So a looooong time ago I wrote a little piece with my opinion on a lawsuit filed by some folks here at my school about something or the other. Long story short, it got settled to (I assume) the conclusion of most of the parties involved.

In the meanwhile my webmaster OJ would tell me that he was steady getting emails from someone who was complaining about the entry and wanted it removed.

Today he forwarded me one of the emails, turns out it’s a person who knows me….was in SEVERAL procedures with me when I did my anesthesia rotation and quite a few other times…was cordial to me and acted as if there wasn’t some issue between us. I literally had NO IDEA that this chick was holding on to this shit.

Not only that, the issue is several years old…and if I’m to understand the email it only comes up when they search for their name in google or something. I never mentioned this person by name (nor will I ever).

This is a public notice…if I post something you don’t like TELL ME. Don’t send threatening emails to other people and go about it in a round about ass way.

I deleted that post, just because…I mean if I can just delete a post as opposed to keep dealing with the whims of crazy people then that’s what I’ll do…but man…come on son!

Argh!

(taken from a facebook note)

This is a bit of a spoiler for those of you who haven’t seen Wall-E, but if you ever wanted to know what the musical landscape looked like, it’d be Wall-E’s future. Full of garbage being boxed and piled up. One terrible album after another coming out. A big pile of garbage and amidst it all tucked away is a single sign of life, Vampire Weekend.

Vampire Weekend’s sophomore effort “Contra” not only manages to avoid the sophomore slump, it may even be BETTER than their debut. A few more listens will be required to OFFICIALLY come to that conclusion, but suffice it to say that the initial impression is VERY favorable.

Ezra Koenig and company have managed to create a new album that has enough of their signature sound for you to recognize it on first listen, and yet creative and fresh enough that it doesn’t sound like a retread of the previous effort.

From the first track “Horchata”, to the end, their signature style continues to grow and blossom, in a musical landscape that seems to trend toward the stagnant and retreading.

The standout track from the album is “Giving Up The Gun” which is probably destined for overplay on trendy college radio podcasts as well as top 40 radio.