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	6/30/08 Click HERE for the latest totals. More Americans now dead in Iraq & Afghanistan than killed on 9-11. Plus 655,000 Iraqis dead. Tiger Woods? Wwhat a guy. Go HERE. Soccer? GAFB. Even more boring than Coldplay. Patriotism Go HERE. Good News Gen. Wesley Clark has now taken himself off the list of possible Veeps by attacking Saint McCain's military credentials. Obama quickly distances himself. Go HERE. Somebody had to say it. Only Neo-Cons can criticize Saint John. Go HERE. Flip Flop McCain Go HERE. Summertime Pearl. Wall-E Pixar does it again. Proving kids movies are the best films around. After you see it Go HERE for some viral marketing. h/t Kate The Great.
	6/29/08 True Facts As compared to false facts. Go HERE. Bad Hair Day Everyday. Go HERE. More George Carlin "In America, anyone can become president. Thatąs the problem." Go HERE. James McMurtry Finally getting some attention. Go HERE. 2nd Amendment The history of guns in America... Arming America reviewed by Richard Slotkin. Go HERE. Wall-E AC weather today. Seems like a good day to hit the Multi-plex o'er in Battery Park City. My girls and I never miss a Pixar movie; too bad Sparkler is at camp. Plant/Krauss
	6/28/08 Oh! My! God! This is rich: Bush wants to curb solar energy; do some studies before we go too far. Go HERE. Not Often But... occasionally I get an urge for some Ramones. Go HERE. And Go HERE for the Ramones channeling Beach Boys. Frankie Beth Orton does her awesome version of Frankie & Albert with Syd Straw & Eric Mingus. Go HERE. And, Speaking of Syd Straw Go HERE. Nine Inch Nails Giving away FREE downloads of their latest CD. Go HERE. I did, then discovered why they're giving it away. Bo-ring! Properties Of Pot Anti-imflamatory agents that won't get you high. Go HERE. Really Kewl Clouds Go HERE. And lightning. Go HERE. Phillip Gourevitch & Erroll Morris Robert Stone reviews the book and the film, Standard Operating Procedure. Go HERE. Frank O'Hara A new collection reminds me of the artists' poet. Go HERE. The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets in Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard) doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nčgres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
	6/27/08 Coldplay Caught them on The Daily Show and must say they leave me cold but they sure do think they are hot. David Addington What is Contempt Of Congress? People Are No Damned Good Cow abuse. No wonder they get mad. Go HERE. Artist Of The Day Louise Bourgeoise, 96 and still kicking. @ The Guggenheim. Go HERE. See where Kiki Smith and many other female artists derive. Under-Whelming And rather pretentious, those damn waterfalls. Go HERE. And they only cost $15,000,000. Animal Tales Funny. Go HERE.
	6/26/08 Nano Paper Stronger than cast iron. Go HERE. Cover Boy Barack Go HERE. Even Bill Gates Hates Windows An email... Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution." -- Barack Obama Oh Maria! In case you haven't seen the Wimbledon fashions... Go HERE. Maria's Out! Go HERE. Today's Dick Go HERE. 3 Old Flames Terry The Teacher, Midnight Mango & Lucia. It's a long pleasant story... but you don't need to know. Lara Logan If you missed this beautiful smart journalist on The Daily Show. Go HERE. SCOTUS Second bad decision in a row. Shot down the Washington D.C. gun ban. The bad 5-4 this time. Worst SCOTUS ever. Go HERE. Leonard Cohen Just got around to watching I'm Your Man last night and it settled nothing in my mind. I've always had a curious/dislike of Cohen. A friend gave me a copy of one of his CDs and I almost had to get rid of it. On the other hand this DVD was full of good to great musicians paying tribute that I had to give in. Teddy Thompson (son of Richard & Linda), Martha Wainright & Rufus (I prefer their dad), The McGarrigle sisters, Anthony (a sweet voice), Nick Cave (an odd duck), Bono (the pretentious) & Edge. Linda Thompson was advertised but I didn't see her featured. I do like some of Cohen's songs: First, We Take Manhattan, Bird On A Wire, Tower Of Song, etc. but he cannot rock so he is no Dylan. Teddy does two great versions of Tonight Will Be Fine.
