dredg & Salmon Rushdie

One of my favorite rock bands around right now is dredg.  I’ve seen them twice this year, and their 2009 album The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion is at this time the easiest pick for album of the year for me.  Easiest.  It’s fantastic.  The aforementioned album is a concept album inspired by Salmon Rushdie’s [...]

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ha’fway 2009

Happy 233rd birthday, United States!

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(Sub)consciously prompted by these music blogs, here are my favs of the first half of 2009… it’s all bound to switch around by year’s end:

Artist – Album (label)

Dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion (Ohlone)
Masada Quintet + Joe [...]

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comedy that just writes itself

To George W Bush,
Comedians everywhere hope you stay in the public eye for years to come… the rest of us 78% who don’t approve of the job you’ve done hope you just go away.

Good riddance, #43.  Don’t let the shoe hit you on the way out…

Here’s hoping #44 is better.  Quite frankly, it’d be hard [...]

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Senator Al Franken

2 months later and 225 votes ahead… and it’s now official.  Congratulations, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota!
http://www.alfranken.com/
~Dan – np: Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains

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Prop 8: The Musical

All the buzz today on my RSS feeder… then I finally watched it and saw why there was such a buzz…
Written (by Marc Shaiman) in one day, recorded the music the next day, and shot in a day… here is Prop 8: The Musical featuring Jack Black (as Jesus) with Neil Patrick Harris, John C. [...]

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Olbermann Special Comment: Proposition 8

Do unto others what you would have them do unto you…
~Dan

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Congratulations

President Elect Barack Obama

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Get out and not vote…

wait?  what?!

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Ron Howard as Opie & Richie Cunningham

Brilliant stuff… check out a new video of Ron Howard (as Opie with Andy Griffith & Richie with Henry Winkler) over on my friend J.Marie’s blog:

(click the pic)
I’d post it here, but WordPress(.com) doesn’t like many of the standard video embedding links.
~Dan

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Sarah Silverman’s the Great Schlep

Sarah Silverman urges you in her usual offensive way… don’t be a douche nozzle…

(Paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research)
Thanks for the PSA, Sarah.
Only 3 more weeks until D-Day…
~Dan – np: Paul Brody’s Sadawi – For the Moment

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Monty’s Rockcast / Palin Debate Flowchart & Duck Hunt / Holy Fuck on CBC Radio Q

Well, three unrelated topics… Monty Colvin’s podcast, the VP debate, and Holy Fuck on CBC Radio Q…

Monty Colvin, bassist/ songwriter/ backing singer from Galactic Cowboys and multi-instrumentalist/ lead vocals/ songwriter from Crunchy, has a podcast.  If you’re a fan of Galactic Cowboys (GC), King’s X, or guys who say “um” and “stuff” a lot… check [...]

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I ♥ Peter DeFazio (my representative)

I ♥ my house representative, Peter DeFazio.

Sure, the failure of the bailout bill caused the Dow to drop 700+ points in one day on Monday.  I’d rather have short-term losses than long-term unchecked corporate greed.  We need to find a solution, but the solution brought forward by Henry Paulson and the [...]

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If you missed it…

The 2008 Presidential Debate(s) are (will be) available for download as a CBS podcast HERE (via iTunes).  For non-iTunes people… well, I’m sure it’s out there elsewhere.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=292335278
~Dan
PS- Rest in peace, Paul Newman.  I love your spaghetti sauces and your daughter’s cookies (literally, not euphemistically).

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A Very Special Planned Parenthood Fund

Planned Parenthood is a great organization.  They help women of all stripes who are in need of medical advice, birth control, et cetera.

I don’t know if you knew this, but you can make a Planned Parenthood donation in honor of someone else.  They get a little card saying that a donation was made in their [...]

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In accordance with the prophecies…

…I lied about not posting for a few days.  Two cool things: Jeff Ament (of Pearl Jam) with Doug Pinnick (of King’s X) -and- a free Michael Moore movie Slacker Uprising.
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First things first.  In 2004, Doug Pinnick (bassist/vocals of King’s X) and Jeff Ament (bassist of Pearl Jam) wrapped up an album tentatively titled Montana.  [...]

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Palin(g) in Comparison

To the Hillary supporters who for some reason don’t like Barack Obama…
Don’t Vote for McCain simply because he chose a woman.  I know that may seem like an unlikely alternative, and I know that we’re all smarter than that…
But there are rumors and rumors of rumors that some Hillary-likers (now maybe undecideds) are switching over [...]

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Bill Maher on Larry King re: Religion

Bill Maher & Larry Charles’ religious comedy Religulous comes out October 3rd. It was supposed to come out in June (I mentioned way back in April during my review of Expelled).
Bill Maher was recently on Larry King…
Part1 – Also available for download at the RDF (warning: 17.5M)

Part2 – [...]

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LOL Bush @ Olympics

more…

159 more days…
~Dan – np: Carla Kihlstedt’s 2 Foot Yard – Borrowed Arms

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Church and State

Wow… very level headed and rational take on how religion & politics should interact…

And then there’s this guy who doesn’t know what the Constitution even says… and he doesn’t know that “In God We Trust” was adopted in the 1950s (not in the Constitution by the founders of this nation)…
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vegeterrorists? kale is the new jihad

What is this world coming to? Huh?
What’s on the FBI’s big list of things to do this summer in preparation for the Republican National Convention? They’re going to go to vegan potlucks.
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders [...]

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