saturn return to sender

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

- Douglas Adams

CRW_3081

I’m setting up my little “recording studio” in my room and the neighboring storage room in my new house.

Somewhere in all the wiring, I’ve managed to create an antenna tuned to an Indian Bhangra radio station. Weirdly, one of my microphones picks it up more than the other. I mean, I switch out everything else and it comes down to, whereever I move the microphone in my audio lines, that’s where the radio station is. I have a second, identical mic that doesn’t pick up the radio as strongly. Shit. It’s only audible when the pre is up around +50db, but shit.

The good news is I have a weakness for a little sub-continental flavor in my productions anyway. I guess I don’t even have to try now.

In a related item, I’m perilously close to buying Arular. I’m not a big fan of dance music that’s not hip-hop, and then I rarely buy it anyway, but there is something kind of infectious about this stuff.

Also, I took this picture of a statue of Shiva yesterday at the Denver Art Museum. I don’t remember the date, but it was pretty old. Between 1000 and 1500 CE, or something.

I wanted to stop looking at these, but I couldn’t.

Mr. Rove’s allies have emphasized that, according to an e-mail message Mr. Cooper sent to his bureau chief, Mr. Rove did not use Ms. Wilson’s name in the conversation or mention her undercover status, but referred to her only as Mr. Wilson’s wife, who worked at the C.I.A.

- Bush Says He Will Withhold Judgement on Rove Inquiry - New York Times

Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent’s intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

- Title 50, Chapter 15, Subchapter IV, Section 421 of U.S. Code, emphasis mine

I am not a lawyer, and I am only assuming this is the applicable bit of law, but it does not seem to leave much room for interpretation. Other issues in this case aside, the law does not care if you identify an agent by name or not.

“We just don’t hold those working at the closest and highest levels to the president to a criminal standard and say, ‘If you have not committed a crime, show up for work tomorrow morning,’ ” [senator Richard Durbin] said.

- New York Times, ibid

Sigh. If only this were true.