	6/25/08 Hamlet Does The Blues Swapping notes on YouTube with the 88 year old Ken Nordine. Lots of stuff there. Go HERE. Go HERE for his web site. Santana Europa. Then Gato Barbieri's cover. Goodbye Joe Lieberman must go. Sign the petition. Go HERE. Some People Have Too Much Money So they pay $80,000,000 for a smallish Monet. Go HERE. SCOTUS These 5 are usually right on most issues but not on this one. Capital punishment of a child rapist is banned. I think that crime is worse than murder. Some people deserve to die and he is one of them. Go HERE.
	6/24/08 Emma Goes To Camp Sparkler's last year at Camp Oneka in Tafton, PA starts tomorrow for 7 weeks. I'll drive her up and miss her all the way back. But she is psyched to go for the whole season this summer. "Go Red." She is at the stage where she mostly tolerates her "Padre" and thinks he's a bit dumb cuz he doesn't buy into the "shop till you drop" and female shoe fetish syndrome. Dumb for many more reasons as well. We do agree on Obama, however, so she will come around one day. Point is, blogging will be sparse tomorrow. We leave at 7am. Hope the sun is up at that hour. Sarkozy Makes Sense Finally someone tells Israel that they must share Jerusalem. What's wrong with a free city? Go HERE. Art Go HERE. Windoze Kate is not too thrilled with her summer job. I thought it was just getting adjusted. But now it is revealed that she has to work on a PC running Windows and she hates it. Can't say I blame her. I always felt dirty when I had to do so.
	6/23/08 The Death Watch Paul Newman spotted getting old in NYC. Go HERE. Leave the man alone. 16 Horsepower For Heaven's Sake. Go HERE. McCain's Big Hope Another terrorist attack. Go HERE. Still pushing fear. It's all they've got. Go HERE. 60 Straight Wins On Grass Federer wins in 1st round at Wimbeldon. Go HERE. Pete Seeger @ 89 He's still at it. It will be a blue day when he passes on. Go HERE. Dylan's Indian Fans Go HERE. George Carlin, 71 RIP Go HERE. His big heart failed. And Go HERE. You can find his famous 7 words routine on YouTube. "The best afterlife for me would be to be able to sit comfortably and watch the world on a kind of heavenly CNN. To be able to have my remote and say, 'Okay, there's an uprising in Spain. Let's watch that. Or to watch China finally take over the fucking world. Because there's a billion of those motherfuckers and they're going to eat our lunch. I would love to get the thousand-year view on the decline of the European birthrate or the "Muslimization" of Europe that's talking place; the explosion of Latin American culture in the western part of the United States.' Just sit back and watch. India and Pakistan, both, have nuclear weapons and they fuckin' hate each other. I'm telling you, somebody is going to fuck somebody's sister and an atom bomb is going to fly. And I say fine. You know? I just like the show. This world is a big theater in the round, as far as I'm concerned, and I'd just love watching it spin itself into oblivion. Tune in and watch the human adventure. It's a cursed, doomed species but it's just interesting as hell. That's what I want heaven to be. And if it's not like that, then fuck it. I'll just kill myself." -- George Carlin "It's a wonderful feeling to have found something you're good at, that you love to do, and that other people think you do well. Those are the three elements, I think, that go into being happy: Find something you love, be good at it, and have other people pat you on the back and say "good job." -- George Carlin
	6/22/08 Bush v. Kristol Who is more despicable? Wm. Kristol or George w. Bush? Go HERE. McCain's Last Chance... for his own war. "I wanted to be a fighter pilot [as a kid]. In my generation and generations even after, the fighter pilot was the epitome, in many ways, of the tradition of the knight out there - one person in combat with the other. The Red Baron. Frank Luke of Arizona, from [whom] Luke Air Force Base is named. Eddie Rickenbacker. All those great [fighter pilots]. Pappy Boyington. I don't know if you ever heard the story about Pappy Boyington. They all drank a fair amount, and he was in Guadalcanal, and he fell and broke his leg. And he flew using a cane to move the rudder pedals. And he just had them lift him in, put him into the cockpit. Away he went. Now, the nature of warfare has changed a lot. It seems to me from visiting at the Naval Academy and some of these other young people, now it's the Special Forces guy, the SEALs, these guys that are running around at night and parachuting into places ‹ or being dropped by helicopter, more likely ‹ into places in Afghanistan and going after the Taliban and the bad guys. It seems those are, in some ways, replacing the fighter pilot in the most admired category by adventuresome young Americans, both men and women. -- John McCain Go HERE. The Smile Train (repeat) I'm sure you've seen those contribution ad's for children with cleft-lip and cleft palate. I saw one just yesterday and said to myself, do it. Today I got a solicitation in the mail as it was tweaking me. Heart-breaking but if you manage to read the ad you realize for only $250 you can help one of those children. My late brother Joe had a minor cleft lip repaired and later disguised with a mustache, so in his memory I bought one for someone. Most of us can easily afford a tax deductible $250. Go HERE. Update: I've decided that instead of donating to the obscenity of political campaigns, I'd use my tax rebate for this fund. Quote Of The Day "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008 Go HERE for Bushisms. Go HERE for more. Goya In Madrid Go HERE. NPR National Public Radio has a great site filled with all sorts of great music. Go HERE.
	6/21/08 Foodies I love The Food Network. I scour its recipes when I have new item to cook and TiVo its shows such as Good Eats. And I am a good fan of Elton Brown who knows a lot about food and techniques. Go HERE. Artist Of The Day Chris Jordan Picturing Excess. He's a bit preachy but that doesn't make him wrong. Go HERE. Also Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize." -- Muhammad Ali It's A Privilege... to be alive at the same time as Jimi. Even if I never saw him live. Stevie Ray Vaughn Little Wing Promo for Fender. MS w/o Gates Coming soon. The good news is Apple now has 7.1 market share. Go HERE. Crop Circles Via Google Earth. Go HERE. Internet 101
	6/20/08 Dyson On Computers Hillarious. George, son of Freeman, brother of Esther. Go HERE. Knopfler's 8th Symphony Sultans Of Swing by Mark & Eric. Go HERE. Joni She can rock. Artist Of The Day The Gruppster, once again. Go HERE. The Corrs One of my fave songs. I collect versions. Such A Wimp Me. I have tickets to see Teddy Thompson tonight with Kate but I discovered that the show starts at 9pm with 2, count 'em 2, opening acts. Opening acts are often dicey and I've never heard of these guys, so we were looking at, (like) an 11pm appearance for the guy I'm paying to see. He's good but I can't take the night life anymore. I don't smoke nor drink anymore and I'm not out to pick up girls... so, what's the point. I let Kate take one of her friends. I'll be in bed by 11pm. Thank you very much. You Are Next! Go HERE. Art Go HERE. Richard's Red Suit - 18" x 48" Today Nothing happening. Had to get up @ 9am and all I feel like now is taking a second nap.
	6/19/08 Obama/Osama What's the differnce? And this will not be the last time. Go HERE. It will be a miracle if he gets elected. He's blackish, he's Muslimish. He's Osamaish. Are Americans that intelligent? MacDries doesn't think so. Bet McCain. OMG! How dumb is McCain. 45 new nuke reactors. 2 a year for 22 years. Go HERE. Tedious Trying to type with 3 bandaged fingers. Art Go HERE for a sample of one of my first paintings from 1964. Emmylou Awesome Kate noticed she was the youngest in the crowd. I first saw her @ Music Inn in Lenox MA in '74-75. Double bill with a very drunk Jerry Jeff Walker.
	6/18/08 How Low Can You Go Worst Prez Ever. Go HERE. Art Archives I've been loading pix of all my works onto my web server. Go HERE for a sample. Go HERE for another. Bad Language Office-Speak. Go HERE. Lara Logan Today on C&L. Go HERE. Band-Aids Why do they make them impossible to open? Last night I sliced 3 fingers opening a can of tomatoes. Bleeding like a stuck hog, I was using my right hand to stanch the gushers of blood. That left my teeth available to open and bandage my would. It was mess, to put it simply. South Street Seaport 20 years and they are going to tear it down and re-build. Go HERE. Wonder if they will ever finish this damned ciy. Emmylou Harris Kate & I are going to see her tonight @ Town Hall. Good seats.
