MONK RULES 
WELCOME to the Thelonious Sphere Monk Memorial WebLogWanna listen to Just A Gigolo by Monk. My page on Saatchi Gallery: Go HERE.
10/31/07 Click HERE for the latest totals.More Americans now dead in Iraq & Afghanistan than killed on 9-11. Plus 655,000 Iraqis dead.
My Daily SurfThese 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.
Dennis Recommends
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant Raising Sand. Go HERE.
Dwight Does Buck
Long time friends, Yoakum does a tribute to Mr. Owens. Heard one track and it's now on my list. I swore I'd stop buying music but I'm still not as bad a Grupp. Go HERE.
Warren Buffet For Prez
A billionaire who is not greedy, maybe the only one. Go HERE.
Halloweeners
Emma is going as a red crayon. Not bad for originality but I'm not at all afraid.
We used to do this, or maybe we just heard about such tricks: Go HERE.
Jackson Pollock
Make your own. Go HERE.
10/30/07Great SongNo Frontiers
If life is a river and your heart is a boat
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
Then your heart is Amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the deadmen in self addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails
Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
Then your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
And heaven has its way
When all will harmonise
And know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
-- Jimmy McCarthy
Magic
Radio is not playing the new Bruce despite it's #1 status. I've been comparing it to his best (The Rising, Nebraska, Tunnel Of Love, Born To Run, Seeger Sessions, etc.) Like Devils And Dust it doesn't quite hold up. Sorry Boss. We still love you.
Ditto to the new Ryan Adams. I've been comparing it to Demolition and even early Whiskeytown CDs and it seems a bit muddled.
To The 20 Of You Still Standing
When I had traffic of 3-6 hundred a day, sometimes a thousand before I moved it seemed more worthwhile to continue this blog. Now? Not so much. Plus I'm getting sick of the MSM news and Hillary. T Monk WebLog may become thinner and thinner while I pick up the paint brush again.
Thanks to the devoted.
I'll post my regular browsing sources and you can follow your various noses.
For Barbie Lovers
Go HERE.
Cheney's Gun Club
Confederate flag hangs in barn. Go HERE.
Today
Dr. S this afternoon to see if he can get my blood pressure into line. My black/purpleish/green eye is mending slowly. Need a nap first.
10/29/07Quote Of The Day"Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
-- John Edwards
Corporate CrimeRummy On The RunHot-tails it out of France. Go HERE.
10/28/07Living WillsDon't want to become the next Terry Schavo? Create a living will and power of attorney. $20. Or a Will? Go HERE.
Ryan AdamsHe has a new EP CD, 7 songs for $6. So I decided to have an Adams day. All my kids love him and so do I. There is now so many CDs available and I have most of them but there is so much, (like with Dylan's catalog, or Neil Young, or Rollins or Monk, or Miles or countless others) I'm still missing a few starting with Whiskeytown, then the solo CDs and now with the Cardinals. So he'll make a few less than inspried ones but he'a already made a bunch that are among my faves: Demolition, Gold, Heartbreaker, Rock'n roll, Love Is Hell. I say crank them out Ryan. I can't absorb them all as fast as you seem able to produce them. But you seem destined to burn out. I say burn on.
Johnny & JuneNeil's BackGot a new CD Chrome Dreams II and a tour coming up. Go HERE.
I'm getting it. Chrome Dreams II
10/27/07Natalie MerchantBecause The Night by Patty Smith & The Boss. Go HERE.
Go HERE for Bruce.
Go HERE for Patty.
The Real RudyBlind should be able to own guns (if they're not crazy). Go HERE.
Of Course It Won't StickRummy in France hit with a torture lawsuit. Go HERE.
Artist Of The DayGo HERE.
Got Nuthin'Back for a nap. Winter doldrums coming on and the dread season.
10/26/07Seurat @ The MetropolitainDrawings and studies. Go HERE.
The Boss LiveThunder Road. Go HERE.
