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Chances are, you already know who Katy Perry is. Every time she shows up on stage or screen, one gets the feeling that Candyland, glitter, wigs and spinning peppermint bras got thrown in a blender and then somebody lifted the lid without hitting the Off switch. Her music is pop heaven, but this documentary done by the same people who produced the Justin Bieber: Never Say Never film make her reality a little more down to earth than what you would expect. It's filled with pizzazz and sparkle, but not enough to distract from the real person under the cupcake skirt.
Full disclosure: I am a fan. I love her music because I can sing to it and it gets me all psyched up to go out on Friday night and act stupid. I am most definitely not alone (thank god), because her ginormous fan base is very heavily represented in the film as is customary for music docs. Anyone who isn't a Katy lover or Perry-curious should spend their money on The Amazing Spider-Man without a second thought--this will most likely not make you a fan, although it's one of the likeliest candidates out of recent 3D concert flicks. Perry fans are less obsessed than Beliebers but pretty close to Gleeks, because their heroine inspires them to be as weird as they wanna be and rejoice in their bedazzled pink bedspreads and love of purple wigs. The film does a great job of showing how hard Perry works to connect with them and give of herself in order to make them smile. A cynical viewer might take that as the publicity machine working overtime, but given Katy's candid and high-spirited nature in the rest of the film, I personally found it realistic and endearing. She really seems like she's having a great time and wants to make sure everyone else is too.
Now, she might be having a ball, but she's still earning her paycheck. Every film like this has to tell you how haaaard the stars are working to entertain you. This tour seems to take it to a crazy level, though. Bono didn't dance with a big purple cat named Kitty Purry and then get led around on leashes by five dancers in just two songs worth of time. Night after night, when that platform rises and takes her onstage, what she does for the next two hours is more intense than a marathon. And it seems to take a toll on her physically and emotionally, which is the most interesting aspect of the movie. She doesn't lose her voice like Celine and Bieber did--she loses her (ex) husband Russell Brand. And for someone so full of smiles and sparkle, it's especially awful to watch (one can only imagine Brand's side that they don't bother telling). Her real life creeping in on the edges of this weird cherry-topped wonderland she works in every night with tens of thousands of people sucking out her life force gives this movie an interesting edge.
Her music and persona walk the line of being so sweet that tweens can't resist her, but she has an edge that's for adults only. The movie feels similar. The stage looks spectacular and made me wish I had fought for a ticket when she was touring. Even though I can't imagine kids caring about her Christian upbringing or her parents swearing they would never watch her half naked on MTV, it gives Perry, whose depth only exists in certain lyrics, more humanity and grounding (especially the extensive home video footage). Instead of rolling my eyes, I liked her more. And, as a testament to consistent editing and storytelling, showing her demanding life careening into her demanding career after years of hoping for it to happen, liking her CD has turned into liking her. Or, what we've been allowed to see of her. But it's hard to be cynical when you're staring at a pin-up girl winking at you while shooting whipped cream out of her bra.
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As we are definitely getting a lot of discussion about HG in the news, I wanted to take a moment to share some advocacy tips with you. I write advocacy materials (for libraries), and I wanted to just make sure and touch on a few things that I have seen happen in the past regarding HG discussions. This is a HUGE moment for those of us who have dedicated ourselves to bringing HG out into the spotlight; we could not have asked for more press coverage than we have right now I think. So let's represent ourselves well and shine the spotlight on the true horror that is HG.
Represent Fellow HGers and the Cause Well
1) Some of the press are going to say incredibly uninformed things. We need to correct them but we need to do it in a way that validates the disease and gives legitimacy to our claims. No matter how angry you get, please don't call names, overinflate facts, etc. Your story is the message so share it honestly and with heart.
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2) Refer people to a legimate source. In order for people to understand HG we want them to hear our stories AND present them with facts. As a librarian, we talk a lot about the authority of our source. You want to send people to a factually accurate source that has a good reputation. Refer them to HER of course! Even when sharing your personal story, it is a good idea to remind people to seek out the facts and give them a place to do so. Facts help add legitimacy to our cause.
Calling Out Factual Errors
3) If you read an article (or view a newscast) with factual errors or misrepresentation, state specifically which parts are erroneaous (sp?), give the correct information and give them a link or a source where they can verify the information.
Remember, you are an HG survivor and you have a story to tell. Every person's story is their own and we shouldn't compare, belittle or demean anyone who has suffered in any way. Everyone's experience is different and everyone responds to different treatments.
