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	*June Y2K9*
	6/30/09 Go HERE for the latest totals. More Americans now dead in Iraq & Afghanistan than killed on 9-11. Plus more than a million Iraqis dead. Bittersweet Republicrats whine. Go HERE. Israeli Terrorism Drones kill 29 in Gaza. Go HERE. Franken Wins, Again Coleman finally concedes. Go HERE. NYTimes Shenanigans Conspires with Wikipedia to supress news. Go HERE. Oliver Sacks New show on NOVA. Go HERE. Ad Hoc Repairs There, I fixed it. Go HERE. Wimbledon Venus & Serena vs. Safina & Dementieva in semi-finals. Pina Bausch, 68 RIP Go HERE. Go HERE.
	6/29/09 LMFAO Richard Pryor. NSFW. Go HERE. HUNG The most blatantly tasteless idea for a TV series I've ever heard of. Joe Cocker Whiter Shade Of Pale. Go HERE. Wimbledon Roger's in the Quarter-finals. Jobs Back On Job Go HERE. Farrah I'm too old to have been in on the Farrah wave and never understood her allure. Last night I saw Notorious with Ingrid Bergman. Now there was a babe. Beautiful, great actress, sexy. This got me thinking of others who qualify: Linda Darnell, Ava Gardner, Veronika Lake, Ester Williams, Sophia Loren, Deborah Kerr, Barbara Stanwyck, Lauren Bacall, Catherine Deneuve, Liv Ullman, Bibi Andersen, Ingrid Thulin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julianne Moore, Debra Winger, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, it goes on... Others qualify without the sexy component: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Meryl Streep, Betty Davis... None of whom exude any sexuality.
	6/28/09 Bulldog Reads Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Go HERE. Total BS Only men are infidels. But who are these men screwing? Go HERE. Synesthesia A somewhat surreal video. Go HERE. Alanis Morrissett Caught her on Artists' Den last night, concert at Judson Church. A little hard to distinguish her lyrics but her fans all had them memorized. Have to check her out. Seems authentic.
	6/27/09 Swap Traded this painting: For this knife by Rebecca Glasscock. Go HERE for more knives. Lobster Delicious but it's all over too soon. Oh Barak Signing statements, indefinite detention, back-peddaling on DADT. I didn't vote for any of those things. Wimbledon 3 American women in the round of 16. A qualifier Melanie Oudin joins the Williams sisters by beating Janovic; former #1. Go HERE. Roddick is still in the mix too. Censorship Gone Mad Saw some coverage of a trial on TV last night. They were showing courtroom drawings and had the faces blurred. Today Sparkler just left for a month of Writers' Workshop @ Brown University. 1 year of High School left and we all know how quickly a year goes by.
	6/26/09 The Tubes The Tubes Internet full of sludge today and so am I. One For The Money Devil Wears Prada Sparkler TiVoed this flick and I took a look last night. It's much better than I might have imagined; almost like a Mike Nichols movie in detail. Women love it because they're interested in such things. And men will like it because it shows how foolish women can be. Somehow I doubt there is anyone as self-centered and nasty as the Amanda played by Meryl Streep.
	6/25/09 Sheer Talent Jackson 5. Go HERE. Gretchen Mert, my eldest daughter is connected. Tonight she's going to see Wilco, in LA, for the second time this week. She also got to meet all except Tweedy afterwards. It's a vicarious thrill for me. Michael Jackson, 50 RIP Go HERE. Still More Recent Art Go HERE. Oh Jackie We hardly knew you. Go HERE. Oh Clarence Supremes rule 8-1 strip search is illegal. Go HERE. Sparkler Emma's grades are in and it seems 97.2 for this term is gonna do it. Smart, beautiful, athletic, and good-natured. The kids got it all. Stanley Kubrick TCM had a great doc last night. Not a huge fan and hate some of his films but the praise heaped on hin by everyone makes me wonder. Dr. Stangelove may be the greatest film ever. Tonight is Fellini @ 8pm.
	6/24/09 Carl Grupp If you have one friend, in the whole damn world, like my man Carl, you've had a great life. Netanyahu's Still An Ass** French also call for a freeze on settlements. Go HERE. Wimbledon** Maria's out in 2nd round. That sucks. Roger & Serena advance.
