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	3/31/09 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. Words, Words, Words Netanyahu, blah, blah, blah. Go HERE. The Flood North Dakota/Minnesota. Go HERE. Gawd, ice and floods. How bad can it get? SuperKid Super strength at 19 months and he looks like Obama. Go HERE. How HIV Spreads On film. Go HERE. Freudian Slips 10 best. Go HERE. Blood On The Tracks Haven't listened to this Masterpiece for quite some time. Still great. Moving on to Blonde On Blonde. Ditto. And now Tell Tale Signs. Followed by Saved which is overlooked. Out Like A Lamb Thank you jesus, thank you lord.
	3/30/09 Dylan Day May have to extend this to two days. There are so many Dylans it could go on for a week. Right now I'm sampling MTV Unplugged. 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. Quote Of The Day "If you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot. -- Glenn Beck MacDries says, "I'll second that." Dylan Day Gotta have one every so often. It's Allright, Ma. Don't Look Back Outakes, 1965. Go HERE. Photographer Of The Day Giacomo Brunelli. Go HERE. Time Lapse Video Nature. Go HERE. Chrissie Hynde I Shall Be Released. Go HERE. Arguably the greatest Dylan song and the always under-rated G.E. Smith takes a great solo. Helen Levitt, 95, RIP You've seen her pix even if you don't know it. Go HERE. Tiger's Back Sorta. Go HERE.
	3/29/09 Tomorrow The music portion of the day is over and I just loaded up all my Jimi for a Hendriks day tomorrow. Kate is back in Chicago and Sparkler is one her way home from D.C. My Back Pages One of the greatest concerts ever: Dylan, Clapton, Petty, Young, Harrison. Go HERE. I would have given up one of my boys (not you Aaron) if I could have been there. It's the Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert which I just loaded onto iTunes. Foot Of Pride by Lou Reed is playing right now. Go HERE.Go HERE for Dylan's version. From The Bootleg Series - Vol. 3. Stevie Ray & Albert Another blues day. Passing it on. Pride & Joy. Go HERE. Natasha Richardson Damn, let the lady RIP. Every day something new. I Don't Get It! What's so damn difficult about changing "Don't Ask-Don't Tell"? Go HERE. Latest Painting Pollock Paints Hans Namuth films. Go HERE. What A Difference A grey day makes. Wanna go back to bed. Ram 1980 © P.L. DiCorcia
	3/28/09 Edward Weston Y'oughta Go HERE. Scrub, Rinse, Repeat It's the weekend and once again the internets are jerky and slow. Doens't anyone else notice this crap? Doncha Just Love Spring? Today's Free Tune Percy Mayfield. Lonesome Highway Picasso Can't get that show out of my mind. And don't skip by the room full of etchings and aquatints. Earth Hour 8:30-9:30 PM local time, wherever you live on planet Earth. Saturday 28 March 2009. LIGHTS OUT! Laptops off! Ram Rahman What's our pal from Delhi been up to? Go HERE for a pdf.
	3/27/09 Maira Kalman As usual, excellent. The Pursuit Of Happiness. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." - - Abbie Hoffman h/t Mike Derry I Could Have Died Today Smack down on 15th street and 10th avenue. I had the white pedestrian walk signal and didn't look. I heard a honk-honk and caught a rightward glimpse of a black SUV speeding toward me, honking, the pimp, drug-dealer on his cell phone wasn't slowing. I took a swift circle 180 toward Mario's Del Posto and managed to get back in time. My hit-man was still pedal to the metal heading towards the West Side Highway. I'm still alive. Better luck next time all you assholes out there. Obama's Big Muddy Every day it becomes clearer to me that the Prez's plan to "win" the war in Afghanistan is mis-guided and will contribute to the downfall of the USA in the same way that it did to the USSR. My plan? Pull out of the whole area, stop supplying weapons to everyone, especially Israel, and if the UN decides action is needed, then let it be a united force. America has to stop thinking of itself as the world savior, the way we think we saved the world from the Nazis and the Nips. We didn't, the combined resistance did. It used to be called the Department of War, then the Department of Defense. Now it is essentially the Department of Offense. Stop! Photographer Of The Day Family composites. Go HERE. Political Porn I have to admit that as dispicable as Republicanism is to me, I sorta enjoy it when Michelle Bachmann (great eyes) gets some coverage. Way hotter than the FLOTUS Michelle. Ditto when Dana Perino (total babe) was at the podium. Also Palin (sort of). The Dems do have Granholm but she's not up to the level of Bachmann, Perino. Someone ought to shoot me. Elis Regina Waters Of March. Go HERE. Barbarians Annual Canadian Seal slaughter. Wonder what they do for the rest of the year. Go HERE. Picasso Show Off to meet Kate The Great to see yesterday's mentioned Picasso show. UPDATE: SPECTACULAR. A few are reminiscent of Rembrandt's late self-portraits. Rockefeller Drug Laws Soon to be repealed and not a decade too soon. Go HERE.