	6/17/08 AP Wants $12.50 For 5 Words And that's not even poetry. Go HERE. Jerry Lee & Neil Ray, Perkins, B.B. & Bo, James Brown, Jerry Lee & Fats Route 66 Krall & Cole. And Krall. Go HERE. Some Monk Our mentor. Plus, Krall, Freelon, Terrasson, Terry, Carter, T.S. Monk, Gore Finally On The Bandwagon If he had the fire in 2000 we wouldn't have had to suffer the last 8 years. Daughters of Bilitis For all you Gertrude/Alice fans. 55 years together and finally married. Go HERE. Obama Panorama Great shot of Michigan rally. Go HERE. Baracknophobia! Go HERE. Art I've been loading pix of all my works onto my web server. Go HERE for a sample. Go HERE for another. Esperanza Spaulding h/t Mike Derry
	6/16/08 Oh C'mon! You expect me to believe we can stumble through and science will save us? Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Your Eminence, you're looking good." -- George W. Bush to Pope Benedict XVI MacDries says. "Not that I give a shit." What Your Children Owe Obama Obama Obama He is so amazing. Almost makes me wish I were a Christian. Legal v. Lethal What is killing who and how many. Go HERE. Tiger! Blogging has been taking a second seat to the U.S.Open for the last two days. I don't play golf and only watch it when Tiger Woods is playing. Yesterday he came from behind, with a bad knee, to tie Rocco Mediate, 45, who was shooting for his first major tournament, on the 18th and final hole. That took it into an 18 hole playoff which also ended in a tie. That sent it into a sudden death playoff and Tiger won on the first hole. I had mixed feelings; hoping Rocco might pull it off. At the same time I always root for Tiger the way I always rooted for Agassi and Sampras and McEnroe. Non-contact sports are the only ones I watch. A Little Help
	6/15/08 Artist Of The Day The Party's Over ISPs will start charging per gig for internet traffic. Go HERE. Life During Wartime The Real McCain Does he really believe anything?
	6/14/08 Mistake, Barack "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Go HERE. MacDries says, "It may buy you some 'street cred' but you lose at least as much 'peace cred'. You can't out-macho McCain; he's a 'war hero'." ARTFORUM Summer 2008 issue has a review of friend, former neighbor, Ram Rahman. Rudy Returns For the cash. The man has zero scruples. Go HERE. A Second Cup Each day, after my first delicious cup of cappuchino, I think, like now of having a second. I sometimes do so and usually I regret it. Phillip Larkin This poem, in parts, at different times of life, is a true thing. Aubade I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold and horrify. The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse - The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total emptiness for ever, The sure extinction that we travel to And shall be lost in always. Not to be here, Not to be anywhere, And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true. Go HERE for the complete poem. Latest Painting
	6/13/08 Stewart Mott, 70 - RIP Philanthropist, eccentric. His highest tribute was to be on Nixon's Enemies List along with Paul Newman. Go HERE. And Go HERE. MacDries says, "I know Tim Russert also passed away today but he is not a huge hero to me. Stewert Mott is one of the good "rich guys". And we should always applaude those rare beasts." A Complete Artist David Byrne. Why don't I listen to him more often? "Same as it ever was." Graphic Humor GO HERE. Mutual M............ Andrew S. & Mark A taking themselves way too seriously. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "I think maybe legislation working with the Congress, which would define more narrowly the habeas corpus rights of people who we have detained. It's very broad right now. At least try to provide some definition of that so we're not ending up in endless lawsuits. Already the detainees have brought suit on diet, on reading material, on all kinds of other things that are certainly not central to what we have detained them for. So I would hope that we could at least do that." -- John McCain MacDries says, "Yeah, those damn lawsuits are such a bother." Dems Are Crooks Too Dodd, Holbrooke, Conrad, Shalala... Go HERE. Elvis When he was something. Clapton & Scottie Moore Rockabilly. Post-American World Some stats. Sift Happens. Go HERE. Friday The 13th Comes on a Friday this month. Beware!
