I haven’t had the chance to check back in a while and all of a sudden I see my blog has evolved into a chat room for the band Ministry! I guess that’s a credit to the dynamic, almost virus-like nature of blogs. My understanding, as an official baccalaurean of the fine and performing arts, was that Ministry was retiring, yet the band was recently nominated for a Grammy for its remix of “Under My Thumb” from the “Cover Up” album. The 2009 Grammy Awards will be broadcast February 8th on CBS. It might be one of the last TV shows that you get to watch using your rabbit-ear antennas, as the FCC is forcing all full-power TV stations to switch to digital signals by February 17th (UPDATE: Congress has now changed the switchover date to June 12th by way of the DTV Delay Act). It wont be long before they force radio stations to switch to digital as well. Check out this document from the FCC about the Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) Transition.