This is a great live version of the title track from the album Black Tie White Noise, by inventor of rock 'n' roll David Bowie, a duet with Al B Sure. Both the album and song are critically underrated, IMO. Gorgeous vocals.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Do you have any idea how long some of us have been waiting to see the words "subpoenas" and "Karl Rove" in the same headline?
House subpoenas Karl Rove
Called to testify at inquiry on political meddling at Justice Deptartment
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed former White House top political adviser Karl Rove to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department.
Accusations of politics influencing decisions at the department led to last year's resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Totally Bitchin!
Electronica piece “90%...composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.” Visuals from the same source.
Via Cartoon Brew, w/thanks to Corey Klemow.
Via Cartoon Brew, w/thanks to Corey Klemow.
For your consideration...
...two more Amazon reviews of books I've read recently, Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock & Paul Waldman, and Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman by Nicholas Booth.
To be fair (if only to myself), the second one isn't really a full review--inasmuch as what I post to Amazon is ever a full review, compared to what I've written elsewhere. I just wanted to say something nice about the book, and wrote what you'll see late last night, very fast.
To be fair (if only to myself), the second one isn't really a full review--inasmuch as what I post to Amazon is ever a full review, compared to what I've written elsewhere. I just wanted to say something nice about the book, and wrote what you'll see late last night, very fast.
A cautionary tale
This is three short (about two minutes altogether) sequences from "Arctic Radar," an episode of The West Wing. It follows a "c"-or-"d"-story in which Josh Lyman lays out a line that I think more than one of us part time SF fans tries to walk...
Unfortunately, the picture fades and then sound cuts out before the last lines of of the last sequence, which are:
Unfortunately, the picture fades and then sound cuts out before the last lines of of the last sequence, which are:
JOSH
...you can't bring your hobbies in to work, okay?
JANICE
Got it.
JOSH
Except on Star Trek holidays. [exits]
JANICE
There's no such thing as a Star Trek holiday.
JOSH
Well, work hard around here. We'll make one.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
It's over, Clintons.
Campaigning with his wife in Kentucky, former President Clinton dismissed Obama's inevitable claim on pledged delegates.
"There won't be tonight, unless you decapitate Michigan and Florida, which violates our values and is dumb politics," Bill Clinton said.
Oh, good. A lecture on the violation of values and dumb politics by Bill "Mr. Moral Authority" Clinton.
I really can't believe how sick I am of both of them at this point...
Oh, those randy Australians
This was going to be another post about how I'm afraid Clinton's reached a point where she's not only making a fool of herself, but of millions of women. To illustrate that fear, I was going to refer to the fact that yesterday she actually stooped to citing conservative bad-stepper (and traitor) Karl Rove.
But I got diverted from that. Because as I was searching for an item about it to which to link, I found this headline in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Bush's bosom buddy gives sagging Clinton a lift
But I got diverted from that. Because as I was searching for an item about it to which to link, I found this headline in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Bush's bosom buddy gives sagging Clinton a lift
Oh, Geraldine...
Is this how you really want to be remembered?
The part I found hardest to swallow was when she proposed that Obama's appeal was to "the hip-hop generation." I don't know if that says she's a racist, or just doesn't understand that "generation," but either way it's not a moment I would be proud of.
The part I found hardest to swallow was when she proposed that Obama's appeal was to "the hip-hop generation." I don't know if that says she's a racist, or just doesn't understand that "generation," but either way it's not a moment I would be proud of.
For my generous friends who may be wondering what I'd like for a (late) birthday or (early) Christmas present...
Wonder no more. Sports Night, the show so good it made me love a show (I thought was) about sports, is being re-released on DVD in a 10th Anniversary edition.
To illustrate the point, a quote and a clip:
I missed this show the first time around. Although I had regard for Aaron Sorkin (who created the series and wrote all but a handful of episodes) at the time, it wasn't as high as it would become. Not quite high enough to vault the wall of my sports ignorance.
That changed after West Wing, and I "rediscovered" Sorkin's first series when Comedy Central began running the repeats.
Marking 10 years after Sports Night's initial premiere on network television, the multiple award-winning cast and creative team come together for the first time on DVD when Shout! Factory presents Sports Night: The Complete Series 10th Anniversary Edition DVD box set on September 30, 2008. Offering the first comprehensive Sports Night experience ever, the 8-DVD collector's box set contains all 45 acclaimed episodes, a special 10th Anniversary book, and 2 full discs of exclusive bonus features that reveal the genesis, life and afterlife of the series with all-new interviews, behind-the-scenes featurettes, gag reels, deleted scenes, and commentaries featuring the principal cast and creative team. You don't have to know sports to enjoy Sports Night.
From creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin, executive produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Tony Krantz, Thomas Schlamme and Rob Scheidlinger, and produced by Imagine Television in association with Touchstone Television, Sports Night debuted on ABC on September 22, 1998 and received an extraordinary reception from television critics and fans alike. Brimming with wry wit and high-brow humor, Sports Night is not a program about sports. The show provides an all-access pass to the inner workings of a high pressure cable newsroom and sheds lights on those dedicated news anchors and crew who ultimately push personal conflicts aside to bring their audience the best sports program offered on television...sometimes against considerable personal odds.
To illustrate the point, a quote and a clip:
"You need therapy"
"I'm in therapy."
"You need more."
-"Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks," Sports Night.
I missed this show the first time around. Although I had regard for Aaron Sorkin (who created the series and wrote all but a handful of episodes) at the time, it wasn't as high as it would become. Not quite high enough to vault the wall of my sports ignorance.
That changed after West Wing, and I "rediscovered" Sorkin's first series when Comedy Central began running the repeats.
If the Iranians love their children too
The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum, on deterrence, 2008 style...
I nonetheless continue to be amazed at the rose-colored glasses that so many conservatives use these days when they talk about the old Soviet Union. Back in the day they sure didn't think the Soviets were rational. They didn't think much of MAD either, a term initially invented by conservatives as a term of ridicule. And communism was very much considered an apocalyptic, expansionist ideology that would never rest until the West was buried.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Keep fucking around, Tennessee. See what you get.
U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama says that Republicans should direct their attacks at him and not his wife Michelle.
He was referring to a video posted on YouTube by the Tennessee Republican Party last week that targeted a remark Michelle Obama made in February.
An American family in front of 75,000 people.
Holy Cow.
Y'know, as a rule, I don't like to get into the race thing too much when talking about Obama. I'm not naive enough to think that it isn't a factor, but I also think it's short-sighted, and maybe dangerously so, to overstate its importance in his groundbreaking success.
I believe, if you will forgive me an obvious allusion, this success is at least as much to do with the content of his character as the color of his skin. That said, however...
I have to admit that it gladdens my heart to see a black, American family standing up together before an amazing crowd of their fellow countrymen. The husband and father all but certain to be his party's nominee.
As Craig Ferguson says, it's a great day for America, everybody...
Y'know, as a rule, I don't like to get into the race thing too much when talking about Obama. I'm not naive enough to think that it isn't a factor, but I also think it's short-sighted, and maybe dangerously so, to overstate its importance in his groundbreaking success.
I believe, if you will forgive me an obvious allusion, this success is at least as much to do with the content of his character as the color of his skin. That said, however...
I have to admit that it gladdens my heart to see a black, American family standing up together before an amazing crowd of their fellow countrymen. The husband and father all but certain to be his party's nominee.
As Craig Ferguson says, it's a great day for America, everybody...
For those skeptics among you who may think my gladness of Eva Amurri is solely to do with her size-36 (I'm guessing) tits...
For shame, skeptics. And just to prove my point, here she is, literally covered from head-to-toe...and I'm still just as glad to see her.
And as if that wren't enough, would you get a look at that mouth?
(and hands?)
And as if that wren't enough, would you get a look at that mouth?
(and hands?)
I like to think only this blog would illustrate...
...a link to (and excerpts from) an opinion piece about engagement and negotiations...
...with a Liza Minnelli album cover.
...with a Liza Minnelli album cover.
When [Reagan] and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, which for the first time eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, Buckley's National Review dubbed it "suicide." The Conservative Caucus took out a full-page newspaper ad saying "Appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as in 1938." It paired photos of Reagan and Gorbachev with photos of Neville Chamberlain and Hitler.
The Bush administration has been little different, refusing for years to talk to North Korea or Iran about their nuclear programs because it wanted to defeat evil, not talk to it. The result was that Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon and Iran's uranium program continued unfettered. (By contrast, when the administration negotiated with Libya -- an act that its chief arms controller, John Bolton, had previously derided as, yes, "appeasement" -- it succeeded in eliminating Tripoli's nuclear program.)
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Ladies...
Some notes on dresses and lingerie.
1. There's got to be more subtle ways to communicate what you'd like in bed.
2. Lingerie that gives us a headache is not sexy.
On the other hand, if the goal is to make us want to see it on the floor even quicker than we usually do...
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1. There's got to be more subtle ways to communicate what you'd like in bed.
2. Lingerie that gives us a headache is not sexy.
On the other hand, if the goal is to make us want to see it on the floor even quicker than we usually do...
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