AHEAD-OF-HER-TIME SINEAD, NOW WORSE... FLAILING IN A NETHERWORLD OF POST-CONSTITUTIONAL DENIAL... PILLAGING A SEEMINGLY MORE INNOCENT PAST TO MAKE EVEN LESS SENSE OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE PRESENT... TOM LEHRER DROPS SATIRE WHEN REALITY SURPASES HIS ABILITY TO MAKE FUN OF IT... OVER FORTY YEARS AND RUNNING... Or, "Subtextual chatter from the Dept. of Redundancy Dept": Jagger Joins ABC Sitcom... YEAR TO BE HATED Sung to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs QUOTE OF THE DAY For best results, please disable your pop-up blocker... [FedEx login page.] … [Read more...]
DON’T STOP
April 21, 2006 By
'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH In retrospect, the crotch clutch seems at once desperate and abstract. It is as if he were telling us, "Fine, you need to know I'm a man, a black man? Here's my dick: I'll thrust my dick at you! Isn't that what a black man's supposed to do? But I'm Michael Jackson, so just look but you can't touch." It wasn't real, it was symbolic. Not a penis but a phallus... --from ON MICHAEL JACKSON, by Margo Jefferson. … [Read more...]
THE GOOD PEOPLE OF VERMONT
April 17, 2006 By
WILL NOT APOLOGIZE "Billy Joel is no Leonard Bernstein..." FOR ITS CHEESE [WAIT! THERE'S MORE...] MORE CATHOLIC RECRUITMENT SLOGANS: "I think for myself not to come up with my own teaching," he writes, "but to make the Church's teaching my own." … [Read more...]
TRAMP THE DIRT DOWN
April 13, 2006 By
DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. Reagan suuposedly taught us how "perception is reality," and most hook that line up to the Bush onslaught on a "reality-based" opposition. To me the Bush era correlative goes something like "All information is … [Read more...]
FOR EVERYTHING ELSE THERE’S ELVIS
April 9, 2006 By
Gasbag cranium duty on History Channel's 10 DAY-WORLD -SHAKE series, the Elvis installment, airs Tuesday, April 11, at 9/8pm. Brought to you by MasterCard: the freaky-deeky credit card with the curiously pre-Wiki CompoundName. … [Read more...]
SUPERFINGERS
April 6, 2006 By
Tickets are still available for this Concord Chamber Music Society's Special Artist benefit, featuring Yefim Bronfman. Here's the scoop: Friday, April 7 @ 7:00pm (Pre-concert lecture with Steven Ledbetter begins at 6:00pm) Concord Academy Performing Arts Center 166 Main St. Concord, MA Fantasy, Op. 49 by Frederick Chopin Gaspard de la Nuit by Maurice Ravel Islamey by Mily Balakirev Sonata Op. 27 #1 ( Quasi una Fantasia) and Sonata Op. 27 #2 (Moonlight) by Ludwig van Beethoven If you haven't heard his Tchaikovsky Seasons, snag it now. My … [Read more...]
MEDIUM PAST ITS MESSAGE
April 4, 2006 By
SHILLING FOR HISTORY Go here and click on "When America Was Rocked," airs next Tuesday, April 11 at 9/8 on the History Channel. Taped last summer. … [Read more...]
