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Monday, February 16, 2004

I had heard just a few bass thumps from Viktor Krauss when I immediately decided he was great. The best bassists don’t usually get noticed, they are just the guys who pour the foundations, not build the skyscrapers - but if they suck (excuse mixed metaphor here) then everything quickly goes to Hooverville via the 1,000 flushes freeway.   If they’re good, everybody else sounds better – and plays better too. Even Viktor Krauss could not rescue Graham Nash’s horrid and syrupy Songs For Survivors, but he did cut a mean bass line that caught my attention. Now he’s caught NPR’s attention. I’ll post a link to the audio after it shows up around 7:30. Yes, he is Allison Krauss’s bro. 6:25:48 PM    comment []

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow   Wish I had my camera with me about an hour after this was snapped. The bright early morning sun and the snowy decorations were breathtaking. Check out the comment to my frozen rhododendron picture by Althaea – great Tennessee morning snow! Or better still, see it at her website.   5:59:18 PM    comment []

First some links – sausage links. Of all places, from Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. The area east of Austin was settled by Germans, who brought their recipes with them and, bless 'em, kept right on grinding. This article, The Texas Sausage Circuit, features a map and a tour. The famous Elgin sausage is featured, but so are a lot of smaller operations. I want to go there on a sausage tour.   Next up, the world’s best Real Estate blog has moved. It’s not that much about real estate, it’s about life, links, love, and some other things I forget right now. The move was pointed out to me in an email from Hanan Levin. I’m glad for that, I’d forgotten how much fun is to be found at grow-a-brain: Here’s Hanan’s announcement:   Hello there,   As you may or may not know, our websites www.growabrain.net and  www.TheGreatTeam.com disappeared about 3 weeks ago from the server, due to a hosting company's problem. It was a major disappointment to us, and probably also to some of the 250,000 readers who came to visit our blog last year. This forced us to hurry up with the web-upgrade that we were planning to do. I wanted to let you know that the new site is now online and even though it's still a "work in progress", it's beautiful! Please re-visit us at the new location, www.growabrain.net and bookmark its new address . Hanan Levin, Super Realtor / Blogger Finally, a nice surprise while looking at the Salon Blogs updates page: A blog called seeingToledo. “Probably Spain,” I thought, thinking about my cyberbud runswithscissors. But when I got there, it was unmistakably Toledo, Ohio – one of my favorite cities. Golly, he has breaking news of the crane collapse there. Something familiar about the blog number…hmmm…Holy Toledo! (I love saying that!), it’s The Agora. I never knew Douglas lived in Toledo. What’s more, he has a link to ToledoBloggers.com. I’m gonna spend some time there. Also enjoyed seeing a link to Worms Of Endearment on Douglas’ blog. That is Amy Stewart’s wonderful blog about worms and her book tour. (The Earth Moved).   One more: I've pretty much given up linking to newspaper articles because of passwords, cookies, and limited availability. Now Kevin Drum (yes, CalPundit, notorious for his recent work on GWB's National Guard duty) has shown us a way to link to NYT articles so the links still work weeks later. Thanks for everything, Kevin. 5:14:17 PM    comment []