	3/26/09 Cold Too Long I think when you get old, cold creeps in and hangs on way too long. Spring is here and days are 40-50 degrees which used to be warm-ish. 50, these days, still seem cold to me. What Passes For Humor Found a PPV movie called Zack & Miri Make A Porno on my TiVo. I tried to watch it and got about 15 minutes into it before getting disgusted. Actually I was disgusted after 5 minutes, maybe even 2, but tried to weather it out. You could call it childish but children are usually quite cute. Seth Rogen, who is in every movie made today is not cute. Don't Criticize Israel Someone might call you anti-semetic. Go HERE. And Go HERE. Must See Show A selection of Picasso's last paintings @ Gagosian Gallery 21st Street, Today - June 6th. Go HERE. Good News/Bad News The good news is: Kate The Great landed a summer research job at the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation in Chicago. The bad news, for me is, it's in Chicago. Congrats to my babe.
	3/25/09 Them Damn Israelis Still up to no good, daily. Go HERE. Go HERE for more if you can take it. Dog "Owners" How to walk your dog. Sound pretty fascistic to me. Go HERE. Plus, living in New York and going out daily to see people walking their dogs and watching them piss and poop and then (hopefully) scooping the poop and dropping it in corner garbage bins is pretty disgusting. Today I saw two "dog-walkers" leading 8 creatures of various breeds. That's a few pounds of crap to pick up. The 3 Stooges Penn, Carey, Del Toro? Could it really be? Go HERE. How Big A Whore Are You What's the record? I thought perhaps Jackie was the record holder. Perhaps not... Go HERE. Gilbert & Sullivan Once, in a sillier time I was in the chorus of HMS Pinafore. Forgive me. photo © Beets Dries High Speed Photos Purty as a pitcher. Go HERE. Topper Recommends O.V. Wright. Go HERE. Carl & Carol Congrats on 23 years of un-wedded harmony. I Get A Kick Every time Obama has a press conference. To actually have a President who knows what he's talking about is a revelation after 8 years of buffoonary. I also enjoy watching the Repubs searching and scratching around in the hole they've dug for themselves. I also love to see Barney Frank in a position of power. He has to be one of the most intelligent persons in Congress. Go HERE.
	3/24/09 Van In New York Go HERE. h/t Kate The Great More Free Music Pretty buggy site but when it works there's lot of good stuff. Go HERE. A Severe Lack Of Curiosity I don't get Haiku and have never bothered to look up what it is supposed to do. Andy Bey Getting into Andy today. Go HERE. And Go HERE for jazz in Paris. And Go HERE for a bit of Ellington. Today's Photos Class Pictures. Nice series. Go HERE. Citizen Vince Also started a new book I got for Xmas called Citizen Vince which has sucked me in quickly in the first 20-30 pages. More to come. Thanks Harry & Leslie. Breaking Bad Started watching this series on cable. A real downer: A guy is dying of cancer, his wife is pregnant, so he and a young pal start cooking meth and get involved with a psycho junkie dealer who they wind up having to poison to get out from under his spell... It goes on, down and down. Who thinks up these things. Some Art Acrylic stained raw canvas. Only did about 3-4 of these paintings back in the day.
