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Baron Dave Romm
Election Day USA
By Baron Dave Romm
My name is Baron Dave Romm and I approved this message.
Election Day USA comprises twenty songs by sixteen artists. All the songs area anti-Bush/pro-America, and all the songs are available online as mp3s. A great collection that you don't even have to buy! This election is important, and Seal Lion Records wants to spread the word.
John McCutcheon weighs in with two great songs from his CD Stand Up!... Broadsides for Our Time (upper left). Duct Tape may be Tom Ridge's suggestion for how to deal with terrorism, but Let's Pretend is how the entire Bush administration deals with... well, everything. Pat Humphries's feminist call to action is codePiINK, a bit more grown up than the Barbie anthem Think Pink, is catchy and just a little angry. Yikes McGee satirizes Operation Iraqi Liberation (hint: look at the acronym). And so on. A terrific collection, which should be on everyone's hard drive.
If you happen to be in New York City during the Republican National Convention, or simply happen by pure chance to be near a den of conservatives, perhaps you should be playing these songs a bit louder than usual. Don't break any laws (heaven forbid), but blast those car stereos and portable boom boxes.
Speaking of the Republican National Convention (and you can be sure the conservative news media will cover it a LOT more than they did the Democratic National Convention), don't let them dominate the opinion pages of your newspaper or on call-in radio shows. Let your voices be heard as well! Call in! Write a Letter to the Editor! Put out those lawn signs, wear your buttons, get your Bush-B-Gone aerosol can labels!
A short one this week. Parting thought: I'd rather have a president who gets a blow job than one who gives them.
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here, you can order Shockwave Radio Theater CDs, and you can hear the last two Shockwave broadcasts in Real Audio here (scroll down to Shockwave). Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air, and I'm continuing to collect extra-weird stuff.
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Busy day.
Members of the group Black Eyed Peas arrive at the MTV Music Video Awards in Miami, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004.
Photo by Alan Diaz
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Tour Reports Strong Sales
Vote for Change
Organizers of the Vote for Change tour say they are pleased with initial ticket sales for the politically charged trek and expect shows to sell out by Labor Day.
The tour features superstar acts performing in nine swing states in October, with the ultimate goal of unseating resident Bush on Election Day.
Tickets for most shows, including those for Bruce Springsteen/R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dixie Chicks/James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt/Jackson Browne, went on sale Aug. 21. Shows headlined by Dave Matthews Band and John Mellencamp go on sale Aug. 28.
The tour begins Oct. 1 at various sites in Pennsylvania. Many of the artists will hit the stage for a grand finale Oct. 10 in Miami, with Pearl Jam, Springsteen and the E Street Band, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, John Fogerty, Bright Eyes, Dixie Chicks, Taylor, Ben Harper, Jurassic 5, My Morning Jacket and Death Cab for Cutie on the bill.
Vote for Change
Steve Hausheer, an ex-Marine, makes his way towards Madison Square Garden during the anti-Bush march organized by United for Peace and Justice in New York Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. Tens of thousands of Bush administration opponents poured into Manhattan's streets on the eve of the Republican National Convention, angrily but peacefully denouncing the war in Iraq and demanding the United States withdraw its forces.
Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek
Matt Damon's Uncle
George Brunstad
The 70-year-old uncle of Hollywood star Matt Damon became the oldest person to swim the English Channel Sunday, arriving on the French coast in the early hours after a grueling 21-mile swim.
The swim took 15 hours and 59 minutes and Brunstad, a champion swimmer who had trained for the challenge for a year, took the record from a 67-year-old.
He raised about $12,000 for Haitian children.
George Brunstad
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Some Celebs Stay As GOP Arrives
NYC
Not all the celebrities wanted their MTV. While many of the pop culture glitterati got out of town this weekend to mark the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, a few well-known people stuck around New York the weekend before the Republican National Convention opened.
There was filmmaker Michael Moore, hanging with the protesters in the massive march around midtown Manhattan on Sunday. Actress Kathleen Turner marched for reproductive rights across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday morning. Comedienne Margaret Cho packed them in at two shows at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem on Saturday night, taking shots at the Right as she encouraged everyone to come out and demonstrate.
NYC
Une new-yorkaise proteste contre Bush dimanche
manifesté dimanche sans incident à New York contre la politique du résident George W. Bush, à la veille de la convention républicaine qui doit le propulser vers un deuxième mandat à la Maison Blanche.
Photo by Tim Sloan
Bible Is His Best Book
Uh-Huh
Resident Bush said on Saturday his favorite reading was the Bible, followed by books about history.
