. The Twelve Days of Christmas are largely forgotten today. If they are remembered, they’re remembered as a song about “Lord’s a leaping,” and “partridges in a pear tree.” The Twelve Days, December 25-January 5, are the true Christmas, the Christmas not of preparation for a single holiday, but of opening our hearts increasingly to …
. My 4 year-old daughter Alissa screams “I want to waatch teeeeveeee nowwwww!” and I say “You were mean yesterday when I turned the tv off, so no teeeveeee, todaaaayyyy!” and I insist she comes with me to the hardware store to find a 3/8″ compression to 1/2″ pipe adapter hose for the sink, the …
. . The words, Brill Building, are synonymous with songwriting in the way Hollywood is equated with movies or Detroit used to be associated with cars. I received a message yesterday from LA-DSH urging assistance for an upcoming documentary about Colony Records, a unique music store located in that iconic building which was the site …
Within the last year or so, multimedia artist, Barbara Trentalange, had a baby. Balancing motherhood with creative expression, she completed a series of paintings titled, “Baby Napping Series.” “I started the series because I needed to be quiet around the house while my daughter napped,” says Trentalange. “Since I couldn’t write and play music (which …
. Please, please, please tell me that you are not ready to be co-opted by the naive and even dangerous view that is being adopted by too many already that the tax cuts/unemployment benefits deal that Pres. Obama just worked out with Republican leaders is somehow a bad deal, that he got rolled, or that …
. . I watched this movie last might. Loved it. Saddam didn’t like the physical act of headbanging because, according to one of the musicians, the movement is similar to when Jews pray. Saddam wanted men to have short hair. The musicians later persevered under Occupied Iraq, but checkpoints, snipers, tanks, unemployment, and overall risk …
I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are not on Facebook. Some have quit, some never joined. A large portion of them seem to infer that they are too superior to join Facebook, that Facebook is only for “people with no lives” or that Facebook is somehow evil. Facebook is neither good nor …
This 1958 Stan Freberg audio file satirizes the overcommercialism of Christmas. It begins with Mr. Scrooge calling a meeting of important “advertising people” to find new ways to tie products to Christmas. One advertiser talks of depicting a more rugged Santa smoking a preferred brand of cigarette. In the ad, Santa has “both sleeves rolled …
I must admit, I had assumed Portland would be the last place on earth for a Christmas-related terror attempt: . Somali-born teen arrested in car bomb plot Feds supplied dud in sting at downtown Portland, Ore., Christmas tree lighting ceremony PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at …
. . I was saddened and dismayed last night to watch “Nightline,” one of the cherished news shows of my teenage years, and see how much it has changed. During a week of critical and frightening news coming out of Korea, when two nations with huge armies and powerful allies stand at the brink of …
Here’s a classic Ambrosavage Thanksgiving cartoon, back in time to make you laugh: . .
