Recent Posts Tagged With 'offtopic'

• Our 100,000th spam comment

  Posted on Wednesday July 16th, 2008 at 08:26 in offtopic, tweedblog

  This blog hit a milestone this morning, when we logged our 100,000th spam comment. I’d like to thank all Canadian pharmacies, insatiably randy teens wanting to meet you, and purveyors of nude Lindsay Lohan pix for helping us reach this monument...

• The Great Driver Has No Cash reuinion

  Posted on Thursday May 22nd, 2008 at 09:26 in offtopic, tweedblog, generalmusic, champaign urbana

  If you lived in Champaign Urbana in the early 1990s, you likely remember Driver Has No Cash, a trio featuring amplified ukulele, toy drums, and the melodious vocals of Frank Gill. If you feel like spending a few moments wallowing in the gloriousness ...

• Another impressive byline for our liner notes writer

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 14:56 in offtopic, tweedblog, just a spoonful

  Alexander Gelfand, author of the liner notes to our nearly-out-of-print first record has scored another impressive byline. A few months after publishing his first piece in a scrappy east coast daily called the ‘New York Times’, Alexander ...

• Listen to Paul’s WBEZ appearance online

  Posted on Friday December 21st, 2007 at 12:51 in offtopic, tweedblog, wbez, paul wargaski

  You can hear a recording of Paul’s appearance on WBEZ’s 848 program, preparing his winning Krafty Kontest recipe, on WBEZ’s website: ChicagoPublicRadio.com Our ‘Draggin’ the Bow’ (from our second album) closes the ...

• Tweed Bassists Wins WBEZ Recipe Contest

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 16:25 in offtopic, tweedblog, wbez

  Tune your dial to 91.5fm Thursday (or possibly Friday) at 9AM. Several weeks ago WBEZ’s morning show 848 anounced a recipe contest which required the use of A-1 steak sauce, Toblerone chocolate and Grey Puopon Mustard. This was a challenge I ...

• Lenny Bruce on the Steve Allen show

  Posted on Saturday December 15th, 2007 at 21:22 in offtopic, tweedblog

  So much of the available footage of Lenny is from his last years, when he looked and sounded worn down from his legal troubles and drug abuse. It’s a rare treat to see him younger and sharper in this Steve Allen Show appearance. If you’ve...

• On our own, finally

  Posted on Saturday November 17th, 2007 at 00:41 in offtopic, bad web hosts, spry.com sucks

  We are no longer at the mercy of Spry.com. This website is now running on its own dedicated server. Excelsior! Music-related posts will resume tomorrow. ...

• More problems with SPRY.com

  Posted on Thursday November 15th, 2007 at 11:02 in offtopic, spry.com sucks

  I’ve complained in the past about our web host, Spry.com. Pages have been slow to load, email messages have taken an eternity to be delivered, and problems that a reasonably well-trained monkey could fix have lingered for way too long. And then...

• Site outage

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 09:53 in offtopic, bad web hosts, spry.com sucks

  Our site was offline this morning because someone at our web host, Spry.com, messed up permissions on the server. It only takes a few seconds to run a chmod on a Unix box to make things right, but it took the folks at Spry.com waaaaaaaaay to long to ...

• New: posts with taggy goodness

  Posted on Sunday November 11th, 2007 at 15:33 in offtopic, tweedblog, site administration

  We’ve upgraded the site to the most recent version of WordPress, 2.3.1., which has native support for tagging. New posts will have tags listed just under the title. You can click on a tag to find similar posts. For example clicking on the Old-T...