'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
TrimmedBush and Hedges
Bush and Cheney Meet Zippies
Sometimes I wake up in mansions, sometimes I wake up in trailer parks, sometimes I just wake up. Hell, I'm just happy to wake up.
I guess this comes from hanging with all peoples from different socio-economic levels throughout all the chapters of my life.
When I wake at mansions, it's usually from hanging with rich people who got me drunk and I didn't want to drive and risk all sorts of shit. Sometimes it's a rich woman, be it we had sex 'cause she thought I was the next Hendrix when I was on stage, took me to her home, took advantage of my inebriation and so we eventually crashed after meaningless sex.
When I wake at trailer parks, it's usually my old buddies pads who have had the living shit kicked out of them by life, not because they are intellectually inferior to some of these rich women I previously referred to, it's just due to always liking to be high better than being anything else due to major life altering events (cancer, motorcycle wrecks, drug addiction, etc.), so Bliss Through Trailers for these guys.
After many years of thought and rationalization of my lifestyle being opposite "normal" behaviour, I came to grips with: I was never designed to be in one bed each night of my life. Nothing feels like home more than one floor opposed to another. I'm a bohemian.
I don't like routines. I don't care for living anywhere in particular because, wherever you are, there you are. Waking to the same room is something that all bohemians must disdain. Why? Security is something us bohemians don't dig, man. I don't do security when it comes to life, I don't do anything but doo-doo, do you?
I've lived my life on the edge since I was ten years old, when I had a Honda 50 where I would always go full blast on that little bike. My twenty-sixth birthday was spent doing coke with the Latin Playboys in San Antonio, Texas. Why? Because I could, and no one cared except the Playboys who made me hang with chicanos till six a.m. three nights a week. They were my coke pals till I met my ex-wife (the story regarding my ex-wife is a book in itself).
I have no kids, raised some step-kids but none of my own. I knew I didn't want any munchkins yet 'cause I was not ever assignable to any one address.
Bush or Cheney would never invite me to their house, nor would I invite them to my home, wherever that home might be at that exact point in time. I'm not the kind of tall waspy Republican they're fond of, but my disdain for them has a more solid foundation. They kill people. Nor will those guys be who I hang with on the other side, if there is afterlife..
Hendrix, Zappa, Christ, John the Baptist, all these cats sound like they lived lives as true bohemians. They all lived on a spiritual plane that does not include cheerleaders from Yale University (our current Bunnypants was a Yale cheerleder, jeesus.....).
Christ never spent one night in the same place, nor did any of the guys in the New Testament, or Old Testament, or the Quoran or whatever might do it for you. They slept wherever they were. Wherever you go, there you are.
It's a vibe one gets from people that have true spiritual connections, like Lennon, Zappa, Vonnegut, Salvador Dali, true geniuses of the 20th century.
Do you think Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld are even on the same wavelength? I view Zappa as a prophet, musically as well as socially. I view Bush as a spoon fed evil man who should just quit now. Quit making men die, Bunnypants.
Quit it. Quit making men patrol streets where bombs go off every day. Has he buried any of his ilk? Of course not, just the poor go to die for their country which includes The Bush Family Evil Empire. He has the power to send young Americans to their death. Is this flunk-out drunken cheerleader the guy you really want making these decisions for you?
If these guys are your guys, I stay away from you, due to the fact you don't want me telling you the truth, no superstitions, no bullshit or doubletalk (dubyaspeak), and I don't golf or play bridge. For god's sake, why do bridge, Republicans, and golf all blend so well?
Republicans? That's not a game, Phillip. Oh, but it is.
Being a Republican is the DUMBEST game you can play next election. Politics (which are nothing but the entertainment side of industry) are games where people die.
Will Reason and Intelligence (Kerry) beat out Superstition and Ignorance (Bush)? Imagine Zappa and Hendrix vs. Bush and Cheney, in a room together. Whose collective intelligence would emerge?
If there is a Supreme Being, it will be the former. If it's the latter, I pray I go straight to worm food.
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This Week
Black Adder - 'Goodbyeee'
This week brings the last of series 4 for Blackadder, The big push is
finally here, and everyone is thrilled. Except for Edmund who is sitting
around with his underwear on his head with a pencil up each nostril. Can it
be a cunning plan? Will it work? Well, as you can guess from the title it
doesn't.
This is also the last (for now) of a regular series for our favorite
social climber. They have done a few specials (my fav,
A
Blackadder Christmas Carol), but there are no plans for anymore. That makes
this episode especially poignant.
