What if God Wanted Pasta Sauce

As we’re told by Weird Al Yankovic:
Put your Viking helmet on,
Spread that mayonnaise on the lawn,
Don’t you know, it’s Weasel Stomping Day!
Make your kids knitted Viking helmets, and start indoctrinating them while they’re young! [h/t Boing Boing]

Yet another great xkcd strip.

As reported by the BBC, it wasn’t a reunion.  David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright played together, and Roger Waters played solo.
Shine on, you crazy diamond!

I was listening to the “Theme Time Radio Hour with your host Bob Dylan,” and he played “Mama Get Your Hammer (There’s a Fly on Baby’s Head)” by the Bobby Peterson Quartet.  Aside from being an amusing song, it was an interesting juxtaposition with a billboard I happened to be driving past at the time: [...]

In a forum I read, someone posted a link to the song Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton.  He makes his works available under a Creative Commons license, so you can legally share them.  I liked this song, so I purchased it, and I’m going to try some of his others.

As I drove home late last night (actually early this morning), there was some annoying advertisement on KUFX, so I switched to KFOG.  KFOG plays some stuff I like, but they play an excess of new “whiny rock”.  I caught the second half of a song I hadn’t heard before, John Mayer’s “Waiting on the [...]

R.I.P. Syd Barrett, 6 January 1946 — 7 July 2006
Shine on, you crazy diamond!

I went to the Eric Clapton concert in San Jose yesterday with Steve and Chun. It was one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended. Even the opening act, Robert Randolph and the Family Band was great. Eric Clapton played all the big hits I expected, as well as other songs I [...]

I just heard the sad news about Weird Al Yankovic’s parents.