Bob Dylan turns up at Neil Young's childhood home.

Story from 'CBC' here.

58 and counting; Stevens gets the boot

Story from 'Politico' here.

Johnny C & Bobby D Complete Sessions

'Aquarium Drunkard' has all this to download

Dylan/Cash :: Good Ol’ Mountain Dew
Dylan/Cash :: I Still Miss Someone
Dylan/Cash :: Careless Love
Dylan/Cash :: Matchbox
Dylan/Cash :: That’s Alright Mama
Dylan/Cash :: Big River
Dylan/Cash :: Girl From The North Country
Dylan/Cash :: I Walk The Line
Dylan/Cash :: You Are My Sunshine
Dylan/Cash :: Ring Of Fire
Dylan/Cash :: Guess Things Happen That Way
Dylan/Cash :: Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Dylan/Cash :: Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
Dylan/Cash :: Blue Yodel #2
& more

here.

A Bargain!

Available NOW for $20 (US)

http://store.barackobama.com/Office_s/600.htm

Rumours are that there will be a BIG Shepard Fairey exhibition to coincide with Obama's inauguration.

Bill Ayers Talks Back

Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.

Full interview at Salon.com here.

Cool (again!)

1968 - Bobby Kennedy Predicts African American President In 40 Years Time

Vale Tim Russert.

Girlz With Gunz # 5

Still from 'Baise - Moi'.
A film completely banned here in Australia.

'Baise - Moi' Trailer.
Story behind the film from 'The Observer' here.

Steve Bell - 'The Guardian'

The Bush Cheer by Steve Bell

Bush Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees

Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in controversial environmental decisions -- into senior civil service posts.

The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs.

Full story from 'The Washington Post' here.

Iggy Pop & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Risky

Grateful Dead - Truckin' (Tivoli Konsertal Copenhagen 17th April 1972)

Open letter From Tim Robbins to the New York City Board of Elections

Mr. Gregory C. Soumas
Board of Elections in the City of New York
Executive Office
32 Broadway
New York, NY 10004-1609

November 17, 2008

Dear Mr. Soumas:

I would like to publicly apologize for being such a dim-witted dilettante on Election Day. I was under the naïve assumption that I could vote where I voted in the last two elections. Your thoughtful letter pointed out that if I had voted in the recent primary election in September I would have discovered that I was no longer registered in the polling place I have voted in since 2004. Considering your position at the Board of Elections and your deep respect for the democratic process I must assume that my local 14th St. poll worker, Betty J. Williamson's assertion that my name was on the active voter rolls for the primary in September of this year was erroneous and that she must be as confused and wrongheaded as I am. If Ms. Williamson saw my name in the book in September that would mean that you are lying. Certainly you wouldn't lie about a thing like that. That is unbecoming of a man of your bureaucratic stature. And why would anyone in the Board of Elections be eliminating legitimate voters from the rolls in late September and October of 2008? That's just crazy and un-democratic.

I should also apologize for the misguided actions of Justice Paul G. Feinman in issuing a court order on Election Day allowing me to vote on 14th St. He apparently thought that a printed out record from your own Board of Elections computer verifying my polling place as 14th St was justification for issuing the court order. If he had only thought to contact you, you could have helped him understand the logic and wisdom of eliminating my name from the book on 14th St. where I have always voted and leaving my name registered at a place I have never voted.

I must also thank you for sending your letter not to me but to all the major newspapers in the New York area and across the internet. I understand it was your way of clearing up this matter and for that I am grateful. I am particularly appreciative of your sending a copy of my voter registration card with my home address and driver's license number to all the newspapers and, by extension, to millions across the internet. What celebrity dilettante wouldn't want his private information made public? What kind of snob gets angry that his family's safety might be compromised? It comes with the territory, right? I was thinking of returning that favor by publishing your home address in this letter but then I thought that maybe one of the thousands of New Yorkers that were taken off the voter rolls in the last two months might not understand what a patriotic upstanding man you are and might show up at your doorstep with the misguided assumption that you are a petty vindictive corrupt scumbag.

Tim Robbins
New Yorker since 1961
Voter since 1976

P.S. If anyone reading this letter had a similar experience on Election Day it can and should be reported at 866ourvote.org

cc:
Commissioners of Elections
Marcus Cederqvist, Executive Director
George Gonzalez, Deputy Executive Director
Pamela Perkins, Administrative Manager
Beth Fossella, Coordinator, Voter Registration
Steven H. Richman, General Counsel
Troy Johnson, Chief Clerk
Timothy Gay, Deputy Chief Clerk

You've gotta be kidding!

Palin Book Deal Said To Be Worth Seven Million Dollars (US)
Full story at 'The Huffington Post' here.

"If there is anything that I can do in terms of assisting there and allowing the credence, the credibility that that great vocation, that cornerstone of our democracy called the press, if I can help build up that credibility in the press and allow the electorate to know that they can believe everything that is reported through the airwaves and through print, I want to be able to help."
-- Sarah Palin to Larry King