Jeff Ranjit Stanley

Just goofing in his studio in Manley.

He's agot a new CD out, you can hear it over here and over here.

Christmas Bottomfeeders

Or get it by the song straight to your computer at iTunes.

Laura's War

Laura Bush: James baker and Lee Hamilton work for CNN. And these guys do too.

Taking Mrs. Bush's argument at face value and agreeing, for this experiment, that the media isn't reporting enough of the "good news" about Iraq, exactly how much "good news" would it take to "win out," if that's the way to put it, over the actual carnage? Honestly? I think she must know that it would be an impossible amount, nothing short of, say, "Iraq War Finds Cures for Cancer!" and is therefore, along with the others who have been saying this for some years now, dishonest of her to push it.

Go Ron Go

Via TPM, Senator Wyden (D-Here) will will unveil his universal health care proposal today.

Wyden said his plan would allow workers to carry their health insurance from job to job without penalty and would cost the federal government no more than it's paying today for health insurance coverage. It would cover all Americans except those on Medicare or those who receive health care through the military.

Like I said, Go Ron Go!

Raw Links

I like Raw Story, but why would they uncritically link to crap like this?

GENERAL FORESEES 50 TO 100 YEAR TERROR WAR

In all caps no less to further its hoped-for urgency - why?




Beside the fact that it's God's Sun Myung Moon's newspaper, and that it's a Bill Gertz story (the Russians took the WMDs to Syria!), wouldn't a headline with, say, a question mark or something be more appropriate? Or "Air force General Goes Crazy Stupid" maybe?

The fact that a brigadier general in the Air Force said something so absolutley loopy is news, but not that kind of news. The people at Raw Story should know better.

I'm done.
Crossposte at DKos.

The Poetry Man

Videos. Music. And poetry from one of the hardest working people on the tubes.

Browse. Listen. Read. Look. There's a whole world in there.

Horny Manatee Dot Com

Now this is funny.

At the end of the skit, in a line Mr. O’Brien insists was ad-libbed, he mentioned that the voyeur (actually Mark Pender, a member of the show’s band) was watching www.hornymanatee.com. There was only one problem: as of the taping of that show, which concluded at 6:30 p.m., no such site existed. Which presented an immediate quandary for NBC: If a viewer were somehow to acquire the license to use that Internet domain name, then put something inappropriate on the site, the network could potentially be held liable for appearing to promote it.

In a pre-emptive strike inspired as much by the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission as by the laws of comedy, NBC bought the license to hornymanatee.com, for $159, after the taping of the Dec. 4 show but before it was broadcast.

By yesterday afternoon hornymanatee.com — created by Mr. O’Brien’s staff and featuring images of such supposedly forbidden acts as “Manatee-on-Manatee” sex (again using characters in costumes) — had received approximately 3 million hits, according to NBC. Meanwhile several thousand of Mr. O’Brien’s viewers have also responded to his subsequent on-air pleas that they submit artwork and other material inspired by the aquatic mammals, and the romantic and sexual shenanigans they imagine, to the e-mail address conan@hornymanatee.com.

Go. Look at the horny manatees. Oh no, don't!

929 Speakers

At Le Web3.

Steve Does Clarence

Steve Audio (this is becoming a habit) put a bunch of time into this piece on guitar god Clarence White. History, links, videos, thoughts, as only Steve can do.

The Sun Came Up Again

Christine got a good one. I was still in bed.

Frizzarday

He has hit the jackpot with this regualr feature.

Kangaroos. Boxing.

Like I said, Boxing Kangaroos.

Niel Young: "Living With War" Raw Version

From an email from Jeff Watson, Director of New Media at Warner Brothers Records:

"Living With War - In The Beginning" is a new CD/DVD version coming on December 19th that includes the original mixes done the day of each session (the CD-only version is out on iTunes today as well). These raw mixes do not include the choir that was added in L.A. the week after the original recordings were done. These recordings are not remixed. They are the first mixes that were made in the heat of the moment. Although they are not polished, they represent the essence of Living With War, in the beginning.

