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Friday, August 15, 2003 |
One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams
Loudfast homies the A-Frames wrapped up a tour in June and chronicled their exploits in a great online diary. But don't take my word for it. Here's what Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger writes:
"Our own A-Frames have done quite a bit of touring recently, and thankfully bassist Min Yee has been keeping a careful document of the trio's life on the road--a diary you can check out yourself at www.dragnetrecords.com. Yee documents items such as hanging out in Detroit with the Henchmen, taking "a bottle of clonzapans [sic]" that drummer Lars Finberg found on the floor at Chicago's Blackout festival, and the following interaction with the Black Lips: "Hung out and met the Black Lips from Atlanta. One of them said to me, 'Got a light, shithead?' I figured that was fairly punk rock, and I'm down with punk and kids and stuff. I used to be punk and a kid and that made me the wonderful person I am now, so I go, 'Sure' and give the kid a light." Proving in every way that A-Frames are both attuned to and ahead of the times, this tour diary is interactive, offering sound clips of things like the Spits' performance at the Blackout, threatening answering-machine messages from a drunk, and photos of cheap motels and basements. Check it out." (thanks for the heads-up, Tai)
Damn straight.
12:46:45 PM 
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Full Retreat
That's what the Pentagon is in now that word is out about its plan to cut combat pay for troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf. Reading their weasily denials, it seems the Administration is trying to 1) blame Congress (in Republican hands, remember) and 2) suggest that the combat pay rules actually tied their hands with respect to "other means of compensation" for the soldiers and their families. Since these guys always tell the truth, I guess we'll just take their word for it.
What's astonishing is the stupidity of getting cheap with the genuinely brave and often heroic folks who are doing Cheney and Wolfowitz's dirty work on the ground in Iraq while there is a live debate over the merits of the President's tax giveback to the wealthy. It's certainly going to hit the fan next year when the returning soldiers won't be able to find jobs in the anemic, hollowed-out economy, and it has already been shown that most military families don't make enough to qualify for the tax cuts. Why throw gasoline on the fire with something this blatantly idiotic, and, let's face it, unpatriotic? Maybe Rove and the others have really started drinking the Kool Aid with respect to Bush's snake-oil economic policies and it's affecting their political judgement.
9:38:46 AM
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