Porch Blogging - Holiday Special

Happy Halloween!

- Mr. Ed

Tunetastic Tuesday Three!

My, it's getting so very tunetastic these tuesdays, don't you find? I know you do. Well in keeping with that theme, this week, we have the meoldious truckin' ways of Bonnie "Prince" Billy. He's going to be singing a little number called Horses from the masterpiece that is Greatest Palace Music.



Truckin' on,

-Mr. Ed

Update
If you liked that song and crave a little more Billy-based goodness then whey not have a listen to his Ohio Riverboat Song (not the Greatest Palace version, mind you).

Attack of the Giant Kitten!

Simon investigates the Kitchen...

Trot-tastic tunes

My mate Erik put me on to this most horsey website - daytrotter, which allows you to listen to and download songs from some great indie and alt. country artists. Why not trot over there today? I just downloaded some great tunes from a session that Bonnie Prince Billy recorded for them. Good music, free music - P Clubbers likey!

- Mr. Ed

Clearing the blog back-log

Ahoj - so many news, but where to start? Well, the Cardinals won game five of the world series and clinched their tenth world series title and the first in 24 years.


Photo ~ Huy Richard Mach/P-D via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

And in other news, Steinbrenner got a six week-old orange kitten. His name is Simon, and he is the fuckingcutestthingontheplanet.





And there's more to come but I think we'll start a new post...

-Mr Ed

Update: I fixed the fuckingcutestthingontheplanet link, sorry about that.

Tune-tastic Tuesday Two

Recently, I picked up the new (and super-fab) Beck Album, The Information. In what cynics might dismiss as a lame gimmick, he made a video for every song on the album. They're available individuallly on itunes (at a rather hefty price) or on a bonus CD that comes with the album. Of course, they're all over yoututbe now too. So, here's one of my favourite tunes from The Information, Nausea.



Rock on.

-Mr. Ed

More Baseball.

But first an update on the cricket.
England lost again. Shame, really.

Moving on...
Here's a report from the Beeb about last night's game, which the Cards won handily.

Image from BBC Sport.
Tonight's game starts in roughly 7 of our earth minutes - exciting! Just in case there are any Pony Clubbers out there that can't watch the game but want to follow it live on the web; Lorne Manly (don't call him a sissy!) will be live blogging the game at the Bats Blog over at the NYT. Just click the link and refresh every few minutes.

I know no one really cares.

- Mr. Ed

It's Just Not Cricket

Didn't understand a word of that last Blog Mr Ed. Not quite getting your banter old boy.

Tigers - Cardinals World Series!

Well, they did it, and what a game it was. Honourable mentions go to Jeff Suppan, who pitched 8 great innings and Jim Edmonds, who was denied a home-run in the sixth after some magical fielding by Chavez. It was a really tight game; tied 1-1 until the bottom of the ninth inning. Then, with one out and a man on first, Yadier Molina hit a two-run homer and the Cardinals were just three outs away from winning. Though, getting those outs would tun out to be anything but easy. The relief pitcher, Wainwright, walked the lead off batter and and the crowd at Shea Stadium smelled blood. A few pitches later and the Cardinals were really sweating - the Mets had the bases loaded, two outs and their star batter, Beltran, was at the plate. It went to a full count before Wainwright threw a devilish breaking ball and Beltran didn't even swing*.

The 3-1 victory in game 7 earns them a place in the World Series against the American League's Detroit Tigers. Game one is in Detroit on Saturday night.

- Mr. Ed

Update:
Here's a good round-up from the NYT.

Correction:
*I had said that Beltran swung, that was incorrect. Is 'swung' even a word?

Around town:

An indie-fabulous night out, in a few words but mainly pictures.

Last night was the grand re-opening of 52.5, my favourite chuckton record store. You can vist them on the web-ternet at corporaterocksucks.com.



Later the the Chimney Sweeps played at Cumberlands, ably supported by Run Dan Run and Steve Fiore.







Our newest Pony Club member, Baby Bird, was there too and she was wearing a pony dress!

Fun fun fun.

- Mr. Ed

Never Mind the Nostradamus...

Here's the Frankie Howerd. It appears that Frankie had the "coalition" pegged for likely problems in Mess-o-potamia as long ago as 1973- as you can see by pressing here. This makes him, by my reckoning, a better predictor of all things coming then the old Frenchman with the candle and the feather. Unfortunately it seems that neither London nor Washington are big fans of Superfrank.

It all started so nicely with Up Pompeii! (except for Pompeii obviously). As long as there isn't a third series out there (oh, the classic trilogy- so very Howerd- although with his Carry On roots who knows where it could end- ooh, I say...) as long as there isn't a third series called something like Bother, Meteor! or Ooh Nurse, Armageddon! Has anyone googled any of these possibilities? On the other hand, maybe don't...

