"mccain-palin have been rather busy this week endorsing the view of some of their psychotic supporters who chanted 'obama is a traitor,' among the other hate-filled rants" ... story continues here: hate as a political strategy (the huffington post)
"loathe the expression "what makes him tick." it is the american mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. a person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." -james thurber
Currently
listening
:
The Freakbeat Scene
By
Various Artists
Release date: 2005-05-09
this coming weekend i make my return to the wheels of steel*, spinning garage, freakbeat and sweet soul music at last exit's atlantic antic after-party. it promises to be an all-around fantastic day, with my friends les sans culottes playing live outside of the bar, and the general merriment that is brooklyn's best street-fair... seeing as this will also be the first time in five years that i've not booked one of the stages at the the antic, i am just very happy to be a part of the action!
last exit is located at 136 atlantic avenue, between henry and clinton streets; the party starts at 6pm.
"look not mournfully into the past. it comes not back again. wisely improve the present. it is thine. go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear." -henry wadsworth longfellow
"a game with hernandez will veer between baseball analysis and references to douglas macarthur, the civil war, cartoons, his museum visits with kai, "the three musketeers" (loved the book, disliked all the film versions), his beans-and-sprouts diet, his father or his achy quadriceps. an occasional motif in his commentary is drinking, which hernandez knows a little bit about. earlier this week, he castigated cubs reliever carlos mármol for throwing too many sliders with a five-run lead ... "in our day," he said, "cutting into our cocktail hour, i'd be all over him." ... story continues here: a man in full unleashes his inner goof (ny times)
how should i know? the enormous wheels of will drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet. night was void arms and you a phantom still, and day your far light swaying down the street. as never fool for love, i starved for you; my throat was dry and my eyes hot to see. your mouth so lying was most heaven in view, and your remembered smell most agony.
love wakens love! i felt your hot wrist shiver and suddenly the mad victory i planned flashed real, in your burning bending head... my conqueror's blood was cool as a deep river in shadow; and my heart beneath your hand quieter than a dead man on a bed.
by rupert brooke
Currently
listening
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S.F. Sorrow
By
The Pretty Things
Release date: 2000-05-30
"certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." -sir francis bacon
"richard wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of pink floyd's art-rock that has sold millions and millions of albums, died monday in london, where he had lived. he was 65." ... story continues here: richard wright, member of pink floyd, dies at 65 (ny times)
"every day you may make progress. every step may be fruitful. yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. you know you will never get to the end of the journey. but this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." -sir winston churchill
"just outside of cranks, ky., in harlan county, mack middleton is a retired coal miner and a die-hard union man -- a united mine workers bumper sticker adorns his dodge van -- but he is also a swing voter who voted both for ronald reagan and bill clinton. this year, middleton, 62, and his wife, janice, 57, aren't sure if they are going to vote at all... "obama, he's not our kind of people," said middleton in a gruff, bitten-off speaking style, taking a break from canning green beans at the couple's double-wide mobile home. "he don't believe in the hereafter, and the lord, the way i look at it ... he's muslim." ... read the full, sad story here: what small-town america is saying about obama (salon.com)
Currently
listening
:
1 Record/Radio City
By
Big Star
Release date: 1992-06-10
"kimber vanry was sitting on his stoop in the prospect heights section of brooklyn, drinking a beer and sending e-mail messages on his blackberry, when a police car slowed to a stop on the street in front of him." ... story continues here: fighting for the right to drink beer on his stoop (ny times)
Currently
listening
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Truth
By
Jeff Beck
Release date: 2006-10-10
"for nearly 50 years, it's been the main attraction along coney island's famed boardwalk, but on sunday the fun's over at astroland." ... story continues here: coney island's famed astroland closing sunday (am new york)
[ be sure to check out this vintage astroland television ad ]
