The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Thanks to everyone for helping me troubleshoot my RSS feed. I wasn’t expecting so many responses!

However, all those responses suggest that a number of you are actually here for some actual reading material

as opposed to calls for debugging assistance. That’ll have to wait

until later this evening; I’m working on a number of ambitious projects

that have kept me too busy to blog at work (which The Powers That Be here don’t mind, as long as it’s within reason).

In the meantime, here’s a chance for you to give your powers of

creativity a workout. Consider this page from a “Liberal Agenda”…

Hmmm….shouldn’t there be something scheduled for 4:20?

What items would appear on its counterpart, the “Conservative Agenda”? Post your ideas in the comments.

(And come to think of it, as this person

put it, why doesn’t the agenda above simply book the entire day under

the item “Serve as the critical half of a fake dichotomy?”)

[Update at end of article]

If so, I need you help trying to solve a little problem here. I’ve

received a few emails telling me that my RSS feed is showing only the

titles of my entries. This seems to be the case on the Mac, but not

Windows.

If you can, could you please look at my RSS feed and report in the

comments what platform you’re using, what you’re using to view the RSS

feed and whether you see whole articles or just the titles? Thanks.

Update:

It looks as though there’s a problem with the RSS feeds for a number of

Blogware-based blogs. The Blogware team’s looking into it right now.

Hopefully, they’ll be able to resolve the issue soon.

In the attached video featuring a DEA officer talking about guns [1.9

MB, Windows Media, attachment], you know something bad is about to

happen when he utters the line “I’m the only one in this room

professional enough to handle a firearm”. Still, I think he makes an

excellent point (even if not quite in the way he intended) and he earns big kudos for continuing with the lecture.

Bonus: here’s the Orlando Sentinel story behind the video.

Here’s a treat for you Star Wars fans: The Continuing Adventures of Benjamin Kenobi, Space Knight of the Future! is a trailer for the upcoming Revenge of the Sith

— if it had been made as part of one of those old black-and-white

sci-fi serials in the 1950’s. It uses footage from the trailer for

Revenge of the Sith with the colour removed, overlaid with retro trailer graphics, a cheesy

Republic/RKO pictures score and funny 50s-ish reworkings of the characters,

such as :

• Sammy Jackson Jnr. as Negro Space Knight!
• Boris McDiarmivoch as Dr. Sidious, Evil Sith Lord from Mars!
• …and introducing Harry Chryshner as Faithful Sidekick, Kit Skyranger…or is he?
• Battles using the Space Kinghts’ weapon: the indestructible Lazer-Sword™!

It’s about 7 MB and in QuickTime format.

(This could get popular, so I’m linking to the file using the YouSendIt

service for now. I’ll set up a torrent later. If you can, please share

this file on your weblog!)

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