American Cliche #103 [28:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download podPressPlayerToLoad(‘podPressPlayerSpace_216’, ‘mp3Player_216_0’, ‘300:30’, ‘http://americancliche.net/podpress_trac/play/216/0/americancliche-67657-06-26-2007.mp3’);
I’m back in Santa Barbara. I had a rocky trip back home on American Airlines, and will do my best not to fly them in the future, but they kind of have you over a barrel. At last I [...]

This is a great article from the Washington Post. Here is an excerpt:

Across the board, the vice president’s office goes to unusual lengths to avoid transparency. Cheney declines to disclose the names or even the size of his staff, generally releases no public calendar and ordered the Secret Service to destroy his visitor logs. His [...]

No idea if this is real or not, but damn, it is funny.

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 American Cliche #102 [34:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download podPressPlayerToLoad(‘podPressPlayerSpace_213’, ‘mp3Player_213_0’, ‘300:30’, ‘http://americancliche.net/podpress_trac/play/213/0/americancliche-66331-06-19-2007.mp3’);
This week I’m on the road in Bedford, NH visiting my family. It’s been a steady mix of work and family time, and I’m having a great time. My Mom and stepdad, Joe, stopped in halfway through and listened [...]

I stumbled upon this homemade video for Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta.” It is really well done and made me smile.

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You knew it was coming… Meet “The Walnuts.”

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 American Cliche #101 [36:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download podPressPlayerToLoad(‘podPressPlayerSpace_210’, ‘mp3Player_210_0’, ‘300:30’, ‘http://americancliche.net/podpress_trac/play/210/0/americancliche-65331-06-12-2007.mp3’);
5:40 PM:

Now that we’ve put to rest the first 100 shows, it’s time to try and refresh a bit – nothing drastic, just small changes to keep things interesting. This week the whole gang is here and in fine [...]

I spent the day at the Big Dogs Parade in Santa Barbara, CA with my friends Todd & Cheryl. Dogs in costumes and dressed as humans – you know you wanna watch! I warn you now though – it’s pretty much a giant doggie music video! Click the picture to watch video.

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 American Cliche #100 [29:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download podPressPlayerToLoad(‘podPressPlayerSpace_208’, ‘mp3Player_208_0’, ‘300:30’, ‘http://americancliche.net/podpress_trac/play/208/0/americancliche-64256-06-05-2007.mp3’);
I can barely hear you over all the fanfare, but yes, we finally reached episode 100. In this episode we reach back to Brian and Jason’s first contributions, I talk about how frustrating it is not to be able [...]

I just received this email:

From: “hacked.by.yeknom@podshow.com” 10:12 am (2 minutes ago)
Reply-to: k.ostrowski@podshow.com
To: theamericancliche(at)gmail.com
Date: Jun 5, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: HACKED!
Mailed-by: podshow.com

podshow.com got HACKED by yeknom!

Their homepage looks fine. I checked our show files on their servers and they appear OK. So it appears as maybe there is some sort of [...]