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Midweek Makeover: Bruce Highway Edition

By MB

On July 25, 2012

So, there was this original, by Bob Dylan. Secret? I'd never really paid attention to it, before 2009.

It's great, isn't it? But in that weird way that makes the first time you heard a song stick as the original, I'll always associate this with the Whitlams. I was rolling north on the Bruce Highway in Australia when I first heard it:

Bonus Bruce Highway music -

Weekend Music: A Distant World Edition

By MB

On July 20, 2012

In Music

Outkast - Git Up, Git Out

Curtis Mayfield - Diamond in the Back

Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair

Boston

By MB

On July 16, 2012

In Travel

Dubai

By MB

On July 13, 2012

In Travel

Weekend Music: Rewind Edition

By MB

On July 13, 2012

In Music

Camera Obscura's Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken:

Beirut's Postcards from Italy:

Continuing the postcard theme (ever heard of Postcrossing?), here's Jens Lekman's Postcard to Nina:

By the time I get to Arizona . . .

By MB

On July 12, 2012

In Personal, Policy, Society

As an Arizona- born native? I think Gov. Jan Brewer and these law enforcement clowns should be ashamed of themselves. You'd hope that they'd want to do something useful with their lives. But, no. The guy in this video? Helps illustrate what a bunch of halfwit clowns they are: