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OBAMA WINS RE-RELECTION!
Hooray for Obama's re-election! After many nerve-racking months we went down to the wire and scored. Mitt didn't concede until very late, and then Obama gave a rousing 2AM victory speech in which he...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS RETOOLING FOR NEXT TIME
The Republicans are licking their wounds and trying to figure out what to do next time to win over women and minorities. Here's a clue. How about not confusing "Americans" with White Anglo-Saxon Males?...
View ArticleBECOMING RADICAL IN TEN EASY STEPS
In this clip from Bill Moyer's conversation this week with author Naomi Klein, she talks about how she became a radical. The child of two Vietnam War resisters, she grew up in Canada and jokes she...
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THANKSGIVING
We just put two pecan pies in the oven in preparation for the family Thanksgiving, and boy did they look delicious--even raw. Thanksgiving is a time to offer thanks, but more important it's time to...
View ArticleTHE BOSS OF CHRISTMAS
Bruce Springsteen rocks Christmas. Over the years, he's performed some amazing Christmas songs with a lot of heart and soul, and the E Street Band helps him kick up some powerful Christmas spirit....
View ArticleDAVE BRUBECK, TAKE FIVE
Dave Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was a piano player best known for "Take Five," a composition written by his longtime collaborator and sax player Paul Desmond. Brubeck was famous for...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS UNDERGROUND
The latest communique from the Ministry of Information makes it abundantly clear that while we have the fascists on the run, we need to stick together and fight the good fight during the Blitz.
View ArticleMOYERS ON THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION
This clip is from a previous mass killing, or the one before that (there are so many; too many) but Moyers' comments still apply. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free...
View ArticleHOLD ON
This is the year's best song in a year of great music--a year that included great new records from Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jack White, Neil Young, Frank Ocean, Fiona Apple, Japandroids, R. Kelly...
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PYNCHON REVISITED
Here is a repost by popular request. Journey with us now to yesteryear... a clip from a rare documentary on reclusive writer Thomas PynchonA screaming comes across the desk. It's happened before but...
View ArticleTONY VISITS SEATTLE
Anthony Bourdain, snarky celebrity chef formerly of Les Halles, author of Kitchen Confidential, and host of several television food and travel shows, most recently "The Layover," just came to my town....
View ArticleMATT DAMON SCHOOLS LIBERTARIAN "JOURNALIST"
This is great. Some Tea-publican libertarian blogger tries to outsmart Matt Damon at a pro-teachers rally, and Matt schools her good. Matt's mother, who happens to be a teacher, should be proud.
View ArticleTHE BEATLES DROP IN
Back in October of 1963, The Beatles had yet to play Ed Sullivan and gain worldwide fame, if not complete hysteria, launching a wave Beatlemania that encircled the planet. Even though they'd paid...
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MAY 4, 1970: KENT STATE MASSACRE
May 4, 1970. The battle lasted 13 seconds at Kent State, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students, wounding nine and killing four. The photographs shocked a nation. A few days...
View ArticleSOMETHING IN THE AIR
Looking forward to "Something in the Air," a film about the events of May '68 in Paris by French filmmaker Oliver Assayas. I read an interview with Assayas in Cineaste, and he sounds fluent in the...
View ArticleSO LONG, HARVEY KORMAN
So long, Harvey Herschel Korman. Here the great comic actor visits the dentist, played by the legendary Tim Conway. This is one of the funniest comedy sketches in human history.
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WHY MAKE ART?
Who needs Art? We're in a recession, right? During tough economic times we've always slashed health care, education, environmental protection, and programs designed to help the hungry and the...
View ArticleWALMART FLASH MOB
This will lift your spirits! This flash mob protest in Raleigh, NC, by Walmart workers who have the guts and audacity to believe that they should be treated fairly--and the creativity to something like...
View ArticleAMERICA! THE GREATEST COUNTRY?
Watch out what you ask: You might get an answer you don't like.(Warning: This contains uncomfortable truths and language most adults are familiar with in a free society.)
View ArticleTRANSISTOR TUNES OF SUMMERS PAST
Summer is gone and autumn is here, a time for whiskey and football and whiskey and casting our memories backward over the years and more whiskey as we approach the holidays. Long before iPods and...
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THE SAME OLD STORY
If ISIS killers showed up in Roseburg, Oregon, and executed students with impunity, maybe America would treat mass killing differently, but for now most middle Americans seem more afraid of losing...
View ArticleBOB DYLAN COMMERCIALS
This commerical blindsided me last night during a football game. Apparently, a computer was pitted against a human being, albeit an extraordinary one. (Full disclosure: I'm a Dylan fan, but not...
View ArticleMY ARTISTICAL TEMPERATURE
Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints in this wonderful 1937 cartoon from the Fleischer Studios.
View ArticleSHINE ON HARVEST MOON
The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see, For the moon refused to shine. Couple sitting underneath a willow tree, For love they did pine. Little maid was kind-a 'fraid of darkness, so She...
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