Danny's Dozens

	*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.
	*November Y2K7*
	11/27/07 Click HERE for the latest totals. More Americans now dead in Iraq & Afghanistan than killed on 9-11. Plus 655,000 Iraqis dead. Hiatus I'm depressed, agoraphobic, the winter doldrums have set in and I'm too bored to follow the news. I hybernate about 12 hours a day, watch cooking shows then read crime slime until about 1am. Then I toss and turn for a few hours and finally fall asleep and start again when I can't sleep anymore. In the meantime there is tons of art to look at if you're interested. Go HERE.
	11/25/07 Unfortunately Nothing happening today.
	11/24/07 Artist Of The Day My old childhood friend Spencer Howard of Ocheydan, Iowa. Go HERE.
	11/23/07 Some Sonny Blue Room. Tijuana Moods Every so often Tijuana Moods comes up on Party Shuffle and I have to switch to the complete album. Mingus once said it was his best and who am I to disagree. Get it. Tijuana Moods NASA Space Shots Go HERE. 44 Years Ago About noon I was sitting on the steps of the Minneapolis School of Art, ready to go to lunch. Dean Walter McDonough walked by crying, he stopped and told us school was cancelled for the day. 9-11 didn't affect me as much as that day. Hall Of Mirrors Go HERE. You will be amazed. Black Friday I'm told today is the biggest shopping day of the year. Thus I am not going to buy anything today. If I can. I'm pretty sure I won't sell anything.
	11/22/07 But Now... It's getting time to freshen up and go around the corner to Zette's for the fowl-out feast. We miss Ram about this time of year. A Bob Dylan Day Been listening to later Bob today, Modern times & the underrated Saved etc. Friends have been wrongfully assuming I will welcome the new film I'm Not There. Not so. Sounds bogus to me. However Kate is having her posse over for dinner tommorow and would prefer it if I made myself absent for a few hours. So I may break down or I may go see No Country For Old Men because I love Cormac McCarthy even if I'm not a fan of The Coen Bros. I'm currently re-reading The Road and it's better, more subtle the 2nd time. Seems you have to pare yourself down to read it. Fave Photo Imogen & Twinka @ Yellowstone © Judy Dater Burning Man Festival Go HERE. H/T Terry Cronin Hollowell T Day Yum yum, eat 'em up. That's a joke. I actually don't like turkey and agitated each year to do Duck or Cornish Game Hens or even Chicken. I lost even though Kate thought Duck would be dee-licious.
	11/05/06 5 Awful Thanksgiving Days Go HERE. Emmylou On Wolfgang's Vault Go HERE. And Elvis Costello. Go HERE. Believe It! The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back. Go HERE. Whip It!
	11/20/07 NYTimes Colludes With Bush Holds story on Pakistan for 3 years. Guess it wasn't fit to print. Go HERE. Last Shuttle Pix Go HERE. H/T Grupp Kate's Home Midnight last and she immediately had a conclave with part of her posse. Emma's swimming in the finals today up at NYU Palladium where we all used to R&R back in the day.
	11/19/07 Dennis Ain't No Menace Louis Jordan
	11/18/07 Dee Wants To Know "So, what's your opinion of the Coen Bros' body of work? [Raising Arizona - Miller's Crossing - Blood Simple - The Hudsucker Proxy - Barton Fink - Fargo - Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou - The Man Who Wasn't There - The Big Lebowski - No Country for Old Men] Out of these, I'd say 5 are among my favorite movies. I saw No Country for Old Men last night and found the feeling remarkably true to the book. Excellent acting by all involved. It was funny as well, I think a hard thing to pull off with a spare, tense plot. I'd like to hear your thoughts, Danny". MacDries says, "I guess I've seen all of those except for the latest and have to say, sorry, not a big fan. Fargo was anusing. Blood Simple was awful. The Hudsucker Proxy was OK mainly due to Paul Newman. The rest I really can't remember what they were about. Oh, yeah, Oh Brother was a rip-off of Sullivan's Travels. Gretchen says they have a rep in Hollywood for being great to work with. In My Dreams Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were staying overnight with all of us, (Ann, Kate Emma and me) in my old house back in Sibley, IA. Mattresses everywhere. Angelina didn't seem to mind too much when I accidently tried to crawl into bed with her. Don't know where Brad was but Emma was making the rounds. In fact Angie liked the place so much she invited herself to live with us while she shot her next film in Camden (MA)? I told her it was a long commute but she didn't mind. "I have a driver," she said. For Kate & Emma Choose Your Candidate Go HERE. Carl, Dorothy, Gretchen, Aaron, Kate and I all came up with Kucinich. Why doesn't he get better press and why won't any of us get to vote for him? Go HERE for background. Today Just got up after 12 hours sleep. Now it's time for a nap.
