When someone does you wrong, you can fall apart - or you can write like Lucinda Williams:

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Someone was searching for info on ‘69 Toyota Coronas, and wound up here because of a post I did on my favorite old cars. Through their link, I found a picture (although mine was cream-colored)! Perfect condition, and only $2900. Awww….
You know how it is when you come across a picture of an old love. [...]

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Oh, boo fucking hoo. I hope this strategy blows up in their face:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — Alarmed at the prospect of Democratic control of Congress, top executives from two dozen drug companies met here last week to assess what appears to them to be a harsh new political climate, and to draft a battle plan. [...]

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One of my favorite songs, also known as “My Old Addiction.” David Wilcox on the suicide of the late, great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker:

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Good piece by Matt Stoller on Joe Lieberman, Marshall Wittman and John McCain as a followup to the Robert Reich column I posted the other day:
Reich is smarter and more progressive than most ‘adults’ in the establishment, but he’s showing the way forward. The flip side of McCain the media darling and his ‘Straight [...]

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Alanis Morrisette:

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In order to mark the official start of the season, here’s the legendary Robert Earl Keen Jr. with his Christmas classic:

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For all those people who are still in Iraq this Thanksgiving… and for those who died.

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Max speak, you listen…

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Duncan’s “Preznit giv me turkee.”

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Heh heh.

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This is a song about Alice, and the restaurant…

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Fairport Convention, 1970 (look at Richard Thompson!):

When the stone is grown too cold to kneel
In crystal waters I’ll be bound
Cold as stone, weary to the sounds upon the wheel
Now be thankful for good things below
Now be thankful to your maker
For the rose, the red rose blooms for all to know
When the fire is [...]

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John Prine:

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The late Steve Goodman, playing his classic song shortly before he died of leukemia in 1984. (Did you know his ashes are buried under home plate at Wrigley Field?) I love this song:

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The Walker Brothers with one of the best songs ever:

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The Animals:

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Oh, baby. Otis live at Monterey Pop, seguing from “Let’s Shake”:

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Aaron Neville and the Neville Brothers with Gregg Allman and Bonnie Raitt:

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I admit it, I’m a she-geek. Or maybe just a hard core geek groupie.  But anyway, I drooled and giggled and clapped for all ten minutes of this demo (ignore the self-congratulating text intro at the beginning and the BMW commercial at the end).  Susie doesn’t need an ergo keyboard and mouse, she needs one of these.  For that matter, [...]

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One of the most beautiful songs ever. Here’s a snippet of Bruce Cockburn performing it:

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Here.

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I read about this yesterday and was pretty stunned myself. Boy, how big is that bubble they live in?
President Bush’s father was forced into an emotional defense of his son yesterday in the Persian Gulf when an Arab audience launched a blistering surprise attack on his first-born.
“We do honor Americans, and I believe that [...]

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Really. Just ask my friends. (Some of whom are, actually.) Ask them how often I roll my eyes and mutter under my breath, “Fucking hippies.”
Most of my complaints have to do with their refusal to integrate their Jungian shadow selves, the clothes and the hair. (Mostly the hair.) Plus, I find some of their ways [...]

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Oh, look, a newspaper job I could actually get! If I wanted to cross a picket line, that is…

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Iraqi civilian deaths in the past month.

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From the American Street. Heh heh… They’re not all funny, but the first one is.

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Homeland “Security.”

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See, we can’t leave because the country would be in chaos and really bad things would happen:
BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 — A bomb exploded in an armored car among those belonging to the speaker of Parliament, wounding the American security guard who was driving it out of a parking area in the government Green Zone and [...]

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