Time to hep you cats to my latest post over at Shuffleboil. One of my favorites this month!If you are between the ages of, say 30 and 45, no doubt you know all the words to the Preamble to the Constitution. You do not know this because you were in Continue Reading
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Sooper Toosday.
Tomorrow’s a big day. Super Tuesday. Mardi Grande. I’m voting for Obama. I think. I have my reasons. They have to do with Lincoln. Blah blah. Truth is, you don’t really care. Suffice to say that Honest Abe never got elected to the Senate in the two attempts and he Continue Reading
Sarah Silverman is F*cking Matt D*mon
I needed a laugh. I needed a Sarah Silverman type belly laugh.Here it is.(I promise no videos after this for a while.)
Sax Rohmer #1.
The Mountain Goats review is coming. I promise. I am still digesting this album. It takes many many listens. It demands an audience. Nothing perfunctory here. Simply put, it’s fantastic.Until the review comes, let me whet appetites with this glorious video from the first single.Yes, I know John Darnielle has Continue Reading
Bouillon Souffle – Les Fields Magnetique
I don’t know why it hasn’t occurred to me before this but I really should be posting my reviews from Shuffleboil here, right? I mean, if there are those of you that read this blog (all 6 of you…put me in your blogrolls, dammit!) that don’t shuffle over to the Continue Reading
Seminal moments of the 21st Century
One of the reasons that Barack Obama is doing so well is that he seems to be a different kind of politician. One who doesn’t get caught up in the politicing. One who, when confronted with the made up process story that he turned his back on Senator Clinton the Continue Reading
More Blood
A friend of mine, a smart and talented film director made this point about TWBB and I agree: “There Will Be Blood was one of the stories of the birth of what America became…the idea that Capitalism and religion are the two halves of the American soul, and this movie Continue Reading
March to victory? March of Death.
Daniel Day Lewis won the Saggy tonight. I think it was richly deserved.But his speech…..his speech…….he brought a tear to my eye. Invoking Heath ledger the way he did.Go to There Will Be Blood.Go see it. Oh, yeah. There were a bunch of actors that have teensy little resumes that Continue Reading
First lattice pot pie
After watching “Waitress” last night I developed a hankering to back pies. Having no pie ingredients I decided to make a pot pie out of the pot roast from the weekend.But I also decided to make a lattice top.here is the pie. When my wife’s 87 year old Nana saw Continue Reading
There Will Be Blood
In 1988 or thereabouts I was summering, as I did in my youth, with my family in Bar Harbor, Maine. I was a worldly college dropout, a few credits shy of a degree in a field I would never pursue. And my brother was just getting ready to go to Continue Reading