Hilarious old song written by Shel Silverstein, explaining how rock stars have all the friends that money can buy, so they never have to be aloooone. A real gem from the 70s, enjoy.Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr Hook and the Medicine S...
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
This lovely Wisteria patch is blooming beautifully--right outside the WFIS radio studios in Fountain Inn--home of the Daisy Deadhead radio show. (Podcast is up!)There was a bright pink Packard parked in a yard on East North Street for about three weeks or so... I kept meaning to park and take a photograph of it, but the neighborhood gave me pause. Not for nothing do Catholics call the area around Bob Jones University "Ulster"--and I try to whiz...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
I really wanted to title this obituary, "Waiting for Peter Bergman, or someone like him," which I think he would have appreciated. Instead, decided to be properly respectful and just reprint the New York Times obit:Peter Bergman, Satirist With the Firesign Theater, Dies at 72By PAUL VITELLOPublished: March 9, 2012Peter Bergman, a founding member of the surrealist comedy troupe Firesign Theater, whose albums became cult favorites among college students...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Today in Greenville, Occupiers attended the Justice for Trayvon Martin rally in Cleveland Park. Photos below. (you can click to enlarge)The choice of the Cleveland Park venue was especially pertinent. Black teenagers have been harassed out of the park repeatedly by local law enforcement. None of the speakers mentioned these past events; the curfews invoked, the constant police surveillance of the park, etc. But for those of us who have lived...
Friday, March 23, 2012
... will be tomorrow at Cleveland Park in Greenville, South Carolina, at 3pm. Everyone is invited, and Greenville Occupiers will be there in force.Some background from WYFF:GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The outcry over the shooting death of a 17-year-old in Florida has spread across the country, including the Upstate.Police said Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman claims the shooting was self-defense.A...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Being unemployed means having time to watch my beloved Elizabeth in old movies like "Rhapsody" (1954) with Vittorio Gassman.Emergency unemployment benefits are running out for South Carolina, however, since as of last month our unemployment rate is lower than the national average. Not exactly sure how that works. I had some car trouble last week, but I now have a rebuilt transmission and I am ready to rock and roll.~*~Timely Linkage:Corporations...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
On Monday, Greenville Occupiers attended the GPATS (Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study) meeting at County Square in Greenville, South Carolina. The only good thing I can say about it: they had donuts.Ostensibly, we had come to support Joel Ann Chandler, the woman whose business (Mauldin Open Air Market) is currently under attack by the South Carolina Department of Transportation. SC-DOT (under the auspices of the mysterious GPATS) is...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
So very hard to go - Tower of Power (Soul Train, 1973) ~*~ All Day Music - War (1971) ~*~ If you want me to stay - Sly and the Family Stone (1973)~*~Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield (from the film Superfly, 1972) We're all built up with progressBut sometimes I must confessWe can deal with rockets and dreamsBut reality, what does it mean?~*~And a Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone! Radio podcast is ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Her book has the properly Republican title: "Can't is not an option"--supposedly something her mother said. The subtitle is "My American Story" (just in case you thought it was from somewhere else). George Will once referred to such omnipresent politician-accounts as "one of those word-salads you write 'with' someone"--and that seems to be an accurate description of Haley's little Horatio Alger tale. Unfortunately, the ghostwriter is not named,...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Aspie-Quiz: The goal of this test is to give a reliable indication of autism spectrum traits in adults. My results are below. You can click to enlarge. (Are they accusing me of HUNTING?!) Logged in as DaisyDeadhead Thank you for filling out this questionnaire. Your Aspie score: 33 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 175 of 200 You are very likely neurotypi...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Good riddance to another South Carolina Tea Party busybody! Let's hope Governor Haley is next, even if she DOES get the cover of Italian Vogue.From the Charleston Post and Courier (story by Robert Behre):COLUMBIA -- Ken Ard quickly rose to prominence in S.C. politics as a tea party favorite, hailing his business credentials and his family's roots in Pamplico, a Florence County town so small it lacked a traffic light.Ard's political career crashed...
Friday, March 9, 2012
Historic photograph: March 21, 1965, the March from Selma to Montgomery. The famous US Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery is being reenacted this week, and I was watching the Reverend Al Sharpton (organizer) on television, talking about it. At the same time, I was grieving the loss of my old friend Terri, and I was looking up some of our old haunts in Columbus, Ohio. Much has changed; so much, I often barely recognize the place. (Google...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Queen of Cups, from the Art Nouveau Tarot by Matt Myers. Advice: When people ask you to stay in touch, stay in touch. Don't tell yourself "one of these days"--because you might Google them one day and find their obituary. She came to my grandmother's funeral, whom she had loved. I promised her I would mail her copies of photos I had recently discovered, of our childhood... one of us standing next to an old Packard, another of us trying...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Saturday's Greenville News article on young evangelicals suggests they have different priorities than their elders. Fascinating! We can make some important political converts in this group, I think. Some excerpts from Ben Szobody's in-depth piece titled, No presidential candidate has excited young evangelicals:It’s not the loudest group of voters, but the fate of the 2012 presidential race and even the future fortunes of the Republican Party may...
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Do you believe this is the 56th installment of ODDS AND SODS? I say this as an excuse for running out of snappy titles for them. (I promise, I will have one by next time!)---Garry Wills' incisive piece in the New York Review of Books, perfectly titled Contraception’s Con Men, is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the naked propaganda-war that is going on right now:The bishops’ opposition to contraception is not an argument for...
30 YEARS in prison. He was freed on his 11,000th day of imprisonment. From Death Row, he just walked out, a free man. It is an unbelievable, yet all-too-believable, tale.Ex-death row inmate in SC walks out a free manBy JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated PressGREENWOOD, S.C. — Edward Lee Elmore glanced at the ceiling when a judge asked him if he was sure he wanted to plead guilty to the murder he has spent decades denying. He whispered to his lawyer,...
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