Wait 24 hours to say how you really feel? Who made up that rule?
Sun Jun 15, 2008 at 10:37:42 AM PDT
Who says you have to wait 24 hours to say how you really feel? Who made up that rule?
I am a stand-up comedian, very little if anything is too sacred to talk about or blog about. Are we not supposed to be real when we write a blog?
When I tell a joke, what I am really saying is, "Here’s a topic we all know or should know, I thought of some new shit about that topic and I made it funny."
I usually choose not to do jokes about the recently deceased because;
I don't post insghtful diaries
Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 09:08:25 PM PDT
But I will post a tribute to Hillary Clinton's blue collar supporters, only because the late hour makes me feel snarky. So, vilify me all you want MSM. And 'cling' to this song, rural America.
Gerald Ford Ain't No Sex Machine
Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 06:37:04 AM PDT
Why is it that presidents I dislike have the irritating habit of dying at the same time as some of my favorite musicians? First it was Reagan overshadowing Ray Charles, and now Gerald Ford is blowing up spot on my man James Brown...
Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records dies
Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 06:31:05 PM PDT
(Cross-posted from Arblogger and Michigan Liberal)
See, e.g., Freep, here,
"Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 83.
Ertegun’s influence on popular music probably can’t be overstated, and his career touched many Detroit artists. Atlantic became the home not only to Franklin but also to Kid Rock, Anita Baker, Aaliyah and the MC5. Franklin’s career did not take off until she left Columbia Records for Atlantic in 1967.
When he visited Detroit in 2001 to oversee a recording by Detroit-born jazz saxophonist James Carter at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, Ertegun seemed to distill one of the secrets to his success when he told the Free Press: "This is about art, not about commerce. But when it’s great art, then the payback over the years is manifold."
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