Tom Petty + My Morning Jacket = Awesome

I really don't understand this interview. It's too early, methinks.

Anyhoodle... it was announced today that a few of Tom Petty's August dates (specifically, Boston and East Rutherford, NJ - wherever that is) will feature our beloved hometown lads My Morning Jacket as the opener. I think they get to play a semi-real set and everything.

I had a really excellent, super vivid dream about Tom Petty when I was 14. I hope I get to tell him all about it. Or steal his fork. I swear I'm not a stalker.

What Happens When Your Cat Does LSD

So, I'm doing my Austin thing... which means working a lot and being grouchy. This is as opposed to just being grouchy.

The blogging may be slow but seriously... this commercial is good for DAYS.

Everything You Thought Was Real

This is Stargate Studios' Virtual Backlot Reel. Purty cool.

Apologies for not posting much... work is getting worky and I'm in an Olympics stupor.

Can't wait to see what outfits the menfolk come up with for tonight's figure skating long program. I'm really disturbed by this glove trend, I have to say.

I'll be blogging from the cave in Austin from next week through the end of March. SXSW approacheth... I'm going to pretend I'm ready.

Stephen Colbert, I Heart You

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I sort of hate that I hate Sarah Palin because I feel like I'm just playing into her hands. She and Rush Limbaugh feed off our disdain like it's manna from heaven.

What kind of person snidely derides hope and change as if they are ridiculous notions, to be mocked at every turn?

I saw a bumper sticker recently that read, "Not My Fault." It had the Obama logo as the "o" in "not." This person obviously voted for Bush, so I would say yeah, the situation we're currently in is your fault. The responsibility belongs to all of us, actually, for forgetting about accountability for the last eight years, for refusing to work with each other and reducing politics to pithy one liners. I say it for both sides, I include myself.

That being said, I still think Sarah Palin is a blight. To follow her and her brainless "lift American spirits" written-on-the-hand rhetoric is to follow a modern day Pied Piper. I hope those who trumpet her as the savior of the conservative/evangelical movement see the river before they reach it.

I think you lift people's spirits by, you know, LIFTING... not by putting others down. But what do I know? I'm so clearly not in the elevating business.

Starting Your Week Off Right

I wonder if we can get this band to open for MMJ. That would be the best tour ever!

This was shared on Google Reader by my friend Beth who is trying to atone for sharing this. I think you'll agree it's going to take about a million bunnies and bears to erase that one from your brain.

Chasing The Taste Of The Grammys Away With Glee

I'm still reeling from The Grammys. Or, the farce that is now known as The Grammys.

Moving on... isn't this Japanese commercial for Glee just adorable?!!