We spent a long good weekend in Chicago. Sunday was the “Bike the Drive” event, where the city closes Lake Shore Drive to cars and allow bicycles to use the road….. as it should be of course…. all the time..Opening our windows on Sunday morning, a beautiful day, Lake Michigan shining silver and gray..Lincoln Park [...]
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Category Archives: Living in America
Corrente lays it down…
One of my favorite blogs is “Corrente, the stayed behind series“. I read it every day, as it serves as a fine example of …well…how to write a blog the right way. The Farmer, who is the genius behind this blog, writes with an amazing combination of insight and humor and …also gives valuable plant [...]
Creative Commons and Music
I have been in the music business for a long time, first as a working musician, then adding composer to my so called resume. Along the way, I figured out why I dislike the music business so much (wasn’t all that hard to do!), but I couldn’t figure out how to deal with the simple [...]
MLK
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-Az0bdbHOI
Agreed..
this is the second part of a testimony from 3/16/08..please watch it all the way through.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-iTdxBECos8
It’s almost over, chapter…
Credit crunch woes claim America’s fifth-biggest bank
· Bear Stearns seeks buyer despite emergency aid
· Bush’s claim that economy is sound falls on deaf ears
War in Iraq: $502,741,000,000 …National debt: $9,411,078,000,000
“Prosperitism is just around the corner.”
Read and see more of George’s hilarious new Vegas routine HERE:
McGramps Ponders Reprodution
From Lawyers, Guns and Money, whose great byline is “Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business”. Special tip to Rising Hegemon, who are quickly becoming my favorite AM place to hang.
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While making the obvious but necessary point that a McCain presidency would be [...]
Magic Sam: Fahnkin’ on the West Side, 1969
Baby boomer bullshit/navel gazing aside..I am from Chicago..and when I was a kid, I lived and breathed Chicago Blues music. While the other kids in my neighborhood were listening to… uhh..I dunnknow… The Association?..I hung out and played music with some older college aged hoodlums who were true fans… One of the best [...]
Art by Joe
Joe Gagnepain is one of our favorite humans..he’s a sculptor, visual artist, and lately has taken up ice carving..because the materials ARE PLENTIFUL AND CHEAP around here. He is “from the area”…and if you think it’s hard being an artist in NewYawk or Yourip or even… Seattle..shit..move out here to the Greater Fox River Valley, [...]
ok ok..he really wasn’t clog dancing..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F-KnFadDGgo
who knew.. Dick..Condi..and even..fat (phat?) boy.
Mah boyfriends a comin’, mah boyfriends a comin’
from the Rising Hegemon..thank you sirs and madam..
JEFRO! fetch Ellie May out by the ce-ment pond, and tell granny to put on a pot of possum stew..
whooo DOGGIE!
Living in America, PT 2
Two things in my reader this morning from The Guardian..yes..being the g__less Socialist I am..I subscribe to The Guardian (they are also “responsible” for that piece on Moses below..as well as having the good sense to print George Monbiot every week)….here’s two innerstin’ little tidbits that were side x side today:
Bernanke warnings on housing slump [...]
