Performances recorded at Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood’s Madison Square Garden concerts of February 2008 are scheduled to be released 19 May on CD and on DVD. If this clip of “Forever Man” is any indication, it will be great. These guys rock pretty good for geezers.

Each release will include two discs, and the DVD [...]

A few hours ago this comment was left at my recent post, “Swine flu hits Windsor, Nova Scotia”, by someone who gave the name “ryan gilby”:
I THINK THIS IS HORRIBLE!! im infected to but no one knows
Just hilarious.
StatCounter provides more information on the joker’s identity. (Click on image below for larger view.) [...]

Horrific news of an outrageous incident of official persecution against Christians in Egypt has arrived from Assyrian International News Agency.
On the morning of Sunday, 26 April, hundreds of Egyptian State Security officers demolished a service building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church.  When news of the attack was disseminated to local Christians, people gathered at [...]

Twitter channel @DelaraDarabi is reporting that Delara Darabi was hanged early this morning at Iran’s Rasht prison. Delara was condemned to death for an alleged crime committed when she was 17 and spent over five years on death row.
Despite the fact that Iran has signed two international agreements forbidding capital punishment for crimes committed [...]

The collect for today, The Feast of Saint Philip and Saint James the Apostles with Saint James the Brother of the Lord Martyr, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
O Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, [...]