	6/12/08 Mostly For Men And any women who love them. 5 Symptoms Not to Ignore. Go HERE. The Meaning Of Life According to Obama. Go HERE. h/t Dee Grupp Artists Are Dime A Dozen Does that mean they should get a tax break? No one insists we become a low-income worker. I don't think so compared to minimum wage workers, artist have usually made a choice to do what they do. Go HERE. The other side of the coin is that artists are always supposed to "donate" their art to other elitist causes. None of us are expected to be paid for our art. Cheney Is A Goon McClellan on Letterman. Go HERE. Letterman is really letting his feelings loose and it's about time. 2nd Quote Of The Day "Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face." -- John Updike Remember The Good Old Days? I bought 2 used bowling shirts for 25 cents each back in the day (1970s) in St. Louis. Nice shirts, one was peach colored and I gave it to my student-friend, Bob (The Cakeman) Irish. The other was cobalt blue with yellow lettering, with the embroidered name Bob Tomlin. Bob on the front, Tomlin on the back shoulder. I wore the blue one for years until my girth expanded and couldn't button it anymore. I gave it to Kate years ago and forgot all about it. Tonight she walked out to see some art in Chelsea wearing the shirt and I was so tickled.That is one of the things that makes being a father so much fun. Plus 25 cents used to go a long way. Still does I guess. Remember The Good Old Days? 1st PC-MAC commercial. Quote Of The Day "To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on and off at will would lead to a regime in which they, not this Court, say "what the law is... Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. Chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint and the personal liberty that is secured by adherence to the separation of powers... Within the Constitution's separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the Executive to imprison a person." -- Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a 5-4 majority Go HERE. OMG! McCain cannot use a computer!!!!!!!!!!!!! No biggie... he'd be on a PC anyway. Go HERE. Some Art Collection: Jennifer Crowell. Our family friend, Jennifer Crowell is graduating from U. of Chicago on Saturday. Congrats Jen. Reel Geezers Real Geezers talk about movies. Go HERE. And don't miss their take on Sex & The City. Joe's Gotta Go Josh Marshall on why Lieberman is a dead man, come November. Go HERE. Barack Obama Good interview on NYT.com. Go HERE. Also a new site to fight Obama smear campaigns. Go HERE.
	6/11/08 Where's Waldo On Google Earth. Go HERE. Street Art Once a week or so I check into Wooster Collective. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Every Republican I know looks at the Bush administration as a total failure." -- Matt Towery, chairman of Newt Gingrich's political organization MoveOn Cottage Cheese, etc. I grew up eating and loving cottage cheese on potatoes but seldom by itself. My mother added it to Lime Jell-o but it didn't go down that well with any of us. My children have acquired my same taste and in fact insist potatoes without cottage cheese is less than satisfying. They will also pour gravy over both and lap it up. By mistake, one day, I bought a container of cottage cheese with pineapple and no one would touch it. I tried a bite or two and thought it "not terrible" though not on mashed potatoes. It grew moldy and eventually landed in the garbage. I recall Nixon's habitual lunch was cottage cheese with ketchup and Reagan insisted that ketchup on school lunch menus qualified as a vegetable. The other day I made the same mistake, bought pineapple Cottage cheese, and decided I would try it. It has now begun to grow on me. I'm thinking of trying the orange flavor next. Hair Hats Go HERE. Some Art Collection: Gretchen Hatz
	6/10/08 Paul Newman Again Human. Go HERE. How White Is He? Obama is half white, half black, yet he is called The First Black Candidate to be nominated for Prez by a major political party. Just another example of American Denial about the race issue. Go HERE. He looks black, his wife is black, his children look beautiful; black, white, octoroon. Now there is a racist word if I've ever heard one. Y'know, Billie used to be castigated (by blacks & whites) for her hi-yeller skin color. Except by Artie Shaw who said, "Shut the fuck up! The Lady can sing!" I say the same thing. Obama will kick McCain's ass all over these 50 states. He has to or America is dead, dead, dead. TED Sent Me This Link NextEinstein. Go HERE. Sexist Media This one is for my daughters and my sisters and my female friends. Billary was right on this issue, of course. Quote Of The Day "The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning their clock, and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, 'Well, maybe we ought to do something different,' little or nothing's going to change." --Tom DeLay MacDries says, "Let's hope The Hammer is right this time. He so seldom is. Word: DeLay's own wife isn't voting Republican in November and he's trying to change her mind." Mule Variations I've had this CD for a few years and never got around to listening. My Mama's Eyes Gary, Madonna, Larry, Shirley, Daryl, Mike, Me, Delores. The Dead Gulf Fertilizer spilling down the Mississippi. Go HERE.
