monster

So I shot a gun.

I’d never shot a gun before. We didn’t have them in my house when I was a kid. I think my dad had one but he never had it around.

• Merlin Mann on the e-mail monster | 43 Folders

Today at lunch, a few of the usual suspects were catching up after the weekend, when one mentioned the fact that the Scott McClellan story had sort of disappeared quickly. Yes, I said, the big story over the weekend was Hillary Clinton suspending her campaign and endorsing Barack Obama, along with gas prices, gas prices, gas prices. And we haven't heard anything about McClellan.

one of the most frequently asked questions i get about this monster of community you guys have created here at flowerdust.net is how i keep up with it all.

i don’t!

i wish i could, but i can’t.

Eric Crafton is back with his English-as-Metro's-official-language bill, which Mayor Bill Purcell vetoed last year. As Mike Byrd writes:

Congrats, you’ve made it this far into the year, and it’s CMA Music Festival week at that.  Good job not throwing in the towel before now.

Once every five years, I make a trek to the attic (or Mrs. WonderDawg makes me) to declutter and investigate "what's in that box?"

There's nothing better than to sit on the kitchen floor, listening to Annie Lennox and bagging up old cords, USB cables, telephone wires, RCA cables, and the like...

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton's original 1952 recording of "Hound Dog" was a monster hit for its time, especially for a black artist, selling two million copies. A version with slightly reworked lyrics was recorded in 1956 by a respectful young white fellow named Elvis Presley and sold four million copies.