Archer, Eleanor, boutell , jeremym and I went to see They Might Be Giants at the TLA. Archer has never been to a rock concert before - he saw an SJ Tucker house concert, which he loved, but being in a venue packed to the gills with excited fans, with the band on stage with a full sound system - totally new experience. At first he was annoyed because he expected that they'd play all...

Thank you, boutell , for the in-depth review . I just sent in my request for a Google Wave invite! (I am such an early-adopter junkie.)

In the immortal words of boutell ... Next!

After Eleanor played Johnny Brenda's , I asked how it had gone. She told me, "It was great! I broke my guitar pick!"

"I've got more important things to worry about [than] BOYFRIENDS! " (Thanks, boutell !)

Wow, everything really is available on the Internet, even 15 years later . Looks as though Hampf's Brian Robinson has been kind and generous enough to share the band's entire catalog, including songs from Zerohead, a 1995 musical they put on starring the then-host of the Seattle Slam, Paul Grajnert. boutell , you're welcome! You will now have "Ratchet" going through your head for the next...

Thanks boutell for learnin' me about Aretha Franklin's Inaugural Hat!

I do this end-year wrap up every year, though normally I post it o'er at my [grossly neglected] llij.net blog.  I ganked this, as always, from the awesome fatherbingo . 1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Started my own company and had a profitable year, spent Easter at Frank Lloyd Wright's family estate in Malibu for a beautiful, warm party, officiated a wedding...

First time ljdump user here, but experienced geek; thought I'd try filling in some gaps in the instructions. First: on Windows, I use ljArchive , a normal Windows program that does pretty much what ljdump does, but has pretty mousey-menuy-windowy features. I recommend it, except for one problem, which is this: once your LJ gets to a certain size, ljArchive randomly fails. I'm in the middle of helping...

Ganked from boutell cuz he rocks the casbah: Man Likes Woman So Much He Marries Her | The Onion - America's Finest News Source "WELLTON, AZ—Henry Leighty, a 32-year-old Arizona native and insurance claims adjuster, reportedly had such a huge crush on his girlfriend, Stacy Tompkins, 29, that he just had to marry her in a small ceremony Sunday which he totally dreams about every night when...