Interesting: Lex

March 19-23, 2006
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Walking back from Central Park down Lexington Ave. was a real highlight of the trip -- can you believe this shot?

Helpful: Euphemism Generator

Quit cleaning the kielbasa!

Interesting : Pics from NYC Trip

March 19-23, 2006
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Be cool.

Helpful: DING!

Southwest Airlines, thank you so much. Ya know it's hard out here with a Mac.

Interesting: Notrivers

Yahoo! hot shot, Weezer frontman lookalike and "Best Best Man of the Year - 1999" Cody Simms has a new blog up. Right now, he's writing about AJAX, microformats, and other magical tools of the "computer internets." But soon, he'll be writing exclusively about the L.A. music scene. Hey Cody! Check out these guys!

Interesting: Forget Coachella

For the same price of flying to LA and 3 tix to Coachella, I just snagged 6 three-day passes to the best music lineup of the year. Who's in?

Interesting: A furry lobster

Scientists are cool.

Interesting: Eddie Rocks!

Apparently, guitar gods are still mortal. Really mortal.

Helpful: Up with SXSW!

Would you like 942 free mp3 tracks? No, it's not a trick question.

Helpful: Down with HCFS!

Devil juice, man.

Interesting and Sad: Cabrini Green

Towers of time
Originally uploaded by raypride.

Jennifer's posts about Cabrini Green reminded me to tell a quick story from my bus ride last week.

CG is an infamous housing project on Halsted St., halfway between my place and school. The picture here, which I found on Flickr, shows the status of one of the towers. Eventually, all of the 4,500+ residents will be moved to other housing.

Anyway, it was a Tuesday morning, and we stopped at the bus stop at the north end of the project. A black woman and her two young daughters got in. They sat a couple of seats in front of me. As we drove south, past the demolition, the girls looked out the window. One asked her mother, "Are they going to tear down our house too?"

I couldn't make out the mother's reply.