Philip Fibiger

Everbody needs a little booty-shakin’ wah-wah guitar on a tuesday! It’s an oldie, but definitely a goodie. The Afghan Whigs, Turn On The Water.
Carry me out, into the ocean
Say me a prayer, lift me over the side.
Untie the boat, turn on the water
I’m gone, i’m gone, i’m gone…it’s all right.

I took Emily to see Bob Mould last night at the El Rey. It was fabulous, here’s the text of my email to the sugar-list:

Went to see Bob play at the El Rey in Los Angeles last night. After spending 23 years in upstate NY, it’s nice to live in a town where people actually [...]

It absolutely and completely blows my mind that this guy isn’t kidding. One has to wonder what accredited university made the mistake of giving him a PhD. Maybe it’s all a big joke? We can only hope. I’m going to post one short excerpt, in case the site goes down.
However, these propagandists aren’t [...]

I saw Janeane Garofalo at the Wiltern theater on saturday night with Emily and our friend Steve. She was really funny, the performance was pretty loose, she was trying out new material. I haven’t seen many comics live (Paula Poundstone when she came to Cornell is the only other one I can think of), and [...]

I’m going to try to make a habit of posting mp3s of songs that I’ve gotten into. I present, for your auditory pleasure, a track from Bob Mould’s new album. The song is called SoundonSound. Every time I listen to it, it makes me want to shout the chorus at the top of my [...]

Here is a really interesting article about a computer scientist in India who has been doing work in minimally invasive education. Essentially he took some computers, embedded them in a concrete wall, and watched street kids who had never seen a computer before learn how to paint, surf the web, play games and download music.
His [...]