Coffee bags. Does this product even exist anymore? Like teabags, but for coffee. About all they were good for was tagging the box with colored ovoids.
Day: August 26, 2007
"More Alpha Please"
"More Alpha Please" [mp3 removed]
Not that it matters terribly but these are my own patches for the synth parts. The softsynth is the Linplug Alpha, reminiscent of an '80s analog synthesizer, which is simple and fun to program. This version has beats I added; the previously posted one is "a cappella."
I consider this sort of Goth, even though no Goth would agree with me.
Juan Cole on Napoleon and Bush Jr.
In this video, Middle East historian and blogger Juan Cole discusses parallels between Napoleon's failed invasion of Egypt in the late 1700s and the US's current Iraq misadventure. Somehow the New America Foundation got around the YouTube 10 minute limit--it's 71 minutes but worth a watch. Cole says after Napoleon lost 12 ships to the British his troops were stranded and the invasion fell apart. Nevertheless the general returned to Paris, claimed he had won and became Emperor based on this perceived victory. This bears keeping in mind this fall as the Pentagon uses your tax money to create a 24/7 public relations "war room" to sell you on the idea that we are "succeeding" in Iraq. Treat all happy talk in the media in the coming month as completely tainted and try to get your news from blogs and the non-US press.