Internet radio needs your help!

Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora, needs your help. Please call Senators Burr and Dole today and urge them to support the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 so that great online music sources such as Pandora can continue to thrive. It might not hurt to remind them that their pal Jesse Helms supported Internet radio.

I just called and I hope you will, too. Below is Tim’s email:

Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora;

Today, thanks to the extraordinary support of many Pandora listeners, we took a giant step forward when the House of Representatives supported Pandora and Internet radio and passed the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. Now we need your help so that the Senate will pass it also – and quickly… The finish line is in sight!

After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. The legislation would give us the extra time we need to finalize the deal.
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Lakehouse fun

We spent the day yesterday visiting the Naylors at their lakehouse. It was a fun, relaxing day, with a nice cool breeze and lots of laughter. Alas, it ended all too soon.

Got a busy week with a few PRGAB events and other things going on. How is it that tomorrow is the last day of September?

Savannah Fare You Well

Savannah Fare You Well
By Hugh Prestwood

There is something in the wind tonight
Some kind of change of weather
Somewhere some devil’s mixing fire and ice
together
I got a feeling that the dark side of the moon
is one the rise
Black as a crow’s feather

Now I could stay another day or two
But what’s the use of stalling
Deep in the winter even holdout leaves
start fallin’
Lately every night above the declarations
of our love
I hear the road callin’
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Missing the stage

This weekend when I was goofing around I began to speak in a commanding voice, declaring with mock seriousness that I would do something ordinary like take the trash out.

“You’re missing your training,” Kelly observed with a smile. “You need a class to teach.”

She was right. I hadn’t had any real “showtime” since my last job, where I would do a demo almost every day or conduct training once a month. While I don’t miss doing demos, I do miss being in front of a crowd and performing.
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Time for a history lesson, Joe?

Yeah, I know I’m a Democrat, but I gotta admit that Joe Biden said something really dumb in an interview with Katie Couric the other day:

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, “look, here’s what happened.”

Roosevelt on television in 1929. Um, yeah. Joe obviously wasn’t paying attention in college.

Whoa

I walked out of the house wearing shorts and all ready to take Hallie to school. After 10 seconds outside I realized what a dumb idea this was and returned to get some jeans.

Fall is definitely here, folks, brought to you by 30 MPH gusts.