If Brett Favre comes back with the Minnesota Vikings, as is being rumored, does John Madden come back too?
You know they go together like peanut butter and bananas.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
John + Cliff May + Full Interview
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 2 | ||||
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| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Dick Gregory + State of the Black Union 2008
This is a bit old, but the wisdom isn't. Worth a watch.
Unconfirmed: Sen. Specter Switching Parties!
This is unconfirmed, but popping up on C-Span and CNN. Republican Arlen Specter (R-PA) is switching parties to become a Democrat. This will give the Dems a full 60-vote majority in the Senate.
This is quite a coup for the Dems. The moderate Specter, has recently become the targets of the super-right for the next election. And now, if he votes in-step with the Dems, many of Obama's initiatives will pass.
This is quite a coup for the Dems. The moderate Specter, has recently become the targets of the super-right for the next election. And now, if he votes in-step with the Dems, many of Obama's initiatives will pass.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Colbert + Elizabeth Bantliff + Daisy
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| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Mike Tyson + Movie + Interview
This is the interview with James Toback, the director of Tyson, I mentioned yesterday. It is darn good radio listening.
Part 1 | Part 2
For more Elliot in the Morning goodness, go here.
Part 1 | Part 2
For more Elliot in the Morning goodness, go here.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
To my devoted staff:
Please stop writing all those blogs, emails, and posts to Twitter on my behalf. I didn't even know I had a Twitter account! What purpose does it serve in our day-to-day operations?
Anyway, to my point, people are starting to think I don't really pay attention to them when they are talking. Also, you are alienating me from my friends and family.
I understand you are trying to help, but things are beginning to turn hostile.
Many Thanks,
Your steadfast manager
P.S. Great job on the "Pirate Bar." It's True Blue! Fabrice will be most pleased.
Please stop writing all those blogs, emails, and posts to Twitter on my behalf. I didn't even know I had a Twitter account! What purpose does it serve in our day-to-day operations?
Anyway, to my point, people are starting to think I don't really pay attention to them when they are talking. Also, you are alienating me from my friends and family.
I understand you are trying to help, but things are beginning to turn hostile.
Many Thanks,
Your steadfast manager
P.S. Great job on the "Pirate Bar." It's True Blue! Fabrice will be most pleased.
Colbert + Ira Glass
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Shepard Smith + Torture + Good For You
Good for you, Shep. Damn right, I said it!
And even better than the above clip is his righteous indignation in a later program, here.
And even better than the above clip is his righteous indignation in a later program, here.
Mike Tyson + Movie
I listened to a mesmerizing interview with the director of Tyson, James Toback, this morning. I will post the link to the interview once it is posted.
Got to see the movie.
Got to see the movie.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
NPR + All Things Considered + What If Marijuana Were Legal?
This is the report from yesterday's All Things Considered. I can't imagine the amount of feedback they must have received.
Note the amount of times they mention that this is a "hypothetical" report. No War of the Worlds moments here, people.
Note the amount of times they mention that this is a "hypothetical" report. No War of the Worlds moments here, people.
Obama + Leadership
Bare with me: This is a first draft.
Leadership does not come from simply winning. A large part in leadership comes from setting the bar ahead of where it has been, and challenging people to follow you there. To put is simply, it is guidance. It is what is happening now with Obama.
The times we are in certainly must be confronted with a vigorous new approach. The tasks we have before us are many, and the margins for failure ever smaller. The solutions require a sense of humility, and must be novel. This is a new direction forward.
Obama is benchmarking a new vision for this country. The same vision that swept him into office. He is challenging the root wisdom of many in his own party, as well as that of the opposition. He is asking the citizens of this [and other] nation(s) to move into a new dialogue, that pushes through the old arguments that have kept our policies for the most-part stagnant domestically and internationally.
This is an approach that has been met by many with scorn and admonishment. It is an approach that many feel is too moderate. But, it is just the approach that we need.
