• Just listened to Brian Green talk about his new book on npr and heading into a meeting.
• Ad Age is running a story about Busken’s Presidential Cookie Poll: http://tinyurl.com/655dpn
• Going to try to check out the Peapod cafe this Saturday: http://www.thepeapodcafe.com/
• Kunstler on the economic meltdown: http://tinyurl.com/6br6ed

Here are my recent status updates from Twitter and Facebook

• Great dinner: Roasted seitan and chipotle salsa, garlic mashed parsnips and potatoes and a bottle of Lucien Albrecht Gewurztraminer.
• Best Chocolate Chip Cookies ever: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000158.html
• Just hearing the sounds from Hitchcock’s The Birds, without the visuals is really disturbing. (Christine’s watching it in the other room.)

Here are my recent status updates from Twitter and Facebook:

• …and to end the work week: McCain Vs. Obama Dance-Off http://tinyurl.com/6lo8e4
• Whoa, I think there is a Tear Garden song about this: http://tinyurl.com/6a24rs
• David Borden - “Music For Amplified Keyboard Instruments” http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=283
• History of Fail: http://tinyurl.com/6d5k6r
• Wassup 2008: http://tinyurl.com/5chbt3
• is working.

Here are my recent status updates from Twitter and Facebook:

• Tuvan Throat-Singing Rap FTW http://tinyurl.com/5hr3oy
• Vlad and Boris: Love Song for Sarah Palin http://tinyurl.com/59h3ml

Sad news from Mike Welsh this morning, Rudy Ray Moore (the actor who played “Dolemite” and the “Avenging Disco Godfather” and predicted rap music in the 1970s) passed away in Akron, Ohio at age 81. During high school and college I was addicted to Moore’s movies and I made my friends watch them again and again. “Avenging Disco Godfather” was my favorite. It was the story of an ex-cop and vigilante, disco DJ (Tucker) who gets upset that “the Angle Dust is ruining the minds of our young people” and proceeds to kick some ass with plenty of weird, disco music and freaky hallucination scenes full of PCP, vampire, monster things in the guise of Tucker’s mother.

Rudy, we’ll miss you. “From the north to the south… put your weight on it!”

From the New York Times article:

Rudy Ray Moore, whose standup comedy, records and movies related earthy rhyming tales of a vivid gaggle of characters as they lurched from sexual escapade to sexual escapade in a boisterous tradition, born in Africa, that helped shape today’s hip-hop, died Sunday in Akron, Ohio. He was 81.

Drinking some Albariño, cleaning the kitchen and getting ready to eat some no bake cookies and practice violin.

I’m really excited that Claudia is old enough to enjoy Halloween this year!

I always mistype ternary conditionals.

I’m listening to WGHB Classical and taking a curious peek into the stock market from the sidelines.

Just watched What Would Jesus Buy? Amen! http://wwjbmovie.com/