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San Antonio's Battle of the Flowers parade. I wonder if employers there still give a half day off for this?...
Hate Pride: The Traditional Values Coalition wears the hate group label with pride. Apparently, an important traditional American value is to call homosexuals "sodomites" and "perverted" and to insinuate that President Obama supports the tragic events of 9/11. As is typical with this member of the Usual Gang of Idiots, the TVC obsesses over the so-called homosexual agenda and helpfully offers resources for those stricken with "unwanted same sex desires." TVC also asks the question foremost in all American minds, namely "Do you want men dressed as women teaching your kids?"...
The Art of the Poster: Cool Hand Luke...
JUST A SONG: Martha and the Vandellas go "Dancing in the Street." It doesn't matter what you wear just as long as you are there...
Leonard Pitts remembers Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks...
Spring is here and the time is right for partying in Lafayette. But when isn't the time right for partying in Lafayette?...
Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has delayed the introduction of a bipartisan climate change bill because of what he calls a "cynical political ploy." It seems that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has determined to introduce immigration reform first, and Graham thinks that's because of Reid's difficult reelection campaign and a desire to put Republicans on the spot with Hispanic voters.
No doubt Graham is correct in assuming that a politician has made a political calculus in the determination of the legislative calendar. Call me stunned and shocked enough to become a teabagger. But a cynical ploy? A cynical political ploy is George Bush and Dick Cheney forcing a vote on the Iraq war before the 2002 fall elections instead of waiting for after. I don't recall Graham fulminating about that. And, if the Arizona anti-immigrant bill shows anything, it's that Graham's own constituency believes that immigration reform is a pressing matter. You're hoist on your own petard, Lindsay. Just because you're afraid of heights doesn't mean that a cynical political ploy put you up there...
Despite its awful name, there are 200,000 members of the Coffee Party. How come that's not news?...
Cat's claw vine...
Geogianne Nienaber at Huffington Post previews Lighthouse, Susan Cowsill's upcoming album (thanks again, Editilla!):
In many ways, Lighthouse is a concept album about Hurricane Katrina, the death and rebirth of New Orleans, Cowsill's personal triumph over childhood stardom, celebrity adulation found and lost, and most of all the death of her brother Barry in Katrina's floodwaters. But this is not a calculated compilation. The dramatic arc seems accidental and mirrors life in that manner. Life is uncertain. Embrace the pain and joy. Own it. It is all we have...
The silver pipes of Sam Cooke...
Yellow-headed blackbird...
The Kenyah head hunters of Borneo didn’t like to have more than 30 heads hanging in their homes at any one time...
Earth Day in Ballard Park...
The Soul Stirrers singing "I'm A Pilgrim":
Susan Cowsill singing her great Katrina lament, "Crescent City Snow":
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3 comments:
Nice collection this week. Heh, heh! I've been following Calvin waiting for his propeller beanie this week, and the Doonesbury line has been interesting.
Great song by Susan Cowsill. The Cowsills are from here, and I remember when we learned that Barry was missing after Katrina, and then when they found his body.
BTW, Crazy Heart is out on DVD and my public library has a copy, so guess what I watched last night? Wow! If Jeff Bridges ever gets tired of acting, he definitely has a back-up career waiting, especially if he keeps T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham on as his songwriters!
Bridges was convincing, no? He just plain inhabited that part. And you're right about the songs. "Funny how fallin' feels like flyin' for a little while" is a perfect C&W lyric.
We thought that Colin Farrell was surprisingly effective, and that's the best role Maggie Gyllenhaal has had to date.
I haven't seen an Andy Capp cartoon for years
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