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Posted by Chris on June 15, 2006 at 11:44 pm.

This evening, my wife and I rebooted the laptop from Linux to Windows (you remember Windows, right?), fired up WiFi, closed Firefox and opened Internet Explorer (you remember viruses, right?), and having finally pleased the Microsoft gods, plugged the laptop into our living room receiver and thoroughly enjoyed MSN’s broadcast of the Dixie Chicks […]

Filed under: Music, Internet

Posted by Chris on May 21, 2006 at 5:00 pm.

In this week’s cover story, Time magazine ponders whether anyone will buy the Dixie Chicks’ — ahem, I mean Radical Chicks’ — new release because, you know, they were kind of critical of the President an’ all when being kind of critical of the President an’ all wasn’t cool (sorry!):

Dixie Chicks in the line of […]

Filed under: Politics, Entertainment, U.S., Music, Media

Posted by Chris on May 12, 2006 at 10:54 am.

Criticize Dear Leader and I’ll kill you:

“It was definitely scary because it seemed so — it wasn’t just somebody wanting to write a hate letter,” she says. “It was somebody who obviously thought they had a plan.”
Emily Robison, who plays banjo and guitar in the Texas trio, says, “There was one specific death threat on […]

Filed under: Politics, Entertainment, Culture, U.S., Music

Posted by Chris on March 6, 2006 at 10:58 am.

Via Digby, I learned that country music’s most durable personality is also a grounded, tolerant human being:

PARTON: Well yes, I’m very tolerant of just people in general. I believe we’re all God’s children. I think we all have a right to be who we are. I’m certainly — I’m not a judge and I’m certainly […]

Filed under: Entertainment, Culture, U.S., Music

Posted by Chris on February 25, 2006 at 12:05 pm.

Via Rising Hegemon:
FBI and British Intelligence agents recently questioned Morrissey after he publicly criticized the U.S. and British governments.
Be careful what you sing. These days, people name names.

Filed under: Politics, U.S., Music, World

Posted by Chris on January 3, 2006 at 3:56 pm.

Music is a great love of mine. Although my album collection contains a disproportionate number of indie and punk titles dating back to my days in college radio, I’m not really an aficionado of any particular band or genre. There isn’t much music I don’t enjoy.
I’m also a geek. I […]

Filed under: Technology, Computers, Electronics, Networking, Music, Internet