Gratuitous Video Feed
John Hiatt performs his “Something Wild” on Austin City Limits.
Dept. of Now He Tells Us
Sure, George Bush promotes only partisan loyalists to government office, but his chutzpah still raises eyebrows, as when in December he nominated Sam Fox to the post of US Ambassador to Belgium. Fox is best known as a major donor to the inaptly-named Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, purveyors of the lowest of smear [...]
Universal Health Coverage Now
Until America gets serious about health coverage, guaranteeing it as a right as do other industrialized nations, we are asking for more loss of life, as with twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver, who died of complications from an abcessed tooth:
Eventually, he was rushed to Children’s Hospital, where he underwent emergency brain surgery. He began to have seizures [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I will no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent
when he hisses.” –Troilus And Cressida, 5.1.99-101
This Time, Nixon’s in the Clear
Everything old is new again in New Hampshire:
No, you’re not having a flashback to 1972 and the infamous event that ultimately led to the greatest scandal in U.S. political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
Instead of Washington’s Watergate complex, this burglary took place at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s headquarters over the [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
If there’s a “Flight of the Bumblebee” in the world of bebop, it’s Charlie Parker’s “Donna Lee.” Watch viruoso Joe Pass and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen wend their way through it.
As long as we’re showcasing dead guitarists, here’s the late Lowell George leading Little Feat through “Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor” in 1975. Compare it [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“More validity, more honourable state, more courtship lives in
carrion flies.” –Romeo And Juliet, 3.3.34-35
Gratuitous Video Feed
The Academy Awards show may only be any good when it makes fun of itself. Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilly at last night’s Oscars answered the musical question: “What are Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilly doing at the Oscars?”
Did you know that the guitar is a percussion instrument? [...]
Yet here’s a spot
They have a sense of shame, after all. Blogger Smintheus alerts us to the scrubbing of certain of Dick Cheney’s remarks from the White House web site.
“I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.” —3/16/03
You won’t [...]
La Hora Marcada
Oscar-nominated Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro skewers Da Prez, cementing Hollywood’s reputation as a colony of commie-pinko-librulz. He
told a reception in Beverly Hills that he had been surprised to learn that his film, a fable about a little girl who retreats into a fantasy world in fascist Spain, had been shown at the [...]
