{"id":168,"date":"2009-11-12T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/11\/12\/091112_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:44:35","slug":"091112_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/11\/12\/091112_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I entered this work day fully intending to accomplish some worthwhile tasks. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve come to my senses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last night&#8217;s Country Music Awards program is always great fodder for those who contend that The Nashville Machine has crushed the soul out of the genre. They&#8217;re the same people who keep a candle perpetually burning in their homemade shrine to Conway Twitty&#8217;s hair (he <i>is<\/i> dead, isn&#8217;t he?). As for me, while I readily admit to being a fickle fan &#8211; I&#8217;m back in the fold after a years-long fling with, um, everything else &#8211; I also happen to believe that country music has never been in better health, and the music still rises above competing genres in almost every aspect.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">That said, it&#8217;s also completely true that only George Strait knows how to properly pick and wear a hat. (I never did figure out Billy Gibbons&#8217;s headgear&#8230;and I&#8217;m not sure I want to know.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">One of the talking heads on a national morning news program today referred to Nidal Hasan as the &#8220;alleged&#8221; shooter. I couldn&#8217;t figure out how they justified this, but one of my pals on Twitter explained it thusly: &#8220;The &#8220;alleged&#8221; bit was added only after it was learned that he was alive and had retained the services of an attorney.&#8221; I guess scores of eyewitnesses don&#8217;t trump political correctness and legal weasel words.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">One other thing about Hasan has me really confused. How did a guy like that ever make major? That&#8217;s some serious rankage, and his achievement doesn&#8217;t pass the sniff test. Almost seems like the military equivalent of kicking someone upstairs in order to make them someone else&#8217;s problem. Hope I&#8217;m wrong about that.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">For you typeface junkies (surely I&#8217;m not the only one), here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/webdesignledger.com\/freebies\/the-best-free-fonts-of-2009\">&#8220;the best free fonts of 2009.&#8221;<\/a> (Seems a bit premature, considering there&#8217;s still more than a month left in the year, but perhaps font designers have more liberal-than-usual holiday schedules.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">And, finally, even more fontly goodiness, with a trifecta of articles identifying the typefaces used in some of the most widely recognized logos: <a href=\"http:\/\/buildinternet.com\/2009\/07\/fonts-used-in-popular-band-logos\/\">Fonts Used in Band Logos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/buildinternet.com\/2009\/07\/fonts-used-in-logos-of-popular-websites\/\">Fonts Used in Popular Website Logos<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/buildinternet.com\/2009\/11\/more-fonts-used-in-logos-of-popular-websites\/\">More Fonts Used in Popular Website Logos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">In case you&#8217;re wondering (no one&#8217;s ever asked), the font used in the Gazette&#8217;s header is <a title=\"MyFonts.com\" href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/adobe\/itc-mona-lisa\/solid\/\">Mona Lisa Solid ITC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered this work day fully intending to accomplish some worthwhile tasks. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve come to my senses. Last night&#8217;s Country Music Awards program is always great fodder for those who contend that The Nashville Machine has crushed the soul out of the genre. They&#8217;re the same people who keep a candle perpetually burning in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/11\/12\/091112_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}