Ramblings of Silver Blue

Barry Manilow – This One’s For You This one will never sell They’ll never understand I don’t even sing it well I try but I just can’t But I sing it every night And I fight to keep it in Cause this one’s for you This one’s for you I’ve done a hundred songs From [...]

CNN Reports. Music download prices rising? Music industry execs say prices, set low to stimulate demand, need to move higher: report. February 28, 2005: 6:51 AM EST NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Just as legal music downloading is taking off in earnest, the major record labels are in talks to raise the price they charge online [...]

Elaine Paige – “All Things Considered” Love you must know I tried All of this time A long weary climb But oh my hands were tied Nothing to hold I’m out in the cold Strange to see our future fall into the past Too good to last But oh the times we had All things [...]

Linda Eder – “Unusual Way (From “Nine”)” Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston Orchestrations & Arrangements: Jeremy Roberts In a very unusual way One time I needed you In a very unusual way You were my friend Maybe it lasted a day Maybe it lasted an hour But somehow it will never end In a [...]

The past three weeks have brought two weddings and a funeral into my life. I’ve come to realize that I’m destined to life out my life as a very solitary man, and probably not remembered by many. Thanks to the conservatism of the United States, chances are I’ll never have a wedding of my own [...]

…it’s just best not to ask. This tune has haunted me all week. Agnetha Faltskog – If i thought you’d ever change your mind I would bring you flowers in the morning wild roses as the sun begins to shine sweet perfume in tiny jewelled caskets if I thought you’d ever change your mind I [...]

…and thanks for all the fish. It’s been a wild, crazy ride. PoloRandy’s uncle Robert died this afternoon. Prayers go out to the family. I’m not going to say that I’m not going to be blogging any more, but don’t look for regular updates. Ebay is taking off (thank God), and i’m really busy at [...]

Appeals court keeps infant on life support HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — A mother fighting to keep a hospital from removing her infant son from the ventilator that has kept him alive since birth has won another temporary restraining order. The 1st Court of Appeals reinstated the order keeping 4-month-old Sun Hudson on life support Wednesday, [...]

As seen on a Valentine’s Day Card: Take back your heart; I ordered liver.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of the message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And [...]

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Guess it’s time for me to move out of State. Virginia is getting around to finally codifying discrimination. Look f*cktards. I pay taxes, I pay your frickin’ salary. I do NOT need you dictating my moral standards, thank you very much. I personally feel that two people of ANY gender, in a loving, caring relationship, [...]

Maybe I’m considered lucky because I can afford my place to live, and have two other people living with me that also have decent (but not good) incomes. What about those that are less fortunate? Well, to one developer in Virginia Beach, the attitude is “to hell with the little guy.” This excerpt is from [...]

Lots of things going through my mind, none of which connect with weach other or make any sort of coherent sense. (1) Pay toilets. Maybe I’m putting an age on myself, but does anyone remember them? Hell, I remember as recent as 1980, Montgomery Wards still had them, and if you had to go, it [...]

Well, even more items are up on ebay. Lots of CDs, a couple books, and some jewelry. Get it now before it’s all gone!

One of my favourite Jazz/Samba groups, “Matt Bianco” (Danny White, Basia Trzetrzelewska, and Mark Reilly) are back together. More than two decades after going their separate ways, the original members of Matt Bianco have reunited to record a new album and will launch their first U.S. tour in March. “Matt’s Mood” will be issued March [...]

This is what I’ve installed. We’ll see if it works. Spam Karma Uses an extensive array of filters to detect and automatically discard any comment spam… Name: Spam Karma Version: 1.18 Description: This plugin mixes together many different spam-fighting techniques, reusing some, adding a few, to automatically detect and delete most of your comment spam, [...]

For ALL posts. Seems comment spammers have switched to trackbacks to get their damn texas holdem poker bullshit out on the blogs. I had to delete over 500 new trackbacks and guys, I’m sick. I can’t deal with this today. So, if you’re attempting to track back, I apprecaite it, but for the moment, no [...]

For ALL posts. Seems comment spammers have switched to trackbacks to get their damn texas holdem poker bullshit out on the blogs. I had to delete over 500 new trackbacks and guys, I’m sick. I can’t deal with this today. So, if you’re attempting to track back, I apprecaite it, but for the moment, no [...]

Spammers, that is. Now, instead of leaving posts, they’re doing “trackbacks”. I had 248 of them to delete this morning (since everything is moderated, it had to go through me in the first place). Makes me almost wanna hang up the ol’ bloghat for good. Bad enough I get over 500 pieces of span in [...]