Friday YouTube Nugget

Since we seem to be going through the 21st century version currently, let's hark back to the Mother of All Storms - the Blizzard of '77. White Death, indeed

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20 January 2009

InauguraLOL, Part 2

InauguraLOL

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Here's one you didn't see coming....the greatest soul belter of his time, Wilson Pickett, demolishes the Steppenwolf anthem Born to Be Wild. Yowza

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Happy New Year!

May our 2009 be happy and prosperous....or, at least better than the last half of 2008.

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What a glorious Noel....The Humanist got everything he wanted and more and was able to bring some joy to family and friends with his choice of presents. He ate too much, (thankfully) didn't drink too much and made it safely back to work.....grumble.

Anyhoo, it's the Friday after Christmas, I got nothing.....so here's one of my favorite bits from Seinfeld. That's gold, Jerry......GOLD!

MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY

"It's Christmaaaaaaaaaaas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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I realize I'm a couple weeks late with this, but it's been 7 years since we lost George Harrison. Here's a clip of my 2nd favorite Beatle being exceptionally silly on a BBC special from 1975:

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And my nominee for Worst Lip Synch in a Video: Joe Jackson, I'm The Man:

Imagine

9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980

28 years ago and it seems like yesterday.

Happy Thanksgiving to You and Yours

There are so many things to be thankful for this year:

• Family
• Friends
• Friends of Friends
• Strangers
• Strangers who are not yet Friends
• Strangers who will never be Friends
• Methodists
• Snake-handlers
• Dear gentle blog readers
• Someone special to love....and who loves back
• PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, MOTHERFUCKER!
• (ahem)....vice-president elect Joe Biden
• 56 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes to go for President Bunnypants
• Love
• Peace
• Harmony
• Comfortable Shoes
• Poutine
• No local pro athletes paralyzed or garroted on the playing field thus far this year
• The sun has not burned out just yet
• I am not yet selling pencils on the street or moving into "Hoovervilles"
• My sarcasm remains pointed
• I can still rock the mic like a vandal and, also, light up a chump like a candle
• I'm alive
• I'm well
• I'm happy
• My brother
• My mother

So, in the spirit of the season, I'm reposting my special Thanksgiving video...an appropriate clip from The Ice Storm (1997):

My warmest wishes to you and your families for a restful and happy Thanksgiving.

Now....onto the War on Christmas!

Friday YouTube Nugget

Today's installment comes from the soundtrack of Sean Penn's film, The Pledge (2001). The film was little seen in its release, but was a fascinating examination of a retired detective's obsession with finding a child killer. One of the standout songs on the soundtrack was by an artist from Mozambique. The lead singer of that country's top dance band, Orchestra Marrabenta Star, Wazimbo recorded this song in 1988 and re-released it in 2001 when it gained popularity due to its use in the film.

Here is Wazimbo with "Nwalhulwana"

Well, looks like I'm not getting any work done until January 2009

"You lookin' at me?"

I just found out that Google is placing the entire photo archive of LIFE magazine online...the photos date all the way back to the 1750's (I posted one of the earliest ones above) and are organized and searchable by decade.

They have 20% of the total archive posted....in the next few months, they'll have all 10 million photos up.

Click if you dare: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Yeah....that's about right

UPDATE - As if today couldn't get worse, I just saw that Joe Lieberman will keep his chair on the Homeland Security Committee.

Reverend Jim - bring us the Kool-Aid!!!

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Tune in, turn on, drop out

This week's installment is a little hippy-dippy, but is a pretty good song. The Moody Blues released "Legend of a Mind" in 1968, but the song is better known for its opening verse:

"Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in."

Timothy Leary was the notorious Harvard professor-turned-LSD advocate who graced the Sixties with his iconic slogan noted in the caption above. After crashing hard in the 70's (including a fugitive run through Algeria and Switzerland and a sentence at Folsom Prison), Leary reemerged in the 80's as a lecturer and personality. Kids like me who weren't around when Richard Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America" saw Leary as a sort of relic of the Hippie Era. His last grab at publicity came around his death from prostate cancer in 1996. Leary arranged to have his head removed from his corpse for the purposes of cryonic preservation and his cremated remains to be loaded on a rocket so he could be buried in space. The rocket, which also carried the remains of Gene Roddenberry, was launched in April 1997 and was in orbit for six years before it burnt up.

Far out, man....

DRUM SOLO

In honor of the great Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience who was found dead yesterday, here's a great moment from a concert in Sweden, 9 January 1969:

In honor of their service

No on Prop.8 - Redux

As happy as I am over Tuesday's election results, I was crushed that Proposition 8, the anti-civil rights initiative, narrowly passed in California. We have a lot of work to do to overcome.

I haven't heard a more eloquent or passionate commentary on this issue than Keith Olbermann in tonight's Special Comment:



This is neither political nor partisan. This is a matter of basic civil rights, the rights granted to us by our Constitution. None must rest until we are all free.