http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress Words (C) Rick Shangle 2004-2007. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:20:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coverage out on Futurerockhall.com re: Rush's non-induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, associated b.s.-ery, and the Colbert Bump. Looks like Wired is trying to break the mode, crack the code on the matter. 100, 100, 1 -- SOS! http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/419 The top search results on cuil shows me holding a fish, or maybe a mermaid/man, or some other object that cannot really be seen, even when you click on it. also, that's not a picture of me. also, about half the results either don't feature me, or are from about ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/417 Despite e-mail warnings from my boss to wait for iPhone 2.0/3G to stabilize, and then perhaps buy one through our work i.t. (so I can transfer my blackberry's phone number, and align through our corporate AT&T cellular plan), I went out today to buy an iPhone 3G to help ease ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/415 Awesome. http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/414 We barely knew ye. Time to get out. http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/409 http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/408 I am alive, and Dave Grohl, who grew up near my hometown, is alive. And the new Foo Fighters album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, signals a welcome blowback of Foo Power, if not a true return to original 1995-1997 form. To its credit, the guitar sound on the chorus ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/405 My post for the month. From my friend mark's trip to St. Martin. Really can't add anything to increase the awesomeness. http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/403 We all know how "down with the times" I am... but in this rare case I'm being relatively good, as Grindhouse only came out two months ago. I've only seen the first feature, and I can already declare it the greatest film of all time. It is truly the Citizen Kane ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/401 This is fairly freakish... although it does sort of resemble my office at the moment. I like how the web page describes it as only a 'semi-extreme' performance. I guess a fully extreme performance would have to involve Kris Angel. Flatland! http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/399 I know that for some of you, lack of fresh blog content here is tantamount to lack of sufficient oxygen, and I would apologize... but You need to get a life. and i'm speaking to a population of no one. so it's all ok. But check this: such sentiment is meaningless ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/396 ... but I have no choice in the matter. I'm hoping the heart-stopping screech my computer just emitted at the end of this install process was a result of some unrelated situation (ex. the 150 deg F internal temperature) as opposed to a feature of Google Desktop for OS X. ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/395 Made you look. No, this is not the severed head of a techno-bauhaus muppet, and this object and I do not belong to a secret, bare-knuckle boxing 'fight club'. You are looking at me holding a battery that was once in my Mac Book Pro 17". One afternoon, after a particularly ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/392 Melissa Joan Hart's younger, evil twin is so terrified. What's wrong, girlie? Now she's so happy! She's plotting the use of her weather-domination device! He's a good guy, that Sanjaya. Girl, you really got him now. And he needs to leave the show. He shouldn't be there. For the good of the hunger-strikers. http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/391 David Sedaris May Sometimes Exaggerate For Effect - Gawker I can grasp the hubub over A Million Little Pieces and this chick, to a degree. Although I haven't read either one's work (and probably never will, LIARS!), I doubt either volume features a 20-page forward attempting to convince the reader that ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/387 Kelley and I are in agreement regarding the current state: those were twelve people who had to go. Too bad the twelve remaining all f****ng suck. Where is the Elliot Yamin, where is the Katherine McPhee, where is the Iron Man of this competition? http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/383 I'd like to take a moment and suggest that we all remember her as I saw her when I was a fourteen year-old boy -- posing in her prime in Playboy[1]. Please do this as opposed to remembering her torrid marriage to the rich old guy, the torrid fight to ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/379 We're three episodes into the second and final season of HBO/BBC's excellent Rome, a show that distinguished itself last season with the perfect mix of nudity, honor, betrayal and abject violence. Of course, since this is "history", we all know how it ends: with Liz Taylor marrying Richard Burton ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/375 Hey, elia: Way to step forward and tentatively complain re: Wolverine's "cheating", for a gain of zero yards, seconds before your head rolled. Elia: [Vague references to Wolverine's cheating][1] Judge that is indistinguishable from Billy Joel's child bride from season 1: [You mean there was cheating] today? Elia: Uh, no... Words of advice for ... http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/372 ha ha, jerk. put a little foam on your wounds, to help ease the pain. thanks to neil. http://rickshangle.com/rds_wordpress/archives/371