US Blues - Grateful Dead (studio version)Summertime done come and goneMy oh my...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
At left: The Oconee Nuclear Station is right around the proverbial corner from me, so now I am damn nervous. There is also the fact Duke Energy is run by money-grubbing liars and it is therefore impossible to trust anything they say. (This has been true since... well, when HASN'T it been true?) In a report on Huffington Post, the vulnerability and instability of the Oconee plant has been outlined, thanks to a letter from whistleblower Richard...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
My first-ever diary entry was about my cat, Smokey. I wrote: "I love my cat." Some things never change. :) ~*~ The upstate's local GLBT pride event was Saturday in Spartanburg. I announced it on my radio show as being on "Saturday"--totally spacing the fact that I was taping the show (on Thursday) and therefore my announcement would be HEARD on Saturday, so I should have said the event was "today"--right? Argh! (Link to the show here) ...
Sunday, September 23, 2012
I am currently watching the wonderful American Masters documentary titled Sam Cooke: Crossing Over (2010). So much history is still unrecorded about pioneering black artists who "crossed over" into mainstream, radio pop-hit stardom. Cooke was one of the very first, achieving his first hit on the pop charts in 1957, still a very racially-incendiary time. Black artists on the mainstream charts then sounded like Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole, not like Cooke's bluesy "You Send Me."When Cooke performed at the Georgia State Fair, police were called...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
One of those subjects that interests me a great deal, is whether a college degree is "necessary" or not. Lately, as the price of (even a mediocre) education skyrockets, the question is a getting a new and respectful hearing. Megan McArdle's in-depth Newsweek article on the topic, has prompted extensive discussion.I am one who has often had my jobs supplanted by college grads. Frequently, these kids couldn't even decently proofread their own ad...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Romney's speech to private donors hits the airwaves and gives us all a fit of the giggles. Others are simply slack-jawed at the Republican presidential candidate's total and unbridled contempt for ordinary Americans. Here is the video of the speech, leaked by Mother Jones magazine. (Full transcript here.)The money quote: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Great Ohio Players documentary, if you have 40 minutes to spare. If not, just skip on down to the song. ~*~ UNSUNG (documentary)- The Ohio Players~*~My January 2nd post (about the infamous Ohio Players album covers) featured the fabulously-sensuous studio version of this song, which runs closer to 8 minutes... unfortunately it has since been yanked by awful capitalists. Trying again. Skin Tight (TV 1974) - Ohio PlayersThis video, introduced by Wolfman Jack, appears to be from the Midnight Special broadcast, which means it may also get yanked...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
I have discovered an excellent reason to stay vegetarian. After a decade and a half, if you inadvertently eat anything made with meat, you barf your guts out. I have been sick for several days... and my husband, who ate the same thing (and is not vegetarian) is just fine. It was not food poisoning... or rather, IT WAS, but not the usual kind. For ME it was. I guess there is no going back! The item was already-prepared "chicken-fried tofu"--which...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
By popular demand, here is the video I played on my radio show (Saturday). It concerns the fabled White Horse Prophecy, which is not official Mormon doctrine, but part of LDS religious-folklore. On my show, I compared the prophecy to Catholic stuff like the Secrets of Fatima, and fundamentalist stuff like The Rapture. These are not, technically-speaking, "doctrine" either, but are frequently employed as "dog whistles" to alert the people who do...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Five of Wands: Conflict, competition, discordThe Boy Scouts of America were selling some sugared-up substances outside my local grocery store this weekend... and I really really really wanted to walk right up to them and ask, do you let the transgender scouts in? The Girl Scouts do! But I lacked the nerve; the scout-leaders on duty had that hyper-masculine, super-patriotic Toby Keith vibe going on. I could easily see it all escalating into a...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
At left: Ten undocumented immigrants arrested at demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention. This protest was the end-point of the UNDOCUBUS journey across the USA. Photo from the Village Voice.The Democratic Convention continues, with few arrests--although there have been some. As I said previously, I was worried. There have been demonstrations, but nothing too disruptive.Former President Bill Clinton wowed the audience last...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
And the 2012 Democratic Convention commences! It should be interesting. Protests are planned in 32 cities nationwide, on September 6th.I decided to sit this protest out, even though it's in Charlotte, which is only a stone's throw away. Whenever I asked The Fates if I should go, I kept getting this card. Yow! Three times is the charm. I got it three times in a row, and that settles it. Staying home.Besides, I am way too old to sleep on floors,...
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Blast from the past: Counter-demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in New York in 1980, were given this handy-dandy "non-delegates handbook"--which looked a lot like the official delegate-guide issued to Democratic delegates. (Us scroungy types didn't have to pay the $5; that was for the press, tourists, curious-onlookers and other nosy people who looked like they could afford it.)~*~ I have been arguing with somebody online about Ayn Rand....
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