Runnin’ with the Acappella
David Lee Roth solo vocal
Also, a 2007 reunion performance of “Jump” where things went horribly wrong (see YouTube comments).
[thanks to Von Shmavid and Pete from Tribe for the links]
2008
May
31
2008
May
29
Howard Kurtz Reliably Sleazes
Apparently the appearance of impropriety isn’t something Kurtz considers when booking guests.
Which wouldn’t be that huge a deal, considering it’s CNN/Time-Warner– where such confluences are usually euphemized as “synergy”– but Kurtz fancies himself a media critic.
2008
May
27
2008
May
24
Advice:
If your venue puts on live shows, don’t advertise that the doors will be opening at 6:30pm and then make fans wait outside the gate, standing in the cold, until after 8 o’clock– with little or no explanation.
Using the excuse “the headlining band was late and wants to soundcheck” doesn’t work.
The headlining band needs to learn that if they don’t show up on time for soundcheck, they miss soundcheck.
2008
May
21
2008
May
20
Don’t Hate Clinton Because She’s a Woman
There’s many other VALID reasons:
Here’s the thing: There is plenty of sexism— more than enough, thank you very much— in this country. Which is why it’s so sad to see Hillary’s supporters (and lately even her female detractors, and way too many column inches) elevate her to some kind of goddess warrior, symbolizing the decades-long fight for gender equality, absorbing the entirety of history’s catcall in one massive blow, and then standing tall again because that’s what women do. Powerful stuff, except that she’s a lying, race-baiting insult to our collective intelligence. Powerful, if she and her husband hadn’t sold out poor people in the ’90s or if she had stood tall like a woman against the war in Iraq or if she wasn’t right now trying to change the rules of the game and stir up the worst kind of identity politics. Powerful, if her most fervent supporters weren’t threatening to vote for John McCain out of spite, Supreme Court justices be damned.
Thanks to AMC for pointing to this.
2008
May
18
Another Weekend Gardening
Daily 80 to 95 degree temperatures since Thursday have things budding and flowering. Perfect potting/repotting weather.
2008
May
8
“Dumber White People Will Vote for Me…Won’t You Join Them?”
Hillary Clinton in USA Today, 5/8/08:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.