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Oct 1st

My Damn Channel

Oct 1st

Just Another Stupid Move by the NHL

The National Hockey League (NHL) threatened to impose a $100,000 fine until Madison Square Garden...

Oct 1st

How using Skype disrupted my hotel...

How using Skype disrupted my hotel Internet connection and locked me out  — It’s been a...

Sep 30th

aronski: @gapingvoid: the first time in Paris after quitting was interesting but doable. (via...

Sep 30th

aronski: The crazy work schedule has me up early even on a day off… should I just start the...

Sep 30th

Maximum result for Lewis Hamilton in...

Read more at Daily F1 News. (via Aron’s shared items in Google Reader)

Sep 30th

Jack Davis, supporter of SF underground...

Last week, San Francisco lost one of the underground art scene’s most dedicated supporters....

Sep 29th

Open Thread

We don’t usually do celebrity birthdays here at Crooks and Liars, but since “Zappa” has its own...

Sep 29th

aronski: on way to a bbq with a couple of Emmy winners… (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 29th

aronski: Finally in the city without a work related reason… only took a month! (via Twitter /...

Sep 29th

aronski: We survived yesterday. It turned out to only be a 28 hour day, no major gaffs on TV or at...

Sep 29th

aronski: hour 22 of 26… toast. show not started yet (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 28th

aronski: hour 13 of 26, full workday that seems like it should have just ended but in fact is just...

Sep 28th

aronski: hour 13 of 26, full workday that seems like it should have just ended but in fact is just...

Sep 28th

aronski: 30 rock, about to give the US a taste of the show in an albeit cramped TV version. (via...

Sep 28th

aronski: @cc_Chapman; if you’re up in the morning after the big hang, let me know what you...

Sep 28th

aronski: Rockefeller Plaza at midnight; here we go. Take a peek on NBC in the morning. (via Twitter...

Sep 28th

Scorsese 'to make Harrison film'

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is to make a film about the life of George Harrison,...

Sep 27th

Twitter Adds Tracking Feature

Returning to its roots as a mobile group instant messaging platform, Twitter has announced a new...

Sep 27th

aronski: sometimes the challenges you face are nothing compaired to the obstacles you create for...

Sep 27th

aronski: sometimes the challenges you face are nothing compaired to the obstacles you create for our...

Sep 27th

aronski: @bbluesman, btw, this tour is much bigger than last time, some grand scale stuff that...

Sep 27th

aronski: @bbluesman: you don’t really know bitter until you’ve been thrown under the...

Sep 27th

aronski: ok, you want to know what working in rock is like? Imagine going to work at 7am and not...

Sep 26th

aronski: Been a busy tweet-free boy, the first two public showings of the current project have been...

Sep 26th

Danshui boats

Poagao posted a photo: A little harbor on the Danshui at sunset. (via Aron’s shared items...

Sep 24th

T-Mobile announces BlackBerry Curve with...

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Wireless RIM decided (and we tend to agree) that it could...

Sep 24th

aronski: @bbluesman: what am i doing up? I have to go to work soon! I thought you were looking out...

Sep 24th

aronski: Had a tweet go missing, the EDGE system up here appears to be having some problems today....

Sep 24th

aronski: Being back in Jersey is both very familiar and quasi-alien, my easy coast roots reach deep...

Sep 24th

T-Mobile snags Wi-Fi-lovin BlackBerry...

T-Mobile and Research in Motion announce the BlackBerry Curve (aka BlackBerry 8320) with integrated...

Sep 24th

aronski: This micro burst of roadie update courtesy of Sleep Dep and Backwards Schedules… (via...

Sep 24th

aronski: As for beauty, it exists, we are allowed to see it but not bathe in it, time the valuable...

Sep 24th

aronski: rehearse Sunday and then load out to move North again… like every tour now, we need...

Sep 24th

aronski: morning rehearsal Thursday, load out for a 1am load in for national TV, then back to arena...

Sep 24th

aronski: so start with 5am up for 8am rehearsal, 8PM show for 2 days, load out move set north (via...

Sep 24th

aronski: now begins the crazy work schedule for us… yes, even crazier than a typical roadie...

Sep 24th

Wolfowitz and his 1992 Strategy of World...

 Nicole linked this article up once before, but I think it merits its own post. This document that...

Sep 23rd

aronski: We moved today back to Lincoln Harbor, a view of Manhattan and a longer commute for a few...

Sep 22nd

aronski: Man; collapsed last night after work, arrived at 7am exhausted and left at 8pm...

Sep 22nd

Actress Alice Ghostley Dies at 81

Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on...

Sep 22nd

aronski: ok, 16 hour work day, 4 hours sleep, intense morning rehearsal… why do i feel tired?...

Sep 21st

Mike’s Blog Round Up

Attytood: Right-wingers claim even the CIA is afraid to go out in Iraq without trigger-happy...

Sep 21st

Airport cops: we don't keep track of...

After yesterday’s story about how airport cops are assembling files on travellers’...

Sep 21st

Last in first out

Some quick thoughts after a quick scan of shared feeds from a studio in New York: NBC’s decision to...