	6/23/09 Dwight & Kelly An old George & Tammy song, Take Me. Go HERE. Once Again Nixon reveals his racist anti-semitic soul. Go HERE. Jamie O'Hara Cold Hard Truth. Go HERE. Poem For The Day Cold Hard Truth written by Jamie O'Hara, recorded by George Jones. Also, perhaps, his greatest recording. Go HERE. The Women Lead In Iran Go HERE. Clapton, Cash & Perkins Matchbox. Go HERE. Today
	6/22/09 Moon Litter A list of what we've left on the moon. Go HERE. More Recent Paintings From the last couple years. Go HERE. Wimbledon Federer wins first. 5 to go. Wilco TiVoed them on Austin City Limits and watched about 3 times already. One of the best bands around. Go HERE. Jeff Tweedy is a great singer/songwriter and awesome guitar player. Other lead guitar, Nels Cline, is the king of the whammy bar. Been listening to them all day. Cheney Wins Again The Supremes rule against Valerie Plame. Go HERE. Mama Don't Take My Kodachrome Away Mama says, "Sorry, digital wins." Go HERE.Go HERE for Paul Simon. Lunchtime Tango (Repeat) Don't forget. Friend Andrea Katz, tango enthusiast, is hosting Tango Tuesdays in the South Street Seaport. Front Street between Beekman & Fulton. 12:30-2pm. Go HERE.
	6/21/09 Hot Rockin' Chicks Dana Fuchs covers Etta's I'd Rather Go Blind. Go HERE. 2 Thumbs Up for Up Spakler and I both loved it. Then Pad Thai for dinner. Druids Meet @ Stonhenge Celebrating the "longest" day. Go HERE. New Feature Democrat Or Republican? Happy Fathers' Day Frank Anton Dries died 57 years ago. I was 11. Not enough memories but they are all good ones.
	6/20/09 Health Care Robert Reich to Obama. Go HERE. Kieran Kane Cool Me Down Go HERE. Toothpick Art San Francisco made out of toothpicks. Go HERE. Art Basel Go HERE. Steve Jobs It seems Steve had a liver transplant. Go HERE.
	6/19/09 Robotic Surgery Catherine Mohr, inventor, surgeon, babe. Go HERE. h/t TED Ray Bradbury Still alive. Go HERE. SlideShow Tiny paintings. Go HERE. Sen. Feingold Once again he tells it straight. A Senator of substance. Go HERE. Meanwhile The wars go on and we're thinking of the next one with Iran, North Korea. Go HERE. Wimbeldon Injured Nadal withdraws. Who's gonna stop Roger? Murray, perhaps. Djocovich?
	6/18/09 Quote Of The Day "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson Blame Sally The gals are at Joe's Pub tonight and I'm such a weinie, I'll pass them by. What ever happened to the old daus when the night began at 11pm and ended around 4am? SRV May I have A Talk With You?. Go HERE. Lay Down Sally Clapton & Knopfler. Go HERE. STFU PETA. Criticizes Obama for swatting that pesky fly. Go HERE. Watergate 37th anniversary of the break-in. Today Seems it's rainy all over the world. When I lived in the country I used to go walking in the rain, get soaked and then have a hot shower. In the city it's just an excuse not to go anywhere.
	6/17/09 Today's Free Tune Patty Smith. Piss Factory Laura Cantrell Go HERE if you don't know her. Or if you do. Safari 4.0 Sucks Compare the speed of FireFox with Safari and you'll see what I mean. Hope they get a fix soon. Actually, there is one available now. Hope it works. Hot, Rockin' Chicks Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women. Go HERE. Rethink Afghanistan Go HERE. Kewlest Prez Ever Imagine what he'll do to Kim Jong Il if he keeps pestering him. Go HERE.
	6/16/09 The Tubes, The Tubes Them damn internets are sure slow today. Not sure why but maybe Safari 4.0 may be bogus. Quote Of The Day "I make up stories. 'Where is he?' 'I don't know.' Then he torture me. Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area.'" -- 9-11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, on lying about Osama bin Laden while being tortured Bonobos & Bison Do It Dophins too. As Woody said, it increases your chances for a date on Friday night. Go HERE. A Terrible Beauty Is Born Yeats, of course. Easter 1916. Go HERE. STFU Bill Kristol, Borat (boring), Alec Baldwin, Keith Olbermann, Bibi Netanyahu, Bill Maher, Sarah & Dave, the list does go on. Eric Cantor, David Brooks, Elizabeth Bumiller, and of course the usual suspects; Rush, Newt, Delay... go ahead run. Boehner. To Have & Have Not Bogie & Bacall, great Walter Brennen. Best movie ever for snappy one-liners. "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve." "It's even better when you help." etc. etc. Bloomsday Stately, plump, Buck Mulligan...