I'm On Fire. Go HERE.
Everybody KnowsDixie Chicks do Leonard Cohen. Go HERE.
Sylvia PlathGo HERE to hear Sylvia read Daddy.
Growing PainsHaving a lot of problems with El Tube lately. Anyone else?
The Arctic This YearQuote Of The Day"I'll be on the Bill Maher show tonight on HBO. I think I'm on with Martina Navratilova and Wesley Clark, which means I'll be the least butch one on the panel."
-- Andrew Sullivan
For What It's WorthOSX LeopardEmma will be thrilled to know that the new big cat is released today. My laptop stopped making noise so maybe I don't get a new one after all.
Achtung!Dickhead's going hunting in Poughkeepsie this weekend. Probably why he was napping in that cabinet meeting; killing birdies take a lot of energy.
1000 Words
H/T Carl Grupp
Ready For My Closeup
The damage looks worse each day.
10/25/07Dylan CoversNew CD soundtrack from that hokey new movie, I'm Not There. Go HERE.
Go HERE.
SPAMDana, DanaPop picks up on Ms. Perino. Go HERE.
10/24/07More On EricGo HERE.
What Is Romantic Love?And why men/women cheat. Helen Fisher @ TED begins to explain. Go HERE.
Go HERE for her bio.
Dana DroidFinally got it. Dana Perino is a robot. Go HERE.
Possibly DisgustingVampires, etc. Go HERE.
Deconstructing LichtensteinNot a big fan but a dealer I know made 17 million off of one of his paintings. Go HERE.
AmphetamineBefore & After Faces. Go HERE.
A Better MousetrapThe Real Rudy"A small man in search of a balcony."
-- Jimmy Breslin
Last NightShortly after going to bed, I got up to go to the bathroom. Either I stumbled or fainted briefly and banged my eye brow. In the few minutes it took to find and unravel a large band-aid, I mangaged to spill blood all over the floor, on my shorts. Cursing profusely about how impossible it is to unwrap a bandage in an emergency I went back to bed. In the morning I was shocked to see the damage. It looked like a murder had taken place, my pillow was bloody. My neck ached and my wrist was sore. So, I've been scrubbing and doing laundry all morning.
10/23/07Blasts From The PastI have this boyhood friend named Spencer Howard who then moved away and lived his life. He lives now a few miles from our home town. He also became a potter and a teacher, much like myself. Well we have re-connected and have now swapped emails, paintings and ceramics. I sent him a circular painting and he sent me some beautiful coffee mugs.
Today he sent me another box of beautiful plates and bowls. I wish he had a website so I could connect you to him. He donates all proceeds from his art to Christian causes. He tries to convert me but I don't take it seriously. He does have soul.
YouTubeWell it seems clear to me that YouTube is having growth problems. Embedding does not always work so henceforth I shall stop embedding and merely supply a link to featured videos. Tell me if it does not work better. They are making money, I am not.
APPL A DayApple Inc. has become the most valuable computer maker in the world. Despite all the trashing all these years, Steve & team have been vindicated. Quality Rules. Go HERE.
I have personally made about 25K in 6 months. Let it ride.
Internet Addicts AnoymousDilbert has your number. Go HERE.
3rd World War"Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on? "
-- Fahreed Zakaria
Go HERE.
Artist Of The DayChris Gilmour, master of cardboard. Go HERE.
Quote Of The DayQ Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
Q What's your definition of the word "torture"?
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
Q The word "torture." What¹s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That's defined in U.S. law, and we don't torture.
Q Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
Masters Of WarBush gave marching orders on Gitmo enhanced interrogation. Go HERE.
And Go HERE.
Masters Of WarAlso Go HERE.
10/22/07FirstFirst Rap song and one of the first music videos.
Bob BingeBeen listening to my Dylan catalog on iTunes. Once again I'm amazed how seldom I have to skip a track. Almost never. Modern Times and Love and Theft and Nashville Skyline and now we slip into John Wesley Harding. I just have this feeling that he's gonna Knock On Heaven's Door soon. That'll be a sad day.
You & Your BreakfastGo HERE.
Sweet DreamsDuh CampaignStephen Colbert on Meet The Press. Go HERE.
Word For Today11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
TodayGot nuthin'. More doctor stuff. Having high blood pressure so it's back to Dr. S next week.
10/21/07T Bone, Krauss & PlantSounds interesting. Go HERE.
Powell & AstaireAnd Eleanor did it "backwards and in heels" to quote Ann Richards. Go HERE.
And Go HERE.
This Too Is IranGo HERE for a slide show.
Phones Are Getting Out Of ControlShould have bought stock. Go HERE.
GodTubeGo HERE.
Word For Today5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
LaylaA slide show. Go HERE.
10/20/07
Mary Black & EmmylouGet to it. Go HERE.
And Go HERE.
Porter's In Hospital @ 80And then there is Dolly.
A New MacThis laptop is starting to make noises so if it dies I get to buy a new one. Emma's jealous cuz I'll go for a MacPro with Leopard and she only has a MacBook. The WebLog may disappear for a while...
My expenses for keeping up to date with Macs is equal to a Starbucks cappuchino a day. I make my own cappuchino so my Mac is free as far as I see it.
Strange FruitAnd then What A Little Moonlight Can Do.
Then Go HERE for My Man.
I love Billie almost as much as my Mama.
Quote Of The DayA Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Indian Art In NewarkMy friends Ram Rahman, Pablo Bartholomew and the late Ragubir Singh are in this show. Go HERE.
Go HERE.
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Word For Today8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10/19/07Off The ChartsMerle is finally gettting his props. And he's got a couple new CDs. The Bluegrass Sessions
and Last of the Breed
with Willie & Ray Price. Go HERE for more.On The Jukebox - 1979Go HERE for Planet Claire.
Psalm 23If only all Christians were so cute.
Trickle DownI'm wondering, if lowering taxes results in increased revenues (as Reprobates love to claim) then would lowering taxes to zero result in infinite revenues?
The Water Is Getting BlackerAnd CEO Erik Prince ought to be in jail. Go HERE.
He personally will fight the Iraqi government to keep them from trying his vigilante mercenaries who have murdered innocent Iraqi citizens. He personifies much that is wrong with American Facists.
Quote Of The Day"The people of Iraq, the Parliament, the Council of Representative and the government of Iraq, all say no, big fat no, N, O, No military bases for Iraq because we believe that is in direct encroachment to our sovereignty, and we don¹t need it."
-- Iraq's National Security Advisor
Andrea Katz Objects
Neighborhood artist/desigher Andrea's having a clearance sale. Go HERE.
The Art Of PumpkinsGo HERE.
Word Of The Day2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Neil & NicoletteWhat a babe.
10/18/07Outing Gay ActorsHypocritical gay politicians? I applaude that even if it is cruel to oblivious family members in denial. Ditto, Ike, LBJ and JFK and Gary Hart and WJC though their hypocritical stances and daliances were hetero.
But when gay actors are outed it destroys some of my fave films. So when I learned my boyhood idol Randolph Scott and Cary Grant shared a home for many years it ruined the art. And Montgomery Cliff a gay druggie drunk? James Dean bi-sexual? Sal Mineo, I sorta knew but I don't wanna hear it. I can deal with Troy Donahue and Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter since I never admired their movies anyway (and Tab once eyeballed me personally outside the Jeu dePaume so no big surprise). But if you tell me that Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy both swung both ways, or Garbo or Errol Flynn. Give it a rest. I don't wanna know. Charles Laughton? Well he's British and as someone once said, the British only screw twice a year. I've always assumed that Peter O'Toole was gay but perhaps not. As for Richardson, Olivier, Guilgud, who gives a damn.