If you can, contact your local news and offer to share your story. If you have a blog share your story. Use your various social media sites to share current news stories AND to correct any misinformation and misrepresentations that you come across. I would also suggest that you share links here to the HER foundation. In fact, it would be good to set up a thread where we do nothing but share links to keep a running look at the media coverage.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
skippy's saturday nite music club
dinah shore & peggy lee - i got rhythm
these two ladies get it done!
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and the snarky use of the passive agressive voice, too
or maybe the present tense is equivalent to the future tense.
or maybe 144,000 = 132,000 and the present tense is equivalent to the future tense.
or something.
or else he thinks that time travel is as simple conjugating verbs.
i are have killed you, but i have be borned yet.
half measures
no, we don't mean both oral and vaginal sex, tho hillary clinton might think she's getting screwed by the deal. in this case, half and half means exactly how much of the two errant states' delegate votes will count in the convention in denver come august. asspress:
the decision was a blow to hillary rodham clinton as she was on the verge of watching obama make history as the first black democratic presidential nominee. it prompted an irate reaction from boisterous clinton supporters in the audience and her chief delegate counter, harold ickes.
ickes angrily informed the party's rules committee that clinton had instructed him to reserve her right to appeal the matter to the democrats' credentials committee, which could potentially drag the matter to the party's convention in august.
"there's been a lot of talk about party unity — let's all come together, and put our arms around each other," said ickes, who is also a member of the rules committee that approved the deal. "i submit to you ladies and gentlemen, hijacking four delegates ... is not a good way to start down the path of party unity."
addendum: via c&l, here's the blow by blow account from marc ambinder of today's meeting.
Labels: clinton, democrats, hillary, prez campaign
down the penrose lane
talk about splitting the party
state sen. abel maldonado, a santa maria republican, has turned in enough signatures to qualify as a write-in candidate in the democratic primary june 3, a move his write-in democratic opponent, attorney dennis morris of pismo beach, calls "astonishing." - sanluisobispo.com
Labels: california, democrats, republicans
Friday, May 30, 2008
skippy's friday nite music club
r.e.m. - losing my religion
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a question about donuts deserves an a.n.s.w.e.r.
you can go to their website and send an email to dunkin' donuts' corporate offices, expressing your displeasure at dd's craven capitulation to the right-wing bigoted vapors.
Labels: action alert, right hypocrisy
quote of the day
addendum: show me progress didn't make the cut, either!
Labels: democrats, prez campaign
precious sh** batman!
peru guards its guano as demand soars again. surging prices for synthetic fertilizers and organic foods are shifting attention to guano, an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on islands off the coast of peru. - nytimes
Labels: animals, organic, south america
rook* made me do it...
...now, a lot of people are questioning scott's motive for his disclosure at this time. however, his motive is not the issue. what is important is the unintended consequences of his book. or maybe not so unintended consequences. regardless of scott's monetary gain with the release of this book it appears to be a public display of personal introspection; a process that hopefully scott's example indicates has begun in our nation and will spur others to mirror.
perhaps the collective visceral shock our nation experienced after september 11, 2001 has finally cleared and we are now recognizing the consequences of the bush administration's knee-jerk reaction. often, after a great shock, people have a tendency to lash out in an effort to protect themselves from further hurt. unfortunately, that means those people who normally are our support and comfort are driven away. and when we finally see that consequence, are aware of its damaging effects, it's still difficult to acknowledge -- both to ourselves and to those important in our lives -- our behavior.
now, to beg the question; is our country awakening and preparing to return to its core set of beliefs about individual freedom and basic rights? if scott's book is any indication, we just might be, we just might be.
having done more than my own fair share of lashing out in recent months, i really hope rook is right. maybe a national valium day would be in order...
(*: speaking of rook, he and i are presently locked in a chess match. it is beginning to turn ugly. wanna watch?)
Thursday, May 29, 2008
skippy's thursday nite music club
dave matthews band - tripping billies
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rip harvey korman
his most memorable film role was as the outlandish hedley lamarr (who was endlessly exasperated when people called him hedy) in mel brooks' 1974 western satire, "blazing saddles."
the show ran for 10 years and is still considered today to be one the highlights of televised sketch comedy. here's the famous dentist skit where both harvey and tim can't help themselves from cracking up, which in itself was funnier than the actual jokes:
rest in peace, harvey korman.
