Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:36:19 AM
It's hot here. Really hot. I drove home and at nearly 7pm it was still almost 80 degrees. Those of you in the Northern extremities, remember we have a $40 billion deficit and Arnold is looking to raise revenue any way possible including allowing drivers to use the carpool lanes with only one driver by paying a "fee." Remember when HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes were introduced as a method to encourage carpool driving? Well then they allowed drivers of electric cars, then hybrids to use the lanes because it was good for the planet. Now I guess it is all what is about what is good for the budget. I am all for it. If everyone else pays, I think it means the rest of the lanes will be open for me. I drove home listening to my Husker Du
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCsker_D%C3%BC mix. I had been a fan since college. Before Green Day, Nirvana and Foo Fighters there was Husker Du who combined the edge of punk music with the melodiousness (that can't be a word) of the Beatles. My mix focuses on their last two albums after they got signed by Warner and right before they broke up : Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse Songs and Stories. The group had two songwriters who split the songs pretty much down the middle. I was always on the Bob Mould
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mould side. Celebrated Summer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrated_Summer is one of their later early hits. It is a great top off (the car not the person) song to play on a hot summer night. The calender was the only indication of winter here. For those of you living in other states, trapped in snow remember we can trade the weather but you gotta take the earthquakes, high taxes, ridiculous regulation, unbearably high cost of living, traffic (it took 90 minutes to go 25 miles home today), mudslides, fires, nearly almost every moron celebrity, the entire California legislature, Senator Boxer and Speaker Pelosi. Sleep on it and get back to me. In the mean time check out Iowahawk on the year in movies :
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/01/movies-are-your-best-entertainment-value.html