the woodshed

In Your Ear Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS Mommy Says No! Buffalo Records, 2,500 yen The eclectic ...

Even broken clocks are right twice a day Mark the day on the calendar, because you aren't likely to see me write anything praising WalMa...

Teh funny What the wingnuts see when they see the New York Times

When the levy breaks This should help the White House, FEMA and Michael Brown restore their reputation to the lofty heights they deserve - S...

And they wonder why we call them "wingnuts" Uniform fetishist "Grim" on the Virtues of Killing Children Tortured logic? ...

"Don't mention the war" The best similie I've heard today about this : Imagine you are a rich white man living in South Ce...

The sky is falling! The sky is fal....oh, uh, hang on a minute Apparently we weren't is such imminent danger of having it rain 747 debr...

No-mentum Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee rip Joe Lieberman a new one, the Raw Story has the video

Would you believe...the Jesus edition Holy hammerlocks I don't believe that this group exists He wants you to bang your head for Him, in...

World's greatest small town police blotter It would be worth the drive to Ponoka, Alta. just to meet the guy that writes these . Thanks...

How messed up is Japan? If you go by what these three guys say, pretty messed up. While Znet is a scurrilous left-wing rag (and more power ...

Kobi's Sakura Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away....well, okay it was Port Dover, Ontario in 1989 or '90 when I was just start...

Blogstardom beckons I'll be blogging up a storm on Sunday night (5 pm EST/ 2pm Pacific/ way too damn early Monday morning Tokyo time...

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain Tom's Dispatch has a classic example of the Republican government in action . Apparently,...

Pirates swash has not buckled Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 4 stars out of five Dir...

You have to be carefully taught Peace in the Middle East is not going to happen because of a treaty or because of a wall or because one grou...

Geography lesson Remember when the U.S. precision bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and blamed inaccurate maps for mistargetting? We k...

Deja vu all over again This is every argument you've ever read online and every discussion you've ever had with a "rock-ribbed...

RIP Roger "Syd" Barrett One of the prime movers of the musical side of the psychedelic movement and co-founder of Pink Floyd, Syd ...

the shaggs This one is for Jesse Glass and outsider music fans everywhere. I recently read a great book on outsider music, which featured th...