08 July 2009
A footnote from Noel Coward
"Coming across a footnote, Noel Coward observed, is like going downstairs to answer the doorbell while making love."
04 July 2009
Shouldn't every well dressed man have at least one turtleneck collar as big as the yellow one Robin Gibb wears here...
...during a 1974 performance of "Massachusetts" by his brothers and him?
03 July 2009
Happy Independence Day, Everybody!
Randy Newman's Follow The Flag performed in a restraurant by some guys on YouTube.
Happy 4th, All!
As my staff person Min said on Thursday, "If you haven't lived in a Communist country, you really don't know what freedom means."
Sadly, for many (if not most of us), she's probably correct.
Labels:
Follow the Flag,
July Fourth,
Randy Newman
Prepare ye the way...
I'll let you know when the revised edition of David Lloyd's The Gospel According to Frank is available from New American Press! It's coming soon.
Labels:
David Lloyd,
The Gospel According to Frank
"Sarah Palin Steps Down"
Say what you will about the politics of the soon-to-be-ex-Governor-of Alaska, Sarah Palin, but at least she's willing to step down from a position that she no longer wants to run for an office that she does.
'Twould that our Connecticut senators had done the same thing. No one can do a good job if they aren't around to do it.
'Twould that our Connecticut senators had done the same thing. No one can do a good job if they aren't around to do it.
Labels:
Chris Dodd,
Joe Lieberman,
Sarah Palin
02 July 2009
A particularly apropos line from Randy Newman's 1988 "New Orleans Wins the War"
It rained every day one summer.
01 July 2009
Where do you pause in reading this phrase?
Yale Medical School Discovery to Cure High School Internship Program
Yeah, me too...(if you stopped between between the 8th and 9th words)
And I was positive that high school was incurable!
Yeah, me too...(if you stopped between between the 8th and 9th words)
And I was positive that high school was incurable!
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