Friday randomness

One thing I do like about shadesong and Elayna being out of town: I can sleep with the door open (can't when 'song's here, as she doesn't want the cats in tbe bed, and can't when Elayna's around, as she doesn't grep the concept of letting people sleep in very well). That means I can wake up with cats in the bed. It's comforting.

If you join one LJ community this year, make it audiogasms. In the two weeks I've been there, I've discovered an unbelievable amount of music through this community, and found a ton of good MP3s I'd been wanting. I think I've added over 30 songs to my iTunes list today (including the current tune).

Perhaps the best link I found there is from muruch, to this site. Do not click on that link if you don't have a very fast connection. It will load over 500 thumbnail record covers. Each of those will link to not only MP3s and streams of the music from that album, but to images of the liners and the back covers. It's unsorted vinyl heaven!

shadesong's description of Bush last night: "It's like watching a chimp in a crash helmet." True. But it's actually like watching an evil chimp in a crash helmet.

Actually, what I really noticed is how much Bush'04 acted like Gore'00, right down to the eyerolling and sighing.

Speaking of our corrupt chimp-in-chief and the corporations who want to re-appoint him by hook or by crook, Diebold wasn't able to abuse the DMCA to prevent folks from pointing out the myriad flaws in their system. Poor babies. Won't stop them from fixing the election, but it'll make it harder to hide what they do.

In happier news, Ichiro is one hit away from tying the baseball hits record! Woohoo!

Judging from the IMDB, The Simpsons are no longer hiding which character has a gay marriage -- it's Patty. Not really a shock, there. Wonder what Skinner thinks?

Anyone wanna win Neil Gaiman stuff? Go here!

Nifty fact of the day (thanks to dark_blade): You can now order Pocky at Amazon! I'll be adding lots to my wishlist. :-)