Blogging Doesn't Take A Vacation

Its been overcast and rainy all week, which doesn't leave you much to do when you are vacationing a little beach cottage on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie. Here are a few YouTubes that have been helping me pass the time:

We Were Promised Jetpacks are the most eagerly anticipated - and worst-named - new band out of the U.K. since the Arctic Monkeys, if not The Gay Dads, and their first album, These Four Walls, hits stores today. I like what I've heard of them so far, but then the same was true about the AMs, and we all remember how quickly they faded from the scene. Here's their first video, "Quiet Little Voices" - what do you think?


Anderson Cooper grills Sarah Palin's spokesperson over Palin's decision to resign. Everything about Sarah Palin is ridiculous, and since every pundit on television has been discussing this for four days, I won't say anything more about it, except that Palin's spokeswoman is the embodiment of every negative stereotype about the political spin machine - much like Palin herself embodies every aspect of Limbaugh-style conservatism - and she uses the word "literally" to mean "figuratively," which is one of my all-time pet peeves.


And, finally, Ron Artest's tribute 'song' for Michael Jackson: