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	*MONK RULES* *WELCOME to the Thelonious Sphere Monk* Memorial WebLog** Wanna listen to Just A Gigolo by Monk. Or Play "Some Other Toonz" by Monk Go to My page on Saatchi Gallery: Go HERE.
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	2/29/08 Zip Car Robin Chase @ TED. Simply brilliant. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Now, one of Clinton's laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is trying get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope." -- Bill Clinton, 2004 Summer Internship More Buddy With Buddy The Daily Show Jon Stewart, toady that he is, revealed his true colors and tried to get Madeliene Albright to say it would be OK if John McCain won the election. To her credit, she refused. This may explain why he has Wm Kristol on so often and treats him with such respect. Festival Express The infamous train ride across Canada. Go HERE. h/t Mike Derry Leap Day (Whoopie)
	2/28/08 Janis Wish It Was... Buddy Miles, 60, RIP History Of Evil Let It Roll Cute site from the Netherlands. Go HERE. Amazing Grace Believe it or not. It's from FoxNews. Go HERE. Hussein What's in a name? Go HERE. More From Abu Ghraib If you need anymore. NSFC. Go HERE for Wired. Go HERE for Salon. Another Month Shot To Hell Except some one decided we needed an extra day of winter. Why not an extra day of Autumn?
	2/27/08 Dick Gregory Where are you? 2 Rogues In 1 Day The man who brought Armani & Harley to the art world. Go HERE. Conflict Of Interest As insideous as peanut butter. Go HERE. Penn & Teller, Cleese & Houdini There Are Many Names For This Sort Of Dialogue Wm. Buckley v. Noam Chomsky. Two smart men masturbating. Go HERE to continue. Go HERE for an interview with Chomsky. Life During Wartime Wm. F Buckley, 82 One less blowhard. Working It Down Getting up an hour a day earlier. Before long I'll be up in the morning, doing nothing.
	2/26/08 You Ain't Seen Nuthin Yet SSRIs etc. I thought so. But they do make you sleep a lot. Go HERE. Now, Tylenol w/codeine is a different story. Straight Talk The essential Josh Marshall. Ohio Debate Billary and Barak face off again tonight. Is there anyone who has not made up their mind yet? Complaints Choir Of POIKKILAAKSO Also Go HERE for more complaints. Rachel Maddow Hottest, smartest, L girl in the media. Go HERE. The Blues Is Better Than Condi Slowhand, My Man, Eric, Derek invited to North Korea. Go HERE. Today Managed to back off a couple hours the last two day from sleeping too late. But I'm still tossing and turning when the sun comes up. Have to skip a night soon.
	2/25/08 Quote Of The Day "It's hard to believe, I know, but there is now an entire generation of 20- and 30-something Americans who don't know that Ralph Nader wasn't always a total asshole." -- Marty Kaplan Maybe The 1st Time Movie Music Almost without exception music (as music) in the movies is atrocious. Witness 3 noms for Enchanted and the whole list for John Williams. Last night, at least, the best of the bunch won. And that's not saying much. One year Bruce won. One year Dylan. Saint John How Low Will She Go? Go HERE. Genealogy Brynn Christine (Brzakala) Whittington My neice Kaye, 65, daughter of brother Vince ("don't call me Vinnie, I ain't no damn dago") Dries, was the first born of her generation. My Sparkler, 15, is the last. Kaye just became a great grandmother and her mother Phoebe, 81, is now a great, great grandmother. I am not yet even a grandfather, not to say I'm in any hury. Well done.
	2/24/08 The Real McCain dot com Philosophy 101 & 2 & 3 Keep Breaking Record 3:30 pm today. This is getting silly. Ho-ho Hum Ralph enters the race. Hopes to get better than his last .3 percent of vote.
	2/23/08 Dean On McCain Go HERE. FISA Pink Flamingoes I used to collect them. Go HERE. h/t Fred Frankly, I'd Rather Forget A man with an extraordinary memory. Go HERE. New Record Thought about getting up at 2:30pm but then decided to go for the record. 2:50pm is the new record. Kate woulld be proud of me.
	2/22/08 Baby Please Don't Go Rare Bob. Haw Go HERE for lyrics, etc. Possum Speaks Air Pollution Whoever lives above or below the front of my loft must have spilled a quart of some sweetly foul body ointment and makes me wanna puke. At least I'm hoping it's a one time thing. There are four new tenants above and below but I seldom see any of them. Today 2:20pm. Got up a little earlier today cuz I was so ashamed of myself yesterday.
	2/21/08 Obama & ??? Time to start thinking about what happens if Hillary turns Obama down: Another woman? Don't think so. Obama has Michelle for his Hillary. She's no Laura. I'm thinking Bill Bradley, a voice from the past who could have been a good Prez. Richardson for Secretary of State. Edwards for Attorney General. It could be fun to put together a team. Robert Reich ought to be in the mix somewhere. Clinton Wins Uncontested Contests Something to think about. Go HERE. I'm Gonna Say, Puke! Quote Of The Day "It was possible to arise at 4 and sit zazen for the pre-dawn hours. Every day we resolved to do it. It would be pretty to say we did." -- Robert Stone, Prime Green: Remembering The Sixties Good book from one of our best writers and one of Kesey's authentic Merry Pranksters, even if the definitive book on the bus is yet to be written. If you have not read Stone, start with Dog Soldiers or A Flag For Sunrise. Shameful I feel so bad, though I did set a personal record for slothfulness. I got up at noon-thirty, slid into my slacks and went to the bathroom, drained it, brushed my teeth and then thought: maybe a little nappy would do. It did very well thank you and woke up again @ 2:40pm.
	2/20/08 Rules Of Engagement Watch it all on Frontline. Go HERE. Oscar Is Coming Soon Ffor past hilarity Go HERE. Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre Go HERE. My Home Town Spencer tells me is 20 below, 40 below wind chill back thereabouts today. Only 31 here so I guess that one thing to start the day with. He can't get his old Farmall M started, so he can't drag any wood to his shed, so he can't do any pots.
	2/19/08 Not As Much As Grupp I have so much recorded music, I have often vowed to stop buying. But I don't. Such is the dilema that I sometimes forget to listen to stuff I just love. Thus a list of greatness in the last year, in case I've forgotten to post them. Sweet Warrior Chrome Dreams II Two Classic Albums from The Amazing Rhythm Aces: Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed to Jump Toucan Do It Too/Burning the Ballroom Down Children Running Through Up Front and Down Low Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Pay the Devil Secret South And more... FYI Kate The Great sent me this link. Go HERE. Q&A With Robert Plant. Go HERE. I Know, I Know... I'm way (35 years) late but just getting into Led Zeppelin after buying Raising Sand by Plant & Krauss. Willie Speaks Impeach Cheney/Bush. Throw the bastards out. Go HERE. El Presidente Castro resigns. Go HERE. The meme is that Castro is an evil communist dictator. I say on balance The Shrub has done more evil in 7 years than Castro has in 50.
	2/18/08 Least Wanted - Photos Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "It is not like putting burning coals on people's bodies. The person is in no real danger. The impact is psychological." -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, after voting against a bill prohibiting waterboarding Northern Lights As a child in Iowa, on a winter night we would a glimpse of The Northern Lights. Go HERE. I'm Gonna Barf Lindsey Lohan as Marilyn Monroe? Not even close. Merely sillym not to say vain. Go HERE. Baby Don't Go One of my fave duets. Yoakum & Crow cover Sonny & Cher. No Wars Since...? Hamlet? Why the Danes are the happiest people on Earth. Go HERE. Art Of The Day Ah, to be young and looking to exhibit yourself. Go HERE.
	2/17/08 No, You Can't One Man's Opinion
	2/16/08 Bubba's Burning Karma Along with lots of cash. Sad to see. Go HERE. David Eugene Edwards Go HERE for an interview. Don't be put off by his Christian beliefs; no more than you would Dylan's evolution or Aretha or the Carter Family. It's all just great music. Stuff White Folks Like Go HERE. Ma'Belle
	2/15/08 Artist Of The Day Go HERE. h/t Grupp FYI 9 times out of 10 if I land on a site that has white text on black I will click through. Obama v. Clinton I'm for Obama. I'm a man yet not a black man. I know people who are voting for Hillary because she is a woman. I know people who are choosing Barak because he is a "black man"; even though he is 1/2 white. What has any of this to do with who is best to lead our country. Nothing. Swiftboating John McCain The pathology of McCain. Go HERE. Sackcloth & Ashes Just got an old 16 Horsepower CD. Sounds great. Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
	2/14/08 Woven Hand And now David Edwards is Woven Hand. Damn, I am so far behind. He does a nice cover of Bill Wither's Ain't No Sunshine. Sinnerman Song by Nina Simone, cover by 16 Horsepower. Then Haw. Bush's 3rd Term Where Is Kim Today Go HERE. Today
	2/13/08 Andy Goldsworthy If there is a better sculptor alive, you better tell me. Go HERE. Da' Grammies My treat, besides Amy Winehouse, was to see the 83 year old Kelly Smith get an award. Caveat, Kid Rock filled in for the long departed Louis Prima but he did have the part down ok on Old Black Magic. And Keely still looked sexy and not a day older than YT. Why? Except for the fact that they are both short Jewish males, why does Jon Stewart give so much airtime and thus credence to Wm. "The Bloody" Kristol? I know why K goes on The Daily Show It's rather like O'Reilly going on Colbert Report. It disarms a liberal audience. Friday The 13th Comes on a Wednesday this month. Grey and rainy where I live.
	2/12/08 Amazing Rhythm Aces One of my fave country rock bands from late 70s are now being re-issued. Lead singer Russell Smith is still recording. Two Classic Albums from The Amazing Rhythm Aces: Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed to Jump & Toucan Do It Too/Burning the Ballroom Down Barak v. McCain J.J. Cale Quote Of The Day "...And secondly I believe the Iraq democracy is going to take hold and - it�s very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn�t been fully written." -- The Shrub
	2/11/08 Saint McCain Good luck with that in November. Sunny & Cold Yesterday we had about an hour of dancing flurries which is about all the winter I need. More than I need. Here's Amy.
	2/10/08 Grammys Tried to watch a bit but had to quit. I've never heard such crap in my life. I let it record just to catch Amy Winehouse on satellite. Stoned or sober she cuts them all. Fergie?????????? Jimi is tossing in his grave. Quote Of The Day I'm sorry for speading Coulter's legs for her but she ranks as comedian up there with Woody, S.J. Groucho... "I'm not equating Hillary Clinton to Stalin, and if I did I apologize to Stalin's descendents. I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy." -- Ann Coulter 16 Horsepower Haven't had such fun discovering music since bro David sent me a few tracks of Richard Thompson back in the 80s. You oughta check them (David Eugene Edwards) out. Aaron gave me a driving tape last time I was in the midwest heading to Sioux Falls. I listened but must not have been focusing. I'm down now. More Than I Need To Know About Lennon. Go HERE. Barak Stories of Obama being assassinated if he wins the election are rampant. "They" will get him because they got the Kennedys and MLK. Is this the same "they" got Reagan and Ford and Lennon. Who are they and why have they never gotten The Shrub? I suspect that he had his safety pillow in Cheney.
	2/9/08 Tears In My Eyes In The Know: New Iraqi Law Requires Waiting Period For Suicide Vest Purchases Artist v. Ape I got 100%. Go HERE. 16 Horsepower Oh, Jesus Just For You First name, first line. Last name, second line. Then click visualizer. Go HERE. Bobby Fisher What a mind was here oerthrown. Go HERE. Go HERE.
