1985 Singles # 50 Felt
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009
What a surprise! Rachel Maddows exposes the backers of the Healthscare tactics
"A lie told often enough becomes truth." - Lenin
Monday, 10 August 2009
My acid trip with Squeaky Fromme
Photograph by Dick Schmidt, Sacramento Bee. "Sacramento Police and Secret Service men handcuff Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme under a Capitol Park tree after she tried to shoot President Gerald Ford Sept. 5, 1975." @ 'BoingBoing'
George Pelecanos & The Pogues - The Boogaloo, London 23 July 2009
Earlier this year, when The Pogues played Washington, D.C., bestselling novelist and writer/producer on The Wire George Pelecanos was in the audience, and he went backstage after the show: "The band were fans of The Wire (we had used several of their songs, memorably, on the show)," he recalls, "and we were all fans of their music going back to the 80s, when I was buying their vinyl imports at records stores like Phantasmagoria in Wheaton, Maryland." A few weeks later, when band member Spider Stacey came through town, they met again: "Over a meal in Chinatown, on H Street, (Full Kee, my spot for Chinese) I told Spider that I would like to do a pub event in London when I came over in July, and asked him if he would be interested in playing a set after I did a reading. He agreed and through Gaby Young hooked it up at Boogaloo on Archway Road in Highgate, run by a fellow named Richard who used to book the old Filthy McNasty's. The gig was set for Thursday, July 23. To my surprise, it wasn't just Spider and a couple of friends on the bill, as I had understood it would be. It was The Pogues, who had come to play their first pub date since 1983. In other words, it was history."
@'Media Bistro'
George Pelecanos reads from his new novel 'The Way Home'
Songs performed by The Pogues include The Body of an American, The Sick Bed of Cuchullainn, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Transmetropolitan, Kitty and Down in The Hole.
This reading which was accompanied by a 'secret' gig by The Pogues was presented by a very old friend of mine, former Fall manager Richard Thomas, who is also promoting these upcoming shows at The Roundhouse: David Peace August 18th Rich Hall September 10th Iain Banks September 14th William Boyd September 16th Please note the Armando Ianucci shows on October 11/12th are completely sold out More info www.roundhouse.org.uk
(It is moments like this when I wish that I still was in London and in fact one of my last nights there was seeing The Pogues at 'The Bull & Gate' in Kentish Town in '83 and The Boogaloo for a time before it's present reincarnation was my local!)
George Pelecanos on his visit to London here.
Old news as new news!
So redheads feel more pain and need more anesthetic?
Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002
Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002
Sunday, 9 August 2009
PLEASE read this link
"...What the people who draw these comparisons are doing is invoke the archetype of Hitler that we have collectively formed in our head, the archetype of something so evil and inhuman that it is beyond our capacity to shake off or transcend. By linking President Obama to the archetype of Hitler they are not trying to make any points about health care or energy or any other policy, but they are attempting to put him into a box out of which nobody could ever escape and from which any kind of soul growth or evolution is impossible. In short, they are trying to make a man who is about as human and compassionate as any man who has ever graced the American political landscape, inhuman. Just like Hitler did with those he didn’t like…"So you wanna talk about Hitler…
Michael Jackson's brain reunited with body
Law enforcement investigators also allege that the unreleased toxicology report, shows Jackson had a lethal amount of the anesthetic Propofol in his system as well as Xanax.(@ 'TMZ')
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