Jam Cellar Playlist 9-18-2007

Yeah  I know,  it’s not as if I’m currently using this blog for anything else.  But hey, there’s nothing wrong with having an online repository of one’s playlists, if nothing else.   Here are the tunes I played  last night at the Jam Cellar:

Winter

 Winter in Washington is sort of a joke. It gets genuinely cold for all of one week of the year, it snows only occasionally, and yet the general populace is about as prepared for the weather as Noah’s neighbors were for the Flood.
Admittedly, it’s probably a good thing that people freak out about the [...]

Showdown!

I like to think that I can travel light, but when it comes to the biggest Lindy Hop convention of the year, I clearly fail big time:

Number of full-size suitcases: 1
Number of t-shirts, undershirts, and overshirts: 33
Pairs of shoes: 6
Days in Minneapolis: 3

For the skeptics out there, know that I will sweat through basically all [...]

79AISHSVC

Near the end of every year Carleton holds a very special event. The “Annual Intergalactic Superhero Supervillian Convention” (AISHSVC) better known as the Superhero Party. This being the 79th annual (I’m not really sure how they count this stuff), I figured a superhero of my stature wouldn’t want to miss it.
What superhero am [...]

Which Came First?

This is what we talk about over dinner in my house.
“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
If you’re a Creationist, the chicken obviously came first, because God created the first chickens, which subsequently laid eggs.
If you’re an Evolutionist, the egg obviously came first, since a genetic mutation in an offspring somewhere along the line [...]