	6/15/09 Susan Tedeschi Sings John Prine's Angel From Montgomery. Go HERE. Little Wing I collect covers of this Jimi classic. Go HERE for Clapton @ Budokan. Go HERE for SRV. My Eye Sight Doc told me I have beginning signs of diabetic retinopathy in my left eye. I've also had chronic weepy eyes for a couple years. Now I've noticed that when browsing the www I have to kick up the default size of my browser. Ain't life grand. Chicken Shit Panetta He backs down on his criticism of chicken hawk Cheney. Go HERE. I Miss Abbie A Revolutionary with a sense of humor. Name another one. Go HERE. Fuk Frank Geary Plenty of weird buildings. Don't need no more from you. Go HERE. h/t Mike Derry Lonesome Dove Watched the mini-series 20th anniversary showing last night and it holds up very well. The best mini-series I've ever seen is the British series Edge Of Darkness followed by The Executioners Song also with Tommy Lee Jones. Duval steals Lonesome Dove. Neil Young Don't Be Denied. Don't miss this documentary if it comes your way.
	6/14/09 Potato Salad If you love it as I do, here are a few wrinkles. Go HERE. STFU Bill Maher isn't totally happy with Obama; wants him to be a little more Bush-like. He resents Barack's audience on TV which is bigger than his own. Take another hit on your bong Bill. Obama is not the Messiah, he has and will make mistakes but he is cooler than an 80s stoner. Blame Sally More Hot Rockin' Chicks. Go HERE. Kurosawa Caught the last half of Seven Samurai the other night. It was so good I TiVoed Kagemusa which I'd never seen. It got huge reviews when it first came out and was almost unwatchable. Oh well...
	6/13/09 Hot Rockin' Chicks Blame Sally. Jump Start. Go HERE. Psychedalia Go HERE. Kewl Site Of The Day Go HERE. Today Got nuthin'.
	6/12/09 More Bibi BS Netanyahu's terms. Go HERE. The Birds Strike Geese are battling aircraft with their damn strikes. War is declared. Go HERE. I don't suppose aircraft could put some sort of condom over their intake engines. Kewl Site Of The Day Get your geek on. Go HERE. Karrin Allyson Little Boat in keeping with my Bossa Nova craze. Go HERE. Allyson did a great album of vocals based on Coltrane's Ballad CD. Artist Of The Day Reuben Sorenson, Facebook friend. Go HERE. Carolyn Wonderland she's at Joe's Pub tomorrow night if I can stay awake that late. Go HERE. Latest Painting Should hang above a king size bed. All The News... that's fit to watch. The Daily Show The Colbert Report & The Rachel Maddow Show are about all you need.
	6/11/09 Strange Architecture Mike (Derry & Jantzen) will like this stuff. Go HERE. Rachel Maddow I love her show and my fave spots are when she has the totally cute/hot Ana Marie Cox on and the flirting begins. Least fave are the spots with her friend Kent who thinks he's funny. I'm Wondering If a born female (such as Chastity Bono) becomes a lesbian and then transgenders to male, is she/he still a lesbian? There has got to be at least six different genders. It's gotta be confusing if one is born on the edge. My feeling is: the more one is threatened by the issue, the closer one is to that edge. Go HERE. Latest Painting Finished but it's too grey to photograph today. Today Ennui is a good word for it even if I'm not in France.
	6/10/09 Sparkler's One-Act Of course her's was the best of the 4. She also acted one part yesterday. Wish I had gotten to see that one. Some Good News Terry McAuliffe, Billary's hatchet man, got his butt handed to him in Virgina primary.
	6/9/09 Myths About Sex Usefull info for the young. Go HERE. Rebecca Glasscock New friend from Facebook. Beautiful knives. Go HERE. The Last Supper Sparkler has written a very nice one-act play which is being performed today and tomorrow @ 5pm, Stuyvesant High School. Go HERE to download it. Bubbles Go HERE. Colbert In Iraq Go HERE. Artist Of The Day Alice Neel. Go HERE.
	6/8/09 Quote Of The Day "The way I put it is, there's a right to privacy but not to hypocrisy." -- Barney Frank, on outing closeted gay legislators. Go HERE. Kewl 1st phase of a new park opens. Great city for walking. Go HERE. Latest Painting Been looking at it for a week or so. Now some finishing touches. I know everyone is waiting with bated breath. Venice Biennial Grupp was in town during, Carlito was getting hitched. Go HERE. Yoko Ono's Lifetime Achievement? For what? Gawd, I saw U.S. Vs John Lennon last night and have to say what a piece of crap it is, was, and always will be. They actually tried to put him up there with Gandhi and MLK. Is Steve Obsolete My Apple stock is back to where it was 2 years ago when I bought it. So, someone else is running the show well. Go HERE.
