https://youtu.be/FMXJyuV9vF4 With Larry Goldings, organ, and Peter Bernstein, guitar.
Freedom’s just another word for not having to take questions from you assholes
Continuing his “Dubya got it right” approach to handling the press, President Obama celebrated the signing of a bill to promote freedom of the press around the world this Monday by refusing to take any questions. Today, the President held a “news conference” (notice he didn’t say “press conference”) with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, deigning…
Joe Henderson et al.—“Summertime,” Parts 1 & 2
Bern 1998 Switzerland. Joe Henderson – tenor; John Scofield – guitar; Conrad Herwig – trombone; Tommy Flanagan – piano; Georg Mraz – bass; Bill Stewart – drums Part 1
Comedy is tragedy seen at a distance
The man I helped put in the White House makes a funny regarding predator drones. The gag would be funnier if we weren’t using them to kill, well, hundreds of innocent people. Via Tapped, which has more.
“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke it is written …”
“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke it is written, the kingdom of God is within man, not one man or a group of men but in all men.” That’s what Charlie Chaplin told the world in The Great Dictator, in a vain attempt to somehow end World War II with an appeal for international…
Washington, D.C., March 16, 1991—St. Patrick’s Day—Two Poems for One Outrage
IOn Washington’s sidewalks youths gatherEager for a sunlit drunk.Jeering whites pass in shining cars.I hear them hooting—a poor fish bent to their ridicule.Was I always such a figure of fun?I walk on, gray-thatched, my absurdity confirmedAn old man condemned for nonconformityI was never one of them—sweet victory. IIA March sky blossoms overheadBearing clouds Canaletto might…
Oh, I’ve Been Fucked
Oh, I’ve been fucked, and fucked quite wellNot by my husband—I wonder, is that always so?He was handsome, yes, and considerateA gentleman? Not really, much more of a boyI doubt I’m grand enough for a gentlemanBut it was sweet being conqueredI never would have guessed how it could be soTo be taken, well, I don’t…
National Security Adviser Jim Jones, so not a stand-up
National Security Adviser Jim Jones, apparently intent on dispelling the rumor that Joe Biden is the stupidest man in Washington, began a speech at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy with a Jew joke—a Jew joke that went like this: A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water….
Dave Samuels—“Bemsha Swing”
Vibist/Marimbist Dave Samuels with Mark Walker, drums, and Oscar Stagnaro, electric bass, during the Berklee Percussion Festival in June 2009. The melody emerges around three minutes in.
What happens when you weigh around four megayottagrams
You explode, of course, as a result of “runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production,” as the Daily Galaxy has it. If you scroll on down, you’ll learn that about 3,000 years ago, a white dwarf may have gone Type 1a supernova on our asses, releasing sufficient radiation to destroy us all. Or…