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Late night radio received some horrible news tonight when popular Coast to Coast Am host, Ian Punnett, the best C2C host ever (he’s surpassed the great Art Bell) announced yesterday that he has been suffering from tinnitus and hearing loss. To aggressively treat this condition, Punnett will take time off from the show beginning January …
Thanks to Daniel Housman for this very funny link: Welcome to Chicago “We’re glad you’re here” …or are you? http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
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Here’s my take on HOW or iF these trends may actually be adapted to mainstream fashion. 1. Meggings – Men, be jealous of women no more. You now have leggings of your own. They look like men’s tights, cut off at the bottom. Perhaps meggings will catch on in a looser fitting version, something like …
Not a bad year for music. I had started compiling my year-end list back in August and assuming there are no stellar December releases, I think this list is pretty final. There is no order to the following faves, but I did leave my Top Three of the year for the end. Also, when all …
Best Album: Manraze, PunkFunkRootsRock. Take guitarist Phil Collen from Def Leppard and team him up with drummer Paul Cook from The Sex Pistols and add Simon Laffy, the bassist from Phil’s former Glam band, Girl (because every power trio needs a bassist), and you’ve got a record that sounds, well, like a raunchier version of …
Here’s the Youtube description, “A strange and but beautiful song written and arranged by Frank Zappa, featuring Burt Ward as Robin.” And here’s a Dangerous Minds article: HOLY FREAK OUT, BATMAN! FRANK ZAPPA AND ‘THE BOY WONDER SESSIONS’
According to the Youtube description, “A strange song Adam West sang during the height of his bat-popularity in the ’60s.”
Best Reunion Concerts of 2011: 1. Confidentials and Thin Man at Dante’s (Portland), April 1 2. Fastbacks at West Seattle Summer Fest, July 8 3. Rats and Stiphnoyds at Star Theater (Portland), November 17 Two Movies You May Have Missed in 2011: 1. The Oregonian (Creepy surrealism from Seattle filmmakers) 2. Take Me Home Tonight …
I can not, at this point, claim to know what pop culture ever is or was. I do tend to scroll the Chive each day at work, but I have to admit that their hatred for the one called Bieber passes me by. I am a 47 year old male and I have never in …
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Keith Olbermann’s a disciple of Edward R. Murrow, but I find his addition of wry humor to the latter’s delivery paradigm to be hit-and-miss, though he maintains an admirable batting average. In contrast to Keith’s surging, bellowing blasts of Mayor Bloomberg, Murrow laid into Joseph McCarthy with this remarkably calm determination that watchers at the …
On Thursday November 17 I left my place of work, a high school in North Seattle, and headed five miles south to the south end of the University of Washington. Today’s march was in honor of the second month anniversary of the Occupy Movement. As I approached the masses standing in the shadow of the …
Chapter Sixty-One A doctor was leaning over our daughter’s isolette listening to her with a stethoscope. I suddenly felt weak. That wasn’t a good sign. Keith wrapped an arm around me and squeezed me tight. The nurse who stood beside the doctor noticed us and approached. “We were just about to rouse you,” she began. …
IF I should die, think only this of me; That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s …
Chapter Fifty-Eight All Keith and I could do was hold each other and listen to our baby scream as they stuck a tiny needle in her leg to insert an IV. My stomach turned into knots and I felt like I was in the middle of some horrible nightmare as medical staff rushed to Mandy …
Chapter Fifty-Nine Keith spun around and froze. It took me a second to realize who they were. Then I recognized Keith’s father. Even though I’d only seen him in a dark nightclub, I recognized his eyes. His black hair had more silver than I remembered. His mother‘s hair was cropped short and almost nearly gray. …
This clip is from 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwgu8_b0Vw
Chapter Fifty-Eight Keith pulled me into his lap and wrapped me in his arms. “Your mum called and says the baby made it through another night.” “I can’t wait to see her. This has been a nightmare I don’t care to repeat.” A nurse came in pushing a wheel chair. “Ah, your limo has arrived,” …
In this video, mixed media beadwork artist and EPB contributor Betsy Youngquist takes a brief look at some of the art exhibited during the ArtPrize competition held in Grand Rapids, MI, September 21 – October 9, 2011:
They’ve been around since 2003, but I just discovered Portland Radio Authority. Here’s how they explain themselves on their website: The PRA is a non-commercial, listener supported, online radio station. As a free form community media source, we are committed to bringing independent artistry and marginalized viewpoints into regional and international view. We aim to …
Fox Entertainment scrapped Arrested Development in 2006 after only three seasons. Apparently strong DVD sales and the show’s burgeoning cult status triggered a response in some studio office somewhere that the time was right to cash in, and so sometime soon a movie version of the TV series will be coming to a theatre near …
Chapter Fifty-Seven “Your daughter is a tough little girl. However, she’ll need more specialized care than we can provide. We want her airlifted to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. They have the best neonatal intensive care in the country. You’ll need to sign papers giving us permission.” “Mon dieu,” I gasped. “She will survive, …
On November 5, 2011 I attended yet another Occupy Seattle event. I once again hopped on a bus to the downtown Seattle hub of Westlake Center. Getting there at around 1:00, I joined a protest already in progress at the busy intersection of fifth Ave and Pine Street. Traffic had to be diverted around us …
Chapter Fifty-Six The next thing I was aware of was waking in a private room. Keith was sitting by my side. He looked exhausted, but broke into a broad smile when he saw my eyes open. “Hi, my love. How are you feeling?” I began remembering. “The baby!” I sat up. “Shsh.” He laid me …