Fvck the Fvckin’ Yankees, For The Win. Not that I know from baseball, but somewhere Steve Gilliard is smiling tonight. Here is a thread where we can celebrate as coarsely as we like, within the limits of the technology. And this is the weirdest thing said technology has shown me recently:
Music
Late Night Open Thread
A couple of musically upbeat songs with appropriately depressing lyrics to cap this day: __ __ With my sincere thanks to the commentors who posted Crooked Still and Kate Rusby here, the last time Cole called for music.
Solomon Burke RIP
It’s a sad day for music. One of my all time favorite quote from a book: “How can you like Art Garfunkel and Solomon Burke? It’s like saying you support the Israelis and the Palestinians.” I’ll be posting YouTube videos later. Update. It’s hard to find good live performances on YouTube, most of them are …
Open Thread: Musical Interlude
Sunday Evening Open Thread
Now it feels like Fall here, north of Boston…
Saxophone colossus
The only PBS-type show I really like is “American Routes” with Nick Spitzer. Sometimes there’s a little too much zydeco and Cat Power pour moi personnellement, but I love it anyway. They’ve got Sonny Rollins on tonight, you can live stream it here. The best guest they’ve ever had, surpassing my previous favorite Jerry Wexler. …
Warning Off the Stalkers
My sincere personal thanks to commentors SciVo and Concerned Citizen for this… __ __ … because, frankly, Cee Lo Green is happy to present himself as a WATB and, yes, a stalker. As do many of our most prominent RW politicians and their apologists among the punderati, so now I can recycle this for Glenn …