Archive for April, 2007
Hebrew National: Now with pork!
The oddest discovery I found at the ballpark last night was that the concessions stands are selling Hebrew National hot dogs covered in pork barbecue. I’m sure they’re delicious, but I have to wonder if the Hebrew National folks approve. EDIT – Apparently [Read More]
Well, now they know who I am
I just sent the following email to virtually the entire who’s who of Durham: I respectfully ask that all candidates, delegates, and interested parties refrain from mass-mailings in which all of the recipients’ email addresses are in the “To” field of [Read More]
Toastie Radio : Love Songs and More
Toastie Radio : Love Songs and More I really like Toastie Radio. It kicks ass. And I don’t know if I’ve quite expressed that in awhile. In the past half-hour, I’ve heard Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Meat Loaf, and music from Twin Peaks. Where the hell else [Read More]
Politics are ugly
I feel sick to my stomach now. I wish I hadn’t been quoted in the paper. It’s not worth it. The whole issue I was up in arms over wasn’t even mentioned. Had it been, I might still feel sick, but I’d be proud of myself for having raised the issue. As [Read More]
“But I was misquoted”
Actually, I wasn’t misquoted in Fiona Morgan’s article in The Independent, Durham Dems to select Lucas’ successor, but I don’t like how I was represented. No, that’s not quite right either. I had written the Indy editors about an issue other [Read More]
The internet is for porn…
That’s the title of a song from the Tony-award winning puppet musical “Avenue Q”. Now, where was I going with this? I was thinking, the internet is for porn, and for promoting nonsense like this: Did Adam have a belly-button? [Read More]
Toastie Radio’s Spring Surge
Amptracker stats – average listeners: January 2007 – 14.95 February 2007 – 15.90 (+6.4%) March 2007 – 20.70 (+30.2%) Website unique visitors/day (no stats for January as TR was still on the captaintoastie domain): January 2008: 12.77 (includes [Read More]
Spell with flickr
Spell with flickr Discovered by browsing the blog of The Independent Weekly’s Fiona Morgan, who interviewed me on the phone earlier regarding the District 20 Senate race, which is a long story that I’m not sure I’ll comment upon here. Unfortunately, the [Read More]
Coward O’Reilly challenged, orders guests’ mic turned off
Coward O’Reilly challenged, orders guests’ mic turned off Such an asshole… [Read More]
Hybrid savings
I just published my Prius mileage spreadsheet which summarizes my driving since June 2004. I can probably extrapolate dating back to the vehicle’s purchase back in July 2002, as I have an old spreadsheet in which I used to track my performance with each fill-up of [Read More]
