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Tuesday, 22 November 2005
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Limon has already served 4 years in prison for a crime that
would have gotten a heterosexual one year; now the despicable
state of Kansas wants more...
We've followed the case of Matthew Limon for years. Limon
received a 17-year prison sentence for giving consensual oral
sex to another male when a heterosexual offender would have
received at most a little over a year. Eventually the Kansas
Supreme...
Just when you think institutionalised bigotry can't get any worse...
[morons.org headlines]
8:18:29 AM 
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A new study of workers shows more than half feel overwhelmed with pressure and stress.
Tell me about it.
[ABC News: Health]
8:08:49 AM
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Mark Frauenfelder:
 From
PCL Link Dump: "Link Wray has passed away.
The King.
Most people refer to Elvis as the King - and they are not wrong. He was
the King. Link Wray was the The KING OF ROCK. And he most certainly was
The KING OF THE ROCK GUITAR."
Another great gone. Link Wray was a huge influence on rock guitar. John Lennon counted himself as Link's biggest fan.
Link [Boing Boing]
1:04:55 AM
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Sunday was my mother's birthday, and the family got together at my sister's house on the seafront at Henley South. As usual, lovely food, wine, conversation and gorgeous nieces.
Eventually everyone drove away, but I decided to walk home along the beach. It was such a glorious afternoon.
I was tempted by the Bacchus,
where The Healers were just setting up. I called in, drank more
wine(!), nattered with the band, spoke to a few regulars, and stayed
for set and a half, then walked home. Great day.
12:54:32 AM
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Saturday, busy, after a night of insomnia. I waddled down to Henley Square for a haircut, and a short espresso.
Long rehearsal in the afternoon
with a couple of guys I've never played with before, for a gig
(corporate cocktail party!) Thursday night.
Home for a short snooze, then to the Grange Hotel to be a guest and a musician at a party.
The band was The Dave Taylor Band.
We had last played together six years ago. The party was for the
keyboard player's daughter's 30th birthday. We later found it was also
for the keyboard player's own 60th birthday! The combined ages of this
four piece band I calculate to be 229! At 50, I'm the baby of the group.
We played a short, but powerful
set of party music. It was great to play with these great players
again. Dave is a fantastic front man, and I'd forgotten just how much
energy he puts into performing. One of the reasons the band stopped
working (and never worked often) was because Dave's health didn't cope
well with the pressures he put himself under.
We all had a great time. Talking
to Dave's wife later, far from being concerned that Dave might get the
itch to play again, she pleaded with me to get the band happening
again and get Dave out playing!
She took the line that I believe
myself - musicians don't have friends, they just have people they play
with. When we're not playing together, we don't see each other. She
said that Dave loved us all, but never saw us. Everyone was talking
about starting it up again. I think I had more laughs in this band than
in any other. I think we might just find us some gigs.
I was intending to walk home, but got a lift in the end. It was a great night of laughter, beer and conversation.
12:48:21 AM
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