Mr. Cartouche Goes To Washington
January 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics, Travelogues |
Old buddy Anthony Cartouche reports on his trip to Obama’s inauguration.
My Economic Stimulus Package Proposal
January 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
Give it all to me.
Lydia Johnson Dance
January 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
Lydia Johnson runs a professional dance company out of our sister town, South Orange, here in New Jersey. I’ve been doing their web site for over a year, and last spring she invited me and daughter C. to a performance at SOPAC of some of their new works. Here’s one of them:
Worst Ad Ever?
January 29th, 2009 | 4 Comments | Comedy, Tech Stuff |
Maybe, maybe not; this one makes me long for a nice informercial, or a late-night used car sales pitch.
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
January 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
The Nighthawks specialize in period big-band music, authentic numbers from roughly 1919 through the thirties, with solos lovingly transcribed from the original recordings.
And while they play on original instruments using some of Vince Giordano’s collection of some 30,000 original charts, he’s certainly not the Thurston Dart of classic jazz. When Giordano lays into his aluminum-body upright bass, his David Lynch forelock waving back and forth like a metronome, the band is rocketing the tempo way past 200 to the quarter note.
Quote For The Day
January 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
–G.K. Chesterton
Funny Story
January 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Comedy |
I’ve always wanted to be able to do this. Over the weekend, serious car trouble at least gave us a good laugh.
Get Your War On
January 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Comedy, Politics |
GYWO was a favorite post-9/11 cartoon of many, satirizing the many sins of the Bush administration using generic clip art and expletive-laced voice-bubbles. Alas, it’s over.
Change
January 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Politics, Tech Stuff |
I was about to write something mildly silly, but found something cool instead.
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