The catch-up post Al Green, The catch-up post 08/27/08 12:53 PM Too much.catch-up but here's a teeny sampling: § Via Colleen: Ross Rojek may soon be at large aain! Ross Rojek, formerly of Another Universe, formerly of Comics and Comix, formerly the guy who served four years of a nearly 7 year sentence for screwing a bunch of investors who were fooled into believing he had created some kind of cool facial recognition technology that was going to keep the world safe from Al Queda, will be released on September. The Morning Scramble, Part 1 (Death of the PUMAs Edition) - 8/27/2008 With the complete rollover of the blaze orange-pantjumpsuit-wearing head PUMA, it's safe to say that they're dead (at least until .it?s time to push the O?Biden ticket off the ledge so she can run in 2012)? youtube/watch?v=KynpC1e9I9E Once again, this is a two-parter, so if you're looking for something other than the Obamination Express/Death of the PUMAs, please be patient. That portion will be up shortly. Now, on with the dissection, which is super-sized because I neither. concert. DrumBeat: August 27, 2008 Al Green tickets, Gustav May Rival Katrina as It Advances Toward Gulf of Mexico (Bloomberg) - U.S. oil and natural gas producers are beginning evacuations in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Gustav, which may become the costliest hurricane since Katrina and Rita in 2005, heads toward the region. ``We could see 50 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production shut in,'' said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.rgy prices rose as the storm was forecast to regain hurricane. 14 Days to Determine a Season: Game 6 ? The Sixth Ring of Hell For those of you that have never visited beautiful Safeco Field I'd like to share with you something that you're more than likely unaware of, what with never having been to the park and all. Just below the rather large lettering that spells out SAFECO FIELD outside the magnificent structure lies a smaller message that reads: Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here. Dante himself couldn't have scripted this nightmare any better than Jim Riggleman's boys have the past two nights, no, scratch that. live. Last.fm: Barrence Whitfield and the Savages Al Green concert tickets, Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 24 August 2008 1 Barrence Whitfield .&.the Savages 23 2 Ben Harper 12 3 Paul Kelly and The Messengers 8 3 Al Green 8 5 Alex Chilt. Read and post comments | Send to a friend. Hillary's speech music, Tuesday. We just got done watching Hillary's speech. I had to wonder, as I watched, how many watching were finally grasping that the wrong person was going to be the nominee. 18 million votes. The nominee should be Hillary. I'm not voting for Barack. No deal. No way. I'm not voting for a liar who says he's against NAFTA and talks to the Canadian government and tells them it just words. I'm not voting for the liar who tarred and feathered Hillary (who was against NAFTA) with NAFTA and then. DO RE MI / THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT When the late great Al Hirschfeld wasn't busy being one of the premiere caricaturists of the 20th Century, he also illustrated books and magazine stories for authors like S. J. Perelman, Ray Bradbury and others. One such assignment I particularly coveted was DO RE MI, a Garson Kanin novella published in 1955 with a generous helping of Hirschfeld magic. This shows a rare but intriguing side of Hirschfeld-drawing characters from imagination instead of conjuring an uncanny likeness of a performe. Tickets. The Morning Scramble, Part 2 - 8/26/2008 The Morning Scramble, Part 2 - 8/26/2008 Posted by steveegg on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:08:34 AM We have Hurricane.ustav, and since it's not an immediate threat to the US (it will be by the end of the week though), let's break out the Scorpions for the fun portion of the Scramble? Matt Lewis reports John McCain is thinking about throwing away the picture-perfect timing of his VP announcement. NOOOOOO! Rich Lowry props up Mike Huckabee's case for VP. Oh HELL NO! JammieWearingFool. Al Green tour tickets. Information overload: Is it time for a data diet? Al Green ticket broker, Jeff Saper drives a hybrid car, favors service providers that use alternative energy and has launched many green IT initiatives at his strategic communications firm, Robinson Lerer .&.Montgomery in New York. But he's also concerned about a type of pollution that even Al Gore has yet to tackle: digital pollution. The recent growth of information sources such as blogs, social networks, news aggregators, microblogs like Twitter, instant messaging and e-mail has been exponential. And with broadband. Freshly Squeezed: Jesse Dee Tickets for Al Green, How about a little Monday Night Soul? Jesse Dee from Boston (the city, not the band) is working on bridging the gap between Paul Weller and Jamie Cullum. Here's the official word: Jesse Dee's influences read like a Who's Who of classic soul music. Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Al Green and many others. But Jesse Dee is not just a student of the classics. He also loves the new wave of rootsy artists ?James Hunter, Amos Lee and John Legend, among them.Soul music has always. |