-nervously, (stable door firmly bolted), Bluecupboard

It's getting exciting

What do you mean, "what's getting exciting?" The National League Championship Series, of course!
Tonight the Mets failed to rein in the Cardinal's offence, and were let down by their own, even after they had stormed the Cardinals 5-12 in game four. The turning point came in the fourth inning, when Albert Pujols Photo left from ABC Sports - yes, very funny, that's right, it is pronounced poo-holes - hit a home-run off the Met's star pitcher Tom Glavine Up to that point, Glavine hadn't given up a run in twenty innings. It all unravelled for the Mets after that. Tomorrow is game 6 - back at Shea Stadium. If the Cardinals win, they'll have booked their ticket to the first game against the Detroit Tigers, in the World Series*.

- Mr. Ed



*Not actually a 'world series' per se, or any se, for that matter. A 'planetary' level of satisfaction, derived from sitting through twenty-odd hours of baseball, is not guaranteed. All haircuts are 'for real' and, yes, we know how backwards and 'po-dunk' this makes the sport look. Seriously - don't get us started on 'dip'. That's just nastiness.

Tune-tastic Tuesday #1

Yes, that's right folks, it's finally here - Welcome to tune-tastic Tuesday! This week we've got a real treat in store, why, it's Jens Lekman!



Admittedly it's a a bit of a 'warts and all'* rendition of Black Cab. Mind you, after the dodgy low singing he sorts it out, and that song, in just a few months, has jumped right up into my all time faves list.

Scandinavally,

- Mr. Ed

*Mad love going out to Mr. Shepard (Shepherd?) and The A-level History Krewe.

So long CBGB

(Photo from notkin.net)

The iconic lower Manhattan club which launched the likes of Patti Smith and The Ramones has closed it's doors for the last time. Read more in the NYT here (Free - but registration required).


- Mr. Ed

Update: Here's more on the closure of CBGBs from The Onion.

Long time no leprechaun...

There. Isn't that better. A lovely leprechaun. I was going to go with "long time no leprosy" or just "long time no leper", but I somehow felt the images might, well, you know...
Never to worry, more from the stable soon...

-Bluecupboard

p.s. I was going to say "the images might have been missing a certain 'je ne sais quois'", but then it occurred to me that this might be a Bad Thing to say, so I put it down here instead.

Sunny day

I went out for a walk to enjoy the lovely weather we've been having here in Charlesville. Along the way I took some pictures of my 'hood. It's nice - I like.











-Mr. Ed

So long souful saturday

Just a quick programming note, henceforth the Soulful Saturday series will be discontinued. Fear not though, youtube music joy will continue to appear because Tune-tastic Tuesdays are coming soon to a Pony Club near you.

Yippee Skippy,

- Mr. Ed

It's no baloney...

and it ain't a pony! It's just a wierd flash animation thing that, despite my better instincts, I find quite amusing. Ever get a really annoying song stuck in your head for days on end? Well then don't click here.

Beinvenue Bernard

I've been holding off posting about Bernard until I could get a proper photo of him. He's very shy you see, so every time I spot him, he spots me, and proceeds to run for the nearest hiding place - and there are quite a few of those in his terrarium. All in all though, he seems to have settled in quite well. He's eating lots of crickets, which is good, and he's shitting, which is also good, if slightly harder to get excited about. It's still quite warm during the day here in South Cackolacky, but the last few nights it's been getting down to around 10 or 15C. As far as I'm concerned, it makes a welcome change to turn off the AC and sleep with my windows open, but it seems Bernard is less keen because I keep finding him trying to stay cozy, curled up by his lamp, in the morning. Anyway, here are a few photos of Bernard's habitat and the best two photos I've managed to get of him so far. He a little tricky to spot but just look for the stripey tail.










More updates when he does something other than basic bodily functions and/or running away and hiding.

- Mr. Ed

PS
Yes eagle-eyed readers, his lamp is a lava lamp base turned upside down.

PPS
I rather like the painting too, thank you. It was my bruv wot done it, innit.

Long time no leopard

There, that's better.

Normal Bloggery will resume shortly. Oh, and that bullshit post about David Brooks, that had to go. Now it's like it never existed!* If only real life had a delete post feature. Anywho, no more lameness, on with the P Club, and from here on in, I promise only the best quality bloggage.

- Mr. Ed

* Well, I suppose it's in a google cache somewhere - they save everything, right? Bugger.

Indian Summer Over

Just when we had forgotten what minging weather was, the trusty south westerly lashing wind & rain kicks off. As October arrived so did this mo'fo'! Not all extreme weather happens in South Cackalacky you know. This was a little bit too close for comfort.

- Scout