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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Dead/Elvis (Elvis Costello plays and sings with Grateful Dead successors Furthur)
By Jack Brummet
Rock Editor
On 3/27/11, at Radio City Music Hall, Elvis Costello and his wife Diane Krall, sat in with Furthur (the Dead) and sang “Tennessee Jed,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Ship of Fools” > “Must’ve Been the Roses” > “Ship of Fools.” In the same show, Larry Campbell sings The Band’s “Chest Fever” and plays guitar and violin on a number of tunes.
Diana Krall, sings “Ripple” to end the first set and in the second set sings (and plays piano on) “Chest Fever” in the encore. Campbell’s wife, Teresa Williams, sings “Sunrise” in a second set that also includes “Uncle John’s,” “St. Stephen,” “Unbroken Chain,” “Morning Dew” and, to end the evening, “Attics of My Life” (with Teresa and Elvis in the chorus).
You can stream or download an audience tape of this show here. The show is not currently available for sale from Further or Dead.net.
Rock Editor
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Diana Krall, sings “Ripple” to end the first set and in the second set sings (and plays piano on) “Chest Fever” in the encore. Campbell’s wife, Teresa Williams, sings “Sunrise” in a second set that also includes “Uncle John’s,” “St. Stephen,” “Unbroken Chain,” “Morning Dew” and, to end the evening, “Attics of My Life” (with Teresa and Elvis in the chorus).
You can stream or download an audience tape of this show here. The show is not currently available for sale from Further or Dead.net.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sarah Palin: Quote of the Day
By Mona Goldwater, Tea Party Editor
Quote of the day:
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now.' And then I replied, 'Drill, baby, drill' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
- Sarah Palin, quoted by theWall Street Journal, recalling a previous meeting with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
Quote of the day:
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now.' And then I replied, 'Drill, baby, drill' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
- Sarah Palin, quoted by theWall Street Journal, recalling a previous meeting with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
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Another sweet photograph from the International Space Station
By Mona Goldwater
Aerospace Editor
The ISS Expedition Three crew captured the setting sun on a digital still camera, and the thin blue airglow line just at the Earth's horizon. Some of the station's equipment is in silhouette in the foreground. This image is from three days ago. Click on the image to see a much larger one. . .
Aerospace Editor
The ISS Expedition Three crew captured the setting sun on a digital still camera, and the thin blue airglow line just at the Earth's horizon. Some of the station's equipment is in silhouette in the foreground. This image is from three days ago. Click on the image to see a much larger one. . .
click to enlarge - image courtesy of NASA (your tax dollars at work)
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Monday, September 19, 2011
What Democrat will take on President Obama in the Presidential contests?
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
Unless something REALLY goes wrong, say, worse than it already has, in his last year in office, President Barack Obama will run for the White House for the Democrats, against, quite possibly, Governor Rick Perry or Ex-Governor Mitt Romney. . .and maybe an indie like Ron Paul. Where is the opposition?
The big question, as Presidential Candidates.Org, wrote:
There seems to be a fair amount of support for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to throw her hat into the ring. But Clinton told ABC News recently that the odds of her running are “. . .below zero. One of the great things about being Secretary of State is I am out of politics. I am not interested in being drawn back into it by anybody,” she said. (We get what she means, but it seems disingenuous to claim that the SoS is "out of politics.")
In recent weeks, there have been more and more calls by Democrats--including, predictably, Dennis Kucinich--for someone to step up and run against the President. Congressman Kucinich, who ran for President in 2004 and 2008, told CNN that a challenge to BHO would “make him a better president.”
Representative Peter DeFazio from Oregon told The Hill that growing numbers of Democrats believe Obama needs a challenge. “It’s a common refrain, and it’s certainly common in my district among Democrats,” he said. “They want the guy back that they voted for.”
During the debt ceiling fiasco, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said , “It would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.
Democratic strategist James Carville in a CNN column last week asked the President to 'wake up' and 'panic' and to clean house, and circle back to the "Democratic principles that got him elected." Carville wrote "The time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed." And, finally, "Fire somebody. No — fire a lot of people."
Ralph Nader said earlier this year that if The President is challenged in some of the early primaries “it is harder for him to say no. His strategists can say, ‘Don’t fight it, Barack; use it, revel in it; you’re good on your feet.' ”
The problem with all this, as Newsmaxx pointed out last week, is "The re-election attempts of Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were all undone by primary challenges, while Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all won second terms after avoiding any serious internal party fight."
National Affairs Editor
The big question, as Presidential Candidates.Org, wrote:
"Do we give President Obama his second term to reap the projected returns of his policies, or should we wipe the slate clean and bring the Republicans back into power again in the hope that this time, things will be different?"
Painting by Jack Brummet - click to enlarge
There seems to be a fair amount of support for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to throw her hat into the ring. But Clinton told ABC News recently that the odds of her running are “. . .below zero. One of the great things about being Secretary of State is I am out of politics. I am not interested in being drawn back into it by anybody,” she said. (We get what she means, but it seems disingenuous to claim that the SoS is "out of politics.")
In recent weeks, there have been more and more calls by Democrats--including, predictably, Dennis Kucinich--for someone to step up and run against the President. Congressman Kucinich, who ran for President in 2004 and 2008, told CNN that a challenge to BHO would “make him a better president.”
