(musings from an upstart crow)
Corbid Ravenous Who would ever have guessed someday I’d have a job interview that included the question “How would you describe The Sweat Band to someone who’d never heard them?”Or that I’d get a chance to interview with a real live Sand Ruby?Oh, the glamourness of my life… “The punk rock’ll kill you if the government don’t … Read more
About time I wrote something, I guess…Friday limbo, was playing Nick Cave and Leadbelly and songs from an old lover. Day After Blues, wandering, newspaper brooding in the Dinosaur MacDonalds, bookstore lingering over hot chocoolate and idiot shoppers with my sweet little girls whov’e learned a Tom Waits song. Sarah sings it “remember the girl … Read more
From “Welcome To Leadbelly Homepage: Huddie William Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on the Jeter Plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. He was the only child of his parents Wesley and Sally. Huddie and his parents moved to Leigh, Texas when he was five and it was there that he became interested in music, encouraged … Read more
Never knew you, but I hear you were beautifulHear you were angry sometimesGuess you never knew that you were lovedWell you were lovedFor what it’s worthSo goodnight punk rock girlGoodby lonely oneHope you found your peace at last
Fine leathers, triumphs against adversity, and dead ex-girlfriends. “Good manners and bad breath will bet you nowhere…”-Elvis Costello
…back from the dead again. For as much as it counts. Thinking it’ll be different this time. This carrot will be different. Thinking that life will be good and recognition will be earned and trust will be rewarded. Love’s no different whether you go looking for it or it blindsides you. Fairness will always elude … Read more
The Picts were the early inhabitants of Scotland, so called “barbarian” tribes who often skirmished with the Celtic Britons living to the south of them, sometimes living on the spoils of their attacks. Little historic documentation is available regarding them, as Scotland gradually became Celticized itself. The only text left to us by the Picts … Read more
Postnet:(where people send in their deepest secrets on the back of a postcard and somebody posts it.) — Context is Optional: www.corbid.net
History of Occam’s Razor William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) was a Franciscan theologian born in Surrey, England, around 1285. He studied at Oxford and later at Paris. His philosophical views made him a polemic scholar. He died in Munich, Germany, around 1349. Although the general idea of the preference for simplicity is attributed to … Read more
I spun my car tonight. Avoiding the same sort of traffic scenario thatnearly did me in the first time. Something inside me snapped and I decided“This car will NOT hit me!” and as it failed to yield and left turnedalmost into me I decided to drive around it. And somehow I did even thoughit kept … Read more