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This is from a 63 year-old Charles Bradley’s first album.
December 29, 2011 10:43 am
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This is from a 63 year-old Charles Bradley’s first album.
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Comrade Mary - December 29, 2011 | 10:56 am · Link
LOVE this guy. Hell, I haven’t found a single dud on the Daptones roster. His backup band ain’t shabby, either.
Benjamin Franklin - December 29, 2011 | 10:59 am · Link
WaitingfortheStorm has some links discussing the apparently, inevitable runup to War.
You’ll see many of the same suspects….....
The highly influential Council on Foreign Relations (aka CFR) declared this month in their online publication “Foreign Affairs” that it is now time to attack Iran.
Connect:
http://facebook.com/StormCloudsGathering
http://twitter.com/collapseupdates
Council on Foreign Relations: Time to attack Iran
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/.....-at…
US army ready to engage in Iran war
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....-mi…
China and Iran’s extensive relationship
http://www.irantracker.org/for.....-relations
China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat
http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-h.....09787.html
Comrade Mary - December 29, 2011 | 11:08 am · Link
Oh, and while we’re talking awesome music, I can’t stop listening to Why This Kolaveri Di, a Tanglish (Tamil-English) song that was put together on the fly for a movie. The movie hasn’t been released yet, but after an unofficial leak, the song has gone viral almost everywhere (except for North America, I think).
Original version by Dhanush (I usually HATE autotune, but it works here)
Punjabi version by Desi Touch
Wiki summary of the phenomenon
The Moar You Know - December 29, 2011 | 11:08 am · Link
Had a great commute on the way in to work, listening to the Los Angeles newsguy (a GOP partisan who managed to wrangle the supposedly non-partisan “chief political correspondent” spot) flat-out lie to the audience about the results of the latest polls in Iowa.
Listening to them, you’d never know that there was a guy in the race named “Ron Paul”.
amk - December 29, 2011 | 11:13 am · Link
Toon 2
amk - December 29, 2011 | 11:14 am · Link
Toon 1
moonbat - December 29, 2011 | 11:37 am · Link
Boy, that was good! Now I have to go buy the album.
dedc79 - December 29, 2011 | 11:42 am · Link
If you like that song listen to Heartaches and Pain. It will make you smile and cry at the same time.
Mnemosyne - December 29, 2011 | 11:43 am · Link
@Benjamin Franklin:
I think the Telegraph link you wanted was this one:
US Navy ‘will not tolerate’ Iran closing Strait of Hormuz
So your argument is that we should let Iran cut off the world’s oil supply whenever they feel like it?
ETA: To be clear, I think this is a whole lot of dick-waving that won’t go anywhere as long as Iran doesn’t do anything stupid like try to sink one of our carriers.
geg6 - December 29, 2011 | 12:00 pm · Link
Niiiiice.
I only have five more days off (out of 17, and yes, academia gets a nice winter break). So I’ve been doing a lot of cooking, both from scratch and as a re-imagining of leftovers. Going simple but hearty tonight: a lovely beer and cheese soup with big fat BLTs on fresh toasted multigrain and homemade mayo.
I’m enjoying this too much. I need to hit the lottery or something so I can be a full-time housewife.
geg6 - December 29, 2011 | 12:09 pm · Link
Oh…I also wanted to mention that I am hating one of my Christmas gifts. My sister got me “Swamplandia” based on the ecstatic reviews and my unnatural love of Hiaasen. About a third through it and I’m done. I usually will slog through because I just hate to leave a book unfinished. But I can’t take another page of this crap.
Happily, she also got me a gift certificate for a great indie bookstore in Sewickley, the Penguin Book Store, so I can go get something more to my tastes (favorites are biographies and histories). Any suggestions? And has anyone read Ron Chernow’s Washington biography?
SiubhanDuinne - December 29, 2011 | 12:19 pm · Link
@geg6:
On first read, that read as “bear and cheese soup.”
New glasses in 2012?
SiubhanDuinne - December 29, 2011 | 12:24 pm · Link
@geg6:
Speaking of books, does anyone recall when we are going to start discussing the new BJ book club selection (Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind”)? I can’t remember if DougJ suggested a date or if that’s still to be determined.
Mnemosyne - December 29, 2011 | 12:34 pm · Link
@geg6:
I bought Alison Weir’s The Lady in the Tower for myself—she writes a lot about Tudor history, and it’s specifically about the lead-up to Anne Boleyn’s trial and execution.