. He wasn’t the greatest of all time, but he may have been the prettiest. Mark Knopfler’s solos, in Dire Straits and elsewhere, were/are always the most melodic, the clearest, the brightest, the kind you’d most like to take home to Mum. He had/has at least four personas, all of them entertaining: the mellifluous athleticist, …
. . The 1978 concert movie “The Last Waltz” was unusual for a couple of reasons. One, it was directed by Martin Scorsese and two, it was a farewell show for an enormously popular group that had all it’s original members living, no real drop in popularity, and no band members with outstanding warrants (no …
. . Fifteen years after Cicely’s moose bid farewell and strode into the night, “Northern Exposure” remains one of the most original shows ever to grace the small screen. From 1990 to 1995, quirky characters in a remote Alaskan town wrestled with profound questions about identity, community and love. NX featured no cheap laughs and …
The story of Rahab is found in Joshua 2 and 6:22-25, click here for Joshua 2 or here for Joshua 6:22-25 or see below. I’d like to see women in the Old Testament (OT) portrayed as more valuable (there are exceptions), than just inventory in a man’s lineup of marriage options. How awful to be …
Here’s some thoughts. 1. As obvious as this sounds, write like crazy for your high school newspaper no matter how lame it might be. If it’s lame, become an editor and strive to write investigative stories about things above and beyond the call of scholastic journalism: teen life, abortion, bullying, gay and lesbian struggles, suicide, …
. . Today’s New York Times has a fantastic article about a city in Northern Vietnam rightly becoming popular with tourists from all over the world: . In Northern Vietnam, a Region of Beauty and Ethnic Traditions MY first glimpse of the place that some call Vietnam’s Shangri-La came on a brisk spring afternoon as …
. . Portland has a new television Station and it’s number 36. Better Life Broadcasting Network, a 3ABN affiliate, has begun broadcasting free over the air on KEVE, digital channel 36-1. Viewing KEVE may require redoing the channel scan feature on your digital television or converter box. Programming is free and an antenna is all …
The language spoken, there’s a little talking toward the end, is Tagalog, but all the writing around the video is Arabic. Perhaps it’s a bored Pinoy in Saudi entertaining the kids back home: . . Manny Pacquiao’s house in U.S. – MTV Cribs The Dancing Jollibee Bee
The following article can be found at Salon.com: Are “The Real Housewives” really flesh-eating zombies? Why do Bravo’s trussed-up middle-aged stars have so much in common with “The Walking Dead’s” rotting corpses? Click Here. Funny, how true the comparison of zombies to Real Housewives is. The “Real” word in the title is like a joke. …
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Portland actress hits it big in trashy bar comedy, by Steve Stav
. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? How scandalously profane! My favorite episode has to be the one about “freedom” at Paddy’s, where Danny DeVito’s character is allowing a Chinese poker game in the basement that soon devolves into Russian roulette. I get a kick out of how most of the actors are married to each …
Ben Greenman, a very smart, witty, great guy and editor of the New Yorker appears in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Chicago very soon. (Schedule is below). Q: WHAT ARE PARIS HILTON, OPRAH, JESSE JAMES, AND OTHER TOP CELEBS DOING IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE? A: BEN GREENMAN PUT ‘EM THERE This summer, the Brooklyn author and …
Things are tough all over. Even legendary recordist Steve Albini, the famed audio technician behind classic releases from Nirvana, Liz Phair, Bush, Bedhead, Built to Spill, Bottomless Pit, Cheap Trick and dozens of others is having trouble paying the mortgage on Electrical Audio, his impeccably designed analog studio. Tim Midgett, guitarist, bassist and songwriter for …
Thanks to Colette Moran for the link. The improvised comic prose is East Portland’s alone (Colette would never jest about energy drinks.): . “In Archie, Obama v. Palin – PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK Obama is dubbed “The Chicago Kid” while Palin gets named “The Thrilla from Wasilla” on the new Archie covers.” Complete story …
The Gift-Giving Season is upon us, and here’s a classic stockingstuffer. Thanks to Kristen Anderson for this Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifting suggestion… ‘The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids’ “The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids,” published by Really Big Coloring Books of St. Louis, purports to be a “teaching and learning tool.” But many of the …
Probably one of the last songs Doug Fieger recorded. Fab pop song, and teaming up with Jeffrey Foskett is always a good move for anybody. – Bill Larson and Rich Horton .
. . Johnny Depp has been forever typecast as Hunter S. Thompson. Even when, as here in new film, The Tourist, he sweetly coos tender Euro intrigues with Angelina Jolie, you can still hear echoes of the crazed voice of Thompson ranting across Las Vegas: . . The Tourist TrailerUploaded by teasertrailer. – Classic TV …
Sad to say it kids, but I think Improv Everywhere went to the beach to jump the shark:
This clip is interesting. I’m waiting for the day I get my ape servant, fully trained of course, and the device to put material in my mind (memories, knowledge) that turns me into an expert on a subject. He was right on about computers and the ability to communicate with others anywhere. Too bad telecommuniting …