The lads all know what going over the top
means and they are facing certain death. On American TV the writers would
try for a big finish but britcoms always try to end with a little class.
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Mr. Hawk
Bush/Cheney 04
Because Even War Criminals Need Jobs
Thanks, again, Mr. Hawk!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Contribution
4th of July, West Athen, Maine
Hi Marty!
Up here in Maine, we have the WEIRDEST 4th of July celebration in West Athens...scathingly anti-Bush & pro-freak...it's been going on for over 30 (?!) years, and it is definitely a "one of a kind" celebration. The entire town comes out for the event, which is hosted by the Mayor!!!
The celebration starts with a parade, and the residents then put on a play...this year's was about Halliburton, with some great Dick Cheney jabs, and the oil economy in general, with special appearances by John Kerry-okey, and Martha Stewart (along with the devil & his disciples). A blast was had by all!!!
Look here to check out a bunch more pictures.
perkypat
Thanks, Pat!
Now, that's a great old-fashioned 4th!
The Wall Street Poet
Purposeful George
President Bush is known as a leader with fixed ideas who doesn't flip-flop. Or maybe not...
Purposeful George
(On prisoners at Guantanamo)
We'll lock 'em up
And let em rot -
Or maybe not.
(On seeking aid from the world for our war in Iraq)
That UN lot
We can boycott -
Or maybe not.
(On dealing with Kadaffi)
We'll ne'er forgive
That vile despot -
Or maybe not.
(On the new Medicare drug benefit)
We'll boast about
What we begot -
Or maybe not.
(On Bush environmental policies)
Bad news here
Will be forgot -
Or maybe not.
(On the growing rich-poor divide)
It's only a
Class warfare plot -
Or maybe not.
(On some very unpopular cabinet members)
The big guy's charm
Their gaffs will blot -
Or maybe not.
This growing clot
Of maybe not
Won't work to change
The vote a lot -
Or maybe not.
© 2004
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For more political verse:
http://www.beltwaybard.com
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Nice overcast morning.
Ran out to the Valley to check in with Uncle Jimmy.
It's only about 40 miles, but the trip goes from coastal Long Beach to high chaparral North Hollywood. Can take the 101 off the 5, drive through Hollywood and past Universal, or take the 710 to the 5 to the 134, skirt downtown LA, past the Autry Museum and all things Disney. Either way, familiar views abound.
Traffic was remarkably good & Uncle Jimmy was in a great mood.
When I got home, Nolli (the nice lady across the street), had left a flat of mangoes. They smell wonderful, but I don't have a clue as what to do with so many.
U.S. actress Ashley Judd holds the hand of an AIDS patient at a hospice in Phnom Penh, Cambodia July 7, 2004. Cambodia's tragic past and present moved the Hollywood star to tears as she visited a hospice for people dying of AIDS and a museum of the 'Killing Fields' genocide of the Khmer Rouge.
Photo by Chor Sokunthea
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Opens in France
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
France's passion for cinema and its collective antipathy for resident Bush made Wednesday's opening of "Fahrenheit 9/11" a headline event that quickly proved a boon at the box office. But even Michael Moore could not escape that critical Gallic eye.
The movie that won the highest award at May's Cannes Film Festival wracked up "extraordinary" ticket sales for its first afternoon showings in Paris, according to the MK2 movie chain.
Figures compiled by Mars Distribution, the movie's French distributor, showed 4,372 people attending the first afternoon show at movie theaters around Paris - versus 10 to 1,110 for other movies in town.
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Baby News
Nathan Thomas Stewart
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show host and his wife, graphic designer Tracey Stewart, "joyfully" announced the birth of their son on Saturday in New York, according to a statement released by publicist Matt Labov.
The baby, named Nathan Thomas, is the first child for the couple, who tied the knot in 2000.
No official announcement was made on Stewart's Comedy Central series but Tuesday night's guest, Ralph Nader, may have let the cat out of the bag with a reference to Junior.
"Well, that's a super-secret, now we have to kill you," quipped Daily Show correspondent Stephen Colbert in response.
Nathan Thomas Stewart
Alex Kerry (R) and her sister Vanessa, the daughters of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, arrive for a concert to benefit the Kerry/Edwards campaign for the White House, at the Henry Fonda theater in Los Angeles, July 6, 2004. Kerry on Tuesday chose former political rival and North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Headlining Vancouver Benefit
Neil Young
Neil Young, Barenaked Ladies, Randy Bachman and his son Tal are confirmed for a Sept. 17 benefit concert in a 2,500-seat theater on Vancouver Island.
The show will benefit the Crofton Airshed Citizens Group, a community-based organization currently battling a local pulp mill's proposal to burn alternative fuels such as coal, tires and railway ties to reduce fuel costs.
Tickets for the Cowichan Theater event go on sale Friday, with proceeds supporting an independent study of the health and environmental impacts of the mill.
Neil Young
Wants Radio, TV to Keep Tapes of Shows
FCC
U.S. communications regulators proposed on Wednesday that radio and television broadcasters keep recordings of their programing for a period of time to help the agency enforce federal indecency standards.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed that stations keep recordings for shows that air between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. and asked for comment on how long they should be required to retain them, possibly two to three months.
FCC
Talk about a non-issue. Stations already record their air product - it's called a 'confidence recording.' It's commonly used as a check that commercials aired when & where they were supposed to, or legal IDs were made, or proving someone screwed up - it's a boon to management, for the most part, although from time to time, it does bail out
an employee wrongly accused of an on-air error. Bet the station owners bitch & whine, regardless.
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Playing Gustav Klimt
John Malkovich
Hollywood actor John Malkovich is to play Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in an all-star film on the artist's turbulent life, its German financiers said.
The Art Nouveau painter (1862-1918), best known for his dreamlike images of beautiful women, founded the Vienna Secession movement in 1897 which rebelled against the established norms of the fin de siecle art world.
He became the target of fierce criticism and censorship during his lifetime for his starkly erotic painting.
John Malkovich
'Imelda' film producer Ramona Diaz shows the poster of her latest documentary film at a news conference in Manila's Makati financial district July 7, 2004. Diaz, whose 100-minute documentary won best cinematography award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, said the widow of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos 'is a fascinating' subject for the film.
Photo by Cheryl Ravelo
Lead Trio Set
'Spamalot'
David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria were named on Wednesday as the leading trio for next year's Broadway-bound production of Monty Python's "Spamalot."
"Spamalot," to be directed by Oscar and Tony Award winner Mike Nichols, is billed as "the musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,"' the 1975 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
Pierce, who was Dr. Niles Crane in the long-running U.S. sitcom "Frasier," will play Sir Robin. Curry, known for his star turn in the cult film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," will play King Arthur. Azaria, best known as the voice of Moe the bartender on the animated series "The Simpsons," will portray Sir Lancelot.
'Spamalot'
TV Franchise Expands With Atlantis Spinoff
Stargate
"I've never worked so hard in my life," says Brad Wright, co-creator and executive producer of the syndicated sci-fi TV series Stargate SG-1, and his fatigue is showing. For the last six months, he's been spending many a late night writing for both the long-running series and its much-anticipated spinoff, Stargate Atlantis, as their season premieres rapidly approached.
Based on the 1994 feature film, Stargate SG-1's eighth season premieres Friday night on The Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. In Canada, it's a year behind with season 7 debuting on Space: The Imagination Station this September.
Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, debuts with a two-hour movie July 19 on premium channels The Movie Network and Movie Central.
For the rest, Stargate
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Tickets Sell Out for Final Show
Phish
Tickets to what jam band Phish says will be their last show are sold out, and scalpers are getting as much as $915 for admission to next month's two-day festival, which were originally priced at $150.
Some 70,000 people have tickets to the show, which will be held at the Newport State Airport and surrounding fields in Coventry Aug. 14-15.
Phish
A prototype wall of LiTraCon, a translucent concrete product is shown in a photo provided by the National Building Museum. It used to be only Superman could see through concrete walls, but an exhibit at Washington's National Building Museum shows mere mortals can do it too.
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Scrub Milk Mustaches
Olsen Twins
Out of "sensitivity to their current situation," the "got milk?" magazine ads featuring twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been retracted.
The magazine ads featuring the Olsen twins, each with the trademark milk mustache, began running May 7 and were to continue to the end of July.
When the advertising campaign was announced, Mary-Kate said in a statement, "We wanted to appear in this ad because we love the campaign and we want to help make sure our fans are healthy like us."
Olsen Twins
Gets Auction Record
Re-Acknowledged Vermeer
The first painting by Dutch Old Master Johannes Vermeer to go on public sale in more than 80 years was knocked down for an auction record for the artist of 16.2 million pounds ($30 million) on Wednesday.
Fierce bidding for "Young Woman Seated At The Virginals" rapidly eclipsed the reserve price of 3 million pounds at the Sotheby's sale. The eventual winner was an anonymous telephone bidder.