	3/23/09 Re-Thinking The Internet As I mentioned earlier, I no longer click on anything that has that tiny video camera icon attached. You can count on seeing an ad before you get to see a news reader give you the lead in to another reader with the 10 second story. The good thing about the internet as a news source is you can get a distilled account with out the blather on TV and you can also switch more quickly to a more interesting story. Like newspapers, you can skip whole sections at a time; such as weather, sports, classifieds. You can also switch quickly from NYTimes to CNBC or CNN. The internet would do well to emulate the TiVo model rather than TV. Nome sain? HDTV A new wrinkle. They're gonna have to start hiring teenagers to have any shelf life for anchors. Go HERE. Beverly Kenney A great voice, just discovered by me. Kenney was an early victim of depression, so there is not much of her recorded. Go HERE. Festival Express It took 30 years for the footage from a 1970 train trip across Canada to be accomplished. I caught the last little bit of it on TV the other night; Janis Joplin in one of her last days and awesome. I just ordered it from Amazon. The Dead, The Band, Janis, Buddy Guy, and others. Get to it. Newseum Yet another indication that paper journalism is on the way out. Go HERE. Topper Recommends Ethiopian pianist, Tsegue Maryam Guebrou. Go HERE. Hulu.com Kate the great turned me onto this cource of movies. Here's a sample. Go HERE. NYTimes Krugman He clearly has a boner for Obama & Geithner. Could it be that the Nobel Prize ahs gone to his head and he resents being passed over for the team? Every day he second guesses the plan. Go HERE.
	3/22/09 Free Music Another source; some odd stuff some great. Go HERE. STFU I can understand the frustration of paper media now that the internet has replaced them. Now we have a new attack. New York Times, Krugman, Rich, perhaps, but Friedman & Dowd? Who the hell ever told them they had a brain attached to their mouths? Go HERE. America let things slide for eight years and now Obama/Geithner have 2 months of being second guessed. Revolutionary Road Just re-read the book by Richard Yates and was surprised how closely the movie came to the structure and tone of the book. Doesn't happen often movie to book. The Axis Of Weasels These guys even look like crooks. Go HERE. Who The F* Is Jackson Pollock** Go HERE.
	3/21/09 Remember Michael Milkin? Remember Junk Bonds? Remember the first Internet bubble, Netscape worth billions? Then Microsoft buried them. That's about the time that Wall Street went Reality Show instead of "show me the money" and I'll pay you your profit. Then came those Hedge Funds that no one can quite comprehend but these are smart guys with a gambling instinct. And as we all know some gamblers do cheat. Remember ENRON? Some of those guys went to jail rich. Now we hear about "derivitives" and "sub-prime loans" and "Ponsi Schemes". I say it's time for more jailtime. Time for "I'll work for pay." Today's Michelle Sorry, no slide show today, she must be off to Camp David for some r&r. Natasha Richardson, 45, RIP OK MSM. We know the story and it is very sad but enough is sufficient. Let it RIP. It was an accident, not a conspiracy. Thousands of accidents happen daily to non-famous people and they are equally sad. Quote Of The Day "The future will be better tomorrow." -- George W. Bush MacDries says, "It sure is Dewd." Sassy Sarah Vaughn Just Friends Go HERE. Sweet, Cute, Sexy & Funny Dan Dennett & Darwin. Go HERE. Keenan The Lip Singer New viral video star. Go HERE. Year One Jack Black, Michael Cera. Looks promising. Go HERE. Today Time to fill the larder. My carnivore Kate The Great will be wanting mass quantities of edibles.
	3/20/09 Gerry Mulligan With Chet Baker I first bought this album on a 10" LP and am just now getting back into it. It still swings straight through Swinghouse, Jeru, Darn That Dream. Saw Mulligan once at Washington U. Never saw Chet. My loss. Go HERE. STFU! All you Twits and Twats on Twitter, get a life. I'm sick of hearing about you, plus you're contributing to noise polution. You're like a bunch of kids passing notes around the classroom. Life In The City A good series from NYTimes. Go HERE. Best Dunk Ever To watch this gives me twinge in my groin. And they keep repeating it. Go HERE. Jimi Does Bob Kick it up a notch. Go HERE.
