Randomly Friday

Video Killed the Dish DVR:

As Mark stated so very eloquently, we lost the third DishDVR in about ten days last night. Apparently, they just can’t send us a working model; so far, two of them have died the same death and one has died a seemimgly-unrelated one. Read the story and offer suggestions here if you have any…

Did You Bring Bottles?

In happier news, I was featured in Walt Wiley’s Sacramento Bee column yesterday. We may run up there on the way to Fresno today (yes, I was a Geography major and I know better than anyone that it’s not REALLY on the way) so I can get printed copies to send to Mom. I’ve been interviewed numerous times now about both sites, but it’s still rather exciting…

God Hates Fags but May Be a Nils Lofgren Fan:

And it’s definitely more exciting than being reminded — as I was via email this morning — that I am “not another stream. You are the reguritated waste of society and it’s (sic) great downfall. Life can not cope with maggots who fail to reproduce. Enjoy your defiance of the Lord (sic) while it lasts. Your day before the Lord (sic) will come and He (sic) will show no mercy.” Help me out: wasn’t “No Mercy” was a Nils Lofgren song from about 1979?

Jumping the Gloryhole:

Not to make it an all email entry, but I also got a message the other day telling me how my site had jumped the shark” since I stopped writing about sex clubs five or six years ago. Yeah, as if I (a) maintained websites for the purpose of getting good ratings — perhaps for all that lucrative advertisng revenue — or (b) would care what anyone who’s still using a 1999-era term like “jumping the shark” thinks anyway. Funny…

Wake Up, It’s 1983:

Another song from the 1980s which holds up better than I would’ve expected: “Should I Love You” by Cee Farrow, caught yesterday on internet radio…