Flight of the Conchords

Thanks to BT for pointing out this hysterical new HBO show to me. These parts could have been played by the boys from WEEN.

Hysterical!

Dolores has hair

Remember this girl? Did you ever say “Hey, she looks pretty good - for a girl with a boy haircut. Wonder what she’d look like with long hair?”

Here ya go: (She’s back with a new solo effort that’s pretty darn good)

Vanity Fair covers Africa

Read the Stories at VanityFair.com

Triathletes for Africa logo unveiled…and Triathlete Magazine publishes a piece about us

Thanks to Brian Williams for the great work.

You can find the Triathlete Magazine story HERE

Triathletes For Africa

TFA on myspace

My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper

Also affectionantly know as “The Hands Song” by Izzy Figurehead. It’s her current favorite. Visit the new site at Triathletes For Africa.

I’m still alive (actually more alive than ever) - just preoccupied

My loyal Figureheads, I apologize for my long absences. My attention has been directed to my new project:

Triathletes For Africa

 I’m not completely giving up on The Figurehead just yet though. I’ll be posting here occasionally.

Charles Taylor’s War Crimes Trial begins Monday

The former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, will go on trial for war crimes beginning tomorrow at the Hague. Taylor played a key role in the bloody civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone by backing and supplying the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) as a means of destablizing the Sierra Leone government.

After reading Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone, I for one hope Taylor is convicted and sentenced to a fate similar to those met by the child soldiers of Sierra Leone.

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Now, let’s round up Joseph Kony and his LRA cronies in Uganda.