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The Great Twitter Experiment

Like you (well, maybe not you, but certainly you, and you, and that guy knows what I'm talking about), I am addicted to Twitter. I'm not sure why, as there's really nothing particularly ball-grabbing about "I just got my sandwich, and they gave me SEEDED rye when I asked for seedless? WTF?" or  "fuck, that wasn't vodka I just drank, it was the chloroform that I store in a discarded vodka bottle if you're reading this please callempsrn#%)nn". So I've decided to roll with the fun and post nothing but random weird nonsense (along with the obligatory "New DadCentric Post!" tweets, because I gotta). Twitter will be my lonely, flea-infested, basic-cable-only timeshare in the low-rent section of the vast wasteland that some call the Internets.

Compassionativistic Conservativism

I don't care what any of you say - he has a heart as big as Texas (thanks to JP for the clip).

McCain Definitely Clarified His Gay Adoption Stance

"...so, no, I don't believe in gay adoption." This from an interview in Sunday's New York Times.

Seems pretty clear, right? Well, of COURSE not. No, that's not what "no, I don't believe in gay adoption" means.

Well, I do believe in gay adoption. Matter of fact, if Beth and I die, our kids are gonna be raised by their married(!) lesbian godparents. Not to brag, but I walk the walk on this one.

I believe something else. Saying that he doesn't "believe in gay adoption", and then cravenly hiding behind his cronies' spin, doesn't make McCain a lesser candidate.

It makes him a lesser human being.

Meme: An Album For Every Year Of Your Life, Part II

I would have gotten to this earlier, but I had to defend the honor of Mr. Big Dubya, DadCentric, and, yes, the United States of America.  Picking up where we left off yesterday...

1991: Pearl Jam, Ten

1992: The Jayhawks, Hollywood Town Hall

1993: Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (this was a tough year; almost put U2's Zooropa, but realized that when it was released I thought it was terrible. Now it's probably my favorite U2 album. Also under consideration was Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville - I listened to that record a lot back then, because I thought it would help me understand women, and because Liz was and remains a stone cold fox. Finally, there was the album that to this day has influenced my worldview more than any other: The Jerky Boys, by The Jerky Boys. But Siamese Dream still holds up, a bittersweet reminder of how truly awesome the Pumpkins were before Billy Corgan went and shaved his head.)

1994: Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York

1995: Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five

1996: Wilco, Being There

1997: Spritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

1998: Phish, The Story of The Ghost

1999: Wilco, Summerteeth

2000: Phish, Farmhouse

2001: Another toughie, because there just wasn't a lot of good music released up until September 11, and after that who was in the mood to buy records? 3-Way Tie - Tool, Lateralus; Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairytales; Ryan Adams, Gold.

2002: The Roots, Phrenology

2003: The White Stripes, Elephant

2004: Green Day, American Idiot

2005: Death Cab for Cutie, Plans

2006: Wolfmother, Wolfmother

2007: Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (another tough call; also considered were Wilco's Sky Blue Sky and Bloc Party's A Weekend in The City)

Meme: An Album For Every Year of Your Life, Part 1

I stole this idea from my favorite website. Simple: pick your favorite album (or what would have been your favorite, had you been of age) from every year of your life. Since this will encompass some 39 albums, I'm breaking it up into two posts. Here goes:

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country

1970: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III

1971: The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East

1972: Big Star, #1 Record

1973: Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of The Moon

1974: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Natty Dread

1975: Queen, A Night at The Opera

1976: Boston, Boston

1977: TIE: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Exodus and John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Star Wars: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (double album! With a free poster!)

1978: Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 1974 - 1978

1979: Pink Floyd, The Wall

1980: The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta (and here we start getting into the music that I actually listened to at the time...)

1981: Rush, Moving Pictures

1982: Asia, Asia

1983: The Police, Synchronicity

1984: Van Halen, 1984

1985: R.E.M., Fables of The Reconstruction

1986: Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill

1987: U2, The Joshua Tree

1988: Fishbone, Truth and Soul

1989: The Replacements, Don't Tell A Soul

1990: Soul Asylum, And The Horse They Rode In On

(Back tomorrow with the Nineties up to the present...feel free to play along on your own blogs, consider yourselves tagged if you read this.)

If You Don't Love These Songs, You Are An Al-Qaeda Stooge

I was trolling the Net for some uber-patriotic songs to get everyone in the mood for the 4th, but the good people at the AV Club did that for me. Remember - freedom isn't free.