drat fink

categorical imperative

Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
John Prine - Flashback Blues
Charlie Parker - Max Maxing Wax
The Hidden Cameras - Shame
Joe Fingers Carr - Under Paris Skies - La La
James Mason - Ive Got My Eyes On You
Ella Fitzgerald - My Cousin In Milwaukee
Nina Nastasia - Superstar
Sonny Rollins - Silk 'n' Satin
Slint - Darlene

life during wartime

ABBA -Does Your Mother Know
Neutral Milk Hotel - Hypnotic Sounds
Home - Let It Overcome You
Françoise Hardy - Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour Personne
Woody Guthrie - Dust Can't Kill Me
Max Frost & The Troopers - Shape Of Things To Come
Cobra - Shoot To Kill
Lee Perry - Yush Dub
Ornette Coleman - The Alchemy Of Scott Lafaro
Albert Ayler - Love Cry

bag lady

my question would be "how does james carville sleep at night?" talk about compartmentalizing, its as if bill clinton were married to ann coulter instead of hillary.

pixelmixela

Klaatu - California Jam
The Smiths - (Original Demos 83-84) - Reel Around The Fountain
Roy Ayers - Yes
Butterglory - She Got The Akshun
Incredible String Band - The Water Song
Cornel Campbell - Blessed Are They
Jackie McLean - My Old Flame
The Move - Yellow Rainbow
Charlie Parker - Tiny's Tempo
Barrington Levy - Nary Long Tougue

out on the mainline

msm = filtered + balanced

billdingsroman

"Bill James: What has happened in the last fifteen years is that the expansion of the bullpens has all but eliminated platooning. Teams used to carry nine pitchers, not 15 years ago but 35 years ago. You have nine pitchers on a 25-man roster, that’s leaves 16 players for eight positions, and you can platoon at three or four positions. Bobby Cox in Toronto in the early eighties was platooning at five positions. Now, teams carry 12 pitchers. You’ve got 13 position players for nine positions, you’ve got a backup catcher and a utility infielder, your options for platooning are very limited.
But what we’re doing now doesn’t make any sense, because you can gain many more runs by platooning than you can save by having an extra left-hander in the bullpen. Eventually, people will realize that what we’re doing now doesn’t make any sense, and then they’ll start cutting back the pitching staffs and expanding the benches, and then we’ll go the other way for 30 or 40 years until something else happens and history tears off on some other tangent."

this one first

"You see, futility does have its advantages."

garbo rants

billmon talks, and all was good.

oh no, not again

The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)
Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions\Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Vol. 4 - London
Nirvana - Blew
Nina Simone - African Mailman
Mozart - The Wind Concertos, Serenades & Divertimenti (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)\CD6\14 Divertimento Es- dur KV 252 (240a) 1. Andante
The Overtakers - Beware (Trojan Rude Boy Box Set\cd2 - rudies all round)
Beth Orton - Blood Red River
Petula Clark - Let It Be Me
REM - There She Goes Again
Bob Dylan - Wild Mountain Thyme

waldmart

the creator of Outfoxed has a blog. here he talks with barack obama about progressives concerns with obamas recent centerist panderings.

hearing aide

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Come And Get These Memories 1963
Horace Andy - Dub Down Rome
Komeda - Focus
Shorty The President - President Mash Up The Resident
Yardbirds - I Aint Done Wrong
Augusto Pablo - Thunder Clapp
Johnny Cash - Let The Lower Lights Be Burnin
Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - Blue Eyes (Bolero)
Madlib - Gog Was Wrong
Townes Van Zandt - Loretta

shuffle bored

e'ry one luvs dem random shuffles.

velvet underground - jesus (closet mix)
the human league - i am the law
danielson family - big baby
herbie hancock - dolphin dance
nina nastasia - the body
amon duul ii - soap shop rock
diana ross - just say, just say
buffalo springfield - special care
hank williams - moanin' the blues
wire - outdoor miner

jump the blog

not exactly a watershed moment but blogworthy -- harry shearer is guest blogging for josh marshall as josh goes off to perform some prosaic ritual. i look forward to joshs guest spot on the simpsons next fall.