President Obama has pushed his agenda further in the first three months than any President in recent memory. As citizens, we are responsible to keep up with these changes. To educate ourselves, to form opinions, and to ask more of our government and ourselves. To demand that our voices and ideas be represented. To actively participate in our democracy.
Such sweeping policy reform is not always clear or easy to follow — but it is consistent in it's call: To grow this nation's potential will require hard work. Vision. Participation. Courage. Trust.
As a country, we can no longer just claim greatness. We must become the greatness we expect from our collective selves.
Obama's push forward requires this. Agree or disagree with the policy, he is actively guiding our nation, requiring us to dictate the directions that we now take. That is why what we are witnessing is true leadership.
Leadership does not come from simply winning. A large part in leadership comes from setting the bar ahead of where it has been, and challenging people to follow you there. To put is simply, it is guidance. It is what is happening now with Obama.
The times we are in certainly must be confronted with a vigorous new approach. The tasks we have before us are many, and the margins for failure ever smaller. The solutions require a sense of humility, and must be novel. This is a new direction forward.
Obama is benchmarking a new vision for this country. The same vision that swept him into office. He is challenging the root wisdom of many in his own party, as well as that of the opposition. He is asking the citizens of this [and other] nation(s) to move into a new dialogue, that pushes through the old arguments that have kept our policies for the most-part stagnant domestically and internationally.
This is an approach that has been met by many with scorn and admonishment. It is an approach that many feel is too moderate. But, it is just the approach that we need.
President Obama has pushed his agenda further in the first three months than any President in recent memory. As citizens, we are responsible to keep up with these changes. To educate ourselves, to form opinions, and to ask more of our government and ourselves. To demand that our voices and ideas be represented. To actively participate in our democracy.
Such sweeping policy reform is not always clear or easy to follow — but it is consistent in it's call: To grow this nation's potential will require hard work. Vision. Participation. Courage. Trust.
As a country, we can no longer just claim greatness. We must become the greatness we expect from our collective selves.
Obama's push forward requires this. Agree or disagree with the policy, he is actively guiding our nation, requiring us to dictate the directions that we now take. That is why what we are witnessing is true leadership.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Elliot Smith + Waltz #2 + Between The Bars + Sweet Adeline
I will never forget how kind he was to me on my 20th birthday. With his shoes and his bus. We were both too skinny.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Truffle + The Arthritics
All I do is paint, man. Not canvas any more. Nope, ain't got no time for that shit. I gotta paint walls. Until I get cramps in my hand. Not little cramps. Big ones. The Arthritics. The cramps last for days. If I am not painting, they tend to feel better. But that doesn't happen, because all I do is paint, man.
What you doing tonight man? Oh, I'm painting. Really, you paint quite a lot? I paint so much that I can't possibly continue to drink during every session. I am, quite literally, pickling my liver. I remember the good old days, when that blue tape came out, it was party-fucking-time. Grab a pop, turn up the radio, because we're gonna paint! Waaaazooo!
What's the color today, man? Truffle, I say. Hot damn. What's that look like? It looks like melted chocolate ice cream. Not the fancy kind of chocolate ice cream. The kind that comes in kids cups with wooden spoons. Those spoons are the same god damned type of wood that they make the stirring sticks for paint from. No shit? No shit.
[Wisdom: don't ever pay for a stirring stick, and don't ever buy paint from a place who charges for stirring sticks.]
Why's it called truffle? So assholes like me will feel better about painting my walls with it. That way I can take family and friends on a tour of my house with a wine in my cramped hand and say, see this room here? That's truffle. That room? Philadelphia Cream... they wouldn't dare call that color by it's rightful name, Melted-cheese-steak-cheese. No fucking way. But that's what it looks like.
So what are you doing tonight man? Painting. Well, I am getting Vietnamese at Eden Center and then painting.
You couldn't handle it.
