Holiday weekend, minimal blog:

Theme songs:"The Peace Jukebox plays hours of anti-war music for free. Songs written during the Bush Presidency can be heard as high-quality MP3s, with lyrics, on this ad-free independent website. The Peace Jukebox features anti-war songs by Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Jurassic 5, Public Enemy, Jane's Addiction, The Cure, Ani DiFranco, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Faithless, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Lenny Kravitz, Paris, System of a Down, Propagandhi, Banco de Gaia, Zach de la Rocha, Noam Chomsky... hiphop, rock, punk, acoustic, classical and spoken word...."

I bought a paperback in the grocery store for backyard reading: Map of Bones. Better -- and better written -- than the Da Vinci Code. Cool high-tech toys, sometimes ancient ones. Not Magdelene, but Magi and the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas drive this thriller.

A Prairie Home Companion -- the movie trailer.