WARNING: I'm gonna say something nice about Marjorie Taylor Greene. As Mike Johnson finally, finally! , moves Ukraine aid to a vote in the House, the violently opposed MTG keeps adding amendments to the funding bill. In one she wants to require that any House member who votes for the aid bill to be ...

Two amazing 20th century stats from last night's Red Sox-Guardians game:

Tanner Houck pitched a complete game 3 hit shutout. He will no doubt lead the club in complete games for the season. Less amazing but still impressive: 9 strikeouts, 94 pitches.

The game was played in 1 hour, 49 minutes.

The Senate has dismissed the impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas referred by the House. It is hard to describe just how absurd this is. Part of the absurdity is that it's not a surprise: By the time they made the referral to the Senate, House leaders knew the case had no chance of a heari...

Is it really possible for 12 (or really 18) sentient American citizens to be able to judge Trump objectively? If not, what does that say about whatever they're telling the court and about the legitimacy of the ultimate outcome (however it's decided). If so, are those people really a jury of anyone's...

he needs no assistance. he cranked out three high kicks in just "Romeo Surgeon" and unfortunately I had the wrong lens on and missed 'em all. the new song sounds great, it's been while since I've been this excited for a new GBV record. Tim, GBV used 1 of your pictures on an email regarding presales...

https://www.wideopencountry.com/john-mellencamp-walks-out-of-show-in-a-rage-after-getting-in-shouting-match-with-heckler/ I've seen JCM a few times and can understand his frustration with hecklers. If you think you aren't getting any politics at his show...you haven't been listening for a long time...

Jonathan Eig's biography of Martin Luther King, Jr, King, is a terrific achievement which lives up to the hype, no mean feat. I highly recommend it to one and all for any number of reasons including the significant amount of new (at least to me) information, the excellent analysis and especially the...

Reports are that the Justice Dept is "preparing" to sue Live Nation (ticketmaster) for antitrust violations, and the people are (or will be) happy! TM controls 70% of the initial sales of tickets at the country's largest venues and has exclusive contracts with many of them (per Andrew Ross Sorkin). ...

The WaPo reported today that "It’s budget week on Capitol Hill, with many cabinet officials and agency heads set to testify before the House and Senate appropriations committees about the fiscal year 2025 budget..." The article failed to mention that there is still no budget for 2024 which would see...

The pathetic human being known as JD Vance just wrote a (not surprisingly) pathetic defense of the no aid to Ukraine position in the Washington Post. Unfortunately the comments section was closed by the time I got around to it. It's not like I think that JD or even any of his staff will read or care...

I needs to know: WHAT. WILL. HAPPEN. TO. THE. CHILDREN???!!!

Devil in a Blue Dress, the movie version of Walter Mosely's classic detective story is pretty good. It has Denzel, so it's halfway home from the get go. It's hard to say what keeps the movie in the "good but not great" category, maybe the pacing? But it's a solid movie worth watching. As always dep...

I was not aware that there was a Lee Child/Reacher book that I hadn't read, so I reluctantly picked up The Secret which following recent custom is co-authored w/ Lee's brother Andrew. As expected it was nowhere near the quality of the early, solely written by Lee, novels. I suspect (but don't know) ...

The Dynasty has gotten a fair amount of negative response around here on the basis that it throws Belichick under the bus and distorts events to make the Krafts look good. I haven't watched [yet?] so can't make any substantive comment. We kind of tripped over Sugar not knowing anything about it but ...

With friends like this...

Trump on Speaker Mike Johnson:

"He’s doing about as good as you’re going to do."

In these times of the generally accepted reality that we as a society are unable to come to consensus agreement on just about anything, there was almost unanimous agreement back in 2022/23 that the Republican failure in the '22 elections was down primarily to abortion politics (i.e. the Dobbs decisi...

I do not understand this business of the bond Trump posted in the NY fraud case. According to reports and filings by the NY Attorney General, the bonding company is not licensed in NY, the bonding company does not meet the liquidity requirements to be a licensed bonding company in NY and the terms o...

Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter is a little bit different. The story is told completely in the form of transcripts of and news reports about a true crime tv series. I enjoyed it but I imagine the format is not for everyone. But it's a quick read so it's not a big investment of time if you want ...

Check this out bubba. Winslow has retired from writing novels & is battling the forces of evil: Yeah, I knew he was retiring (or at least saying so) and I've seen some of his political posts/writings but I didn't realize that he is formally and directly engaged in the political stuff. Needless to s...

Angelique KIdjo last nite at the Somerville Theater. Fantastic performer, great band.

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:14 pm

Certainly more enjoyable than Cowboy Carter.

As they say in France chaque un a son goute.

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:21 pm

Work in progress....

But why?

Agree or disagree with the rankings and/or the commentary, this is still an absolutely jaw dropping tour de force.

https://uproxx.com/indie/neil-young-best-songs-ranked/

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:39 am

The weirdness has already crossed my mind for the Milwaukee/Madison shows in late October. This is gonna be a weird ~7 months, even weirder than normal.

This (substituting other cities if we're being literal).

FWIW, livenation is pimping VIP tix for Chicago pretty hard.

Jack Flash wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:15 pm

Detroit on election night will sure beat watching CNN

No doubt it'll be a gas, gas, gas.*

*I'm giving myself permission for this one because i don't believe i've ever used it before over all the years.

How are ya? How's Emily? The kid?

When I saw Deadly Game by Michael Caine on the library shelf I asked myself is that the Michael Caine? The answer was yes, so curiosity piqued, I grabbed it. Kudos to him for branching out and for apparently writing the book on his own. As for the result, meh. I liked the main characters. The plot ...

Beyonce' - Cowboy Carter I suppose calling a Beyonce' album overhyped is kind of redundant, but that doesn't make it untrue. It's good but it's not that good. And it's a little bit country but it sure isn't a "country album." That's neither diss nor praise, just fact. I'd say that if there's a them...

When I saw Deadly Game by Michael Caine on the library shelf I asked myself is that the Michael Caine? The answer was yes, so curiosity piqued, I grabbed it. Kudos to him for branching out and for apparently writing the book on his own. As for the result, meh. I liked the main characters. The plot w...

As for Blackbird, it's a pretty basic tune and song. If you stay faithful to the original, which Bey does, I think it's kinda hard to screw it up To be clear, I don't think she screwed it up at all. I was just hoping she would do more of a personal interpretation along the lines of any great cover ...