	3/19/09 Wish I Lived In Austin Gotta be the coolest city in America. SXSW fest is now on. Go HERE. Who Cares? Headline: New Photo of Charles Manson Released. Charles Manson Released From Jail. Now that would be a headline. Carla Bley Today Dinner Music & A Genuine Tong Funeral the latter with Gary Burton. If John Stewart Had Interviewed Cheney In case you missed it. Go HERE. Today's Michelle A slideshow of her expressions. Go HERE. Today Having a slow start today.
	3/18/09 Paul Bley I downloaded a bunch of this guy and am enjoying him a lot. Like a cross bewtween Keith Jarrett and Brad Meldau. Go HERE. Next stop Carla Bley who I've also heard about for years but never listened to. Caution So, I had about $700 sitting in my Schwab cash account doing nothing, gathering no interest for a couple years. I noticed that CitiGroup was selling at $1.56 down from about $50 a few months ago. Not believing that Citi is going out of business I bought 400 shares last week. It's now up to $3.10. Even if I lose it, it feels good to get some of my money back from that damn bunch of thieves who took a big chunk out of my annuities. Moondog When I first lived in NYC there was this blind musician who stood on the corner of 53rd & 6TH avenue wearing a Viking hat and garb. He was know to have been friendly with the 52nd street jazz crowd (Charlie Parker, Diz, etc.) and was himself a composer and musician. I just downloaded one of his recordings (he recorded on Prestige and Columbia) and I have to say he is serious; somewhere between jazz and orchestral music. Check him out on Wikipedia. Art In Process An accumultion of studio devices. 3-17-09. Robert Redford Despite his name, he can not still have red hair. Go HERE. Rosemary Clooney Greatly underrated, she sings Alec Wilder, also underrated if not unknown. Percy Mayfield They called him The Poet Of The Blues. Go HERE. Kate The Great It's spring break time for Kate starting tomorrow. I like it.
	3/17/09 Maria Bethania Wish I spoke the language and look at that beautiful nose. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king ..." --Bob Dylan Pull-it-zer It is not Pew-lit-zer. Why can't someone send out a memo? Nuclear in not Nukular, as Bush insisted. Go HERE for George Clooney perpetuating the error. Fox News They got caught, so they apologize. Go HERE. Free Movies IMDB is offering them up. Go HERE. What A Concept Pay what you want. Go HERE. Joao Gilberto It's that sort of day continuing the Brasiliana mode. Go HERE for Joao & Caetano Velosa. And Go HERE for more. Bob's Got A New One Coming Together Through Life coming on April 28th. Go HERE. Dolphins' & Bubble Rings Go HERE. Short Selling And bringing back the "Uptick Rule". Go HERE. Unlimited Hardrive In Your Head Wouldn't want one. Go HERE. Car Art BMWs by Stella, Warhol, Lichtenstein & Rauchenberg. Go HERE. The Next Tiger Woods Two years old. Go HERE.
	3/16/09 Today's Michelle Her harstyles today, a slideshow. Go HERE. Simply Red Every Time We Say Goodbye. Go HERE. Go HERE for Leon Russell's A Song For You. Wes Montgomery Just learned a tidbit about jazz guitar great Montgomery. He didn't use a pick which is rather standard on electric guitar. Instead he had a corn on one of his fingers or thumb that he used to excellent result. Go HERE for one of my fave songs with Wes and Wynton Kelly. Them Damn Tubes The internets seem jerky again today; lots of slow downloads, dropped connections, etc. The world wide web needs a make-over. Abbey Lincoln An under-rated, even unknown great singer is where I am today. Great album, with great back-up musicians, called The World Is Falling Down. Go HERE for a taste. Bravo Favio! For Top Chef fans, Favio was the fave. Here he is with some recipes. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop.... I'm sure that the false information I was forced to invent...wasted a lot of their time and led to several false red-alerts being placed in the US." -- Khaled Sheikh Mohammed AIG As usual Robert Reich has some perspective. Go HERE. Facebook Once again I've dropped out. The new interface is too buggy and it's a big, trivial, time-suck. Today Cheney continues to spout off each day. What I want to know is when the hell is he going to retire to Wyoming?
