Music & Sound
Where are the new filmmakers coming from?
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
My friends Henry and Nancy are unchooling their 2 kids, Ray and Ada. Ray and Ada don’t attend school, but aren’t “homeschooled” in the sense of a parent standing in front of a map of the world with a pointer, while the kids sit at little desks in the kitchen and take notes, with homework to do after lunch.
Henry and Nancy serve as facilitators; they help Ray and Ada make sense of the world…
Politics
Molly Ivins (RIP) thought Bill Moyers should run for president
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
He probably won’t run, but he’s a more incisive thinker on a lot of important issues than any politician within shouting distance. Five bucks gets you an MP3 download (crappy quality, but hey – it’s speech) on media concentration from Alternative Radio, where you can also get speeches by Chomsky, Zinn, and a gang of other good…
Music & Sound
The original Sunshine Boys
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
In Neil Simon’s screamingly funny film The Sunshine Boys, George Burns and Walter Matthau play the aging vaudeville comedy team Lewis and Clark, whose classic Dr. Kronkite sketch is one of the centerpieces of the production.
Digging through my dusty archives of spoken word and comedy, I turned up the original version of the sketch, performed by Smith and Dale (pictured), the team whose career…
Thoughts on Life
My continuing fascination with PowerPoint presentations
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
First off – my apologies for the lack of posts in the last few days. I’ve been battling a fierce cold, so I’m spending a lot of the day laid out, listening to my sinuses drain. The rest of the time I stumble around in a self-pitying, mucosoid daze, doing laundry and whatnot.
And someday I’ll do a masterful PowerPoint presentation about my piddling ills. I suppose I’m interested in good…
Politics
Don’t matter whutcha done, long as you got saved
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- Friday 4th May 2007
Remember “Jeff Gannon,” a trusted member of the White House press corps? He sported a pass & presidential-level briefing privileges because he was balling a prominent male member of Bush’s White House staff – until he was revealed as a plagiarist and an outstanding figure on hotmilitarystud.com. Without no pants on, yet.
Well, like other Republican slimeballs – Chuck Colson comes to mind -…
Politics
Well, at least Bush supporters made a few bucks, eh? (updated)
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- Thursday 3rd May 2007
It says here that the Republican appointees at the Veterans Administration – you know, the agency that’s running out of money to take care of veterans, and providing such despicably bad hospital care that they’re under investigation for dereliction of duty – just gave themselves a hefty bonus.
“The bonuses were awarded even after government investigators had determined the VA repeatedly…
Music & Sound
Ralphie’s Bop City Pt. 7: Letting go
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- Wednesday 2nd May 2007
My plans re: Ralphie’s have solidified somewhat; when I return from this not-so-whirlwind tour in Eire, Germany, and Switzerland, I’ll attempt to put up a separate blog and stash all the Ralphie’s material there, adding to it occasionally until I need an intern or other underpaid person to screen more tapes for posting.
This will likely be the last Ralphie’s audio until I get back. It’s a good…
Music & Sound
Archaeology in the UK
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- Wednesday 2nd May 2007
musiclikedirt posted a bunch of Steinski MP3′s including several bits I haven’t listened to in a long time, or lost my copies of many moves ago. And the things they have to say are so nice I’m…
Politics
Why all this fuss about 8 firings at the Department Of Justice? Look at all the attorneys who didn’t get fired.
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- Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Like this political hack, Mary Beth…
Thoughts on Life
Good thing Jesus is coming soon
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- Tuesday 1st May 2007
Because he’ll undoubtedly tell us there’s no such thing as global warming, it’s just the gentle radiance of God’s love.
In the meantime, examine these photographs from the US Geological Survey providing evidence that Glacier National Park is melting. Maybe Jesus is coming to see the glaciers before they’re gone.
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