Friday open thread

Let's see if I remember how to do this (4.00 / 3)

? - Pan Galactic GargleBlaster Blues
The Box Tops - Neon Rainbow
Barry Louis Polizar - Water
Tenacious D - Inward Singing
Altan - The Jug of Punch
Collin Raye - Many A Mile
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Bob & Tom - First Baptist Bar and Grill
Waylon Jennings & Johnny Cash - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Peter Rowan & Don Edwards - I'm Gonna Leave Ol' Texas Now

Pretty random! Returner's luck, I expect.

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by: Susan the Neon Nurse @ Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 13:32:52 PM CST

Dusting off the shuffle function (4.00 / 3)

Ramones - Carbona Not Glue
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Lila Downs w/ Enrique Bunbury - Justicia
Tish Hinojosa - Polka Fronterrestrial
Mark Ronson - Here Come The Fuzz
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
Wyclef Jean - Nou Va Rive
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Gone Home
Tom Tom Club - Under The Boardwalk
Kaysha - Don't wake me up

Illegal is never a noun

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by: Luis @ Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 14:07:32 PM CST

my first random ten (4.00 / 4)

Pressurehed - One Who Has Seen
Helium - Walk Away
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Airport 5 - We're In The Business
The Church - Louisiana
Clinic - Welcome
Calexico - Crooked Road and the Briar
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag
The Barkays - You Can't Run Away

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by: s_kwas @ Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 15:57:15 PM CST

Happy Happy Joy Joy (4.00 / 3)

2009 has been a great year.  Hopefully old ramdom/shuffle will pop out some great tunes to go with it.

• Thievery Corporation     Un Simple Historie
• Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs   Bottle of Wine
• Jefferson Airplane    Alexander the Medium
• Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Never on Sunday
• Blondie        Atomic
• The Happenings       Cold Water
• The Happenings       When The Summer Is Through
• Gene Krupa         Showcase
• Pink Lady           Love Me Tonight
• Patsy Cline         I Love You So Much It Hurts

Well, could have been worse, could have been a lot better.

Pam Bennett

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by: Pam Bennett @ Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 19:39:14 PM CST

Why Whither Local "News"papers? (0.00 / 0)

Sunday Post has an article in the online edition that explains all by it's lonely self why the local "News"papers are whithering away.  Inspite of the cost of print, there is no true cost of electrons to put a full story online.  

LARIMER COUNTY - Larimer County Republicans have chosen state Rep. Kevin Lundberg to fill a vacant seat in the state Senate.

Steve Johnson stepped down from the seat last week to become a county commissioner.

A committee made up of GOP precinct chairs and other county leaders voted 88-42 for Lundberg, 56, who lives near Berthoud.

This is the who, what, where, when and why that I did not learn in journalism classes.  I learned that a story is always a full book pared down to a minimum of three paragraphs, hopefully with three sentences in each paragraph.  Written to draw the reader into the story and keep them there while their side vision perused the ads.

The reason for newspapers is for news.  This could not have come from a press release.  There is more info in the first paragraph of a press release than there is in this entire "article".  
Why whither the "news"paper, you can read it right there.


Pam Bennett

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by: Pam Bennett @ Sun Jan 11, 2009 at 07:04:35 AM CST