	3/15/09 Stephane Grappelli Notice McCoy Tyner on piano. Go HERE. Chris Connor Getting back into Chris. Here is one of my fave tunes that I used to have on a 10" vinyl. Go HERE. And then there was June Christy. Go HERE for her with my old teen age pal Stan Kenton. And Go HERE for her with Nat Cole & Mel Torme on drums. Such A Waste All the good and great music I just downloaded that so many people will never hear. Ditto all the poetry gone un-read, the paintings and sculptures sitting in storage. Ditto all the un-published novels... it's enough to break your heart. And there are more aspiring artists to come who will never find an audience. Sorry to be so depressing today. Jack Hanna My Sparkler & I have a fave guest on Letterman. And now I've discovered his own show and TiVo it. I am not a pet lover, indeed the opposite, nor do I enjoy zoos, but I do love learning about animals in their natural habitat. Plus he's always hilarious on Letterman. Go HERE. Early Color Photography Go HERE. And Go HERE for more. Today's Michelle Her top 10 outfits; a slideshow. Go HERE. STFU Cheney says they're not to blame for the economy. Go HERE.
	3/14/09 Grand Theft Pays AIG still passing out the millions in bonuses. Go HERE. Blossom Dearie I just discovered her. Go HERE. Betty Carter It's time for Betty, the best scat singer ever (maybe next to Satch). Go HERE. Go HERE for more. Tim's Got Another Idea Berners-Lee, you know the guy who "invented" the internet. Go HERE. More Photos New York street scenes. Go HERE. Sexy People Photos. Go HERE. Death Of Detroit Go HERE. Still Downloading Like Crazy Super Nova by Wayne Shorter. Tons of Brazilian stuff; new for me. Go HERE if you haven't. Jaques Brel Ne Me Quitte Pas Go HERE. Nina Simone Today I got nuthin'. Except it's pi day. Go HERE. Also coincidentally it's Einstein's birthday.
	3/13/09 Blue Dog Dems What's wrong with these losers? Go HERE. The eight Democratic senators who signed on to the letter are Robert Byrd (WV), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Ben Nelson (NE), Evan Bayh (IN), Mark Pryor (AR), Bob Casey (PA), Carl Levin (MI), and Mary Landrieu (LA). Stop Saying That! Speak truth to power. LOL. The Deans There's James, a great actor. There's Howard, a great Democrat. And then there is John, one of Nixon's henchmen. I admire the first two but wonder how and when the latter Dean became a credible source of opinion on matters legal. Here's the latest: Go HERE. Assassin Go HERE. Today's Free Tune Joao Gilberto. Aguas de Marco Just Play or Click On Down Arrow and select "Save As Source". I collect covers of this fave song. Today's Taste Of Michelle A slideshow of her hugs. Go HERE. Stewart v. Cramer If you missed it. Go HERE. Cramer never had a chance and retired with his head bowed. And while we're on it, what's up with rolled up sleeve blue shirt uniform of Cramer's. The Ruben Museum Go there. 150 west 17th Street, NYC, NY. Extraordinary Buddhist paintings, sculpture and fabics.
	3/12/09 Don't Ask-Don't Tell They're still kicking gays out of the military. Go HERE. When I was in graduate school in 1965, I had a friend named Wm. Schwedler who told me a story of going to draft board when he was called up for the Vietnam War draft. He said, "I told the guy I was gay and he said when was the last time I had sex. I said, last night. When did you"? He said, 'OK faggot you can go'. I said, "Thank you." At that time I was not totally cognoscente or frankly interested in "the gay", so I said, "And he believed you? Bill looked at me quizically, as if to say, "Doh!" I can be quite oblivious at times. Bill died of AIDS in 1982, one of the first in NYC who had "The Gay Cancer". He was an accomplished painter and left behind a huge collection of Roseville pottery. Ricky Gervais v. Elmo The thing about Sesame Street is: these Muppets are totally alive. Go HERE. The Daily Show Don't miss tonight's show. See John Stewart disembowel the bloviating Jim Cramer. Stewart's writer are right now honing the knives. The Rich Get Richer Especially Hizzoner Bloomberg. Go HERE. A Story A census taker in a rural area went up to a farmhouse and knocked. When a woman came to the door, he asked her how many children she had and their ages. She said, 'Les' see now, there's the twins, Sally and Billy, they're thirty-two. And the twins, Seth & Beth, they're twenty-six. And the twins, Penny and Jenny, they're twenty-four .' 'Hold on!' said the census taker, 'Did you get twins EVERY time?' The woman answered, 'Heck no, there were hundreds of times we didn't get nothin.' Dance, Dance, Dance Go HERE.
