Elizabeth Edwards recently told Oprah Winfrey she has "no idea" whether the former presidential candidate is a new dad. The New York Daily News previewed tomorrow's Oprah show here.
Winfrey asked Edwards directly whether she's still in love with her husband. "You know, that's a complicated question," she said.
In an interview set to air Thursday, Oprah Winfrey asks Elizabeth Edwards (who is suffering from terminal cancer) about speculation that Ex-Senator and Ex-Presidential Candidate John Edwards is the father of campaign "videographer" Rielle Hunter's one-year-old daughter.
"I've seen a picture of the baby. I have no idea. It doesn't look like my children but I don't have any idea," Edwards told Winfrey. ---o0o---
By Jack Brummet All This Is That Arts and Lifestyles Editor
In Pablo Fanque's misguided recent posting on Arlen Specter (Celebrate! Sen. Arlen Specter extricates himself from The Hive--> The GOP begins to succumb to The Sickness) on All This Is That, Pablo makes the error of postulating Arlen Specter's party-switch as an heroic act. In fact, Pablo, Arlen Specter has explicitly stated that he switched parties to save his own skin. He was basically run out of his own party on a rail, and faced a primary battle which pollsters said he was sure to lose. So he jumped ship, and came on over to our party. And within one day, admitted he may not follow his new party's line, on Senate procedural issues a/k/a The Filibuster), or on whomever BHO nominates for the Supreme Court Associate Justice slot. That's possibly OK. It's not just the G.O.P. who like their mavericks. We like people to get "mavericky" too. But, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, "a rat is a rat is a rat."
Arlen Specter has always been one of my favorite Republicans, mostly because he would cross the aisle, and has co-sponsored bills with Democrats like Joe Biden. He is an intelligent man. I've never quite forgiven him for what he did to Anita Hill in the Thomas confirmation hearings.
He's no Hero, Pablo, and certainly not deserving of the halo you awarded him. Sure, I'm glad he's on our side; but let's face it, he's on our side as long as it suits his purposes (e.g., being re-elected at all costs). He jumped to our party because he has nowhere else to go.
I recommend we welcome him into the party, and "trust, but verify." In short, sure, bring him in, but don't trust him any further than you can throw him. What's to say he won't jump ship on us once the prevailing winds change direction? For now, let's bring him along. . .even if he ends up as a double agent. But let's not call him a hero. He's a politician, with all the treachery, ambition, and madness that entails.
Pablo, I wonder, from your anointing of Senator Specter, if you don't have a Republican streak yourself? And, as for you Arlen Specter, if you're going to abandon ship, why not jump the shark and become a full-blooded Yellow Dog Democrat? You'll be leaving behind the festering cadaver of the G.O.P., but you'll be gaining a brother and sisterhood of The Right Stuff. ---o0o---
"Coming Up" opened Macca's McCartney II album in 1980.
Most of Paul's vocals are run through a Vocoder (you've heard the Vocoder in A Clockwork Orange's soundtrack in vocals on Beethoven's 9th and Timesteps; on ELO songs; on some Pink Floyd songs; and recently on Prince, Madonna and Cher tunes. Paul played all the instruments and sang harmonies with Linda.
John Lennon, who at this point disparaged Paul's solo work (see: How Do You Sleep?), liked the song very much and critics say that it at least partially inspired Lennon's own 1980 comeback (Starting Over/Double Fantasy) shortly before he was assassinated. The song "Coming Up" is known for this seminal video.
McCartney played ten roles in the video, including Hank Marvin (guitar), Mick Fleetwood (drums) [although I think he was really aping Levon Helm of The Band], Ron Mael of Sparks (keyboards), a Beatles version of Paul (bass and backing vocals), Frank Zappa (sax), as well as a long-haired guitarist (that had to be Neil Young), and there were a couple of sax players, and Linda playing a male back-up singer.
Coming Up By Sir Paul McCartney
Want a love to last forever One that will never fade away I want to help you with your problem Stick around, I say
Coming up, coming up, yeah Coming up like a flower Coming up, I say
You want a friend you- can rely on One who will never fade away And if you're searching for an answer Stick around. I say
Its coming up, its coming up Its coming up like a flower Its coming up. yeah
You want some peace and understanding So everybody can be free I know that we can get together We can make it, stick with me
Its coming up, its coming up Its coming up like a flower Its coming up for you and me
Coming up, coming up Its coming up, its coming up, I say Its coming up like a flower Its coming up I feel it in my bones
You want a better kind of future One that everyone can share You're not alone, we all could use it Stick around were nearly there
Its coming up, its coming up everywhere Its coming up like a flower Its coming up for all to share Its coming up, yeah Its coming up, anyway Its coming up like a flower Coming up ---o0o---
A video for "The Great Salt Lake" by Band of Horses, from their first album, Everything All The Time on Seattle's Sub Pop Records. The video is directed by Whitey McConnaughy:
Absurd.org has been around the web a long time. I forgot about it until yesterday. It is still a mesmerizing and bizarre site. In 1999, it won the People's Voice awards for weird web sites at the Webby Awards.
The 1999 Webby awards were probably most notable for [quoting Wikipedia here]: "the famous incident in which a representative of Jodi.org, which had won in the arts category, called the event participants "Ugly corporate sons-of-bitches" in his acceptance speech and tossed his trophy to the audience."
In any case, jump over to Absurd.org and click around. You'll be glad you did. Or utterly befuddled.
“The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time - Our [amazon.com] editors put their stamp of approval on the 100 best-ever albums from the ever-changing world of jazz. “ I dunno. This list smacks of a list by a committee -- the free jazz guy's choices get knocked down, so they have to give him a couple. One editor insists on a weird choice by a great player. As usual, with lists by critics, there are some bizarrely obscure/unworthy choices (like the way Captain Beefheart always turns up on rock lists). I make some of my own suggestions, and grey out the ones I don't think belong. I'm not going to make my own list--mainly because blogger already seems to be chokings on the formatting of this list...
A sampling of egregious omissions:
Charles Lloyd – Forest Flower? a tragic omission. Charles Mingus Ah Um or Live at Antibes? Miles – Milestones? Jack Johnson? Anything by Joe Williams? Anything by Nat King Cole? Miles’ In a Silent Way? Birth of the cool? Miles Ahead? Seven steps to heaven? Trane’s Giant Steps? My favorite things? Impressions? Ballads? Or that work of genius/trane wreck, Live In Seattle? No John McLaughlin? No Nina Simone! No Jimmy Smith (The Sermon would have been nice)? What about the Beau Hunks? Bud Powell? McCoy Tyner? Bix?
I just started using Twitter again. . .mostly to see what it's all about, or what it has evolved into. I first used it a few years ago, before the boom. Back then, it wasn't filled with celebrity Tweeters. It is now, and some of them are fascinating (I'm only following a random few right now...Shaq, Kevin Nealon. Kevin Spacey, and Dean Ericksen, among others). And Britney, who twitters about working in the garden (?), barbecues and playing slip n slide with her kids ("Just finished a barbeque with my boys and the rest of my family. Hanging by the pool. It’s Hot! 100 degrees in LA! ~Brit) or "Playing Slip N’ Slide with the boys. SOOO CUTE!!!! - Brit." She posts pictures from her concert tour, and the fans respond:
