Them!

One of the settings on the Long Range Acoustic Weapons deployed at the G20

sounds just like the ants from Them! (1954)

whose sounds were taken from recordings of the bird-voiced treefrog.

Or, you know, a car alarm.

Financial Advice

Me: “Hey, how do I get some of this Obama money floating around?”

Economist at the Federal Reserve: “Be too big to fail.”

Spreading My Tentacles

I’ll be blogging over here for the next few months, along with my classmates, as part of the seminar I’m taking on Popular Music in the Americas. You can check out the syllabus here.