	6/9/08 McClellan Agrees To Testify Let's see if B/C stops the silver bullet. Go HERE. Obama 2008 I hope so. I've contributed some primary money to Barack so I get daily email hits for more. I volunteered to work for him in NY so I get more than one daily email hit from him. I replied to the latest post Hillary plea with a message stating that I will gladly contribute my impending tax rebate to Obama if I have an assurance that it will not be re-directed to help pay off Hillary's debt. No response to that message but I am now getting thrice daily email solicitations to again donate. I know how solicitation campaigns work but I'm not a fool. Hillary is about 20 mil in debt, spent mostly tyrannizing Obama and mostly loaned to herself from book royalies and Bill's outrageous speaking fees. She must have thought it was a good investment. Think again Billary. Mitt Romney takes the prize @ about 44 mil in debt; again mostly loans he made to himself. Ditto sympathy there. He will no doubt be McCain's pick for Veep so all is well across the aisle. I don't care what they do. Thay will do as they have always done. Screw you. Message to Obama: Grass Roots grow and spread laterally. As soon as I receive assurance that you will not be paying for your opponents' debts, I will cut another check. We love you back. Addendum: I remember the depressing day when OJ got acquitted; I walked out on the streets of NYC and had to witness cars full of young blacks screaming and applauding what every thinking person on the globe knew to be a huge travesty of justice. Now I walk the street expecting to see a mass of Obama buttons on the shirts and back-packs of young blacks. There is no there there. Not a whiff of recognition of what is going on. I think the suffocating lack of opportunity for young blacks is deeper than I ever imagined. 2% Of Historians Think The Shrub will be highly regarded in years to come. A majority think he is the worst Prez ever. Go HERE. 16 Horsepower - Live Haw. It scares me how good these guys are; especially David Eugene Edwards. Again the Europeans appreciate them more than Americans. I just ordered another CD even though I've sworn to stop buying music. Obama By A Landslide In Europe, that is... So we can begin to rebuild America at least. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "In reality there is only one candidate. Barack Obama. In November he will win or he will lose. John McCain is relevant only in so far as he is not Barack Obama. The Senator from Arizona is incapable of energizing his party, brings no new people to the polls, and has a personality that is best kept under wraps." -- Bay Buchanan. She & Him I Should Have Known Better Beatles cover. Latest Painting McCain Logos Get your buttons now. What's New From AAPL Go HERE. Go HERE. UPDATE: Go HERE.
	6/8/08 Paul Newman, 83 Everybody's fave actor is not resting yet, but he does have lung cancer. A perfect life of a consumate artist already has my tear ducts filling. His spokesperson played down his hospitalization, insisting Newman was 'being treated for athlete's foot and hair loss'. Go HERE. Seeger Serenades Eleanor Young Michael Ain't No Sunshine. What a great voice. Go HERE. Red Haired Soul A couple of my fave pop songs of all time. My Mama's Eyes Joe, Delores, Sybella, Vince. Today We mark the first day of the Post-Clinton Era. Henceforth Hillary will be back in the Senate; 1 of 100 such creatures. Bill can go back to making money and running his exemplary philanthropic organization. No more mention in the MSM unless Bill gets caught with his pants down. Ditto Hillary.
	6/7/08 Advice To Obama Don't pick a sitting Senator for Veep. You need as many secure seats as you can so you can dump Lieberman hard and often. Look to early retired Dems like Daschle, Bradley and Edwards to fill out your cabinet. Even Hagle would be better. Richardson would be good. And don't pick those nobody Hillary supporters like Bayh or Rendell who have been running against you all these months. Sam Nunn is dead isn't he? Hope so. Can't understand why Carter would even mention the guy. Anyhow, that's a start. Save the Senate and build on that. It's A Start 55, white Republican Obama supporter. I think there are a few more. Go HERE. Big Brown Got beat by a 38:1 nag. The Turtle Man Everybody has to do something. "Been bit 17 times and had my teeth knocked out with a chain saw... don't smoke or drink or do drugs..." h/t Grupp Fulton Fish Market - 1943 That's the Cocoa Exchange in the background. Go HERE. The Meaning Of Life & Death Jim McKay, a sportscaster, has died at the age of 87. The obit said "of natural causes". What does that mean? Cancer and Heart Failure are prevalent; does that mean they are un-natural causes of death? Foot Of Pride Passed over masterpiece. Reed does Bob. Lots of stuff on YerTube from Bob Fest. Go HERE for Neil doing All Along The Watchtower. LogoMania If you like graphic design Go HERE. My Mama's Eyes Vince & Gary on the farm. Bla Bla Bla Live blogging. Billary gets one last chance to bask. At least I'm hoping it's her last. And of course she is keeping everone waiting while she picks the correct pants suit. Bill will be there beaming as if she won. And of course she will try to claim one last time that she won the most votes of anyone in history. That's her story. History will show that it was her race to lose and she lost it. Well the motorcade has left home about a half hour late. So, I predict it will be about 10 minutes then about 15 minutes of applause and adulation, then the last hurrah. Don't ask me why I'm following all this. But as it turned out she gave a very decent speech. And whuzzup with Bill's pink face? Has it always been that color?
