Archive for October, 2005



It’s a good news/bad news kind of day. The good news is that I am Philly Future’s new featured blogger; my reign of terror begins today with an interview in which I pontificate about the significance of weblogs. Thanks to the Philly Future team!
The bad news is, of course, that our beloved South […]

West Coast adventure

Clair, resident Good Grief! heckler, asks about last week’s Gumby posts and wonders was I really out of town? Well, yeah, unless you know of a Philly In-N-Out Burger with palm trees in the parking lot.
I was lucky enough to attend a Macromedia convention in Anaheim with about a dozen of my new, super-secret […]

Or maybe the buggy driver escaped via rollerblade. Thanks to Moon Pappy for scanning this article from the Lancaster New Era.

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Bloodshot Records: For a Decade of Sin

An exciting announcement from Bloodshot Records, a kick-ass label out of Chicago: they have just released For a Decade of Sin, a two-disc compilation that celebrates eleven years in the business. Forty-two songs of new and previously-unreleased material for $18.
I have several Bloodshot compilations, including Down to the Promised Land, the five year […]

Observation

Some people are WYSIWYG; others are WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.
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Manahmanah: Muppet Show on DVD

On Thursday night I was in a post-convention foul temper, putting sad songs on the Internet, when the phone rang. “Go to the front room,” said the mysterious caller, “and pick up the freakin’ New Yorker that’s been lying on your coffee table since August.”
Well, I never. People phoning up and bossing me […]

It’s a special day here at Good Grief. Is it Halloween? The end of Ramadan? Viggo Mortensen’s birthday? No, no, and no. It’s time for the bi-quarterly mix of the week. I’m suffering from a case of post-road-trip-convention blues, so today’s theme is sadness and despair. Stream it […]

Macromedia acquires gumby

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I am gumby dammit!

travels

Not in philly anymore!

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