Gratuitous Video Feed
YouTube hosts this little gem, supposedly the only remaining video from Elvis Costello’s first TV appearance (must be from Granada TV ‘77, then). He’s all alone with the reverb cranked on his signature Fender Jazzmaster, and his voice, acquired taste though it be, is thoroughly affecting. The song is “Alison,” perhaps his prettiest melody.
Compare it [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
And any thing that may not misbecome
The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.” –Henry V, 2.4.117-19
Gratuitous Video Feed
From YouTube, here’s a lovely Chapman Stick rendition of Jethro Tull’s “Wond’ring Aloud.”
Contrast it with some genuine Tull from the same era: a promo video for “Life’s a Long Song.”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?” –All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.1.44-45
RIP Ralph Reed
Reed lost decisively to Casey Cagle in Georgia’s primary elections. Here’s hoping that the final entries in Reed’s Wikipedia article are a list of convictions. To paraphrase Simon Cameron, Reed is the lowest sort of corrupt politician: once bought, he doesn’t stay bought.
It could only happen to a nicer guy.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“The devil speed him! no man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.” –Henry VIII, 1.1.52-53
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Get thee glass eyes; and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.” –King Lear, 4.6.172-74
Ralph Redux
Ralph Reed, in last night’s debate with his Republican rival Casey Cagle, blamed his clients for the money-laundering:
Cagle pointed to a recent U.S. Senate investigation, and a federal lawsuit filed last week filed by an Indian tribe in Texas accusing Abramoff, Reed and others of closing its casino through fraud and racketeering.
The lawsuit says that [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.” –Henry IV, Part 2, 4.3.43
Speaking of Reed and Abramoff…
It seems that Ralph Reed is hiding from reporters following the exposure of his connection to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, retreating to his first political instinct, that of secrecy, as the GQ article suggests:
“….[I]t is worth noting that Reed found politics before he found God (and discovered, as countless wags have snickered, that God agreed with [...]