	11/17/07 Artist Of The Day Jason Salavon teaches at Kate the Great's college; University Of Chicago. Go HERE. Collar: Up Or down Nixon/Kissinger Finally finished the very long and sometimes tedious tome. The upshot is a clear picture of what we all suspected: a couple of twisted souls using each other for dual purposes. The cynical ambition is everywhere and the finale is gratifying. The irony of Kissinger winning a Nobel Peace Prize instead of being in jail for war crimes is classic. Unlike our current predicament, all's well that ends well. Nixon/Kissinger, Leopold/Loeb, Bonnie/Clyde, Bush/Cheney, the litany of co-dependancy is endless.
	11/16/07 Artists On Video Serra, Nauman, Pfaff, Smith, Ryman, Bourgeois, Murray etc. etc. Go HERE. Drop-Outs 300 million Americans drop out of Presidential race. Go HERE. Boogie Chillin' John Lee, R.S w/ Eric. Little Red Rooster The Dead Live. The Stones w/ Eric. Watch Mick's reaction to Clapton's solo. Artist Of The Day Forest Myers, sculptor furniture designer. Go HERE.
	11/15/07 Some Art Merle Haggard On Wolfgang's Vault Go HERE. Mailer v. Gore Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown. By booze. Go HERE.
	11/14/07 D.B. Cooper Remember him? Go HERE. Global Warming Some people are actually trying to fugure it out rather than just jawing about it. Go HERE. Men Who Look Like Lesbians Old lesbians. Go HERE. Writers As Painters Go HERE. Bannerman's Island If you take AMTRAK north from NYC to Albany and sit on the river side you will see a small island with the ruins of a castle like structure. No one ever seems to know what it is or was. Now we know. Go HERE. Quote Of The Day "Listen I am not interested if the majority of people in Iraq want a new government or not, what I am interested in is starting something that you can't finish... I'm worried, that we are starting something that we can't finish without changing the nature of American democracy by the time we are done," -- Norman Mailer in 2003. Just Say No! I Approve This Message My Kind Of Capitalist Warren Buffett wins my vote once again. Go HERE.
	11/13/07 Busted! Intimidated by oenophile jargon? Go HERE. Primary Colors Sparkler Emster is 7th in the city in breast stroke. Friday The 13th Comes on a Tuesday this month.
	11/12/07 Torture How wrong became all right. Go HERE. Mailer Obit Christopher Hitchens does him. Go HERE. The Last Supper Up close & in detail. The half that's left is still a pretty good picture. Go HERE. The Wilbury Twist Go HERE. Bob & Bette Buckets o' Rain.
	11/11/07 Reagan Racist Mr. Nice Guy or mean-minded racist? Go HERE. Barak Obama Gary Moore Got a bit of the Santana sound. Wilco Austin City Limits had Wilco on again and they continue to impress me with their originality. They're called Alt-Country but I don't hear any country. More Alt-Neil Young.