	6/7/09 STFU No more. I don't want to know about Carradine's kinky death. I don't want to know that Heather Graham likes tantric sex unless it's with me. I do want to see UP but Sparkler's busy until next week. I don't care anything about any of the royal family. Enough with Susan Boyle. And the wingnuts? They lost. No one cares what any of them spout off about. The list goes on and I've got to log off. French Open Federer wins 14th Grand Slam to tie Sampras. Lifetime Grand Slam. Meanwhile, Go HERE.
	6/6/09 Mose Allison Your Mind Is On Vacation. Go HERE. Artist Of The Day Go HERE. Today As you can see I've lost interest in almost everything. The news is boring, or perhaps the line between what you need to know and what is being sold to you has become very fuzzy. Or, perhaps it's me. A couple days ago I got up to notice the refrigerator door had been ajar all night. It's been doing that lately and I don't know how to adjust the door. Don't care to learn. Also noticed that the oven had been on since I warmed Sparkler's pizza the night before.
	6/5/09 Daily Surf A new site (to me) for Science buffs. Go HERE. French Open Federer survives 5 set to advance to final against the guy who knocked off Nadal. Could be fun. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "I am being treated as a criminal." -- Scott Roeder, charged with the murder of Dr. George Tiller My Sentiments - Precisely Dog Lovers Note: Some of us don't much like pets. Go HERE. Sotomayor Sonia tilts to the right of Souter. Go HERE.
	6/4/09 Taj Mahal Walkin' Blues. Go HERE. Lennie Tristano Tangerine. Go HERE. Sotomayor Her record on abortion cases is peripheral. Go HERE.
	6/3/09 Even Rush... can support Sotomayor, cuz she's Catholic and no record on Abortion rights. Go HERE. It's About Time USA The Bully is getting better. Cuba allowed back into OAS. Go HERE. Compulsive Talkers Crowded subway, going uptown, standing next to a woman talking to another woman. She was talking when I got on at City Hall. Talked all the way to 14th St and on to Grand Central. Still talking as we all got off and up the stairs, still talking as I escaped out onto 42nd street. Compulsive talkers. Can't stand them. NYTimes Twit Takes It Back The snotty little punk-yuppie Andrew Ross Sorkin apologizes for being stupid. Go HERE. Iowa Payback Obama appoints Jim Leach, longtime GOP Iowa congressman to head NEH. Artist Of The Day Chris Browne, friend of Carl, now of Sioux Falls. Go HERE. Sotomayor In the waking hours last night I kept coming back to the SCOTUS nominee. Someone better float the question of where she stands on Roe v. Wade. I don't like all those Catholics getting together. Lucas Samaras One almost forgot about him. Always interesting to hear from him. Go HERE. As You Can Tell... I haven't got much today. Tired of it all. French Open Federer advances. Serena out.
	6/2/09 People Paint Prez Obama Go HERE. Quote Of The Day As Mr. Obama walked Mrs. Reagan out of the room after the signing, he was overheard saying to Mrs. Reagan, "Michelle," and then "she just thinks the world of you." Go HERE if you wanna puke. Gotta say I'm getting a bit weary of this side of Obama. Susan & Hubby Derek No Dominoes. Go HERE. The Day No One Died NYTimes doesn't have an obituary section online. Grand Ole Opry Steve Martin debuts. Go HERE. French Open Maria is out as is Davidenko and Murray. Still looking good for Roger. Artist Of The Day $10 worth of Sharpies, one basement. Go HERE. Today Only one nappy today.
	6/1/09 French Open Roddick out. Federer escapes Haas to face Monfils who beat Andy. Cheney!!! Damn you Dick. Coming out for Gay Marriage? This ruins my whole inverse-Cheney method. Anything you're for, I'm against. Makes politics easy. Oh, wait. Your Lesbian daughter is in a committed relationship. Silly me. You do have integrity after all. Mary Black No Frontiers. Go HERE. Miles Interview on 60 Minutes. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "If anyone has an urge to kill someone at an abortion clinic, they should shoot me. ... It's madness. It discredits the right-to-life movement. Murder is murder. It's madness. You cannot prevent killing by killing." - - John Cardinal O'Connor. Lunchtime Tango (Repeat) Don't forget. Friend Andrea Katz, tango enthusiast, is hosting Tango Tuesdays in the South Street Seaport. Front Street between Beekman & Fulton. 12:30-2pm. Go HERE.
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