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A quick reminder: Today at 12:34 and 56 seconds, the current time will be 12:34:56 7/8/9

Oh noes! Avenue Q is closing on Broadway. A very good run though.

For all my Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and This American Life fans:

Support WBEZ Chicago

Carl Kasell
Peter Sagal

VERY special Youtube messages ;-)

Nifty: iPhone app that keeps you informed on Philadelphia concerts, sorted by performer or venue.

via Geekadelphia

ningeek and I had a number of places to go take a look at last night. On the way back to my place after picking up a quick bite to eat, I saw the most vivid sunset EVER. The light of the magic minute was amazin (and really lasted for about 5 minutes.) I swore because I knew I did not have my camera with me.

Luckily, Alex Moundalexis did have his camera out and he snapped this picture.

Photographer Ken Rockwell discusses lighting on his website. (And if you like his work, please consider donating a few bucks.)

It was absolutely amazing.

Let me be among the last to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to

prozacnation!

Because I like being dangerous to your wallets: Once on DVD from Amazon, $8.99. Other stuff in their DVD blowout sale.

Edit: Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Literal video, via StumbleUpon

Today's XKCD made me laugh, but the comments on the LJ RSS feed gave bonus laughs.

In other news: Don't forget to see David Hein at Musical Lairs on May 30th.

Today's Married to the Sea made me giggle: Drama Llama

Thankfully, I don't have any of those going on.

Since we're coming up on festival season, this lolcat seems to be appropriate.

via Fark: Science related tatoos. SFW as far as I can tell.

Chicken Spiedies are in the June/July 2009 issue of Cook's Country! (from Cook's Illustrated)

Guess what's going on my grill this season?

If you guessed "food", you're a wiseass, but correct.

Current Mood: hungry

PSA: Melody Gardot's new album (released today!) is on sale for $3.99 at Amazon, one day only.

She gets some play on Siriux/XM's The Loft, WXPXN (Philly local), and was an XPN "Artist To Watch".

In addition, XPN has started to release their lineup for XPoNential Festival 2009. It's Falcon Ridge weekend. *grr* Here's what's booked so far: Aimee Mann, Peter Bjorn & John, Robert Cray, They Might Be Giants, Shemekia Copeland, Guster, Los Straightjackets, Steve Forbert and more.

Thanks to reading a review at Amazon, I discovered Quackle, a cross platform Scrabble-like game. It has a tiny difference from Scrabble in that it ships without the board setup that scrabble has. (That would be a copyright violation.)

Of course, the Scrabble Players Association includes a copy of the board on their official scoresheets.

So, it's very easy to play Scrabble against the computer.

The program is so good that the latest edition of Scrabble the computer game is Quackle with a fancy front end.

( license info from the file )

Quackle is much nicer in that you don't automagically go first, you just draw a tile normally to see who goes first. It will also analyze your game afterwards (takes a long time though.)

Best of all: NO DRM. No stupid CD needed to play the game.

Cleveland Indians: 14 runs on 13 hits on the New York Yankees. And that was just the second inning.

Current Mood: amused

Goodbye Harry
A tip of the hat to Harry Kalas who passed away today at age 73. You may not know the name, but his voice is unmistakable. He was the broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies, the longtime voice for NFL Films. Even if you're not a sports fan, you might have heard his voice in commercials for Campbell's Soup.

And, I'm a doofus.

April 23rd: Women Who Folk, Catie Curtis, Edie Carey, Pamela Means, Christine Havrilla at the World Cafe Live. I completely forgot about it! I got a ticket to see This American Life at The Ritz in Voorhees. I especially feel like an idiot now because This American Life has announced they are going to have an encore showing on May 7th. Although I would have to go out to Neshaminy, PA to see it.

Damnit.

Lili Anel is at the Moorestown Decafe on April 24th, Jonathan Byrd is at the Moorestown Decafe on May 15th.

Anybody up for a little insanity on July 5th?

Carsie Blanton has this on her myspace show list:

July 5 2009, Concerts Under The Stars w/ Ritchie Havens.

Carsie is also looking for help in naming her new album.

Full "Concerts Under The Stars" calendar...

Other highlights:
6/28: Ryan Montbleau Band, Erin McKeown
7/19: Trout Fishing in America
7/26: Richard Shindell and Susan Werner (Falcon Ridge weekend)

Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts calendar

Highlights:
6/13 Chris Smither
6/20 Bill Staines and Antje Duvekot
7/11 Steve Forbert
7/18 Tom Chapin
7/25 Cheryl Wheeler w/ Vince Raimondo (Falcon Ridge weekend)

And since I'm not done messing with your wallets yet, it looks like WXPN picked some of this week's $5 Albums:
Shemekia Copeland "Never Going Back"
Bell X1 "Blue Lights on the Runway"
Madeleine Peyroux "Bare Bones" - her song "You Can't Do Me" reminds me of Carsie Blanton's "Buoy", which Carsie packs full of similies. Madeleine Peyroux does the same thing. (Full of similies like Carsie Blanton?)

For those of you who are fans of A Prairie Home Companion, you might be interested in this

Two Dozen More Bodies Found In Lake Wobegon

Also, for you fine folks who are interested , Lindsay Mac will be on WFUV on Sunday between 8 and 11 AM.

Appel Farm 2009 Festival Cancelled

Citing the troubled economy and a disappointing turnout last year, the arts center is putting the event on hiatus so it can plan its 50th anniversary festival for 2010.

Not all is lost, however:

Instead, the center will hold a benefit concert on June 7 to support its Rising Young Artist Scholarship Fund. The fund helps pay tuition for about 25 percent of the students who attend its summer camp.

Nearly a dozen musicians are donating their time for the concert, said Timmons, including Livingston Taylor, John Gorka, Vance Gilbert, The Kennedys and Grey Eye Glances.

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