- Officially announced today: Tragically Hip, WNED Guitar Festival, Artpark, Saturday June 17. Plus the June 24th Hip show up at Fort Yorke equals a nice start to a Hip summer. Now all we need is a show at the Odeon in Cleveland and all will be well.

- Actually all will truly be well when shows within range are announced for Roger Waters, The Who, and the Flaming Lips. Some Rush shows would be nice too.

- 24 is tense, otherworldly in it's depiction of martial law and a lawless President.

- I refuse to be programmed into becoming a poker playing machine, no matter how hard they pump the current pseudo consumeristic fad/obsession/disorder at me over the boob tube. Beware Gamblor, the God of Gambling! Damn you Gamblor!

- That Anthony Bourdain show on the Travel Channel is great. Weird. I like the cut of that guy's jib- he'll try anything in his gastronomic/anthropological/philosophical/spiritual perambulations, and that's what it's all about.