	3/11/09 Johnny Magic Just Neil having fun, playing a bit of air guitar. Go HERE. More Good News Obama continues to lead. My Kate says, Go HERE. Good Riddance Kristol is out and none too soon if the NYTimes wants any street cred again. Go HERE. Andy Bey You've never heard of him. Go HERE. I'm Thinking Chinese Won ton soup, Mu shu pork or shrimp, some juicy buns, maybe a few b-b-ribs. And then a bogus "fortune cookie" which are seldom fortunes; mostly adages and homilies. Spare me. Willie King, 66, RIP Another great bluesman bites the dust. Go HERE. Go HERE and follow the trail. Classic Annie Ross. Twisted with Count Basie. Go HERE if you haven't. And Go HERE for Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Photos Friend Pablo Bartholomew has a show opening Thursday @ 6pm, 150 W. 17th Street. Rubin Museum. ReThink Afghanistan Obama's first big mistake. Go HERE. Michelle, MaBelle Oh Michelle, everyday you suprise us more. Now it's necklaces. Go HERE to vote for your fave. Now why do people dispise news aholes? American Punk Just downloaded a CD of 80s punk, a pile of music I didn't follow very deeply. Gotta say it's pretty damn good and the level of R&R is excellent. Go HERE to download it FREE. The Wall Street Mentality Load-mouth Jim Cramer admits to illegal activity. Go HERE. Camera In Your Eye I've often wished I had an automatic camera that I could click to capture some fleeting scene or one when I didn't have my camera with me. Now it may be possible. Go HERE. Today** I took back the hour they stole from me on Sunday.
	3/10/09 Carmen McRae Also copped a great CD of the always under-rated Carmen McRae called Bittersweet. You really should get into her if you have not yet. I saw her a couple of times in San Francisco but that's another story in my memoirs. Madoff!!!!!!!! He started his crap in the 80s and he's just now getting prosecuted. Thanks go to Saint Reagan's de-regulation schemes. Go HERE. Caetano Veloso One of the new CDs I downloaded today is the eponymous Caetano Veloso. My only previous introduction was in one of Almodovar's movies, Talk To Her. You should check him out. I love listening to vocals in Spanish. Go HERE. I also love Almodovar's movies. The best of the best. If you don't watch them, you lose. Bushism Of The Day "The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country." - George W. Bush Jesus Is Everywhere Must be true. Go HERE. Chicken Feed A million dollars just ain't what it used to be. And Congress (Dems & Reps both) agree. Go HERE. WTF Nobody knows WTF is going on. Stock market going down and down and every few days it pops up again so some people can cash in or out. And forget about the politicians. They're all covering ass. I've got no choice but to ride it out. 101 Faces Go HERE. Free Music Go HERE. Free if you don't mind slow downloads. Subscribe if you're in a hurry.
	11/05/06 Iron Chef Cat Cora One of my fave Chefs and her "wife" are both preggers with "in vitro" babies. This is sorta wierd to me, sorta like "molecular gastronomy" but... Go HERE. Barack v. Bush On signing statements. Go HERE. Bad Paintings Of Barack Go HERE. Brilliant Idea Have a minute, why not an hour of lights out in NYC to let people see the night sky. Some kids have grown up and never have seen the stars. Go HERE. Confession Time OK. I have to admit that I am now officially sick of myself. I just looked at a slideshow and a short video of the Obama First Family returning from a weekend at Camp David. No more denial. I'm sick and I'm out of here. It's About Time Nancy Reagan praises Obama. Go HERE. Newman & Dean Somehow I never associate these two greats as the same age. Watch Dean toss off his bi-nature. Go HERE. Today's Free Tune My fave Trane. I Want To Talk About You Just Play or Click On Down Arrow and select "Save As Source". A Little Trane On Green Dolphin Street Go HERE. Bushism Of The Day "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- George W. Bush Lieberman Begins The Big Suck Up The jerk now agrees that Obama is off to a good start. Go HERE.
