Mr. Cartouche Goes To Washington

January 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics, Travelogues |

Old buddy Anthony Car­touche reports on his trip to Obama’s inauguration.

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It Was 40 Years Ago Today

January 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

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My Economic Stimulus Package Proposal

January 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Give it all to me.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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

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Just Six Words

January 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Politics |

This is William Kristol’s last col­umn.

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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.

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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.

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Puff Piece

January 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |

schnee

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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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