Actually, Kenny “G” Gorelick is up their as one of my favorite saxophonists of all time, especially his 1984 “Duotones” imprint… Someone actually used the word “imprint” in a sentence with “Kenny G”. Pat Metheny on Kenny G: Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a [...]

It has been awhile since Our Lady of The Magical Dolphins, Peggy Noonan, has graced these, well, not pages, so probably your computer screen or maybe cellphone or whatever electronic geegaw you use to for that internet thingy. But Peggy is back and making the case that “the media” (which she is not a member [...]

America’s favorite snow-trash dingbat is going to make personal appearances in a bunch of hellholes towns that nobody would willingly visit* unless they were trying to sell a book to a bunch of  yokels whose idea of reading is an evening spent phonetically sounding out the decals on their 1:32 scale NASCAR replicas. This book [...]

Exciting. Aren’t they?

Certainly nothing wrong with this: The leaders of President Obama’s deficit commission sparked criticism from both sides of the political aisle Wednesday for proposing broad cuts to federal programs. But the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has also come under attack for its unusual approach to staffing: Many of its employees aren’t employed [...]

Haven’t done this in a couple of weeks. Helps Both Ways – Mogwai Arrivederci – Shivaree Smells Like Teen Spirit – The Bad Plus Cannonball – The Breeders Atrocity Exhibition – Joy Division My Fair Lady – The Bird & The Bee Gentleman’s Spell – Metal Hearts Lotus – Cage the Elephant Do The Strand [...]

Andrew Sullivan (or possibly one of his minions, it’s hard to tell these days) points out that Jonah Golberg starts off his latest offal offload onto the pages of the LA Times with The Big Lie: This is the era of the Big Lie, in other words, and it translates into a lot of little [...]

It is probably unlikely that Mitt Romney has been watching Dancing With The Stars ( Mitt and his wife mainly skim through TIVO’d episodes of Big Love looking for the hot scenes).But if Mitt were to channel surf over to DWTS (or DimWiTS… if you must) he would seeing the 2012 Republican primary playing out [...]

No. I haven’t forgotten you. I just haven’t gotten up to speed yet since vacation and, quite frankly, nothing has caught my eye/piqued my interest/tickled my fancy/given me a blogging boner so, meh, blogging: who needs it? However (however) I am currently reading Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That [...]

You have all been very patient for the past ten days. Well, some of you have been patient. My favorite quote from my brother who dog-sat them for the past week: “Wembley has made me lose the will to live”. From what I have heard, he treated my brother like a fifth grader treats a [...]