Multi-talented
So you win the gold medal for ice dancing. What’s next? Why, you risk humiliating yourself on the “Today” show the following morning by playing violin, of course.
Archive of entries posted on February 2014
The killing fields of Florida
It surprised me that Michael Dunn couldn’t be convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Jordan Davis. Firing ten shots at and into a car where no weapon was found for the “offense” of playing music Dunn didn’t like would seem like a pretty open-and-shut case to me. I guess we have to hope …
Dreary day outside, so washing
Have a “novelty” song spoofing “The Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las, sung, of course, by The Detergents.
Update to PBS post below
WNET/PBS have concluded that the better part of valor is to return that $3.5M grant from the Arnold Foundation meant to fund the programs examining the issue of public pensions and their impact on state budgets. The funders of the Foundation are John Arnold, a former Enron financier who’s expressed a desire to eliminate pensions …
Kansas State Senate shows some sense
Wednesday the Kansas State House approved a bill which would protect businesses and state and local government employees from lawsuits if they cited religious freedom as a reason to deny services to gay and lesbian citizens. Today the President of the Kansas State Senate said it wouldn’t make it through her part of the legislature …
Let’s threaten unions, class!
Update below. The auto workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, TN are voting Wednesday through Friday this week to determine whether they’ll affiliate with the United Auto Workers. If they do, they’ll be the first autoworkers at a foreign carmaker’s plant in the American South to organize. Volkswagen is not fighting the unionization effort at …
Oh PBS, I thought better of you
In December the public TV station WNET in NYC announced it will be creating programs which will be picked up by many local PBS stations and segments of which will appear on The News Hour. This two-year, local and national multiplatform reporting initiative will shine a spotlight on an expected $1 trillion-plus shortfall in funding …
Quite a find
There’s an auxiliary post office on the ground floor of one phase of my local shopping mall, and up the escalator is a used book/cd/dvd/blu-ray store. I was dropping some bills off at the P.O. and stopped by the store on the way back to my car. There was a $1 CD sale on a …
Beatlemania redux
I watched the Tribute show last night on CBS and was mostly amused by it. I don’t doubt all those musicians who were at the Grammys and stayed over a day to perform on this show truly do admire and respect The Beatles, but they mostly did mediocre-to-bad cover versions of Beatle songs. They tried …
Now this is good stuff
Jimmy Fallon’s last Late Night gig included The Muppets performing “The Weight.”