	6/6/08 Big Brown Reminder: Running tomorrow for Triple Crown - 6:30 ET The only time I watch horse racing is when they have the hype of Triple Crown. In other Sports News: On Sunday it is Federer v. Nadal for the French Open. Nadal is the fave and heading for his 4th straight to match Bjorn Borg's record. Thing is Borg also went on to win Wimbeldon a few times as has Federer who has yet to win the French. Great match coming up. Hey! Whuzzup We've been told for years that Castro's Cuba was homophobic and repressive. Films like Before Night Falls dramatized these memes. Remember Johnny Depp? Now this: Sex change operations FREE of charge. Go HERE. Pundits Are Always Right Go HERE. Don't Miss This Etta James, Keith Richards, Robert Cray, Johnnie Johnson, Steve Jordan with Chuck Berry in the audience. Hootchie Cootchie Gal. Neil Young Just getting around to listening to Freedom cuz I was sorta turned off by Rocking In The Free World. Once you get past that first track, the rest is excellent. Freedom If Hitler Had Been A Hippy From The Chapman Brothers. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "She will crush Barack Obama. Barack, just sit it out. It's going to be ugly. I promise you. You heard it here first." -- Joe Scarborough, December 20, 2006 Sunset On Mars Brought to you by NASA. Go HERE. My Mama's Eyes Don't know who these two are. Not Hillary Robert Reich says why. Go HERE. Bob 4 Obama Go HERE. Plus, he's showing his art. The Prozac Army In Iraq Go HERE. NYC Collage © 2008 Danny Dries
	6/5/08 I'm Saying Hoo-Ray Obama He says he will NOT be rushed into his choice for Veep. Go HERE. 40 Years - RIP Robert Kennedy Ruthless? Yes, but in a good way. LBJ famously said, "I'd rather have him in the tent pissing out than outside pissing in." Go HERE. No more talk of assassinations. I was in a Campground outside of Daccau that night listening to BBC until our battery wore down. Here he is after MLK was shot down. Obama Takes Lieberman Up Against The Wall Go HERE. Joe's gonna lose his ranking with the Dem caucus in the next congress if he doesn't back down. Go HERE. The McCain Straight Talk It was pathetic hearing McCain, who supported Bush 95% of the time in the past year, trying to distance himself: "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq." Which is quite different than what he had to say last month: "No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have." Mick & Amy Ain't Too Proud To Beg. Obama's 2nd Test Is he strong enough to deny Hillary the Veep spot? Which Way Is East Balkan Music. Chinese Food Nothing better than Chinese when it's good. Nothing worse when it's bad. Last night I had a craving and ordered from a new place down the block. Won Ton soup, fried shrimp dumplings and Mu Shu Shrimp. Well, the won tons were thick and under cooked. The fried dumplings were barely boiled, not fried and the duck sauce was salty. Mu shu shrimp was not good. I usually have enough left over for lunch the next day but today I'm not so sure I'll eat it. McCain & Katrina Go HERE. One Last Day In The Sun Just got an email from Hillary saying she's gonna announce on Saturday that she finally supports Obama. Let's hope it rains on her last parade. The more I think about it the more pissed I get. Everyone else merely makes a statement of concession and congratulations. Not Billary, they have to put on a show. Let's hope Obama has the good sense to avoid the spectacle.
	6/4/08 The "Nukular" Dump Just more crap to dump on future generations. Go HERE. Art Censorship Capital New York City. Last time it was manure and the Blessed Virgin. This time the subject is assassination. Go HERE. "Boo" = "Beau" I've now heard Donna Brazile tell two different interviewers, "You're not my boo." The latest was to Anderson Cooper, who we all know is gay. He seemed to not understand the term. He said, "But I want to be your boo, Donna." A good laugh was had by all on the panel. MacDries says, "Donna is one sexy lady and I'd be happy be her boo too." The Original Dick Go HERE. Go HERE for a bonus Dick. MacDries says, "1941 was a bad and good year. Cheney was born in January. Dylan came along in May and YT arrived in August. The Dickster seems so much older than Bob & Me." She Just Can't Do It MacDries says, "My advice to Barack is: ignore the woman and let her stew in her own vitriol."
