I speak of the time when the Moody Blues put out seven consecutive concept albums, most of which were beautifully produced but so multi-tracked that they had a helluva time trying to reproduce them on stage, and the band toured a lot. Here’s one they could perform live, although without all the strings from the …
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While at CPAC, the annual meeting of the faithful hard-right lunatics which form a large part of the base of the Republican Party, he was asked how he, a governor with no foreign policy experience, would deal with ISIS. He responded with this: “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same …
The rest of the world has looked on in horror as these murderous bastards have beheaded innocents, murdered townsful of people, and kidnapped more. It’s pretty clear that it has a goal in mind: to draw its enemies into a war on turf of its choosing. It has escalated its atrocities in an unending effort …
House Republicans and Senate Republicans can’t agree: should the Department of Homeland Security be funded through the end of this fiscal year if it means President Obama’s executive orders which mandate that prosecutorial discretion should be used when deciding which undocumented immigrants should be deported are left as policy? The House says no; the Senate …
This is all very educational but when it goes out while dinner’s on your (electric) stove and stays out for 40 minutes, you don’t care where it comes from as long as it starts coming again!
The Chairman of the Board with Nelson Riddle’s arrangement and orchestra: I’ve Got You Under My Skin from “Songs for Swingin’ Lovers,”, recorded in 1956.
If you’re of a certain age and remember what’s now called The Great American Songbook with pleasure, you might enjoy a new book called “The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song.” Written by Ben Yagoda, it’s a brief history of the popular American song and the …
Hmm. For years the climate change deniers have had pet scientists willing to say that the consensus among fellow practitioners was wrong: the observable changes in climate had nothing to do with anything we humans had done. Never mind that some 95% of scientists agree that we’re the culprits behind sea levels’ rise, ozone layer …
I always read the author’s dedication first when I open a book. Here’s a wonderful one. It’s from Ben Aaronovitch in his book Foxglove Summer, the fifth book in his “Rivers of London” series. This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our …
Or so I hope. Back here I related the tale of my attempt to go to Wal-Mart or Costco to see how much a pair of single-vision glasses would cost me and my giving up due to traffic woes. A couple of days later I did get to Wal-Mart and got a quote of about …