oooh, papa mao mao

i havent linked to billmon since his resurrection but this one was too good to pass up.

just peachy

"She came up the stairs briskly that first day, looking like a girl just out of Bryn Mawr--the whitest of white gloves, the whitest of blouses, the grey tailored suit, the tailored hat, the most immaculate scrubbed look! We're used to a certain amount of careless dressing in Hollywood; nothing about Grace was careless. Even better than the clothes was the quiet, shy, interested manner; she becomes articulate and gay as she gets to know you, and hers is a childlike ability to be pleased. In the pale frothy negligee of Rear Window, she positively giggled at her image in the mirrors. "Why, I look like a peach parfait!" she said."

highly rising

"Like it or not—and there are good reasons to at the very least feel pretty uncomfortable about it—Paul Stallings is a Lower East Side visionary. He’s imposed his twenty-story glass-and-aluminum conception—the Hotel on Rivington—on the area’s self-consciously bohemian tenementscape. "

hotel-on-rivington

soundbites

i was just thinking that it was about time for bloggertv. demstv is a decent initial effort but... what would you like to see?

false is the new true

"A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated."

digby goes down

hullabaloo adding blog ads. (i just needed an excuse to use the subject line.)

fishnet stalkings

"Britain's AdultWork website is plugging into the growing niche industry of sex-work dilettantes, people who spend a few hours a week in front of a camera, or in bed with a client, to augment their income -- or maybe even just because they like it."

not a journalist?

"Another signal moment for bloggers is to occur this morning, when Garrett M. Graff, who writes a blog about the news media in Washington, is to be ushered into the White House briefing room to attend the daily press "gaggle."

Mr. Graff, 23, may be the first blogger in the short history of the medium to be granted a daily White House pass for the specific purpose of writing a blog, or Web log. A White House spokesman said yesterday that he believed Mr. Graff was the first blogger to be given credentials."

right hook

"But success bred change. Along has come a new group of bloggers who aren’t mere “citizens” at all. On the left side, some of these became deeply enmeshed with political parties, “527s,” and campaign advocacy groups -- and are now a new generation of no-holds-barred partisans and major party fund-raisers, the liberal equivalent of George W. Bush’s “Rangers” and “Pioneers.” On the right, a number of these bloggers were already political operatives or worked at long-standing movement institutions before taking up residence online. They are, at best, the intellectual heirs of L. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center and Reed Irvine, who founded the ultraconservative, media-hounding nonprofit organization Accuracy In Media (AIM) in 1969 as part of the first generation of post–Barry Goldwater right-wing institutions. At worst, they're the protégés of conservative fund-raiser Richard Viguerie and dirty-tricks master Morton Blackwell, who has tutored conservative activists since 1965, most recently mocking John Kerry at the Republican national convention by distributing Band-Aids with purple hearts on them."

slap fight

"Confession: I used to find it exhilarating to read James Wolcott when he was writing in his fresh, careful, smart and unpredictable fashion about TV for the Village Voice and the exigencies of the cultural moment for Vanity Fair. But during the last few years, once he discovered his own simple, predictable, self-righteous, driving political convictions and decided to give them endless, repetitive vent, I have found myself wondering what ever happened to the terrific cultural critic he once was. Rage is easy. Preaching to the choir is easy. "Spouting the same old tailpipe exhaust," as he remarked recently about Charles Krauthammer, is easy. What Wolcott used to do is hard."

god help us

"To be sure, neither document leaves any doubt about evangelicals’ opposition to high-profile issues like gay marriage, abortion, and stem-cell research. But what the essays in Toward an Evangelical Public Policy also suggest is that there are many evangelicals in the country who have looked at conservative Republicans’ co-opting of Christianity in recent years and found that they didn’t particularly like what they saw. Anyone uncomfortable with biblical justifications for public policy will find a lot to squirm over in the book -- but Democrats will also find many ideas that they can wholeheartedly agree with on a policy level."

el metrix

“Say hello to Omar."