LIVING WITH WAR - IN THE BEGINNING

Included in the new set is a DVD of all 10 of the videos done in the LWW network form, as well as all 10 of the documentary videos of the original sessions. These Living with War documentary videos show the choir and the sessions, day by day, as the project was evolving.

The Raw version "In the Beginning" is a separate CD within the package. This new LWW package, including the Raw CD and the DVD of the videos, along with a new cover, will be will be released on December 19th.

You can get the audio only version digitally right now though at iTunes! Click here to get it - RIGHT HERE!.

Give a listen to the raw version of the song "Living With War."

Windows:

56 Kbps

128 Kbps

Quicktime:

56 Kpbs

128 Kpbs

A perfect present: Let's Impeach the President for Christmas!



Bonus:


Crossposted at DKos.

TV5, Ulaanbaatar

Via Metafilter, TV5 is the first Mongolian TV station on the internet. Sign up here. Schedule here.

And the blog, Mongolian Matters.

Like a Hollywood Script

Republicans in Hollywood.

Hollywood producer bilked $5.5m for TV show claimed "backed by Bush"

One of Dana Rohrbacher's friends.

According to today's Los Angeles Times, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) received a $23,000 option on a screenplay he wrote 30 years ago from Hollywood producer, Joseph Medawar. Rohrabacher, clearly in return, helped introduce Medawar to at least five Republican congressmen at the House Homeland Security Committee in 2004, including then-Chairman Christopher Cox.

At the time, Medawar was pitching his latest Hollywood project, a TV series about the Department of Homeland Security. It was reported that Medawar bragged about his access to Washington big-shots when discussing his project with journalists and selling it to potential investors in his company, Steeple Enterprises.

Hey! This would make a great screenplay...

Steve Audio

Steve Audio puts his expert ear to the Bare Naked Ladies.

How expert? He's been in the business for so long and so hard that he's heard the 5 hidden guitar solo tracks on the 2" master for Steely Dan's "Peg".

Damn.

Rush Limbaugh Admits to Cat/Girlfriend on Radioshow

You heard it here first folks. Or possibly here.

Rush Limbaugh admitted on his radio show yesterday that, "This cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life."

Than anything. Including...actual women.

"She gets loved," said Limbaugh, speaking again of his cat.

"She gets petted."

I interviewed the cat at at a safe house not far from Limbaugh's Florida home.



"Shoot me! Just friggin shoot me!" the kitty screamed over and over and over. I shot him. It was for the best, considering what it had been through.

Rush Limbaugh: Hillbilly heroin and a cat for a girlfriend. What will he admit to next?

Little Thom's Video Blog

I've got a new blog - Little Thom's Video Blog - which will be about and for music.

It'll be up and running in a little while with the first song, My Own Best Friend.

And don't forget: The perfect Christmas gift for friends and enemies alike is my CD, Bottomfeeders. God said so. Get it by the song - just 99 cents - or the entire album at the following links:

iTunes
Little Thom's Music at CDBaby

And just for a listen:

LT at MySpace
LT at Podsafe Music Network
LT at Pure Volume

When Harry Met a Knucklehead

Harry Shearer gets out the shears and shaves a few inches off Newt Gingrich’s knuckles. And head. Or something.

The Jesus Bird

The Comb-crested Jacana, according to the very knowledgeable and perfectly-talkative guide on the South Alligator River in Kakadoo National Park (part of the Yellow Waters cruise), has the longest feet, per bird size, of any bird in the world. Allows in to "walk on water."

The Comb-crested Jacana [check out the illustrations circa 1800 by John Gould], also known as the Lotusbird, has a red fleshy forehead comb, a black crown, back and breast and brown wings. The belly, face and throat are white, and there is a faint yellow tinge around the eye and throat. Both sexes are similar in appearance, but the female is larger than the male, and slightly brighter in colour.

At a distance, the Comb-crested Jacana appears to have the ability to walk on water. In fact, it is walking on floating plants. Its extremely long toes help it to spread its body weight over a larger area. In flight, the long legs and toes trail behind the body.