Over the last century the painting has moved in and out of the accepted body of works of the Delft-based painter, alternately accepted then rejected by art historians.
But a decade of forensic art detective work including chemical analysis of the paint and pigment and x-rays of the canvas finally persuaded doubters to add the small painting to the 35 others that make up the acknowledged works.
Re-Acknowledged Vermeer
Russian Orthodox believers kiss the icon of the Virgin Mary of Tikhvin in Kazansky cathedral in St. Petersburg, July 7, 2004. The icon, one of the most venerated images of the church and reputedly painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist, has been returned to Russia after 55 years in the United States and on the morning of July 8, the icon will leave St. Petersburg to the place of its historical appearance at the Tikhvin Monastery, some 200 km from St. Petersburg.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
Murders at Ranch
Sam Donaldson
The 14-year-old son of the manager of ABC newsman Sam Donaldson's New Mexico ranch was arrested Wednesday on charges of murdering his father, stepmother and stepsister, authorities said.
The bodies were found at the ranch after Donaldson went to the manger's house on Tuesday and discovered an "obvious crime scene," Sullivan said earlier. Deputies searched the area and found three bodies in a shallow grave.
Donaldson, a journalist with ABC since 1967, owns three ranches in south-central New Mexico and has extensive ties to the state. He grew up on a cotton farm in New Mexico and graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell.
Sam Donaldson
Serve Up Rare Songs
MP3 Blogs
A new genre of Web sites that offer an eclectic mix of free music downloads may not be strictly legit, but the sites' creators say they're doing the beleaguered record industry a favour.
Named for the MP3 music format and the popular self-published Web sites known as blogs, they are part online mixtape, part diary, and part music magazine.
The tunes are drawn from remixes, forgotten genres and out-of-print albums, usually accompanied by detailed descriptions and reviews.
"Most of the artists that I cover are pretty obscure, and I like to help them get a bit of publicity and grassroots support," said Matthew Perpetua, a DJ, freelance writer and creator of
Fluxblog, one of the oldest MP3 blogs.
For a lot more, MP3 Blogs
-- Group blog with genres including electronica, hip-hop and punk
Music for Robots
--Underground hip-hop and forgotten R&B
Soul Sides
-- Prolific postings of live sets and B-sides
Largehearted Boy
-- Gospel to rockabilly to soul
The Tofu Hut
-- Indie rock, folk music and hip-hop
Said the Gramophone
-- Recent postings include Afrobeat and R&B
Ready Rock Moe Rex
-- Old school funk and soul
The Number One Songs in Heaven
-- Recent postings include reggae and folk
The Suburbs Are Killing Us
In Memory
Syreeta Wright
Singer/songwriter Syreeta Wright, best known for her duet with Billy Preston on "With You I'm Born Again" and as the former wife of Stevie Wonder, died Monday after a long struggle with cancer. She was 58.
Wright recorded six albums for Motown, the most notable being the first two, which were produced by Wonder.
Born Rita Wright in Pittsburgh, Syreeta was working in the '60s as a Motown secretary when she was enlisted as a backup singer. Founder Berry Gordy later signed her to the label and she recorded a Brian Holland/Ashford & Simpson tune initially meant for Diana Ross, "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You."
Wright married Wonder in 1970. Although the union lasted only two years, their professional collaboration as songwriters spawned a series of hits, including "If You Really Love Me," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" and the Spinners' "It's a Shame."
She released her first Wonder-produced Motown album, the critically acclaimed "Syreeta," under the MoWest imprint in 1972. "Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta," which musically depicted their relationship from love/marriage to divorce/enduring friendship, was released in 1974. The titles peaked at No. 185 and No. 116, respectively, on Billboard's album chart.
Her best showing on the chart came with 1980's simply titled "Syreeta," released on Motown's Tamla imprint, which reached No. 73. The duet with Preston, "With You I'm Born Again," originally appeared on that year's soundtrack to the Paramount movie "Fast Break." The track reached No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in 1980.
Wright, who recorded her last studio album, "The Spell," in 1983, boasted a resume that includes work with Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Leon Ware and Donald Byrd, among others.
Syreeta Wright
A photograph shows a preserved 'stout infantfish' which is about seven millimeters long during its unveiling as a new species at the Australian Museum, in Sydney, July 7, 2004. The museum has submitted the record-setting fish for inclusion into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest vertebrate. The creature is paedomorphic meaning that adults retain larval characteristics, but has a recorded lifespan of only about 60 days. It is so small that one million of the creatures would weigh almost one kilogram.
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