What you doing tonight man? Oh, I'm painting. Really, you paint quite a lot? I paint so much that I can't possibly continue to drink during every session. I am, quite literally, pickling my liver. I remember the good old days, when that blue tape came out, it was party-fucking-time. Grab a pop, turn up the radio, because we're gonna paint! Waaaazooo!
What's the color today, man? Truffle, I say. Hot damn. What's that look like? It looks like melted chocolate ice cream. Not the fancy kind of chocolate ice cream. The kind that comes in kids cups with wooden spoons. Those spoons are the same god damned type of wood that they make the stirring sticks for paint from. No shit? No shit.
[Wisdom: don't ever pay for a stirring stick, and don't ever buy paint from a place who charges for stirring sticks.]
Why's it called truffle? So assholes like me will feel better about painting my walls with it. That way I can take family and friends on a tour of my house with a wine in my cramped hand and say, see this room here? That's truffle. That room? Philadelphia Cream... they wouldn't dare call that color by it's rightful name, Melted-cheese-steak-cheese. No fucking way. But that's what it looks like.
So what are you doing tonight man? Painting. Well, I am getting Vietnamese at Eden Center and then painting.
You couldn't handle it.
Obama + Economic Address at Georgetown + Yes, the University
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Tea Bagging + The Impotence of an Idea
The tea bag party's that will be popping up tomorrow all over our country should give pause to us all. It has nothing to do with whether or not there is a vocal minority in this country, or even if the neo-tea bagger's have gotten the history of the Boston Tea Party wrong. It has to do with the fact that they are protesting tax initiatives that are not Obama's making. The taxes are Bush's. Not the most recent Bush, no... Bush Sr. We're just using them to pay down W's debt.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Going Off The Grid + Talking Heads + Life During Wartime
I will be on a interweb technology time-out for the Easter Holiday. Black-out starts at 5pm today when I head to the bar. Hope that you all have a wonderful weekend. Don't take the Perv anywhere near Tuckerman's.
I am available to harass via my iRazor phone. I've taken to calling it that, because I feel so woefully inadequate with my lack of modern technology. I am not a Luddite. I amn't. I just have different prioriies.
I am however, quite the looker. Just ask the ladies.
Anyhow, here is your Friday Music Day installation a day in advance. So technically, it is just another music post.
Be good, be good at it.
I am available to harass via my iRazor phone. I've taken to calling it that, because I feel so woefully inadequate with my lack of modern technology. I am not a Luddite. I amn't. I just have different prioriies.
I am however, quite the looker. Just ask the ladies.
Anyhow, here is your Friday Music Day installation a day in advance. So technically, it is just another music post.
Be good, be good at it.
Hitchens + Christian Nation?
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Keith + Madame Speaker + The Bankruptcy of Their Ideas
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Starting Off Like September
Nicely done. A great start for the Sox. Pedrioa, Lowell, Beckett, Papelbon, Tek! Everyone involved.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Neil Young + A Day In The Life
I apologize, the audio isn't that great. I usually avoid, but it is just too good to pass up.
Rachel + Satan + Johnny Damon You Broke My Heart
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Robert Reich + Feeling a Bit Depressed?
The following is from an April 3rd entry on Robert Reich's blog.
It's a Depression
The March employment numbers, out this morning, are bleak: 8.5 percent of Americans officially unemployed, 663,000 more jobs lost. But if you include people who are out of work and have given up trying to find a job, the real unemployment rate is 9 percent. And if you include people working part time who'd rather be working full time, it's now up to 15.6 percent. One in every six workers in America is now either unemployed or underemployed.
Every lost job has a multiplier effect throughout the economy. For every person who no longer has a job and can't find another, or is trying to enter the job market and can't find one, there are at least three job holders who become more anxious that they may lose their job. Almost every American right now is within two degrees of separation of someone who is out of work. This broader anxiety expresses itself as less willingness to spend money on anything other than necessities. And this reluctance to spend further contracts the economy, leading to more job losses.
