jumpy jumpy vitamins

I just can’t focus on a damned thing, thanks to all manner of random activity in my brain today. Hopefully I can alleviate this by dumping core here. I am semi-secretly stoked that geekslut has returned to blogging. Wikipedia’s completed its upgrade to v1.5, thank God. Now I can breathe easily and go back to [...]

So this weekend was STL’s Pride festival and parade and associated goodness. Here’s my quickie recap. Friday night, post-asplosion, was the first of two Gateway Men’s Chorus concerts. Since Fred and I are both in the chorus, we both went. Crowd was good; performance was so-so. Saturday afternoon Fred and I volunteered at the chorus [...]

(yes, there is such a thing. quiet.)So my favoritest Web encyclopedia EVAR, Wikipedia, is undergoing a major software upgrade even as I type this. I have not edited an article in DAYS and it is AGONY. When the upgrade is done, many things will work better, and the whole of the English-language ‘pedia will be [...]

… the pre-Pride edition. I’m thinking a lot about this ’cause we’re gearing up for our annual “We’re being ourselves so fuck off if you can’t handle that” celebration; after this weekend, I may have more to say on the topic. Dan Savage solicited advice from his readers a little while back for a 15-year-old [...]

If you hop to it, you can get free MP3 files of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, as recorded by the BBC Philharmonic. At this writing it’s just numbers 1-5, but in a couple weeks the other four will be available (mark your calendar!). BBC – Radio 3 – Beethoven Experience – downloads Please note that they’ve [...]