“I found a new way to drive home the point or organ virtuosity this week through a performance by a young organist named Cameron Carpenter. Carpenter wants to change the way people view the organ through expanding the repertoire, expanding the organ’s sound through digital organs, and expanding the audience by putting on an entertaining show (Liberace is obviously his hero as he dressing like the pianist, from the sequins down to his unfortunately named Maverick organ shoes that allow him to play intervals with his heels). My mouth fell open watching him play Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude. I played the work for my sophomore recital and know how hard the left hand part is when you use the hands; Carpenter uses the feet…” [via Andrew, my high school friend who is now a music professor]

2733Ranch.com: Apparently, there IS a place to get organic, locally grown beef in Huntsville.

Dove Farm Poultry and Eggs: Local Huntsville farm offering locally grown chickens and eggs.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google: From Google’s blog: “This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of…

Cover of ‘The Stranger,’ Seattle’s alt-weekly, in response to Bush’s re-election four years ago. I wish I’d seen this then.  [via Adam]

DOS Games Archive: DOS games, aka “How Amy Wasted Time In High School”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-16):

1. Fall Out Boy 
2. Cobra Starship 
3. XTC 
4. Girl Talk 
5. Spock’s Beard 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Downtown, night: A shot looking back toward the Jazz Factory after a quiet dinner with Jeff on a rainy, dark Friday night. I wished for better camera equipment, but realistically, my ‘real’ camera wouldn’t have been brought out in this rain.

To dye for: Itchiku Kubota's works reach back to a mythic golden age of Japanese textiles: An exhibit of a lifetime’s work of a master kimono artist.  A room full of kimono designed to be seen together, in sequence.  Never seen anything like this before…

As soon as I figure out what to make of this, I’ll let you know.  Animation, Vikings, fighting robots, and Gene Simmons.  Seriously. [via Joel]

NGO-in-a-Box: Tested and reviewed sets of free / open source applications designed for specific areas of use: audio/video, publishing, typical office/business tasks, fundraising, and small-company management.

Charles:  “They made Obama a priest class.”

Michelle:  “and I love that Obama has mana, but Biden has rage (and is down a bit in both health and rage)”

Click to see the full version, which is just screechingly awesome, and I gather breaks the brains of hardcore WoW players.

[Original source unknown.]

“‘I think there are going to be outbreaks from blacks,’ she added. ‘From where I’m from, this is going to give them the right to be more aggressive.’” - a woman from Arkansas quoted in this New York Times article on the waning influence of the South in politics and why some Southern areas went even more Republican in 2008 than they did in 2004.

Thanks for the help, sweetie: Cats with white bellies can sense black fabric. Thus why there is a sheet of paper covering this stack. Preparedness is a good thing.

[via Colter] I suspect there is purring inside the box…

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-9):

1. Coldplay 
2. TV on the Radio 
3. The Clash 
4. Carbon Leaf 
5. Jimmy Eat World 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz