I heard My Morning Jacket's cover of "Move on up" last night on this blog's namesake, Uncle Dave's Dead Air. I then decided to look up Curtis Mayfield's original, which I have always loved passionately. And virtually simultaneously, Tami posted her last blog post, titled "Movin On Up." Cosmic synchronicity! Good luck Tami, wishing you all the best in your new endeavors. I will miss your blogular brilliance. And Curtis, as always, we miss you. ~*~Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield (19...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
As reported yesterday, our fashionable governor took the podium at the Republican National Convention last night, camera-ready for her big close-up, and the reviews are in. How'd she do? For those of you lucky enough to miss it, SC Governor Nikki Haley read Barack Obama the riot act:Haley then accused the Obama administration of launching an all-out assault on her state. "The hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government,...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Governor Nikki Haley, Vogue-vetted fashion plate, models her trademark designer duds, while mouthing some indecipherable nonsense in Tampa at the Republican Convention. Since she has proudly bankrupted the working class of South Carolina, this is the closest the rest of us will ever get to designer clothes, so you might want to tune in tonight at 10pm to see what she wears. ~*~The good news is, maybe she will get a national gig and GO AWAY.The...
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The following excerpt is from a letter to Sylvia Austin, dated July 9, 1946, in Letters of Ayn Rand, p. 287:There is a great, basic contradiction in the teachings of Jesus. Jesus was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism -- the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal; this means -- one's ego and the integrity of one's ego. But when it came...
Friday, August 24, 2012
At left: Movie still from Another Earth.I am recommending the independent movie Another Earth, with several caveats. It's slow, rather strange and ponderous. The good thing is that it's only 92 minutes, so if you are in the right slow, rather strange and ponderous mood, you can easily sit through it with no trouble. It's also very pretty to watch, as the photo at left makes clear. Actress Brit Marling (also co-author of the screenplay) is beautiful...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
From LOLCATS, this comic reminded me of this hapless incident I wrote about a couple of months ago. (You can click to enlarge.)~*~As far as I know, this has not been reported locally. I'm very glad that we have the internet to inform us of the unpopular news stories. From the Freedom From Religion Foundation: The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit May 30 in U.S. District Court in Columbia, S.C., against School District 5...
Monday, August 20, 2012
I watched an old interview of Jimmy Breslin on C-Span over the weekend, originally aired in 1991. I just loved what he said, and decided to quote the last segment of the interview in its entirety. It's as true now, as it was in 1991... as it was in the time he is describing, the 50s.[C-Span CEO Brian] LAMB: You said earlier that you can't go a day without writing about and thinking about race in New York City.[Jimmy] BRESLIN: Well, it hits you...
Sunday, August 19, 2012
A very old woman ran into me at the market today, slammed me in the butt with her cart. She started to cry, and her daughter (about my age) swooped in to rescue her... and I realized that she was what we used to call 'senile'. I guess the acceptable term is now Alzheimer's, that catch-all diagnosis for when the mind goes. I patted her, assured her it was okay. But I was alarmed, because in her distress, I could see myself and what awaits us all....
Saturday, August 18, 2012
I am fascinated by what people will and will not allow on their Facebook Timelines. The much-ballyhooed "Timeline" is an online biography. It is therefore especially interesting to note what people allow there, and what they won't. Today, on the radio, I fussed that our history is being forgotten, and ordered everybody to post their radical history online ... or (quite honestly) ANY history. I have long been amazed that certain events have...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Back from Georgia, where the interesting ex-Democrat, now Republican Nathan Deal was elected governor in 2010, by less than 2500 votes. At least, that's the story, and they are sticking to it.As you know, a Deadhead could never resist the lyrical reference. (song is below!)~*~And here is the recent scoop/scandal on Deal, all over the Atlanta Journal Constitution the day of our arrival. Hmm:Nathan Deal and his wife, Sandra, owned 90 percent of a...
Friday, August 10, 2012
Finding politically-correct targets for the trendinistas to hate, is getting more and more difficult. How can they prove they are the cool trendies unless somebody is the inferior rube? And the usual suspects (the darker peoples, the disabled, the foreigners who dress funny)... well, all of that prejudice is starting to look really BACKWARD and ignorant, even to the trendies. Who'd a thunk it? This seems to have touched off a crisis in confidence....
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Mary Huff, calling up the ghost of my mother (right down to the hair and the bass), sings "Nitty Gritty"--yeah! Nitty Gritty - Southern Culture on the Skids ~*~Mary's bouffant hairdo made me think of Kate Pierson's. In case you didn't know, there is also a pretty good movie named after this song, titled My Own Private Idaho, starring Keanu Reeves. It's based on Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V. Really.I love Fred's canary-yellow pants. Private Idaho - B-52s(Did you catch the Twilight Zone theme?) The lyrics also contain some excellent...
Friday, August 3, 2012
Graphic courtesy of the Feminist Majority Foundation blog. Millions of poor chickens have to die en masse, all to prove that Christians hate gay marriage. I am one of the minority of folks who worries about the innocent chickens in this whole fiasco. (waves to fellow vegetarians)As you are undoubtedly aware, the Chick Fil-A hoopla continues, as everyone in the world continues to brawl on Facebook, Twitter, Blogdonia and beyond. (The pro-gay...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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