http://blog.estimatedprophet.org Musings on politics, entertainment, science, technology, culture and beyond... Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:03:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continuing my recap of Furthur's summer tour, here's my review of last night's show at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: First Set: The show opens with a sweet little jam which leads seamlessly into Feel Like A Stranger. Stranger is very loose and open--this is going to be a ... http://blog.estimatedprophet.org/?p=23 For those of you who don't know, Furthur is a band composed of former Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Dark Star Orchestra (the preeminent Grateful Dead cover band) lead guitarist John Kadlecik, veteran The Dead and Ratdog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, and Bay Area drummer Joe Russo. ... http://blog.estimatedprophet.org/?p=22 Blogging is hard.  Well, not exactly, but it's much harder to find the time to maintain this blog than I had expected.  That is why it has been three weeks since I posted the first part of my top ten movies of 2009 list (the list was finished some time ... http://blog.estimatedprophet.org/?p=14 I had promised myself that I would get this list posted on New Years Eve, but things have just been way too hectic. Overall, 2009 has been a pretty good year for movies.  We've seen quirky comedies about Manhattan misanthropes (Whatever Works) and British DJs (Pirate Radio), long-awaited adaptations of classic ... http://blog.estimatedprophet.org/?p=7 I've been promising everyone a blog ever since I redesigned my website last Fall (Fall 2008, that is), and now it's finally here.  It's not that launching this blog was really so very difficult, it's more that whenever I would go to do it something else would always come up.  ... http://blog.estimatedprophet.org/?p=6