	3/8/09 Lady Day And now I'm loading up all the Billie I have. Which is a lot. Roseanne Cash Don't listen to her enough. Go HERE. Bushism Of The Day "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- George W. Bush Slow As Molasses As usual, the internets are jerky and sluggish. About Time Obama will ease restrictions on Cuba. Go HERE. Today Well, where did that lost hour go? And now it seems we have 4 days of rain in the works.
	3/7/09 Bushism Of The Day "Yeah, the French are no good at running businesses; you know they don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur'!" -- George W Bush Quote Of The Day "We can tax the rich, except that, if you haven't looked at the stock market lately, they aren't making any money...You know, the yelling and screaming about the rich, we want rich from around this country to move here. We love the rich people. They're the ones that buy in the stores so that people that work in the stores have jobs in the stores, generate sales tax. The rich are the ones that go to the expensive restaurants." -- Mayor Mike Bloomberg Make Some Noise Go HERE. Public Art Go HERE. Five Generations My neice Kaye who is a year or so younger than me is the great granny in the midst of the five. Her mother Phoebe is the great-great granny. Even her daughter Chris is a granny. I have yet to achieve that level; not that I'm complaining.
	3/6/09 World's Best Dressed I don't think so. Quote Of The Day "One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am." -- Michelle Obama More Michelle? Go HERE. Bushism For Today "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." -- George W Bush Bushism For Today "I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." -- George Bush Don't Know About You... but I'm enjoying this dissolution of the Republican Party. Steele, Rush, who's the head? 2 headed snake is more like it. Ya gotta love it. Colbert Does Rush/Hannity Go HERE. Sue Eisler An old friend who I've lost track of. Go HERE. Tao Told Silkscreen enamel on anodized aluminum. Gretchen & Aaron's dad. Collection: Gretchen Linda Dauw Gretchen & Aaron's mother. Mad talented sculptor. Huh? Augmented reality. Go HERE. I couldn't get this to work. Let me know if you can. Today Well, I'm up. Now what? 43 degrees is almost warm. Think I'll take a walk.
	3/5/09 John Vorlicek Art School roomie, Guru and good friend. 25 Things I Hate About Facebook Go HERE. Art In Process 8' x 3' x 7/8" Almost done. Today's Free Tune Leadbelly. You Can't Lose Me Cholly Just Play or Click On Down Arrow and select "Save As Source". Leadbelly Today's addition to the blues cache. Go HERE for the only known video of him. See Yesterday When "Hagar the Horrible" cartoonist Chris Browne first visited Sioux Falls about three years ago, he went to an art gallery reception wearing his viking-horned helmet. That's when he met his artistic soul mate of sorts. "I walked in one door and Carl Grupp walked in another, and we were both wearing viking helmets," Browne says as Grupp laughs at the memory. Augustana College's mascot is a helmet-wearing viking; Grupp was a long-time art professor there. Browne and Grupp had a few cartoons in the Augie show that featured work by many other cartoonists, too. Soon the two were talking about their love of art, cartooning and drawing, and have since become friends. They teamed up at EastBank Art Gallery on Sunday to hang work in their joint show, "Double Visionaries." You can meet the horned ones during a reception starting at 5 p.m. Friday at the 8th & Railroad Center, at 401 E. 8th St. Browne's comic strip appears in 1,800 newspapers world wide. He lived for 28 years in Sarasota, Fla., before moving to Sioux Falls two years ago. But his work isn't all cartoon vikings. In addition to "Hagar," Browne also has published other cartoons in many magazines, including a few for a mature audience in Playboy. A couple of these somewhat risque cartoons, which include the initials of publisher Hugh Heffner as Hef sent them off to the page layout people, are in the EastBank show. "I think I'll hang them up high, just in case there are youngsters here," Browne said Sunday, showing the drawings that feature nearly clothed cartoon women. Most all artwork by Browne, 