And my name is JCOLEDOVIA. My neighbors are rampant lefties, but I am assuming I am am nuclear equipped.
Cat in The Hat
Via Dean Esmay, it appears that the movie critics feel the cat should not have been let out of the bag:
“They may as well have skipped the hassle of securing licensing rights and simply called this mess Mike Myers: Asshole in Fur.” — Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
“Like being run over by a garbage truck that backs up and dumps its load on top of you.” — David Edelstein, SLATE
“A vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy.” — A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
Happy Anniversary
Henry Hanks is celebrating his second anniversary today. Go wish him well.
Happy Thanksgiving
I wonder what made people eat the first one of these. They couldn’t have known it was going to taste that good.
Ipse Dixit, Year 3
Dodd Harris, who is a daily read for me, is celebrating his third anniversary with a round-up of posts from the previous year. Go check it out.
Look at All the Pretty Pictures
I really don’t have any comments- I just thought this was a really cool picture:
Hundreds of Monarch butterflies crowd a pine tree at the Piedra Herrada Sanctuary in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Mexican police have been called in to protect the sanctuaries for the butterflies(AFP/File/Mario Vazquez)
Top Albums
There has been some rumbling about the top ten albums of all time, so I felt it was necessary to list my FAVORITES (and there are more than ten) of all time. I am not going to pretend to know enough about music to claim these are the best, but these all pass my ‘Stranded on a Desert Island’ test:
Little Feat- Waiting For Columbus
Grateful Dead- Reckoning
Dave Brubeck Quartet- Time Out
R. L. Burnside- Ass Pocket of Whiskey
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention- Fillmore East June 1971
Yes- Roundabout
Jerry Garcia BandJerry Garcia Band Live
JGB – Welcome To Our World
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
Peter Gabriel- Passion Sources
NWA- Straight Outta Compton
Willie Nelson- Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits and Some That Will Be
Alice In Chains- Dirt
Jane’s Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual
Run DMC- Raising Hell
The Allman Brothers- Live at the Ludlow Garage 1970
Parliament- Mothership Connection
Dire Straits- Love Over Gold
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
James Brown- Sex Machine
The JB’s- Funky Good Time, the Anthology
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerels- Highball with the Devil
Stevie Wonder- Original Musiquarium 1
The Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
These are in no particular order- I love them all. Also, I will add more when I think of them. This was also much harder than I thought it would be- how do you choose one album by a band over another (like with Dire Straits- both Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms are genius- hell, so is Making Movies). I still don’t have a Who album up there, even though I have a dozen in my collection- I just can’t make thecall which album is best.
At any rate, go make your list and I will link to it.
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Norbizness has his list up.