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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Redrum. I Mean Red Room.
Redrum, still at that bar My nephew won a Battle of the Bands contest in Eureka, California. That’s pretty great when you hear someone play and you think, “That’s nice. Keep practicing.” And he does and wins a Battle of the Bands just like in the movies six months later. The quality of blogging at [...]
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The Great Communicator’s Communicator
Friday Happy Hour Blogging An exchange with a friend about Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ prompted me to dig out a few of the responses amongst the reality-based crowd. Firedoglake calls out her invocation of Henry Ford, an avowed anti-Semite honored by the Hitler regime in 1936. Media Matters notes Obama wrote a whole [...]
The (Latin) South Shall Rise Again
Union Square, 9 pm Sometimes you think about something and then a few days later, a story appears that corroborates your thoughts. Synchronicity. It’s true that Naomi Klein has also written on The Iraq Effect on Latin America in The Shock Doctrine. Regardless of what you think of socialism, this is the first time since [...]
Stuff on Shelves, Fire Escapes
Empty supermarkets can be spooky I’d rather buy groceries at these older places with the faulty ceilings than the over-packaged gourmet markets. Be your own galloping gourmet. Cleaning cleaning cleaning. Spring spring spring. Giving the politics and linking a rest as I get my house in order. I handwashed my Mexican blanket and one of [...]
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If It’s Spring, We Can Cozy Up With Them
Identify this flower, feel good for a minute. A friend loaned me a camera! Haven’t used it yet… this is still old stuff. Just some links to follow up on yesterday’s weirdness… Wolcott on Men Evolving Badly. I know what he’s on about but I am Superman, Underdog, and Spiderman all rolled into one. Just [...]
Posted in General Pop Culture Tagged Earth Century, Earth Day, manliness, vegetable gardens 1 Comment
Music Is a Fuzzy Cathedral
Riverside Church – fuzzy mode I lost my camera a couple days ago but I’ll post some rejects. Eighth Blackbird performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall last night. Playing a piece written for them called “Double Sextet” — hence written for 12 musicians — 8bb actually play against a recording of themselves playing the other [...]
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Mi Bicicleta, El Futuro
poppin a wheelie Link to Brooklyn Vegan day… Bring on the spring/summer free shows! Mission of Burma playing NYU Saturday. We got your Gossip on Letterman. I confess: sometimes I wish I lived in Brooklyn, but I live on the Upper West Side. As the job I’m on winds down, I turn to career thoughts. [...]
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Torture Through the Centuries; The Concise Wingnut
Walk on the ice cubes, not the hot coals Want to know more about torture? I know that you do. Condi apparently discussed whether detainees should be beat, slapped, sleep-deprived, water-boarded, all the above. McCain’s own accounting is that he broke and falsely admitted to war crimes to make it stop. And yet he has [...]
Posted in General Pop Culture, Politics Tagged Condoleeza Rice, John McCain, torture, wingnut 1 Comment
Nestbuilding in e
Squatting at the Rude Aid® Manhattan real estate is still kind of tight I guess. I hope the bastids don’t sweep the happy couple out for “health” reasons. Speaking of “health,” someone told me America is the only country in the world where pharmacies sell cigarettes. This has got to be the fad gadget of [...]
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