of April, Glenn Beck's original airing in the 7 p.m. time slot averaged 304,000 viewers, down from last September, when the program drew 321,000 viewers each night. In viewers aged 25-54, the key demographic group sought by advertisers, Glenn Beck averaged 122,000 last month. Again, that's down from September, when the program drew 149,000. So much for the being "the fastest-growing show on cable news," which was how Beck himself described the program earlier this year.

    Last September was also when Glenn Beck surpassed MSNBC's Hardball in viewers 25-54, outpacing Chris Matthews' show by 17,000 viewers. No more. In April, Hardball beat Glenn Beck by 40,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic each night. And often the tally these days is far larger. For instance, on Tuesday, May 1, Hardball bested Glenn Beck by nearly 200,000 total viewers. And with the presidential election season heating up, it's unlikely that trend toward the Beltway-centric Hardball and away from Glenn Beck is going to change in the coming weeks and months.

[Kimmy]

Hi boys!!

Holy Cow!! My kimmy fingers and toes are looking super!! I'm a LADY!!

[bebopbalogna]

MP3 Blog?

Isn't that one of the droids in Empire Strikes Back?

bounty hunter.  bespin.  the one to the left of 4-LOM.

[Doctor Rock]

CNN has a good name?  The corporate news network?  Those shameless purveyors of infotainment?  

[Doctor Rock]

MP3 Blog?

Isn't that one of the droids in Empire Strikes Back?

bounty hunter.  bespin.  the one to the left of 4-LOM.

NOIRD!

[Tripp]

yeah, eat me CNN.

[bebopbalogna]

I mean, how long can I go on pillaging the past for music?  

this has kind of been a depressing realization for me lately.  i spent the formiddable part of my life (12ish-30ish) obsessively collecting music, always professing to hang on to everything, while never becoming complacent, or satisfied with what i have.  that no matter what, whether it be some old gem that i had never heard, or something brand frickin new, with it's hand on the vein of the strange, i would always continue to broaden my horizons. recently, i have discovered that i really don't have that urge anymore, and it's starting to scare the shit out of me.  i am becoming satisfied with what i have.  granted, i have thousands of albums  spanning 8+ decades, but I SHOULDN"T BE SATISFIED.  the only new music i really hear is bands that come through sluggo's.  every once in a while i am pleasantly surprised by a band and buy their album (if they have any). more often than not, when somebody is playing something that i don't recognize, it bores me. i really only look forward to new albums by people who i already own umpteen records by, rather than the new exciting stuff.  the new stuff i hear that i'm excited by, (dungen and awesome color, for example)  i like because it reminds me of stuff i already own and love. (dungen not so much, but despite the weird language, it's all pretty derivative.)   am i getting old?  i promised i'd never do that! maybe i'm just too caught up in work and stuff to pay attention like i used to. i don't know. but something is definately wrong.