collisionwork | Jan. 21st, 2008

And a joyous MLK Day to you all.

It's being pretty well covered in the blogosphere in any case, but rather than quote or embed any part of the "I Have a Dream" speech (time, familiarity, and the beauty of MLK's voice and cadences have worn off its prickly edges more than they should), I instead recommend reading the transcript of his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, from April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC -- reprinted in full by Jason Grote at his blog - thanks, Jason, I've never read this in full before, only excerpts.

I also dug this photo from If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger . . ., in their continuing "When Legends Gather" series.

I've been saving a few links of interest; time to unload them, I think:

World's Greatest Guitar Amp Name - if I had $5,000 to drop on a guitar amp . . . I probably still wouldn't get this because I just couldn't fathom spending that kind of money on a guitar amp, but I'd be glad to know it exists out there . . . and it's probably pretty damned good, actually, given the company's rep and so forth.

Over at VetVoice, RockRichard, an NCO currently serving in Afghanistan, writes "An Open Letter to Bill O'Reilly" regarding Mr. O'Reilly's statement that there are no homeless vets (and his corollary that if there are, they're all addicts and it's their own damned fault).

A nice bit of irony, courtesy of Neatorama. Also, from the same site, a steampunk laptop!

And finally . . . since it turns out I missed this yesterday . . .