On a campaign stop in Lima, Ohio, Bush took questions from his audience, including from a young boy who asked him what his favorite book was. To loud applause, the president replied: "The Bible."
He said he was also a fan of history and had just read a biography of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers and the first treasury secretary.
Uh-Huh
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Copyright Infringement Case In China
Garfield
Cartoon character Garfield has set the cat among the pigeons in China with a copyright infringement case, the China Daily said Saturday.
The case has been filed by Paws, Inc. of the United States against three Chinese companies it accuses of publishing Garfield books without permission.
The Garfield case is being heard by the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court against Beijing Kewen Book Information Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing Science and Culture Cambridge Co. Ltd. and Xiwang Publishing House, the latter based in north China's Shanxi Province.
Garfield
Actress Rosie Perez addresses the crowd at the start of a protest march leading up to the Republican National Convention sponsored by the group United for Peace and Justice in New York, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin Monday.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta
Ancient Chinese Music
Yuen Shi-chun
Listening to Yuen Shi-chun's music is like riding in a time machine that transports one back through the centuries to an ancient Chinese world, where poets share wine and compose verses in a bamboo grove.
China had long since forgotten about lute-like instruments from the Tang Dynasty, circa 618-907 AD, but Yuen is bringing the old music back to life by making replicas of the instruments and playing them.
"I want to trace the roots and evolution of these musical instruments so I can improve the sound of the modern versions that we're using," said the 55-year-old Yuen.
Yuen works full-time as a principal musician in the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. It has four sections - bowed strings, plucked strings, wind and percussion - and incorporates traditional and modernized Chinese instruments and some western ones.
For a lot more, Yuen Shi-chun
Filmmaker Michael Moore, left, protest organizer Leslie Cagan, second from left, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, second from right, and actor Danny Glover, right, lead a protest march by tens of thousands of Bush administration opponents on the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta
Mourners Pay Tribute
Gypsy Boots
Dressed in colourful shirts and sandals, nearly 200 relatives and friends paid tribute to California fitness icon and health guru Gypsy Boots during a memorial service at a Hollywood cemetery.
Boots, born Robert Bootzin, died Aug. 8 at a convalescent home in Camarillo after a brief illness. He was 89. On Saturday, people gathered at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to remember his generosity as well as his free-spirited lifestyle and passion for health food.
Born Aug. 19, 1914, Boots defined what it meant to live close to nature decades before the current obsession with organic foods, yoga and exercise. He wrote Barefeet and Good Things to Eat and The Gypsy in Me, attracted thousands of fans, and made 25 appearances on the Steve Allen Show in the early 1960s.
Gypsy Boots
In Memory
Larry McCormick
Larry McCormick, a longtime Los Angeles news anchor and public-affairs host who was one of the first Black TV news anchormen in Los Angeles, died Friday afternoon. He was 71.
McCormick died after a long illness that prevented him from co-anchoring KTLA's News at Ten: Weekend Edition for most of the last year. The cause of death was not released. KTLA news director Jeff Wald said McCormick left the air in February and returned in April.
"He did two nights and then he couldn't come back," Wald told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.
"He kept telling me he was going to be back in two weeks," Wald said. "I think that kept him going because he was so much a fabric of this television station."
A fixture at KTLA since 1971, when he started as a weathercaster, McCormick filled a variety of on-air roles over the years, including delivering sports news and health and fitness reports.
He also was the host of a public affairs show called Pacesetters for many years. And in recent years, he was co-host of Making It: Minority Success Stories, a Sunday morning public-affairs series for which he shared an Emmy in 2003.
Wald called McCormick, who began co-anchoring News at Ten: Weekend Edition in 1973, "the epitome of professionalism and class."
Marta Waller, who co-anchored News at Ten: Weekend Edition with McCormick, said he "brought real continuity and professionalism to television news."
Waller, who had worked with McCormick since the late 1980s said, "He was, without a doubt, one of the most compassionate and generous and kind people I've ever known. And it wasn't just news. He gave so much to his community, and he was just tireless. He put his heart into everything he did, and he didn't compromise his journalistic ethics for anything.
Born in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 3, 1933, McCormick studied theater at what is now the University of Missouri in Kansas City but changed his major to broadcasting. He launched his radio career as a disc jockey and community relations director at KPRS in Kansas City in 1957.
Larry McCormick
Women from Hainan Island's Li ethnic minority group perform a traditional dance during a tourism conference Hangzhou, Ziejiang Province, August 28, 2004. The tropical Hainan Island in southern China was promoting its tourism industry at the conference.
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