As half the populace gears up to travel cross-country and the other half prepares for their visits, many thanks to commentor Republic of Stupidity for news of the latest snark against security theatre: (Available from Skreened.) I think it would coordinate nicely with a bold, manly kilt… ABC News reports that “Some women may be …
Music
The boot, the roots, the reggae on my stereo
A friend of mine just sent me this YouTube video of Neil Diamond returning to his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. He talks to people on the street (many of whom are West Indian, I think) and one guy asks him what songs he did, he runs though a few, which the guy has never heard …
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One More Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day Post (the last, I promise): Concert Time
In my previous post on the last hours and minutes before 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, I made mention of one song I thought captured some of the solid core of sorrow that lies within any memory of combat. That led some commenters to start mentioning some songs that similarly moved them. That led …
Open Thread: Welcome to the Asylum!
Self-described “conservative of the century” Richard Viguerie is sending me emails again: (Manassas, Virginia) Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, has launched a petition drive to House Republican leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor urging them not to intervene to keep Congresswoman Michele Bachmann from being elected as Chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus. __ …
Monday afternoon pick me up/open thread
I found this video when I was looking for something to get “Sister Goldenhair” out my head, and now I listen to it whenever I need a pick me up. And now for an open thread topic: if you could name just one topic that we shamelessly and unforgivably ignore on this blog, what would …
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Late Night Open Thread: “If You Can Find Me… “
__ __ … Seems like a theme song for the solitary & misanthropic blogger, no? Serendipity on the currents of the internet. I am fond of Stephen Sondheim’s work, so Amazon told me earlier that The Birthday Concert was about to come out on DVD, but I clicked on Joe Nocera’s Sondheim appreciation coincidentally, because …
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Late Night Open Thread: Never Forget
Tom Junod at Esquire summed up this whole past week on Wednesday morning: I am watching Mike Huckabee on Fox. __ He is declaring that two years after being pronounced dead, the Republicans are back — and he’s comparing their resurgence to Twilight, or The Night of the Living Dead. __ That is, to a …