Sep 21st

Russia's Espiocrats

(((The plutocrats have been tamed, and replaced by a vast horde of spies. Much as this ominous...

Sep 21st

aronski: Looks like I’ll be in the studio for the rest of the night… it is interesting...

Sep 20th

aronski: Stuck in traffic to the Lincoln Tunnel… sigh. (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 20th

KING'S X And GALACTIC COWBOYS Members...

Molken Music has released “2.0: Electrolux”, the new, instrumental electric guitar...

Sep 20th

aronski: Rehearsal off today, but was called last night to drive to the city for a session. Just...

Sep 20th

Jack Kerouac's hand-drawn cover for On...

Wrongdistance sez, “Book Forum has a great article about Jack Kerouac fifty years after the...

Sep 20th

Former CBS anchor files $70m lawsuit

Dan Rather was sacked after discredited report about George Bush’s national guard duty during...

Sep 19th

Merv's sidekick: The Great Jack...

The death of Brett Somers the other day got The Shamus to thinking about other people I used to...

Sep 19th

aronski: No band today, an actual lazy morning with a late 8am wake up… will wander in soon to...

Sep 19th

aronski: @bbluesman: probably as I resize them in photoshop and save for web, the metadate gets ...

Sep 18th

aronski: And that must mean a new one over at my flickr account…...

Sep 18th

aronski: New post over at Bitterman Circle http://www.bittermancircle.com/?p=1131 (via Twitter /...

Sep 18th

Boardwalk light: A twilight shot of a lampost on the...

Sep 17th

Hotel Study for a Road Person #1: Beginning of a new series...

Sep 17th

Hotel Study for a Road Person #2: Self made espresso in...

Sep 17th

New World: Rehearsal set up Stage Left, Asbury Park, 9/17/07...

Sep 17th

Wally condo view: Wally looks serious, Farmers Branch, TX,...

Sep 17th

Cabot determined: Cabot walks the line, Farmers Branch, TX,...

Sep 17th

Homelight: First day with the D80 and the shadow called my...

Sep 17th

aronski: So perhaps that should mean I leave behind something special, a flower to be found walking...

Sep 17th

aronski: My schedule so turned around, the early performance time mixed with hard crashes and waking...

Sep 17th

aronski: Sort of a half day, ending now… I’ll take it. (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 16th

aronski: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea… (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 16th

aronski: Time to return to the garden where the words dance and the ideas actually connect, a world...

Sep 16th

aronski: Who can say if this is the wrong venue for ruminations of this type, perhaps just a howl at...

Sep 16th

aronski: Some people wake and write down dreams; i find myself tweeting thoughts from being fast...

Sep 16th

aronski: Together they can combine to reach more souls through the visual and verbal connections....

Sep 16th

aronski: Even now I have to believe that the passionate word and the delicate stroke of a brush can...

Sep 16th

aronski: Love, art and the need to create do not always sleep when you do, they flow beneath,...

Sep 16th

aronski: breaking the tweet food post ban… Baja Fresh in NJ? Nice surprise! (via Twitter /...

Sep 15th

YouTube - Eric Clapton shreds

Sep 15th

aronski: No rehearsal today… a breath for us all. Still have to grab stuff and gather up...

Sep 15th

aronski: 42 hours outside of Convention Hall is 42 hours outside of Convention Hall… (via...

Sep 14th

aronski: so you take a big job on a big tour; you do a week of rehearsal… then load out and...

Sep 14th

Johnny Cash To Receive Pardon 42 Years...

Johnny Cash is to be honored by Mississippi town Starkville, 42 years after he was arrested there...

Sep 14th

aronski: @Scobleizer: Congratulations! Pass on my regards to Mom. Now it gets interesting…...

Sep 14th

aronski: Verizon sues FCC over the 700 mHz nightmare; where do audio wireless types sign up?...

Sep 13th

aronski: leaving the job site while the sun still shines… a first since i have been...

Sep 13th

aronski: not much tweets here, burnt toast all around. full days and short nights adding to some...

Sep 12th

Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN...

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman has landed a role in a major motion picture in Japan. (via...

Sep 12th

TOMMY LEE Says KID ROCK Is A 'Jealous...

TMZ.com reports that MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee may have been on the receiving end of Kid...

Sep 12th

aronski: Remember a true genius: Joe Zawinul. http://tinyurl.com/37hw8r (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 12th

aronski: Another? Hughie Thomasson of the Outlaws passes away… ttp://tinyurl.com/3axbqc (via...

Sep 12th

aronski: the chance to bring the poetic into your job, bring art into your living, priceless chances...

Sep 12th

aronski: obtuse, cryptic? perhaps in a professional, NDA-way, but not when the heart of an artist...

Sep 12th

aronski: the intense beauty of working for the committed, bringing your game up 10 notches,showing...

Sep 12th

aronski: obscuring that which is most obvious, not for the element of surprise but to focus...

Sep 12th

aronski: schedule has spun me around, crashing early, waking me mid-stream filled with words and...

