From the “bad idea” files, DC Comics wanted/want to do prequels & even sequels to Watchmen. Ugh. Lucky Alan Moore is still cranky with DC (though I don’t know if that’s enough to stop them):

They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels…But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms.

Great idea - set a “lose by” threshold, and the site tells you if a sports game is worth watching - NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL only for now.

Daryl Hall + Todd Rundgren + Session dudes = genius. Can’t link directly to the track, so:

1. Click this link
2. Scroll to Can We Still Be Friends in the Individual Songs list
3. Jump to 4:50 through the video to skip the blokey bonding
4. TURN IT UP
5. Wallow in the precision playing, harmonic magic, and gushing emotion!

Realtime election info-gadget-overload. Fun!

Still sounding great, especially on Sitting in Limbo.

TDF 2010 on Big Picture

Steely Dan talking about the making of Peg. Studio geeks making magic music.

Hell yeah. Great stuff, you can fill in the Who blanks as he’s playing, especially at 7:04 after the keyboard solo when he brings it home.

Demonstrate your musical chops.

*Howl* for the social media generation:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning, any meaning…