Representative Peter DeFazio from Oregon told The Hill that growing numbers of Democrats believe Obama needs a challenge. “It’s a common refrain, and it’s certainly common in my district among Democrats,” he said. “They want the guy back that they voted for.”
During the debt ceiling fiasco, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said , “It would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.
Democratic strategist James Carville in a CNN column last week asked the President to 'wake up' and 'panic' and to clean house, and circle back to the "Democratic principles that got him elected." Carville wrote "The time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed." And, finally, "Fire somebody. No — fire a lot of people."
Ralph Nader said earlier this year that if The President is challenged in some of the early primaries “it is harder for him to say no. His strategists can say, ‘Don’t fight it, Barack; use it, revel in it; you’re good on your feet.' ”
The problem with all this, as Newsmaxx pointed out last week, is "The re-election attempts of Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were all undone by primary challenges, while Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all won second terms after avoiding any serious internal party fight."
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If Only. . .No. 3: President Mario Cuomo
By Jack Brummet
Democratic Affairs Editor
As Number 2 in our series "If only. . .", we want to present former New York Governor Mario Cuomo. He was a master speaker, but he was bright (150 watts), with a heart of shimmering gold. I used to listen to him on his radio show in NYC (what we'd now call a side-project) and got a pretty good measure of the man over many hours listening to him at night. I voted for him for Mayor in the fall of 1977, a few months after I moved to NYC.
Why did he decline to run for President, even when it seemed likely he could at the least capture the Democratic nomination? We'll never really know; but we probably know, or we can guess:
The Man Who Should Have Been King
Mario Cuomo Nominates Bill Clinton at the convention
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Democratic Affairs Editor
As Number 2 in our series "If only. . .", we want to present former New York Governor Mario Cuomo. He was a master speaker, but he was bright (150 watts), with a heart of shimmering gold. I used to listen to him on his radio show in NYC (what we'd now call a side-project) and got a pretty good measure of the man over many hours listening to him at night. I voted for him for Mayor in the fall of 1977, a few months after I moved to NYC.
Why did he decline to run for President, even when it seemed likely he could at the least capture the Democratic nomination? We'll never really know; but we probably know, or we can guess:
- The best guys never run for President. For all the reasons you've heard before. Don't get me wrong--there have been plenty of ringers. . .good-hearted, decent, and very bright men (men, so far).
- The timing is never right. This is a perennial problem in Presidential politics--when do you make the contest? There are scores of factors (all of which, in reality, boil down to $$$) and infinite variations exponentiated with chicanery, skullduggery, treacherous to inept boardroom and office politics, and when and to whom various levels of payoffs, grease, compromise, blackmail, and even physical and psychological harm should be applied).
- Skeletons rattling in the closet? Those skeletons were often alluded to, but none ever materialized. If you ran for Mayor and Governor in New York, the rattling bones would have been shaken from the closet. I never believed in those skeletons.
- He didn't want to know if he would win or not. He wanted to keep that aura, which would be sullied by jumping in to The Snake Pit. For me at least, this was one of the great political heartbreakers of all time. OK, not RFK heartbreaking, but a little sad. You don't throw yourself off a cliff over a woulda-shoulda-coulda. . .but still, I often think about Mario and wonder "what if..."
Check out text of Mario Cuomo's 1984 keynote address, here if you need convincing. It is one of the greatest speeches of our time.
Other ATIT articles on Governor Cuomo:
The Man Who Should Have Been King
Mario Cuomo Nominates Bill Clinton at the convention
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Halloween costume ideas (probably NSFW)
By Mona Goldwater,
Fashion Editor
It's time for our annual post on Halloween costumes. Our criteria is mainly that the costume needs to be weird. We did not include the many costumes that you would consider cute, or dressed up animals, and, believe or not, we left out most of the really sick costumes, or costumes where you might say "it's too soon!" (9/11 costumes, Michael Jackson, etc).
Fashion Editor
It's time for our annual post on Halloween costumes. Our criteria is mainly that the costume needs to be weird. We did not include the many costumes that you would consider cute, or dressed up animals, and, believe or not, we left out most of the really sick costumes, or costumes where you might say "it's too soon!" (9/11 costumes, Michael Jackson, etc).
Little Hitler
Illegal Alien
Twisted Family Costume(s)
The Tooth Fairy
Kind Of A Katamari Babies Costume
Goldilocks
Bomber
Hawaii's Favorite
Priapic Frog
Naughty Bits
Man-sheep
Caged
Man-horse/Centaur
Birth
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Ren Cummins is giving it away!
By Jack Brummet, Language Arts Editor
Steampunk author Ren Cummins takes Crazy Eddy one step further. He's not practically giving it away, he IS giving it away. The first novel--Reaper's Return--in his Young Adult series Chronicles of Aesirium is available as a free download at the site below. It is available in various e-book formats from plain text to Kindle, Palm Reader, Nook, etc.
Steampunk author Ren Cummins takes Crazy Eddy one step further. He's not practically giving it away, he IS giving it away. The first novel--Reaper's Return--in his Young Adult series Chronicles of Aesirium is available as a free download at the site below. It is available in various e-book formats from plain text to Kindle, Palm Reader, Nook, etc.Naturally, he hopes this generous taste will drive you to actually buy the rest of the series.
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