• Well darn, if it isn’t good to see by-the-book partisanship so explicitly reach the information policy realm again.http://tinyurl.com/5u6u78 #

• I’m not boycotting the Olympics; I’m not watching because they are totally uncompelling in the first place. #

I like living in Little Rock. It’s cheap, filled with friends from school, and hospitable in winter. The worst part: the sandworms. The sandworms and lack of big shows.

Decent-sized national tours stop here far too infrequently. !!! came through last winter and the Hold Steady a little before. But the later dropped us off the stop list for their current tour, and I really didn’t care that much about !!! in the first place.

The small shows are fun, but I miss the event-ness and singalong sessions of the bigger acts. Between the Knitting Factories of the two coasts: Little Rock nothing.

But this fall, hope appears anew as already my favorite Americana-tinged acts are set up to hit LR.

The Gaslight Anthem is playing Vino’s Sept 29th!! I will be dragging you all kicking and screaming to this one.

And The Revival Tour (Lucero’s Ben Nichol, Against Me!’s Tom Gabel, and HWM’s Chuck Ragan) is coming in November to Juanita’s. Seen Ben a hundred times - he went to Hendrix and has been good to Arkansas - but these guys together will be fun.

• Any Dems here reaching the point that Bush’s failure is not “bad, but done & hope for Party” and just God awful? http://tinyurl.com/5bc5cd #

• Librarian propaganda poster? Maybe “Cardigans on the March In the Information Wars! DO YOUR PART PAY LATE FEES” http://tinyurl.com/5deqyf #

• Congress, change the rules. Talk to us on our social networks. http://LetOurCongressTweet.org Let our Congress Tweet! #LOCT08 #

• Knol? Stuck with that name huh? Besting the Wikipedia brand is challenging enough, pick a communicable name. http://tinyurl.com/5zwhr7 #

• Zapf-dingbat, triumphantly: “Airplane eight-ball glasses diamond hourglass diamond flag. Mailbox! Open Mailbox!” http://tinyurl.com/57l6w3 #

Conquered, originally uploaded by Ethan Moore.

She knocked me out. One punch. So embarrassing.

Full set viewable here.

Just got back from seeing Hot Water Music in at Terminal 5 in NYC. I’d seen them once before in Memphis, and again it was what I imagine gospel revivals are like for pentacostals. A thousand folks with similar beliefs all singing, all feeling the same moment. Amazing experience.

So much so that as soon as I got back I jumped on youtube to look for footage of the show, and it translates pretty well….

I was up front just to the right this footage. (of “Rooftops,” one of the great personal anthems)…

“Trusty Chords” was another good one he captured…

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