Saturday, September 26, 2009

Week & Weak




From Friday:

More Moore

Michael takes on a radicalized former business reporter.

Comedy at 10

A refresher course on largely discredited Reaganomics as a counterpoint to coverage of Michael Moore.







NBC TV - Thursday, September 24, 2009

Pandamonium

Should we let them die out?

A British naturalist stepped into a firestorm of critcism by suggesting China's giant pandas were an "evoutionary dead end" not worth the cost of saving.

Photo: Travelblog.com
See & Read more at ABC News.

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A few moments of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

Toad The Wet Sprocket
Fly From Heaven
Dulcinea (1994)

Jackopierce
Summer's Gone
Summer's Gone (2008)

Ataris
The Boys of Summer
So Long Astoria (2003)

East Village Opera Co.
La Habanera (Carmen)
East Village Opera Co. (2005)

Gorgeous New Temp

Friday, September 25, 2009

Worth A Thousand Words


Where can you find a detailed diagram of the ear, an illustration of a beetle, and a picture of how to hit a tennis backhand?

Your dictionary.

And now artist and book binder John Carrera has categorized and re-printed thousands of the wood-carved illustrations used in the 19th century Merriam-Webster dictionaries and compiled them in a new book called “Pictorial Webster’s, A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities.”






Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.


Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion
from John Carrera on Vimeo.

Multitasker in Chief

Predictably, a subject of GOP attack.

Beating The Sense Out Of You

Being spanked as a child is linked to having a lower IQ, according to a study presented September 24 at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma in San Diego.

Michael Moore - Capitalism: A Love Story

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Capitalism's Enemy - Michael Moore
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Protests






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A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

Little Feat
Spanish Moon (live)
Waiting For Columbus (1978)

Allen Toussaint
Yes We Can Can
Our New Orleans (2005)

John Hiatt
Blue Telescope
Perfectly Good Guitar (1993)

Eric Clapton
Bad Love
Journeyman (1989)

Out Of Her Mind

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Five for Fantasy

Repeat Down.


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Off to See The Wizard


440 movie theaters across the country celebrated the Wizard of Oz’s 70th Anniversary by screening a new high-definition version of the film... Misprinted to indicate they were all showing at 7 AM locally.

Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies and a film historian, created a special introduction to the screening, and spoke (at a more civilized hour) about what it is like to see the beloved classic back on the big screen in its new high-def form.





Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.

Bogged







Question: Is anti-government rhetoric spilling over into action?




Evasion: Minority Whip Cantor begs the question.

Dancing with Mr. D

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Moral Kombat 9/22/09
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political HumorHealthcare Protests


He survived week 1.

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A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

Peter Gabriel
Red Rain
So (1986)

Radiohead
Pyramid Song
Amnesiac (2001)

Crosby & Nash
Naked In The Rain
Wind On The Water (1975)

Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing
Axis: Bold As Love (1967)

America's Most Unwanted

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Transactional Politics

Cover Boy


Full interview here.

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A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

Chalk FarM
Lie On Lie
Notwithstanding (1996)

The Police
When The World Is Running Down
Zenyatta Modatta (1980)

Bonnie Rait
Love Letter
Nick of Time (1989)

Rush
Time Stand Still
Hold Your Fire (1987)

Storm On The Horizon

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Pre-existing Condition: Blackness


Watch CBS Videos Online

Strategic Manuevers




Surviving Markup







American Idiots

Recent testing found only 23% of Oklahoma high school students could name the first President of the United States. Can you pass the citizenship test immigrants take?

The ACT college entrance exam organization predicts only a quarter of potential freshmen would be capable of maintaining a C average in their first year of school.

And science?

Equinox

In Las Vegas, the high temperature first reaches 80 degrees on average March 15... Spring starts with high temperatures in the low 70s. Fall starts with high temperatures in the low 90s.

There's more than onions blooming down under

In the English speaking Southern Hemisphere, the calendar overrules Astronomy. Australia & New Zealand have been observing Spring since September 1.

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A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.

The Byrds
Eight Miles High
Fifth Dimension (1966)

The Plimsouls
A Million Miles Away
One Night In America (1982)

R.E.M.
The One I Love
Document (1987)

Tom Petty
American Girl
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976)

Perfect Stranger

Monday, September 21, 2009

Blockade

In television advertising, sponsors often buy the same time across a line-up of stations. Someone turning the channel runs into the same thing they left.

It works for Sunday public affairs shows, too.

(Pete Souza / White House Photo / September 18, 2009)

by Mark Silva/Los Angeles Times

In an interview with CBS News, he dismissed skeptics who think higher taxes are inevitable to support his healthcare overhaul. He reiterated that he will not accept any proposal that imposes new taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year.

In a number of interviews, Obama also addressed the tone of a heated summer debate over healthcare, and President Carter's contention that racism underlies critics' Hitler comparisons and other harsh attacks on Obama.

Obama disagreed with Carter, saying that the invective instead reflected the kind of turmoil that is common "when presidents are trying to bring about big changes."

"Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are," Obama told CNN's John King. "That's not the overriding issue here."

Obama told NBC News’ David Gregory, "Look, I said during the campaign, 'Are there some people who still think through the prism of race when it comes to evaluating me or my candidacy?' Absolutely. Sometimes they vote against me for that reason, sometimes they vote for me for that reason."

He took a longer view of his critics' motivations: "It's an argument that's gone on for the history of this republic, and that is, What's the right role of government? . . . This is not a new argument, and it always invokes passions."

Really?



In television advertising buying commercials at the same time across the channel line-up is called a blockade. Even if the viewer turns the channel, the same message is waiting wherever they wind up.

Protests seem to work that way, too.

Symbolism

Peak Performance


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Emmys



It stands alone outside Hollywood's winter season of self congratulation, but at the starting line of its own prime time season of competition. Winners here, if you care.

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A few moments of music, as if...



Bob Seger
Mainstreet
Night Moves (1976)

Roxy Music
More Than This
Avalon (1982)

Be Bop Deluxe
Life In The Air Age
Sunburst Finish (1976)

David Bowie
Modern Love
Modern Love (1983)

Free 2 Roam

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Winding Down



From: American Idiot
(2004)

Mary Travers 1936 - 2009

The most popular folk group of the 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary in later decades proved themselves to be among the most durable music acts in history. Mary Travers died this week of leukemia.



Leaving On A Jet Plane
(John Denver)
from: Album 1700 (1967)

Death of Conservatism

"The Death of Conservatism" is a book by Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Sunday Book Review & Week In Review sections... It's his thesis about the current right coming unhinged from its intellectual underpinnings. Here he speaks with Nick Gillespie of Reason.TV on September 8:



For a different, and longer, discussion watch Sam's Sept. 18 appearance on Bill Moyers' Journal.

Ms Information

Rethinking Higher Education


Professor Jose Antonio Bowen of Southern Methodist University has a plea for his colleagues. Strip technology out of your classroom, put your lecture online, or make it a podcast, so you can really use that precious face to face time in class to teach. And Mark Bauerlein says that the tenure system is forcing young professors to write studies without giving them time to think. He says focus back on teaching by rewarding good teachers. Bauerlein is professor of English at Emory University.





Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.
The University of Texas offers an entry point into free online university-level learning called the "World Lecture Hall."

Videos

What was Kanye all wound up about?



Beyoncé
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Directed by Jake Nava
(Winner: Video of the Year)

Taylor Swift
"You Belong With Me"
Directed by Roman White
(Winner: Best Female Video)

A Completely Honest R&B Song


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