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I think I first encountered Deva Premal in one of my occasional sweeps of eMusic.com for artists whose descriptions look interesting but whose work I’m not already familiar with. I pick a track here and there for sampling their work at leisure, then go back to buy more of their work as I decide I like them. Deva makes a very good first impression.

When John Dean announced his new book, Conservatives Without Conscience, on the TV news program Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night (transcript), I experienced A Big Jell: a sense of everything coming together to make conservative behavior comprehensible^*.

S and I were half-watching the televised Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood on PBS Sunday night, and then The Wailin’ Jennys came on.

A while back I wrote this to a friend who’s originally from west Texas.

I am, to my surprise, crazy about the instrumental post-rock band Explosions in the Sky (EitS). Do you know of them? They’re from Odessa, TX, which makes me wonder if they might have registered on your radar sooner. (Now they’re in Austin.)

“We need a way to seek the healing of the world.”

This entry written in, and posted from, Mac OS X über-text editor TextMate, using Brad Choate’s Blogging bundle.

I’ve been aiming for this high-five moment for a couple of weeks, but I kept getting http-proxy-related (I think) Ruby errors when I tried any network activity. I’m not sure why it’s suddenly working now. Probably a fix in the constantly updated cornucopia of text-editing goodness that is the TextMate bundles repository. Part of the problem was the little RPC bug Horst identified, and part was messed-up passwords in my keychain.