Josh McHugh

NYT on Oscar Pistorius

The NYT catches up with Oscar Pistorius at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England.

Link: An Amputee Sprinter: Is He Disabled or Too-Abled? - New York Times.

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The Blowing My Skirt Up

There's a great band I somehow just found out about yesterday while listening to WOXY internet radio. The band is The Blow, of Portland, Oregon. In the last 24 hours I have probably made the mistake I usually make when I fall in love with a sound: too much of a good thang.

Link: The Blow - Paper Television.

Drug Test Cowboy Coverage

The human guinea pigs story got some solid coverage on Metafilter.

Also, I was a guest on a segment of NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday.

Rockin' Off, or, What I've Been Missing by Staying Away from Baltimore

First, I saw a link to the much-talked-about Perculator, combined with the Wu-Tang. That led me to rockin' off/the Spongebob. And lastly, and leastly, the Aunt Jackie.