56, and Grupp, 69, is for sale. While Browne takes over the south wall, Grupp fills the north wall with original work from both past and present. He started teaching at Augustana in 1969, but also is a nationally known printmaker with works held in numerous prestigious collections, and is included in notable art publications. Grupp retired in 2004 but continues to produce artwork. "I've followed Chris's work for years, and work by his dad, cartoonist Dik Browne, who started 'Hagar,' 'Hi and Lois' and others," Grupp said. "I'm just tickled to have a show with Chris, but more so to be his friend." h/t Jay Kirschenmann -Sioux Falls Argus Leader Bushism For Today "I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." -- George Bush
	3/4/09 Quote Of The Day "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- George W. Bush Bono OK, so Bono called Coldplay's Chris Martin a "wanker". I don't know the accuracy of the charge but both U2 & Coldplay do suck so it's a bit of pot calling kettle... Nome sain? Today's Blues Big Joe Turner. Go HERE. And more Albert King. Then on to Blind Lemon Jefferson again. Shout out to Gerry Martin, an old friend from art school who could play a mean 12 string and had a huge collection of blues. I've Heard Enough About Twitter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, John McCain (he lost), Octomom, O'Reilly, Dobbs et.al. And Bono too. Then there is Ms. Aniston, Brangalena whose 15 minutes are long since expired. You Be Da Man Either scary as hell or the hope of the GOP. If You're In The Nabe The Hula Go HERE. h/t Carrie Yamoaka
	3/3/09 Mississippi Fred McDowell John Henry. Go HERE. Running Against Bloomberger Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping is running on the Green Party ticket. Go HERE. Processed People Are you one? Go HERE. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Haven't listened to these guys in years. Go HERE. Michelle's Shoes A slideshow. Seriously. Go HERE. Square Root Day Today only occurs 9 times a century. Go HERE. Cavett With Updike/Cheever The full deal. Go HERE. Today 16 and sunny sucks. And I'm not going out until it gets, at least, up to freezing.
	3/2/09 Today's Free Tune Rev. Gary Davis. Little Bitty Baby Just Play or Click On Down Arrow and select "Save As Source". Pink Dolphin Go HERE. Nixon On Archie & The Fags This is what Nixon spent his time thinking about. Go HERE. Here's 1 Reason Why... ...disallowing same sex marriages is wildly unfair. Go HERE. I'm Wondering What in the hell is going on with Obama's disregard for Howard Dean. I'd be willing to bet it's Rahm Emanuel. Also wondering why all the Progressive Blogs give so much attention to Rush, Jindahl, Coulter, O'Reilly and the other wingnuts. I say stop giving them publicity. Dizzy's Dream Band Watch it to the end for some Gillespie & Faddis trading 4s & 8s. Go HERE. Elmore James Picking up where I left off last night. And now it's Lightning Hopkins. Go HERE. Loading up more Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Turner. The Good Earth I had never seen this 1937 film until last night. Paul Muni & Louise Ranier play a chinese couple. If it is not the best epic movie ever it's in the top 10. Catch it if you can. And The Damn Snow Came Just when I thought I was through with winter. Probably not a foot but enough to make a big ugly slushy mess.
	3/1/09 Finding Neverland Just re-watched this wonderful film about the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman and found myself weeping and weeping. I do that a lot these days and I totally enjoy it. It's almost better than sex which I have none of anymore. Total Suck! A foot of snow coming to NYC tonight. Go HERE. In Case You Missed It Stevie @ The White House. Go HERE. Little Richard Plays for Ali's 50th birthday. Go HERE. Photo Of The Day 100 meters long. Go HERE. Paul Harvey, Good Day One of the 1st talk radio icons passed away at 90. A cut or ten above Rush, even though he was rather Goldwaterish in his politics. Goldwater is turning out to be almost liberal. Go HERE. Basic Blues Day Starting with Albert King. Blind Lemon Jefferson now. Go HERE. The Budget Mess & The Bailout Explained Go HERE.
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