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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Chas ‘n’ Dave – That’s What I Like (1983)
I first heard a track from these guys while visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. I can’t recall the tune, but the uniqueness of their boogie-woogie ‘rockney’ sound playing on the sound system (combined with the thoroughness of my … Continue reading
The West vs The Rest – Pt. 8,188,371
From New Guinea: Police in Papua New Guinea vowed to find the men who axed to death a woman accused of using witchcraft to spark a measles outbreak in the country’s remote jungle highlands, a missionary said on Wednesday after … Continue reading
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The End of the Tour
I’m not sure how I feel about this one. The End of the Tour is an upcoming film based on David Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. I’m a big … Continue reading
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The Rolling Stones – Moonlight Mile (1971)
I discovered this more obscure Rolling Stones song, the closing track to 1971’s Sticky Fingers, only a few years ago and it has since become one of my faves by the band. As part of their excellent series about the … Continue reading
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Coulter vs. Ramos
Some bullet points from Ann Coulter’s recent column: With no welfare state to support them, about a third of pre-1965 Act immigrants returned to the places they came from. Although America is admitting more immigrants, they are coming from fewer … Continue reading
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Viewing Nature vs. The Office
From WaPo comes an article on recent studies on how viewing nature can temper the banality and insufferable monotony of cubicle culture: [T]he psychological benefits of green roofs to busy office workers may also be substantial, according to new research. … Continue reading
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On Bourbon
Since I’m on a bourbon kick, here’s a review of a new book by Reid Mitenbuler: Indeed, there is much to learn in “Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey”: That to be bourbon, a whiskey must be … Continue reading
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The White Gorilla (1945)
Regarding an apparently awful B-movie from the past, the premise sounds… poignant: A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and … Continue reading
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