Sep 12th

aronski: @bbluesman: “A remark you made” runs through my head along with a dozen...

Sep 12th

aronski: @bbluesman: photos off the hook! thanks! (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 12th

C&L’s Late Nite Music Club...

Joe Zawinul: July 7, 1932 - September 11, 2007 Guest-blogged by C&Ler Jeff Needless to...

Sep 12th

Have You Eaten Your Genetically Modified...

Americans say they won’t buy genetically modified food. So why is Monsanto’s stock up...

Sep 12th

Crew-in-Pula (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

sopoteye (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

Icelandegg (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandbike (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandboat1 (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandsky (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandchurch (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandstella (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandtie (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandsky2 (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandboat2 (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandadam (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

icelandbike2 (via Photos from aronski)

Sep 11th

aronski: Some new photos over at my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/aronski...

Sep 11th

Joe Zawinul, jazz musician behind...

Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, a pioneer of jazz fusion who recorded with the likes of Miles Davis and...

Sep 11th

aronski: The hall is not air conditioned; leaves you with that less-than-fresh feeling. (via Twitter...

Sep 10th

aronski: @bbluesman: i will still dance with words and image, just really like not having a strange...

Sep 10th

aronski: Has anybody seen the remarkable changes on the Jersey Shore? You used to be able to count...

Sep 10th

aronski: my current workplace is so humid, i thought of burning my socks and throwing away my shirt...

Sep 10th

aronski: You want me to like your hotel? Do the most modern thing a hotel can do; install a curved...

Sep 10th

Free iTunes at Starbucks - Larry Magid...

Almost overshadowed by the reaction to Apple’s iPhone price cuts and its new iPods was the...

Sep 10th

World Record: Car Subwoofer World Record...

When you’re trying to picture how loud this 180.5db subwoofer that set the world record for...

Sep 10th

aronski: What a full day of work… I am about 90% ready for tomorrow morning’s blast off,...

Sep 10th

aronski: what am i thinking, driving north in Jersey on a Saturday night (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 8th

aronski: the gathering is complete, the truck packed. Now it’s time to see if any of it works....

Sep 8th

aronski: Early start tomorrow…sifting through the chaff, making heads or tails of the remains...

Sep 7th

aronski: Sometimes after a flight I feel like the Sopot Mudman…...

Sep 7th

aronski: Jersey… back again. it’s all good. gathering the troops and heading south. (via...

Sep 7th

aronski: 3.5 days at home, back on the move. heading to the great state of New Jersey. (via Twitter...

Sep 7th

aronski: Mo0stly packed, ready for some east coast full speed drop into it hit the ground running...

Sep 6th

aronski: Just trying to get it all done before departure… not gonna pull it all off…...

Sep 6th

Rick Rubin - New York Times

Sep 5th

aronski: the luggage arrived, about 2 hours after going to bed by a cigar chomping cermudgin (via...

Sep 4th

aronski: the luggage arrived, about 2 hours after going to bed by a cigar chomping cermudgin (via...

Sep 4th

aronski: the subtle joys of being home; own bed, own fridge… and with the delayed luggage, own...

Sep 4th

aronski: at dfw, home safe. long time comin’… (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 3rd

aronski: how full can a full flight be? selling overheads as loft space? (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 3rd

aronski: Strange to be back in the states… I swear I’m hearing LESS English… (via...

Sep 3rd

aronski: in CC country, a layover at Logan airport… heading home. first flight was smooth but...

Sep 3rd

aronski: Leaving Iceland and heading home… cold rain here, hot sun there… from the...

Sep 3rd

aronski: always a trial to prepare for the trip home, pack, repack, know full well that your so far...

Sep 2nd

aronski: Tour over.. all that’s left is a wake up call and two flights… fooled them...

Sep 2nd

aronski: hard to believe it is the last night of the tour and we all go our separate ways tomorrow....

Sep 2nd

aronski: Last observation: I find gray sky, stacked rocks, cold water and dramatic sunsets very,...

Sep 1st

aronski: Last observation: (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 1st

aronski: Another observation: drunks in the street sound the same in any language. The girls even...

Sep 1st

aronski: 2nd story room, busy nightclub on first floor and the Reykjavik grand prix track below my...

Sep 1st

aronski: what i was able to see of downtown Reykjavik is pretty cool, pretty expensive and not very...

Sep 1st

Dark Roasted Blend: Cute Vintage Album Covers

Sep 1st

Cute Vintage Album Covers

“QUANTUM SHOT” #263 link Good Source of Old-Fashioned Optimism There are a lot of...

Sep 1st

Cute Vintage Album Covers

“QUANTUM SHOT” #263 link Good Source of Old-Fashioned Optimism There are a lot of...

Sep 1st

aronski: arrived in Iceland… typical touring situation, new country, only a few hours to...

Sep 1st

aronski: leg 2, in copenhagen waiting to board, bored. (via Twitter / aronski)

Sep 1st

aronski: sitting at the airport in Gdansk, waiting to go to Copengagen and then Reykjavik (via...

Sep 1st