Feb 5 2009

This is awesome…

I just found out today I’ve been linked by two of my favorite country music blogs, thanks to my recent post about the Buck Owens/Emmylou Harris mp3. Twang Nation’s post is here, and The 9513’s post is here.


Dec 28 2008

My Christmas gift to the interwebs

I’ve searched and searched in vain for an original recording of Buck Owens’ 1979 duet with Emmylou Harris, “Play Together Again Again.” So, I took matters into my own hands (as I did way back in this post). I bought the original 45 single on eBay for 4 bucks (S&H included), and recorded it onto my computer using my handy dandy Numark portable turntable. The sound quality’s not quite remaster quality, but I promise you…it’s the best available on the internet (’cuz I’m the only one that’s got it).

Click on either of the links below to download.

Buck Owens - Play Together Again Again (with Emmylou Harris)
Buck Owens - He Don’t Deserve You Anymore


Dec 10 2008

A haiku.

Last one for the year
Articles late as always
One more all-nighter


Dec 9 2008

Found this in my research for an article about the university archives…

I added the ragtime piano…


Dec 7 2008

Pondering…

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/25/Floridian/First_Amendment_101.shtml

Found this article on the interwebs the other day, and it’s got me thinking. As I understand it, public universities cannot censor student media because they’re funded by the government, even if the student media is supported by the institution (as most small papers, like The University of Charleston Eagle, are).

The law concerning private institutions like UC is fuzzier. As members of the student media at a university that does not recieve government funding, working for a paper that is mostly funded by the university, what are our legal rights?

Let’s say I write a big controversial article that, although not libelous, makes everyone in the administration mad. Could they just shut us down?

Now, I don’t see that happening (I think the last thing the university wants to do is stifle its students’ voices), but what if it did?