Now that John Cole’s birthday is officially in the rear-view mirror, I give you… The Hallelujah Troll Chorus! __ __ Your mothers must be sooo proud.
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Midsummer Night Open Thread
__ Happy Midsummer, everybody! Aalesund, Norway, where the folks responsible* for this excellent bonfire live, is not far from the Spousal Unit’s ancestral acres in Nordfjordeid. Traditionally, the celebration of the summer solstice is a fertility festival (aren’t they all?), with a secondary, spring-cleaning aspect involving burning the detritus and leftover grievances of the past …
Sunday Night Open Thread: Fathers
__ Here’s a virtual toast to all the fathers, good, sainted, good-enough, inadvertent, and otherwise…
Late Night Open Awesomeness Thread
When That Hard Rain Comes…
…Gimme Shelter: <div align=”center”><iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/GJtq6OmD-_Y” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></div> (h/t DeLong). This is another one of those “songs around the world” featured in the Playing for Change documentary. I got my first taste of this project with this little gem. But I’m with DeLong on this one: I never thought this was a song to …
Late Night Open Thread: Bad Moon
__ Strange winds are loose upon our once proud nation. John Heilemann at New York magazine tries to gin up his media fellows’ flagging enthusiasm by asking “If Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann decide to run, who will notice the men?“: … There is, however, precious little extant evidence that Palin thinks about the world …
Late Night Open Thread: You Kids, Off My Lawn Get
__ Because I am old and ADD, I endorse Barney Frank’s insta-news stance, as reported by John Hudson on the Atlantic Wire: I don’t get news on my phone. I don’t use Facebook or Twitter. I want substance. I’m not betting on stocks. I don’t deal in emergencies and I don’t know CPR. There’s enough …
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