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EARLY WORD: There’s A Creep In The Cellar
As promised, tomorrow we will share some hazy memories about our gloriously misspent ’80s youth, specifically about following a band called the Butthole Surfers around like the Grateful Dead. We would share today, but the statute of limitations doesn’t run out until tomorrow. You know how it is. Anyway, we will also — God willing — have an interview with Gibby Haynes on Friday. It was supposed to happen to today but Gibby lost his phone in DC last night. Some things never change. In the meantime, we will be giving away a limited number of tickets for Saturday’s show. […]
HOT DOCUMENT: Paging Karl Rove
This Myspace bulletin went out to Friends of Hillary this morning, but by this afternoon it had mysteriously disappeared: “This is the kind of sexism that needs to be stopped. Sexism that is masked as some kind of joke or meant to be light hearted. I don’t find this funny and I don’t know how anyone could wear a shirt like this and call themselves a Democrat. Sadly Sexism is still alive in politics.” — Hillary For President [Hat tip to CITIZEN MOM] RELATED: COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton’s 1992 campaign […]
NEWS CLUES: ‘So Local It Hurts’ Edition
THIS JUST IN: Philly’s Most Wanted Caught Teaching 8th Grade Math One of Philadelphia’s Most Wanted has been found. He was teaching at a city school in North Philadelphia. Arnesx Honore, 33, has taught math to eighth-grade boys since 2003 at the Hunting Park alternative school in North Philadelphia. Honore, accused of attacking a 17-year-old girl in August 2006, was wanted on sexual-assault charges, police said. According to court records, Honore was arrested on charges of raping a minor on April 1, 2006, but all charges were dismissed because the witness was unavailable. It was unclear this morning whether the […]
CINEMA: Locust Abortion Technician
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (2007, directed by Cristian Mungiu, 113 minutes, Romania) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC If this is the Romanian New Wave than I’d hate to see their Punk. Raw and unflinching, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bleak journey into the darkest days of two young female students during the waning years of Communist Romania. Cristian Mungui’s unblinking look at a black market abortion won the Golden Palme at last year’s Cannes Festival and it probably needed that title to receive distribution in the U.S., its dour Eastern European outlook and […]
STEAL THIS LINK: Listen Like Thieves
After a bit of legal wrangling, Bay Area DJ/producer Amplive‘s Rainydayz Remixes project is here to stay. (Rainydayz being the Zion I member’s reimagining of Radiohead‘s In Rainbows with assistance from MCs like Too $hort, Del the Funky Homosapien, Chali 2na, and his Zion I partner MC Zumbi.) And it’s available for download now by following this very link. [via PITCHFORK]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
SCOOBY DOOBIE DO: Snacks, Woody’s, Last Night [Photos by TIFFANY YOON/CLICK TO ENLARGE]
YES WE CAN: Obama Sweeps The Potomac Primaries
WASHINGTON POST: Sen. Barack Obama swept to convincing victories over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic presidential primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, extending his winning streak since Feb. 5 to eight. In a victory speech tonight in Madison, Wis., Obama declared “we’re on our way,” but warned that the job of brining about fundamental change in Washington was far from done. “We know it takes more than one night – or even one election – to overcome decades of money and the influence; bitter partisanship and petty bickering that’s shut you out, let you down and […]
FORECAST: Iceman Cometh
ACCUWEATHER: WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST WEDNESDAY…
BREAKING: Senate Hands Bush Blank Check For Spying On Americans & Blanket Immunity For Telecoms
NEW YORK TIMES: WASHINGTON — After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program. The Senate rejected a series of amendments that would have restricted the government’s surveillance powers and eliminated immunity for the phone carriers, and it voted in convincing fashion — 69 to 29 — to end debate and bring the issue to a final vote. That vote on the overall bill was an almost […]
WORTH REPEATING: Cruel To Be Kind?
LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL: Editorial cartoons are designed to make sharp, immediate points, and they depend on caricature and exaggeration to make those points in weighing in on the news of the day. And make no mistake: The Democratic race is not only among the top stories of the day, it’s a story for the ages as the two front-runners vault over old barriers of gender and race in their history-making quests for the White House. If you’re an editorial cartoonist, are there any special guidelines or sensitivities when it comes to drawing Clinton and Obama? How do you use exaggeration and […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR If there’s one thing the presidential primary candidates agree upon, it’s that the American health-care system could use some treatment — if not a complete overhaul. Political scientist Jonathan Oberlander diagnoses the problems with the current system and examines the remedies offered by each candidate. Oberlander teaches social medicine and health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He’s the author of The Political Life of Medicare. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 What would take for a conservative comeback? We talk with DAVID FRUM author of Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again. In it he analyzes […]
THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Pepper
Some will die in hot pursuit In fiery auto crashes Some will die in hot pursuit While sifting through my ashes Some will fall in love with life And drink it from a fountain That is pouring like an avalanche Coming down the mountain –GIBBY HAYNES, 1996