:: November 30, 2001
My interview with Ralph Stanley is up on the web today. I will probably post the unedited version on the site soon. Getting to interview him was a huge and lucky thing for me. I hadn't written anything for a while for the paper, but the music editor bestowed the story upon me because I was the only bluegrass fan available at the moment. I had lots of weird dreams leading up to the phone call. In one, I asked Dr. Stanley's publicity agent if there was anything I should or shouldn't ask him about, and he replied: "OH, you've GOTTA ask him about his involvement with the Kennedy administration." I actually told the publicity agent about the dream, and he said, "Well, I don't know about that, but he is a democrat, he played at Carter's and Clinton's inaugurations." Hmm! In another, my list of questions was represented by a huge dirt field, and Bill Monroe was plowing the questions into separate categories.
In other bluegrass news: Bill Monroe's estate is being auctioned off right before Xmas at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Mandolins, furniture, ties, posters, miscellany, get yours today! ::
:: November 29, 2001
Irrational Exuberance is a good thing to keep with you as you go forth into the holiday shopping season. What is this yatta? Is it anything like natto? (Link via memepool)
My officemate Kate just figured out that you could take a plastic supermarket bag, cut off the bottom, and wear it as a tank top. Do this with the new crop of bags printed with the American Flag, and you can make quite the politico-fashion statement. ::
:: November 20, 2001
If you tire of Archie McPhee, try American Science and Surplus for your whack gift-giving needs this holiday season! Especially if you're buying something for me! ::
:: November 15, 2001
Two delightful links cribbed from the Royal Journal: Captain Cupcake Returns! is an excellent photo essay documenting the seafaring snack cake's triumphant return to dry land after an unexplained 20-year absence from the public eye. Twinkie the Kid, a yo-yo expert, and a psychic parrot were among the throngs that amassed to welcome him back. Cream filling ahoy, arrrrr! Also, twin sister miniature-cat-molding civil-war re-creationists: Rebecca's interests leaned toward learning about the Confederate Army, leaving Ruth to concentrate on the Yankees. "After all," said Rebecca, "somebody's got to make the Yankees." ::
:: November 14, 2001
Happy 79th birthday, Boutros Boutros Ghali! Oddly enough, Boutros-Boutros Collie, advice-giving dog, came into our lives just about exactly two years ago. We chose her name over a lunch of migas on the patio of Mi Madre's while she looked around nervously. She barfed in the bus on the trip back from the taqueria. We didn't know when we adopted her that she was pregnant. Do dogs get morning sickness? ::
:: November 13, 2001
Get to know your kalansuwa from your dulband from your ekal with the Seattle Times' taxonomy of turbans. Speaking of upper-body male fashion, every Friday on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn is now "Ascot Friday." I tried to find out more about it on the show's website, but the search returns only this: "To find ascot look deep within yourself and find a place that is full of power, strength, and confidence. Now call that place 'Craig.'" Speaking of late-night talk show hosts, David Letterman has been keeping an Oprah log, chronicling his seemingly futile dream to become a guest on her show. Speaking of people who are snubbed by Oprah, the world breathlessly awaits the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night to see if Jonathan Franzen wins the fiction category despite the Awards' Oprah-lovin' track record. ::
:: November 8, 2001
The Oprah-Franzen bitchfest has been immortalized by the Onion. ::
:: November 7, 2001
Kitty hypmotize you! ::
:: November 2, 2001
David Bronner of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap and the Hemp Industries Association Food and Oil Committee (not to mention, oh, freedom and liberty and all that is right and good) is screwed by new anti-hemp policies. One Plastician imagines a Bronnerian response:
Ninety-year-old Food/Drug Act clears way for all to see!! Czar gets on ukase, shows true meaning of teaching of W.J. Bryan to the real Anslinger: "Make a shirt out of it, and your grandson won't wear it out!," but smoke it and axe-murdering brown people will! Exception eternal absolute none!
Punishments strong! Do not get on rich, if do put in "rehab" for at least $888/day for at least two weeks til heat is down, flush with small community service, can still run country or even be President!
Oh, we cops have been lax, spend time on murderers-rapists-polluters, neglecting teaching EVERY child from cradle to imprisonment true meaning of Moral DEA's:
1. At base, it is bad because we say so.
2. If it is ever bad, it is Evil, and never good or useful.
3. Shut up.
Czar's 13-in-One full-strength Drug War useful all ways! Dissidents disobey War, tell unpleasant things, many use Bad Things, Drug War can lock all up for, or at least make fun!! Natural entrepreneurs in Bad Places gravitate to selling, can lock some up and not recognise talent waste in rest! Dilute in culture, even non/anti-/a-drug people who think odd associated with Enemy!
Heroin/cocaine nasty, but no-one we care for uses! MJ safe by our own judge's ruling, but threatens paler prospects! ! And soap/seed/Mao-mayo/cheese shows child falsely that death will not follow touching IT!! In absence of facts, showing TRUTH that much more important.
Lock Up!! Lock up!! O.K.!
(Links via Cardhouse) ::
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