	6/3/08 I Still Say As much as I admire the Kennedys and wish Teddy well in his recovery, I still blame him for Carter's defeat in 1980. Teddy and the Democrats sabotaged Carter and if they hadn't we may never have had to suffer Reagan/Bush in the first place. And so on... I Don't Care! Once again, it is proved, the Shrub gets his philosophy from childrens' literature. Go HERE. Message To Billary "I'm making a speech and you're not going to like it." -- Margaret Chase Smith to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Remember Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Go HERE. Message To Obama Don't even think about it. And break it to her crudely. My Mama's Eyes Me & Joe. Oldest & youngest at the time. Vote The Worst Album Cover of all time. Go HERE. Will She Won't She? She's already ridiculous and no one has assassinated Obama yet. Bo Diddley
	6/2/08 Seem Familiar? Quote Of The Day "There is no shame in recognizing your failings or getting help if you need it. The tragedy comes when we fail to take responsibility for our weaknesses and surrender to them." -- George W. Bush MacDries says, "Irony? What is that?" CO2 Catcher some good news. Go HERE. NYC Jazz Fans Kate's piano teacher Connie Crothers will be playing Solo @ The Vision Festival - 9:30 p.m. - Friday June 13, Clemente Soto Velez: http://www.csvcenter.com 107 Suffolk St. (at Rivington St.) New York, NY 10002 F train to Delancey street or JMZ to Essex Street - (212) 696-6681 Also a Panel discussion: Jazz Factions Friday, June 13 at 5:00 - Clemente Soto Velez Radio appearance on Bird Flight, Phil Schaap's program featuring Charlie Parker June 10 WKCR-FM, 98.8 from 8:20-9:30 a.m. This Iraq War At this point the Iraq War (except for those being killed or maimed over there) is only being fought within the USA. All Iraqis and the rest of the world think we whould get the hell out of there. We just thave to convince 51% of the electorate to vote for the end of it. Artist Of The Day Wm. Lamson. Go HERE. Romdog should like these videos. Sorta like the 70s stuff. Poor Eve h/t Andrew Sullivan (who else) Soft Shell Crabs Score. It's not fair how short the season is but I bought 3 little babies for tonight. What Hillary Needs To Do... if she has a shred of dignity left. Go HERE. Ellas Bates - Bo Diddley, 79 RIP "If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey." Elvis didn't start it; Bo & Chuck and Little Richard did.Go HERE. My Mama's Eyes Joe, Iris, Poppy, Sybella, Delores, Larry, Shirley, Danny, Madonna. Under The Knife Teddy's having brain surgery today. Go HERE. Update: Surgery successful. Go HERE.
	6/1/08 My Mama's Eyes Larry, Norma, Danny, Madonna, ?, Daryl, Shirley, Gary, ? My Way Sid's Way. Go HERE. Seriously How could anyone thake these jerks seriously? Poor George, he sorta had class. Cheap Talk Billary supporters like to threaten they won't support Barack if Billary is snubbed. Think again. What happens to those of us who could never vote for Hillary under any circumstances. And those of us who would have to stiffle some vomit if Barack should foolishly choose her for Veep. Here is a Hillary zealot. Soft Shell Crabs Had my first of the season last night, sauteed with flour, s&p, in butter & lemon juice. Served with a few cherry tomatoes. So good I think I'll go get more for tonight. Update: It sucks. Both of our gourmet stores were sold out. Maybe tomorrow. I Am Neurotic Compare and submit your own. Go HERE. MacDries says, "Frankly most of these are mere quirks. I'd save the term neurotic for behavior that does harm to oneself or others." Quote Of The Day "We all misspeak sometimes. I've done it myself. So on such a basic, factual error, you'd think that Senator McCain would just admit that he made a mistake and move on. But he couldn't do that. Instead, he dug in. And the disturbing thing is that we've seen this movie before -- a leader who pursues the wrong course, who is unwilling to change course, who ignores the evidence. Now, just like George Bush, John McCain refused to admit that he made a mistake. And that's exactly the kind of leadership that we've had through more than five years of fighting a war that should've never been authorized, and should've never been waged. We don't need more leaders who can't admit they've made a mistake, even when it's about something as fundamental as how many young Americans are serving in harm's way." -- Barack Obama How Bill Feels today Go HERE. Are You A Good Person Take the test: Go HERE.
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