Also, if you haven’t read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, go out RIGHT THIS MINUTE and buy it. It’s in paperback now.
4jkb4ia - December 29, 2011 | 12:36 pm · Link
It is testimony to the extent to which this site has taken over my life that I even read this, and it’s adorable. Not that Tunch should have a leash, he wouldn’t be Tunch then.
(It is time to steel myself for a situation where I can’t link to this site as often as I want OR to try to explain to them that I have home delivery.)
dedc79 - December 29, 2011 | 12:40 pm · Link
@geg6: In the middle of Wolf Hall (about the rise of Thomas Cromwell)and it is very good
4jkb4ia - December 29, 2011 | 12:41 pm · Link
Same section: The Houses of the Hopefuls Potential for good snark material, especially with Newt’s house and Bachmann’s house. The front-page photo was a strip of each of them, and I said about Bachmann’s, “That looks like a really nice house”. In the full photo, it was not a nice house. It looked like the overambitious Dream Home it was.
4jkb4ia - December 29, 2011 | 12:44 pm · Link
@geg6:
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War is what my mom is reading, and likes, and I have drooled over based on the review. The whole last year has been Wall Street and I am desperate to get to Gardner Dozois today.
middlewest - December 29, 2011 | 12:44 pm · Link
Testing my kindle.
4jkb4ia - December 29, 2011 | 12:47 pm · Link
But Lords of Finance really is history, and it started the Wall Street sequence, and won the Pulitzer. Highly recommended.
Cris (without an H) - December 29, 2011 | 12:52 pm · Link
Damn this is good music. Three cheers for micro-labels!
gaz - December 29, 2011 | 12:53 pm · Link
Fuck this. I’ll provide an easy vote for any candidate that can promise to make VS.PHP (by JCX shitbox-software) NOT SUCK ASS.
I don’t care how much of fascist they are. Fix VS.PHP (or for gawdsakes gimmie an alternative) and you have my vote.
Comrade Mary - December 29, 2011 | 12:55 pm · Link
@4jkb4ia: Oh, what a neat story. I used to “walk” my cats on leashes: that is, I’d watch them in the yard while they dragged the leash. Walking the sidewalk would work for a few minutes before a stray shadow induced untold terror and flight.
BTW, my NYTimes quota for the month had already been reached before I clicked your link, but I was able to read the whole story. I guess they have both posts and comments from this domain flagged to work without restrictions. Not that anyone should abuse this blog for their personal reading pleasure, of course.
Although I am curious about “nightingale floors” ...
(EDIT: Yep, I can read any NYTimes link from comments here. Oh, my.)
Paul in KY - December 29, 2011 | 12:56 pm · Link
@SiubhanDuinne: I bet that would be a pretty good soup also.
Paul in KY - December 29, 2011 | 12:58 pm · Link
@4jkb4ia: Wall Street has certainly been a bummer. From what I remember, WW I was sort of a downer as well.
Have you read Orwell’s ‘1984’? Uplifting read, that (compared to WW I).
Anonymous At Work - December 29, 2011 | 1:13 pm · Link
Open Thread Bleg:
Has anyone found Ron Paul’s views on South Dakota v. Dole? For me, power of the purse in the hands of a deranged Federalist becomes much more scary if he supports the Supreme Court’s decision. To Paul, Congress might not be able to pass/fund the PATRIOT Act but maybe Congress could fund states to pass the Act instead. Scary.
PeakVT - December 29, 2011 | 2:14 pm · Link
Buckley sounds likes (and kinda looks like) James Brown’s long-lost brother. Not that either is a bad thing.
Brachiator - December 29, 2011 | 4:17 pm · Link
From recent news stories, and doubly interesting in light of the recent thread about drones.
There are other news stories suggesting that Turkey wants the US to base some Predator drones in that country, and also reports that Turkey wants to buy drones from Israel.
Nothing like war to bring antagonists together.
I presume that Balloon Juicers who are get so excited about drones will go on the streets and demand that they be banned by all countries.
Elsewhere, there is plenty of killing the old fashioned way.
Police officers and recruits are civilians, by the way.
But presumably this is more “acceptable” because people actually have to go out and set those bombs.
Brachiator - December 29, 2011 | 4:35 pm · Link
@The Moar You Know:
Which station was this?