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I do not claim to know much about music. Anybody got suggestions?
What’s on the agenda for the remnants of the weekend?
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I do not claim to know much about music. Anybody got suggestions?
What’s on the agenda for the remnants of the weekend?
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burnspbesq
The
kidyoung man got home from his first semester of college today, so we be hangin.’burnspbesq
How about a little chunk of the Bach Christmas Oratorio?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6MMW-NJmt8
CW in LA
Just saw Bruce Springsteen join the Rolling Stones on “Tumbling Dice”. Have they ever played together before?
? Martin
@burnspbesq: Mine is 14 and I’m having trouble calling him a kid any more. I don’t think I fully appreciated how good an idea the bar mitzvah (and similar rituals) are until now.
Yutsano
Just made delicata squash risotto. Quite delicious if I do say so myself.
burnspbesq
Oh, and we found the big dog at the county shelter this morning and ransomed him. Thanks to those who expressed concern last night.
PurpleGirl
@? Martin: If you don’t belong to a faith community which has transitional ritual, at his next birthday you can create a ritual of your own to mark the birthday and the transition he is experiencing.
srv
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/273109-reports-obama-decides-to-nominate-kerry-for-secretary-of-state
Finally some good news for John McCain.
NotMax
@srv
sigh
Kerry just turned 69 years old this week.
Surely there is someone a bit less long in the tooth to take up the position when it becomes vacant.
Yutsano
@? Martin: Mexico has the quinceñera, Judaism has the bar/bat mitzvah, and the South has cotillion for young people at age 16. You could hybridize all three or just do your own thang. But yeah, memorialising that age when a child becomes a young adult is definitely something to be acknowledged.
Maude
@NotMax:
I don’t know if this is media bs or a leak from the WH. The WH doesn’t leak with Obama.
Bruuuuce
Just got home from a concert in the Just One Angel tour with Christine Lavin, Uncle Bonsai, and friends. “Friends” tonight were many, and included Julie Gold, who wrote, and here performs, “From a Distance“. Do look up all the artists in tonight’s concert, including also The Accidentals, David Ippolito, Erik Frandsen, Sue Matsuki, and David Rasche; every single one of them is worth it.
CW in LA
@srv: Yeah. John Kerry is a good man, a dedicated public servant, and eminently qualified for the post.
However, I really wanted to see the prez nominate someone else specifically to tell old fart McCain to shove it. Oh well, I suppose that’s one of those reasons why he’s the president and I’m not.
Mnemosyne
G decided to stop on a Book TV panel discussion about JFK and jaysus Tom Oliphant one of the most annoying, twitchy, self-important “moderators” I’ve ever seen on one of these things.
wasabi gasp
Children Medieval Band – Sonne (Rammstein cover)
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Yay happy puppeh news!
karen marie
NASA Johnson Style! w00t! w00t!
handsmile
Tonight dr.mrs. handsmile and i had the great pleasure of viewing the digitally restored version of Children of Paradise on the big screen at the Museum of the Moving Image. Magnifique!
I’m conscious of the bitter irony of the film’s title on this day. But a necessary respite from the television and the ‘tubes.
Tomorrow, a performance of Bach’s Magnificat.
@burnspbesq:
Glad to read of Caesar’s recovery and the happy reunion for all today.
The prophet Nostradumbass
More music, from The Kinks, and it’s seasonal too!
JCT
@burnspbesq: Hah – mine too! Brought a girl home with him, sigh. Has a long list of things he wants me to cook for him.
Just got back from a fantastic basketball game – Go AZ Wildcats! The last minute was insane.
Geoduck
If you’re looking for somber, there’s always
Threnody to The Victims of Hiroshima.
Bruuuuce
@Geoduck: On that topic, I think I prefer Fred Small’s “Cranes Over Hiroshima” (sadly, no instances of Rev. Small himself singing seem to be online, and this version is slower than I’m used to).
Ostrovsky
How about a little slice of heaven from Vladimir Martynov (parts 1&2 of 6)?
NotMaxn
@efgoldman
I happen to be 60-mumble, mumble myself.
Hillary is 65, and retiring from the post.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Picked up my nephew LittleMan late Friday, and the weekend has been nothing but hugs, cartoons, and goofing off. Lots more hugs than usual. He’s in kindergarten.
Elizabelle
@Yutsano:
Delicata squash risotto. Yum! Sounds divine.
Elizabelle
@burnspbesq:
So good to hear that the pup is home. Shelter, hmm. He was lucky there.
And PLEASE DON’T NOMINATE JOHN KERRY.
Take someone not in the Senate.
Please please please.
There are plenty of qualified people out there who don’t have Citizens United looking to replace him/her.
Why not take a seasoned State Department diplomat? Surely they have a few.
Don’t reward asswipes McCain and Graham. Don’t do it.
Step2
Wailin Jennys singing their usual magic.
Anya
@Elizabelle:
I think this is a wrong meme. Kerry’s name for State was talked about since Obama’s first election. Those two assholes have nothing to do with this decision. I actually believe that John Kerry may actually be the President’s preference for State.
In the Citizen United world, I really get why people are freaking out about losing a senate seat, but damn it, if Democrats can’t hold into a senate seat from one of the most liberal states in the union, then we’re screwed. It annoys me to no end that so many Democrats are propagating this Scott Brown myth that he’s undefeated. Yes, he has a huge name recognition and is liked by the voters (I don’t know why). But, he was defeated once and he can be defeated again. All we need is for Massachusetts Democrats to unite behind a strong candidate and take the election seriously.
Patricia Kayden
@Anya: “if Democrats can’t hold into a senate seat from one of the most liberal states in the union, then we’re screwed.”
Amen. That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Why is everyone so worried about Scott Brown winning the senate seat? He just lost, didn’t he? Just run someone good against him and he’ll lose again.
Halteclere
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