A Perfect Ganesh

I hadn't been paying attention to the story about the missing woman (now found) from Des Plaines until I read this paragraph:

Her husband, Dignesh Solanki, had said his wife may have been placing a religious statue in the Des Plaines River on the day she went missing. The statue of the deity Ganesh, revered as the Hindu god of good fortune and wisdom, had broken and a religious leader told them that placing it in the water would ward off bad luck.

I didn't know it's bad luck to break a statue of Ganesh. I broke my statue of Ganesh not long after I acquired it about eight years ago. It's a good thing I'm neither superstitious nor Hindu or else I could have suffered through nearly a decade of bad luck.

Melody Day

Above is the Song of the Year podcast.
Play it loud(ly).

Run time: 1:01:42

A message to Thaksin Shinawatra:



No, you can't return from exile.
Not yours.

alpha charlie bravo extends its warmest, sincerest and not at all ironically tinged holiday wishes to you and your family.

And now a word about what Christmas means to me.
Christmas means... it's time for the Doctor Who special:

I volunteered to help with this last night (mostly to look for the new phone AT&T is shipping me), but I didn't get to go. So instead I made the following promo:




Run Time: 1:00

Sometime next week, I will release my Best Albums of 2007 list in podcast form.

Apparently, there was no official list for 2006, so I'm making one out of a compulsive desire to have everything orderly.

2006:

1) The Decemberists
    The Crane Wife

2) Neko Case
    Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

3) Sufjan Stevens
    The Avalanche

4) The Roots
    Game Theory

5) Beirut
    Gulag Orkestar

6) Midlake
    The Trials of Van Occupanther

7) The Dresden Dolls
    Yes, Virginia

8) The Weepies
    Say I Am You

9) Mission of Burma
    The Obliterati

10)Tapes 'n Tapes
     The Loon