Monthly Archives: February 2012

Tabula Rasa Abracadabra

February 9, 2012 – 7:44 pm

The BBC reported today that Greece will have to accept new conditions for their bailout of 130 Billion Euros and one of which will be austere reductions to the public budget as well as salary reductions in the private sector. The Greek government has been backed into a corner by a debt greater than its […]

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Technicolor Web Of Sound RIP

February 9, 2012 – 6:28 pm

Sadly my favorite internet radio station, Technicolor Web Of Sound has been pulled from the web without an explanation. See this youtube entry Paul is gone. Hopefully he will return from the netherworld to transport us back in time to the era of errors. The Summer of Love. In the meanwhile go to psychedelicjukebox, which […]

By Peter | Posted in 60s, Internet, music | Comments (0)

Superman Of Mud

February 6, 2012 – 4:53 pm

Back in 1990 I traveled around the world on a circumnavigational ticket from New York to LA to Biak to Bali to Jakarta to Sumatra to Penang. From that old port I rode a train north to Surathani and then continued onto Bangkok and farther north to Chiang Mai. I stayed at the Top North […]

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The End Of An Era

February 6, 2012 – 8:18 am

Five Super Bowls appearances resulted in three championships for the New England Patriots during the Belichek-Brady era and both those post-season losses came at the hands of Giants quarterbacked by Eli Manning. Each of those games were decided in the last minute by spectacular passes against a weary secondary and the result in 2012 mirrored […]

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GO PATRIOTS

February 5, 2012 – 12:37 pm

In 2008 I watched the New England Patriots play the New York Giants in Superbowl XLII from halfway around the world in Pattaya. My team had coasted to a 19-0 record and were looking to close out a perfect season. Destiny was thwarted by a late drive in which the Giants QB miraculously connected with […]

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