Capital markets may or may not unfreeze under the combined heat of the Treasury and the Fed, but what happens to Wall Street is becoming less and less relevant to Main Street. Anxious Americans will not borrow even if credit is available to them. And ever fewer Americans are good credit risks anyway.
All this means that the real economy will need a larger stimulus than the $787 billion already enacted. To be sure, only a small fraction of the $787 billion has been turned into new jobs so far. The money is still moving out the door. But today's bleak jobs report shows that the economy is so far below its productive capacity that much more money will be needed.
This is still not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it is a Depression. And the only way out is government spending on a very large scale. We should stop worrying about Wall Street. Worry about American workers. Use money to build up Main Street, and the future capacities of our workforce.
Energy independence and a non-carbon economy should be the equivalent of a war mobilization. Hire Americans to weatherize and insulate homes across the land. Don't encourage General Motors or any other auto company to shrink. Use the auto makers' spare capacity to make busses, new wind turbines, and electric cars (why let the Chinese best us on this?). Enlarge public transit systems.
Meanwhile, extend our educational infrastructure. So many young people are out of work that they should be using this time to improve their skills and capacities. Expand community colleges. Enlarge Pell Grants. Extend job-training opportunities to the unemployed, so they can learn new skills while they're collecting unemployment benefits.
Finally, accelerate universal health care.
It's a Depression
The March employment numbers, out this morning, are bleak: 8.5 percent of Americans officially unemployed, 663,000 more jobs lost. But if you include people who are out of work and have given up trying to find a job, the real unemployment rate is 9 percent. And if you include people working part time who'd rather be working full time, it's now up to 15.6 percent. One in every six workers in America is now either unemployed or underemployed.
Every lost job has a multiplier effect throughout the economy. For every person who no longer has a job and can't find another, or is trying to enter the job market and can't find one, there are at least three job holders who become more anxious that they may lose their job. Almost every American right now is within two degrees of separation of someone who is out of work. This broader anxiety expresses itself as less willingness to spend money on anything other than necessities. And this reluctance to spend further contracts the economy, leading to more job losses.
Capital markets may or may not unfreeze under the combined heat of the Treasury and the Fed, but what happens to Wall Street is becoming less and less relevant to Main Street. Anxious Americans will not borrow even if credit is available to them. And ever fewer Americans are good credit risks anyway.
All this means that the real economy will need a larger stimulus than the $787 billion already enacted. To be sure, only a small fraction of the $787 billion has been turned into new jobs so far. The money is still moving out the door. But today's bleak jobs report shows that the economy is so far below its productive capacity that much more money will be needed.
This is still not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it is a Depression. And the only way out is government spending on a very large scale. We should stop worrying about Wall Street. Worry about American workers. Use money to build up Main Street, and the future capacities of our workforce.
Energy independence and a non-carbon economy should be the equivalent of a war mobilization. Hire Americans to weatherize and insulate homes across the land. Don't encourage General Motors or any other auto company to shrink. Use the auto makers' spare capacity to make busses, new wind turbines, and electric cars (why let the Chinese best us on this?). Enlarge public transit systems.
Meanwhile, extend our educational infrastructure. So many young people are out of work that they should be using this time to improve their skills and capacities. Expand community colleges. Enlarge Pell Grants. Extend job-training opportunities to the unemployed, so they can learn new skills while they're collecting unemployment benefits.
Finally, accelerate universal health care.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Countdown + Late Night + MUST WATCH! + SUCK IT!!!
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Hunter S. Thompson + Johnny Depp + The Rum Diary
Yes, in case you didn't know. Filming has started on this Thompson classic. Look for it in however long from now it takes to make and edit and release a movie.
Anyhow. Maniac.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Obama + G-20
With all the comings-and-goings in this week's G-20, I decided not to even try to tackle posting about it. In summary, the following clip seems a good round-up (albeit a liberal-wind-bag-round-up).
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Keith + Rep. Maxine Waters + Republican Budget?
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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