Ataxia http://ataxia.net is the thing with feathers. Fri, 16 May 2008 14:50:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Jim Hendry: What is Wrong With You? http://ataxia.net/posts/69 http://ataxia.net/posts/69#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 14:49:18 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=69 Jim Edmonds… is a Cub.

In other news, Charles DeGaulle just signed a lucrative 3-year, $16 million deal to command German troops on the Western Front.

for reference, the picture accompanying that article has got to be the most sickening thing I have ever seen in my life.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/69/feed Congrats to Doughty http://ataxia.net/posts/68 http://ataxia.net/posts/68#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 16:18:45 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=68 Mike Doughty has been sober for 8 years as of this past Monday. I say congrats to him.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/68/feed I know this disc is “rare”, but… http://ataxia.net/posts/67 http://ataxia.net/posts/67#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 16:13:32 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=67 While searching to try (in vain) to find a copy of an old 7″ from a local band in my high school days, I discovered some donkey selling Chimark’s Fifteen Fingered Man EP via the Amazon Marketplace for $100.

I realize there are probably no more than a couple thousand copies of this disc at most, because they were a local band from Cape Cod who released their own records/CDs and weren’t, you know, all that big. I mean, they were popular on the Cape, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into multiplatinum status. But seriously, a hundred bucks?

A quick google search for the album title does turn up a couple of distros in Japan with copies selling for 1380 Yen, or $13.12 by today’s exchange rate.

Maybe the price is inflated because a copy is in the Cape Cod Times Capsule.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/67/feed New Green Line stops announced http://ataxia.net/posts/66 http://ataxia.net/posts/66#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 13:46:13 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=66 Some representatives from the Mass. Office of Transportation announced the proposed locations of the Green Line extension in Somerville and sort-of-Medford.

It’s about time someone from a legitimate office of the Commonwealth said something that suggested a future for this project.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/66/feed Brookline Stairway Liberation Front http://ataxia.net/posts/65 http://ataxia.net/posts/65#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 14:07:07 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=65 No Stairway? Denied!

People need to reclaim their staircases. The people shall not be denied.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/65/feed Poop. http://ataxia.net/posts/64 http://ataxia.net/posts/64#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 23:41:53 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=64 Bella Luna to move; Milky Way to close.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/64/feed The consume®econnection Project http://ataxia.net/posts/63 http://ataxia.net/posts/63#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 21:25:25 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=63 Scott Ballum has begun quite an interesting undertaking. “The Mission: A year-long effort to meet the laborers and craftsmen who build what I buy – and put a human face on consumption.”

Now that is a project. He even went to Loretto, KY to visit the Maker’s Mark distillery.

Unfortunately, the weblog seems to be the only one left on Earth without an RSS feed.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/63/feed http://ataxia.net/posts/62 http://ataxia.net/posts/62#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:11:49 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=62 The Fed cut short-term interest rates by a 1/4-point today, down to 2%. At the rate these have been coming, The Fed is going to be paying banks outright to hold our loot by 2009.

I could rant for some time about how the Fed helping out the very banks that created our current economic mess is the very last thing the country needs, but in the dual interests of brevity and my mood for the evening, I will withhold that.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/62/feed Dear Sports Illustrated http://ataxia.net/posts/61 http://ataxia.net/posts/61#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:47:22 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=61 That’s ok, we didn’t want to actually play the remaining 136 games anyway.

Love,
The Chicago Cubs.

]]> http://ataxia.net/posts/61/feed http://ataxia.net/posts/57 http://ataxia.net/posts/57#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:28:59 +0000 Tape http://ataxia.net/?p=57 Falindrome.com

“The World’s Largest (Only) Source of Fake Palindromes!”

[via Rod Begbie]

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