	2/8/08 Y Neil, fook CSN. Go HERE. 16 Horsepower One of Aaron's fave bands. Just getting into them myself. Jon Stewart Nails Mitt Perhaps the dumbest candidate ever. Rudy was the most evil. Huckabee had the stupidest name. No one knew who that Hunter guy was. Ron Paul was the most fun since Perot. There is a ticket: Paul/Gravel. Go HERE. Thriller About this time, 25 years ago, some one walked by my loft, boom box playing Michael Jackson's latest and best album. I dropped what I was doing and went to J&R for my own copy. Haven't played it much the last 24 years. Artist Of The Day And a few more. Jasper Johns. Go HERE.
	2/7/08 Dilbert's Blog The Universe A reader of the Dilbert Blog left a comment with this question: If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? The universe is �everything� by definition. Therefore, the universe can�t be expanding because it already occupies all space. I scratched my head over that for a week. Today I broke down and googled it. Technically, the only thing that is expanding is the �visible universe.� And by visible, we mean visible from the perspective of people on earth under the right set of conditions. Suddenly I found it amusing and typical that we humans commonly refer to the tiny bit of the universe we could potentially see as if it were the same as the entire universe. That is soooo us. I wonder if anyone would ever become a cosmologist if that branch of science was described accurately as �a study of the crap we can see.� Whoever decided to start calling it a study of the universe, despite all evidence to the contrary, was a marketing genius. Now that you know the real definition of the universe, as opposed to the piddly visible part, I have another question for you: When you do a push-up, are you really pushing yourself up, or are you shoving the universe away? Check also his prediction for the next Prez. Where's Benito Guiliani? Where's Waldo bin Laden? Artist Of The Day You will be amazed. Go HERE.
	2/6/08 Arthur Penn The man who knew everyone. Go HERE. Whaaazup! Just walked out for pizza for My Sparkler's dinner and saw the tell-tale signs of Ash Wednesday on old folks foreheards. Why so early? Fat Tuesday was Super Tuesday as well? Duh! Of The Day Ledger's Death Was Overdose. I'm Gonna Say, Damn! Not so Super Tuesday 'cept for McCain. I've said it before but... McCain could squash Billary. Obama is the only choice.
	2/5/08 And Here Is Barak - 2004 I Remember Mario - 1984 Still don't understand why he didn't run. Go HERE. I Remember JFK - 1956 I sat in Massa's tavern & pool hall and, between shooting pool was a bit captivated by this young dewd from Massachusetts. Go HERE. Richard Thompson Blows your mind. Hard On Me. Go HERE for more. Amazing Rhythm Aces DOJ Says All Groups Are = Duh! Go HERE. To Da Polls Count one for Barak. Actually most people I know are picking Obama. Emma's writing an editorial on Super Tuesday for Stuyvesant High Newspaper.
	2/4/08 Cortez The Killer Rave on Warren Haynes. Trust Me I'm for Obama, but remember the crap Edwards got for his haircut. I'm saying Barak must get about a #4 buzz cut every three days cuz his hair has not perceptably grown since he emerged @ the 2004 convention. Graphics Today
	2/3/08 The Good Bill Imagine what The Shrub will do with his post prez life, compared to Carter and Clinton. Get back to work Bubba. Go HERE. Artist Of The Day Robert Lang: Origami. Go HERE. Yes We Can! You Must Remember This
	2/2/08 Body Time After a year and a half of living essentially alone I have found myself on Kate's vacation schedule. I'm awake reading or tossing and turning until early morning (4-5-6) then grudgingly up and about after noon. I keep thinking I should break this schedule but can't think of a good reason why. When it comes time that I'm up for breakfast when Emma comes over for dinner, I guess we'll just have French toast, bacon and call it a day. Living Large Rudy spent $50,000,000 to gain 1 delegate but he did it in style. And he probably thinks he deserved it. Go HERE. Dr. Strangelove Makes it all seem so reasonable and inevitable. I've Learned Candor is not always a good thing. There are certain things that some people don't need to know and indeed many things certain people don't want to know. So, I'm learning to think before I speak.
	2/1/08 You Suck @ Photoshop Stop It! Go HERE. Today Cold, grey, rainy. I'm back for a nap to start the month.
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