Apple – iBook G4: out now. Ships with Panther. Base $1099.
Can you say “G5 Powerbooks”? I knew you could.
Steamboats
More Twain-related links for my own satisfaction. I’m currently completing “Life on the Mississippi” and figured I should supplement my imagination and Twain’s recollections with hard links.
Regarding “Life on the Mississippi,” two passages have stood out. In one, Twain modestly describes the peculiar experience of seeing a steamer named after him. He’s writing in the 1880’s, and it’s interesting to me that his steamboating past was sufficiently celebrated prior to his fact-gathering voyages for the book I’m reading now that his former colleagues saw fit to honor him in such wise.
In the other he describes the loss of his younger brother Henry in a steamboat’s boiler explosion. The passage held special meaning for me; there was a certain inevitability in his matter-of-fact recounting of the loss that I comprehended over a century-and-a-half’s distance.
Steamboats.org (employs the word “Steamboatin’!”)
Putt Putt Boats: Steam powered toy boats.
Calvin and Co.
SJ noted a few days ago that Calvin Johnson of K Records and various influential indie bands such as Beat Happening and the current Dub Narcotic Sound System was in an auto accident recently.
K Records has updates and info about benefits, as, of course, the musicians’ insurance is limited to nonexistent.
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No, we don’t need universal health-care – why, when independent musicians get hurt badly enough to require hospital time, a few benefits can raise as much as a couple thousand dollars!
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