Is it important that Leonardo and Michaelangelo, or Rauschenberg and Johns were, (are) all gay? Mapplethorp, Haring? Doh! Don't think so. But when Monty Clift sort of pathetically falls for Marilyn I'd sort of like to believe it.
Tell me that Arnold was rather notorious for locker room play or crude barroom assault and I'm all for the dissemination of information.
Deborah Kerr, 86, RIPMany great films but my faves are the ones with John Huston: Night Of The Iguana with Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison with Robert Mitchum.
Beautiful always and sexy in a modest way.
Quote Of The Day"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes."
-- Richard Pryor, caught in bed with another woman by his wife.
ImpotenceSenate caves to Bush on Telecom immunity. House fails to over-ride the SCHIP veto. When is judgement day?
Stevie & TonyOne of the best duets ever.
Stevie & MichaelWord Of The Day1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
10/17/07Norman MailerThe big guy is in hospital. Wish him well. Go HERE.
Always interesting and probing; author of a few masterpieces. The Executioners Song, Armies Of The Night, The Naked & The Dead for starters. Also a few clunkers.
The Big AppleTips for how to navigate Manhattan. Go HERE.
I'm Thinking...Republicanism must be genetic. When Bush can simultaneously ask for 100s of Billions of $$$$$ for more war and then veto an S-CHIP increase of 35 billion over 5 years... Well Paul Simon speaks for me. Go HERE.
Here We GoBush invades Iraq, piece o' cake. Iran decides to join in. Bush thinks, OK, great, let's bomb Iran. Turkey decides to invade Iraq cuz thay got a boner about the Kurds who Saddam liked to exterminate. Meanwhile Israel feels emboldened to bomb Syria. And Russia threatens to re-supply Iran with NUKULAR stuff if U.S. of A takes out their Nukes.
Nice little pot of stew you got boiling Shrub.
Don't Like Your LooksTransform yourself. Go HERE.
Quote Of The Day"I sit on the terrace reading about the torments of Scott Fitzgerald. I am, he was, one of those men who read the grievous accounts of hard-drinking self-destructive authors, holding a glass of whiskey in our hands, the tears pouring down our cheeks. Thunder at three. The old dog trembles, and is so frightened that she vomits. The wind slams some doors within the house, and then I smell the rain, minutes before it begins to fall on my land. What I smell is the damp country churches, the back hallways of houses where I was contented and happy, privies, wet bathing suits-an odor, it seems of joy. When Fitzgerald drops dead, I burst into tears, as I wept over the account of Dylan Thomas's death. This morning I cannot remember anything that occurred after dinner."
--John Cheever
Eyes In Your TongueToday's DoctorDr. G, Dermatologist, looked me over and says I have Seborrheic dermatitis and a small Actinic keratoses. He froze the one spot and injected another carbuncle and gave me a Rx for the dermatitis. Come back in a month. Wham, bam and a $20 co-pay.
License To KillKnockin' On Heaven's DoorSome kids think Guns 'n Roses wrote this song.
Just & Unjust WarsMovies. A list from John Farr. Go HERE.
10/16/07The Boss's New OneIt's getting better the more I listen. The Long Walk Home should be added to the list of anti-Iraq War songs.
Draft Al GoreGo HERE.
Carville's Lost His MindI thought so when he married that Reprobate shrew Matalin. Now I'm convinced he's a closet Reprobate. Jeb for Prez? Go HERE.
Connie's TeacherLennie Tristano.
Connie CrothersKate The Great's piano teacher. She's wonderful.
Charles LloydGeri Allen, John Abercrombie, etc. embedding disabled. Lotus Blossum by Billy Strayhorn. Check out Geri Allen's solo. Go HERE.
The Run-Up To War With IranThe Congress has to act positively to stop The Shrub because so far he knows he has gotten away with anything he decides to do. He is the decider by his own estimation. And if anyone can not remember the run-up to the war with Iraq it is looking identical with the recent passage of Kyl/Lieberman.
And Billary, who voted for K/L amendment is sounding like she can't wait to take over the war. Time to stop the inevitability of her succession.
High Tech WarfareSilly String? 80,000 cans contributed by NJ woman. Go HERE.
The Real RudyRudy has no foreign policy experience. Here are his advisers.
TodayGot nuthin. Here's an oldie but goodie.
10/15/07The Real RudyThe radios. Go HERE.
Go HERE for http://www.therealrudy.org.
Stevie WonderPart 1 of 17 episodes of Stevie live in Madrid- 1995. Go HERE.
WowserIn Walked Bud Diana Krall, Ron Carter, T.S. Monk Jr., Clark Terry, Nnenna Frelon, Jacky Terrasson
Dr. GHad my Pacemaker in for 30 day check-up. The appointment was for 3pm but of course I didn't get in until 4pm. By that time I was totally pissed so my Blood Pressure was up to 170/104. Everytime I see him the same thing. Not so with Dr. S. who is usually punctual.
Wednesday it's a new Dermotologist.
Travis & JonathanRed State Update. Go HERE.
H/T Mike Derry
Just Say NOPump It Up!Truth Squared
Even when you're having a really bad day, someone will still try to screw you.
H/T Carl Grupp.
Ozzie's Blog
© Ozzie Alfanso
Pictures, poetry, musings. Ozzie Alfanso. Go HERE.
10/14/07Francis BlackJust discovered that Mary Black has a sister, Francis and a brother Sean Keane. Go HERE.
Merde!!!!!!! Just discovered that Mary Black is playing tonight in NYC and can't find ticket info.
That's The Ticket
Against All OddsOMGMerle supports Billary? Tell me it ain't true. Don't Go HERE.
The Boss Does The Beach BoysSorry to say that after a few days listening to Magic I'm less than impressed. It lacks the joy of The Seeger Sessions and the gravitas of The Rising. It's pumped as a "pop" album and indeed it is. The sound is muddy and Girls In Their Summer Clothes is pure Beach Boys, which is not a good thing. A couple good tracks: Magic which has the sound of a song from The Rising & Last To Die hold up well.
Caveat: Many of my favorite albums don't impress me at first.
Fine & MellowBillie loves Prez. Mulligan, Eldridge, Hawkins. What else do you need?
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,
and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.
When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton
while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.
Billy Collins
Would You Cash It?
Colbert Does Dowd Duty
Go HERE.
Today
Got nuthin. Noticed that YouTube embeds are not loading. And when they do load they are jerky as hell.
10/13/07The GreatestMary Black. I just love her voice and choice of songs. Impecible. And then The Corrs, the Irish Dixie Chicks.
Go HERE for more Mary Black.
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WlfSng Says...After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to 'the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, British scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in the UK newspapers read: "British archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Scots."
One week later, "The Daily Republic" a Mitchell, SD newspaper, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in corn fields near Mitchell, Ole Johnson, a self taught archeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago South Dakota had already gone wireless."
The Shock DoctrineNaomi Klein on Bill Maher. Smart and lovely as well. Maher? Smart ass and sometimes funny. Go HERE.
A Mulatto, An AlbinoROTFLMAOThen Go HERE to hear the Mother of Grunge.
Run Al RunThe Real Rudy"The reality is, if we take a look at Bernard Kerik's service as police commissioner, he was an excellent police commissioner. Crime went down unexpectedly under Bernard Kerik.
Then on the other side of it, there were these problems. (*Felonies such as bribery, tax-fraud, obstruction of justice.) I take the responsibility. We should have known about them. We should have dealt with them. We didn't. It was my mistake. I made it. I am sorry for it. I've learned from it. But in the balance of things, you take a look at the success that I had, it must be that I am generally picking the right people. Because I am sure not doing this by myself."
*Indictment.
Otis & Carla10/12/079 MinutesThat's all there is of Huddy Ledbetter. 3 Songs.
Quote Of The Day"Probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world."
-- Rudy Giuliani on himself
Your Congress and MineThis is what they are doing. Go HERE.
Carter v. Rudy On IranDamn, I wish Carter was still Prez.
The Real RudyStop him short. Go HERE.
GenocideWe did it to the Native American Nations. We fought the Germans doing it to Jews, Catholics and Homosexuals. It still goes on.
Traveling WilburysEric On KingSlowhand meets slow-wit tonight at 9pm ET. Larry King Live.
Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize WinnerStill says he's not running. Damn!
10/11/0725 Sad SongsAnd no mention of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by anyone or He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones or With Pen In Hand by Sammi Smith. Go HERE.
Sex In Space?Go HERE.
Jimmy KnowsAnd Jimmy's not afraid to speak. Rosalind is not running for Prez. Go HERE.
Yup, Another Day, Another DoctorThis time it's my Cardio guy, Dr. S. On Monday I get to see my Pacemaker guy, Dr. G. then I have to see a dermotologist cuz I'm developing these rude spots on my arm; the most recent of which started bleeding spontaneously. Eeeewww!
Update: Dr. S. says I'm kewl re: blood sugars, blood pressure and cholesterol.
Cheney's Law10/10/07Virgin BransonOne of the more interesting entrepreneurs. Capitalists are not all pigs. Nor are pigs capitalists. Go HERE.
Dana, DanaNever mind the Turks and Kurds go easy on the mousse. We like that soft just out of the shower look. Go HERE.
No WhitewashHappy 90th Birthday TheloniousWish you were here. But there is a piano marathon in your honor today from 5-9pm at The Wintergarden. Go HERE.
My baby Emma goes to Stuyvesant, the same High School where Theloniouus Monk did.
Whoa!!!!Laura Bush speaks out on Burma. Is she starting a run for the White House? Go HERE.
10/9/07MJQI forget how good the Modern Jazz Quartet is until it comes up on iTunes Shuffle, on occasion.
Lewis, Jackson, Kay & Heath in case you've forgotten.
Support The TroopsBush/Cheney version. Go HERE.
Tom WaitsCan't say I've loved an album of his since Rain Dogs and Swordfish Trombones but those two alone are enough to put him on my fave list. But then again, dig these. Shades of Bertolt Brecht.
And then for a laugh, check out the Rod Stewart Version. Go HERE.
Nixon/KissingerAbout half way through this book by Robert Dallek and recommend it highly. It's hard to give these vile people so much attention since that, more than anything, is what they mostly wanted. Little altruism, lots of ambition, little generosity but lots of backbiting. Case studies in paranoia, egotism, self-pity which leaves you wondering how it is that such people got such power. And I haven't even gotten to Watergate yet. It could almost be titled Bush/Cheny.
Nixon on Fred Thompson will give you an introduction to the thought processes during Watergate. Go HERE.
Edwards In IowaAsked about a belief among some that a Clinton nomination is inevitable, Edwards brushed the idea aside. "I lived through the inevitability of Howard Dean," he said.
Rich Man's WarNo CohonesDems have bluster but lack a set of balls. Go HERE.
BrowsersOnce again a Firefox viewer had trouble with some of the art pages. Apparently it has trouble reading basic html. Stick to Safari of IE until I fix the problem.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Aaron sent me this. He says he and Che wear (wore) the same Rolex GMT Master 1675. My boy likes everything first class. Luckily, Aaron doesn't smoke Cuban cigars like his dad once did.
10/8/07Britain Says Bomb, Bomb, Bomb IranMeanwhile they are pulling out half of their 5000 troops. That's what's called an ally.
Dylan The D.JAnd musical archivist. Only on XM Satellite radio. Go HERE.
Billy CollinsWell, I found it after randomly searching but then by systematically going poem by poem until I found it: the last but 6th poem of all of my volumes. It's called Man Listening to Disc Go HERE for the poem.
Play the tune here: