May 22 2007

the whistles go woo woo

haven’t seen it in a while, so it’s worth a repost… The best web video of all time:

May 19 2007

Larry Merchant is Krunk

Just flipped over to HBO. Larry Merchant is running down the intro to a Middleweight Championship fight:

There’s a new expression in the South called krunk, from Southern Hip-Hop music. It means “hot.” This fight figures to be krunk.

So Jim Lampley chimes in to say: “Just to be clear — neither fighter is from kronk, but Larry thinks the fight will be krunk.”

That’s so krunk.

May 15 2007

New MacBooks coming today?

Rumor is new MacBook models will be announced today. Apple Store is down too.

update: updates to the existing line are up: “… Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory, and larger hard drives in all models.” Ok, good, not great.

May 1 2007

Merlefest 07 Pics

I posted a few pics from Merlefest 07 on Flickr… Here are some highlights:

John Paul Jones (former Led Zeppelin bassist) rocking with The Duhks:
John Paul Jones

Doc Watson… I met him when I was in college in Boone and had no idea who he was:
Doc Watson

Elvis Costello made fans of bluegrass folks who never heard of him:
Elvis Costello

See more here