March of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons
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October 25, 2009
October 23, 2009
According to Steve Slackmeyer in The Daily Rag, John Belt says he’s rented the G-Spot to Picasso’s on Paseo. Read All About It. Opening in December after a “top to bottom cleaning”.
In other news, Pie-faced comic Soupy Sales is dead at 83.
October 19, 2009
mind/no mind
He’s rude and inappropriate and spends far, far too much time on the interweaveswebtubesnet but we get the benefit because his blog is a never-ending stream of diverting images and video, much of it of the hard to find music variety. He’s basically a new rocknroll guy (but you put your own label on his choices and I’m betting he has a hard time describing it in a word or three) and the music is hit or miss with me, but AT LEAST IT’S NOT THE SAME OLD SHIT. Meanwhile, his commentary and odd visual images and ironic/hipster/scatalogical captions are diverting enough and often enough that it’s at least daily for me to check in on him.
I think I actually once saw the guy at the Red Cup, but didn’t recognize him in time to speak to him. He runs around with a bunch of my friends that I don’t see much anymore — Yes, Eric Dawson, we’re all looking at you — and some others I do, like JD Merryweather, who is just f*ing tearing up this town with his new microbrewery — COOP — on his way to New Social Media Maven of the 21st Century AND BEYOND! first runner up.
October 15, 2009
October 13, 2009
cosmic hand of god
Monday night, I was coming home from a saxaphone serenade at Prohibition Room about 11 p.m. on rain-slicked, darkened streets and I drove north along Classen to where it meets Grand Blvd.
As I came around that turn to the East, of course I noticed the “Classen Curve” sign for the new shopping area that’s going in.
Perhaps because it’s getting close to Halloween, I also noticed the cemetery.
I know that cemeteries always make ME want to spend money — while I still can.
And, the thought came to me that it will be a big boost to the retailers there to be next to the cemetery in the same way I’m sure it helps the restaurant to be known as Pearl’s graveside — funerals? Yum!
You know, the record store could sell death metal.
I can see someone wanting to get a new bag and a pair of matching shoes with Daddy’s inheritance. And, another pair of those black pumps for the funeral while we’re shopping.
Maybe an Ann Rice book store next to a voodoo kiosk selling grave clay and headstone rubbing kits. An All-Things-Goth boutique could be a hit.
Non-stop showings of Zombieland? Why not?
Marketing genius!
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October 12, 2009
shut up, he explained
The Dow Jones Industrial Ave. “flirted with” 10,000 on the New York Stock Exchange today. Isn’t that just like fickle lady luck. One day, you’ve got 14,000 on your arm, the next thing you know and you’re slumming with some 7000s and the best you can do after months and months is to just flirt with five figures. A few trillion here and few trillion there adds up and there’s nothing like a trillion in the wallet to make you handsome.
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October 11, 2009
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Harry Truman integrated the armed forces with a stroke of the pen and Obama could do the same for gays in the military. Instead, he gave his 2007 campaign speech to the Human Rights Campaign dinner last night, once more promising he would do something great, but just not now, just not yet, wait some more.
The fierce urgency of the end of my projected second term, you might say.
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In a column in today’s New York Times, Frank Rich writes about a topic that’s been really bothering me lately: why the hell are the discredited neocons — who have been consistently wrong for more than a decade about everything foreign policy — still on the Sunday talk shows?
When does Stephanopolous look William Kristol right in the eye and say: is this like when you said the Iraq war would be over in 6 weeks? Is this the same as when you told us we’d be greeted as liberators in Baghdad? Is there any part of the “robust” assertion of American military power you advocate that has actually succeeded in doing good for us?
And, yes, I would include Sen. McCain, who has a foreign policy that is based on nationalistic fighter pilot chutzpah and not any serious and in-depth study of global issues, and who, I will remind you, lost the presidential elections rather badly.
They aren’t foreign policy experts, they just play one on TV. Continue reading
October 10, 2009 part II
October 10, 2009
For some people, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize will never be as good as the one Bush deserved after invading Iraq.
There was an incredible amount of commentary on the event in the punditocracy today. Look at Memorandum and be amazed. Josh Marshall gathered up the sleaziest and Andrew Sullivan looked for the most witty.
I Twittered a little bit about it, as you can read on the right hand column of my feed.
I had a personal reaction to news he won the prize: I felt like all of us had won it by turning our backs on the past four years of the neocons. It’s a big reason why I voted for him.
You had to know that his election with his proletarian background and Muslim name would make the world see us as more grown up and less like trigger happy cowboys. People who care about peace worldwide must have breathed a sigh of relief at his election. Think about it. He may not yet have ended the two wars he was handled, but he’s darn less likely to start any elective wars and that must seem like a blessing from Norway’s point of view. Continue reading
October 4, 2009
I am indebted to Flibbertigibbit for passing this along. It was so thought provoking, I had to share. Thanks, Nina!