	11/10/07 New York To New Delhi ©2007 Ram Rahman. Ram left yesterday and 12 hours later he's back in Delhi. Bush Meets His Creations And it ain't pretty. Go HERE. Dick Of The Day Visit Dikipedia. Go HERE. Norman Mailer 84, RIP If you've never read Executioner's Song, get it. "The Naked and the Dead" 1948 "The Barbary Shore" 1951 "The Deer Park" 1955 "Advertisements for Myself" 1959 "The Presidential Papers" 1963 "An American Dream" 1965 "Why Are We in Vietnam?" 1967 "The Armies of the Night" (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize) 1968 "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" 1968 "Of A Fire On the Moon" 1971 "The Prisoner of Sex," essay, 1971 "Existential Errands" 1972 "St. George and the Godfather," 1972 "Marilyn" 1973 "The Fight" 1975 "Some Honorable Men" 1975 "Genius and Lust" 1976 "A Transit to Narcissus" 1978 "The Executioner's Song" (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) 1979 "Of Women and Their Elegance, Pieces and Pontifications," essay, 1982 "Ancient Evenings" 1983 "Tough Guys Don't Dance" 1984 "Harlot's Ghost" 1991 "The Gospel According to the Son" 1997 Cookies Zette heard I'd been feeling poorly and baked up a batch of her ginger cookies. Yummie!
	11/9/07 4 Dead In Ohio Ernest & Bertram Got A Secret? Best Blog of the Year Award. Go HERE. Pete & Arlo Artist Of The Day James Turrell. Go HERE. H/T Carl Grupp
	11/8/07 Quote Of The Day "The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower The Boogie Go HERE. Barney Frank Tells It
	11/7/07 Gramps & Kai A Patty Griffin Day Hey Carl Maria Muldaur is on Wolfgang's Vault today. Go HERE.
	11/6/07 Quote Of The Day "When you're at the center of the bubble, a lot of times you aren't aware of what's going on outside the bubble." -- Dick Cheney Ordinary People Clocking in at 18 plus minutes is a new totally original Neil classic. I'd get it if I wuz you. Chrome Dreams II Go HERE for my first fave from Neil back in the day. Dylan Drives A Caddy H/T Kate The Great Let's Go Waterboading
	11/5/07 Meanwhile Vishnu is reborn in India. Go HERE. My Weekend If you've never had the pleasure of a tear in your esophagus, don't bother. It's not worth the trouble. I developed one and early Friday morning it came back to haunt me like a scene from The Exorcist. The tear bleeds into your stomach and blackened blood comes spewing out in the middle of the night. A fine mess is left all over the bathroom far beyond the confines of the sink or commode. By this time you have lost enough blood to make walking problematic. You will require assistance to get thee to the ER. If you do so you will not die which was my case. My landlord called for me since I was too busy trying to faint from loss of blood. At the ER they will ask you to swallow a tube through your nose. You get the picture that this is not pleasant. After a couple hours your stomach is drained and you proceed to Doctor Endoscopy who thankfully puts you to sleep while she peruses the inside of your throat and stomach. Stomach empty she will find the tear and put a clip on it to stop the bleeding. If she is successful, you will then be starved for two days until it is determined that the bleeding has stopped. Another day on liquid diet; broth, jell-o, tea. Blood tests twice a day, IV twice a day with medication called Protinex. Vital signs every few hours. I could go on... but I won't. Emma brought me the Sunday Times which I read word for word. Back home now and the new Neil Young was in the mail; which is excellent.
	11/1/07 My Daily Surf As I mentioned, I'm taking a new turn, back to painting. Gonna clean the loft and studio and get back to painting since it so much more fun than following the ~~news~~ non news. Sick of Billary/Obama and Bush. These are links that I hit frequently and also branch out from as my interest is piqued. I plan to be less obsessive about this blog in hopes of doing something more useful with my life. Check back from time to time. Or not. YouTube. Go HERE. Daily Kos. Go HERE. American Prospect. Go HERE. TED. Go HERE. TPM. Go HERE. Buzz Flash. Go HERE. Huffington Post. Go HERE. Crooks & Liars. Go HERE. Firedog Lake Go HERE. RAW Story. Go HERE. NY Times. Go HERE. CNN. Go HERE. Dilbert Blog. Go HERE. Doonesbury. Go HERE. Carl Grupp's Blog. Go HERE. Crawdaddy. Go HERE. Darryl Hannah Love. Go HERE. Urban Legends. Go HERE. Andrew Sullivan. Go HERE.
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