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Hope to see you in the new ‘hood,

Erin

I’ve been a little light on the blogging the last few days, because I’m feverishly working to move this blog (that’s right! Move it!) to my own domain with a new host, so I can start playing around with some of the more technical stuff.  I get to do a bit of that at work, but not nearly enough, and if I screw up there, it’s a big problem.  I’m still writing a couple of big posts, and I’m hoping to have the new site at least functional- if not actually attractive and appealing- by the end of this long weekend.

I have a whole bunch of draft posts I’ve been working on… I planned to publish them all tonight, but it’s too freaking HOT to be creative.  And humid.

Anyway, here are the titles of said posts, so y’all can marvel at what you COULD have read:

-The World in Mind

- The Honest Truth

- Transparency, accountability and the Australian Government

- Bill of Rights?

- Why we should accept GITMO detainees…
Stay tuned this weekend for said posts.  Unless it’s this hot again, in which case you’ll only get meditations on the glories of Ice Cream

I have found a new band!  They’re called Frightened Rabbit, and they are more than a little awesome.  I couldn’t find any of the songs I really like with good video, so you’ll have to make do with just the audio for this, Keep Yourself Warm.  The lyrics aren’t mother-friendly (hi Mum!), so I’ll post them after the fold.

My hole, I’ll get my hole, I’ll get my hole
Get my hole, get my hole and I’ll find out more.
It’s a choo-choo train, a rocket launch
If we have a hormone race
i’m bound to finish first.

Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light’s been turned off,
You don’t know know who’s in your bed.

It takes more than fucking someone you don’t know to keep warm.
Do you really think that for a house-beat you’ll find your love in a hole?

Oh, you won’t find love in a,
Won’t find love in a hole.
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm.

I’m drunk, I’m drunk
And you’re probably on pills
If we’ve both got the same diseases
It’s irrelevant girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates disappears
My point of entry is the same way
That I leave

Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light’s been turned off
You don’t know know who’s in your bed.

It takes more than fucking someone you don’t know to keep warm.
Do you really think that for a house-beat you’ll find your love in a hole?

But, you won’t find love in a, won’t find love in a hole.
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm.

You won’t find love in a, won’t find love in a hole.
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself-
SEE in the dark!
Can you see the look in your face?
The flashing white light’s been turned off
You don’t know know who’s in your bed.

It takes more than fucking someone you don’t know
to keep warm
Do you really think that for a house-beat you’ll find your love in a hole?

Via Possum at Crikey comes this very scary series of graphs that shows NSW v. the rest of the Australian economy. While it is explained, to some extent, by the fact that most financial institutions have their hubs in Sydney, it’s still scary.  Our overinflated housing prices can’t help, nor can the fact our state government is basically incompetent.

Scary times.

It’s nice to see that he’s keeping his promise:  Obama called for a 120-day halt to Guantanamo Military commissions within hours of taking office… Link

I listened to My President is Black by Young Jezzy again on the way home, and this bit just really struck me:

When thousands of peoples is riled up to see you
That can arouse ya ego, we got mouths to feed so
Gotta stay true to who you are and where you came from
Cause at the top will be the same place you hang from
No matter how big you can ever be
For whatever fee or publicity, never lose your integrity

Man, it’s a good song.

Mark Schmidt has a fantastic piece in The American Prospect on Obama’s inaugural address, and the shift in his focus from the abstract to the concrete.  It’s online here, and thoroughly worth reading.

My two main Inauguration post probably got lost among all the crap I’ve been posting, so here are links:

This Day

Inauguration Liveblog