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fox fraud
fox would love to hear from you at: firstname.lastname@example.com. feel free to let 'em know i sent you, in case they have any further questions. i'll be happy to speak to them, and help 'em root out those voter fraud criminals!
btw, fox & friends, at least, already knows about coulter's voter fraud, since they called me last year to ask me to appear on their morning show to talk about it after liz smith ran an item on the matter in murdoch's ny post pointing to brad blog's coverage...
the appearance was scuttled, however, when, for some reason, ms. coulter was just unable to clear her schedule to make it there to appear along with me. what a surprise, eh? of course, fox finally chose not to run anything at all on the matter, despite the miles of documentation proving that ann coulter, absolutely, committed voter fraud in palm beach county.
Labels: coulter, election integrity, faux news
donuts go nuts
distributorcapny sent this letter:
130 royall st.
canton, ma 02021
will a. kussell, president & cheif brand officer
catherine saar, director of brand marketing
i am deeply disturbed that you have chosen to pull your advertisement featuring rachael ray in a scarf due to the views and opinions of an extremist bigot like michelle malkin. just to remind you, ms. malkin is also the same person who gave out the home address of a small child because he spoke up in favor of the s-chip health insurance law in an advertisement, a bill that ms. malkin was vehemently against.
is dunkin donuts management really that ignorant and easily manipulated as to think that when americans see a frilly black and white scarf worn by ms. ray, they immediately conjure up images of arab terrorism? this is irrational corporate behavior taken to an extreme i have not seen since p&g had to defend their corporate logo (about the 666 symbol) several years back. as a matter of fact it is downright scary that dunkin donuts would allow themselves to be victimized by such racist behavior. what's next – you cannot use arabica coffee beans because of the word "arab" in the name of the bean?
considering i feel your actions are completely unwarranted and actually quite ridiculous, and being that i have many choices of coffee and donuts in the morning, i have chosen to take my business to another retailer. i do not feel i can continue to be a customer of a company that is easily bullied into siding with racist bigots like michelle malkin. perhaps if you publicly reconsider your position and denounce ms. malkin's idiotic statement, i will reconsider my choice in coffee. in addition, i will also stop purchasing baskin-robbins ice cream, who knows what terror groups rocky road might be signaling?
addendum: add whallah! to the list of folks blogging about our boycott! and here's the letter rob of laughing at the pieces wrote to dunkin'!
Labels: action alert, right hypocrisy, war on terror
say hello
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
skippy's wednesday nite music club
journey - don't stop believing
yeah, we know it's journey...but they're doing don't stop believing!
Labels: skippy's music club
time to stop buying the donuts - an action alert!
michelle malkin led the hardly-ever-right wing charge to threaten dunkin' donuts w/a boycott because an online ad for the chain featured rachel ray wearing a scarf.
that's right. a scarf.
malkin and her ilk (or would that be her "alk"?) claim that the scarf, which looks nothing like yasser arafat's kaffiyeh, looks exactly like yasser arafat's kaffiyeh.
you be the judge:
rachel ray, terrorist
yasser arafat, donut lover
dunkin' donuts caved, and pulled the ad. but as epicurious.com points out:
unless, of course, malkin actually is saying that all kaffiyeh-wearing arabs are jihadists and terrorists, which is certainly something she'd conceivably say.
not, of course, that i'm defending rachael ray, who probably holds the record for the most negative comments on epi-log. or arafat, who treated the 2000 camp david negotiations with ehud barak like a haggling session in a souk and perhaps singlehandedly dashed hopes for peace in the middle east. or dunkin' donuts, though i am very attached to my dunkin' donuts coffee mug ....
we say, what's good for the batshit insane is good for the logical.
here's dunkin' donuts contact form. why not email them and let them know that you will no longer be buying their donuts or coffee or any product because their actions, at worst, in effect condemn all who wear scarves, and at best, are just plain looney?
be nice...and point out what epicurious says...a kaffiyeh is merely a piece of wardrobe worn by most people in the arab world, and to ascribe a political philosophy to its usage is moronic.
and we don't need to buy from moronic corporations.
addendum: here's the text of skippy's email:
i just learned you have pulled a rachel ray internet ad because some people, including right-wing pundit michelle malkin, have expressed concern that the scarf ms. ray is wearing looks like a kaffiyeh, which they see as a symbol of islamic terrorism.
first of all, a scarf in and of itself is not a kaffiyeh. if you look closely, you'll notice a paisley print in ms. ray's scarf, and i doubt seriously that paisley falls within the accepted purview of terrorist symbolism.
as you probably are aware, a kaffiyeh is little more than an article of clothing worn by practically everybody in the arabic world, and to ascribe a political philosophy to it is akin to saying that whoever wears red is a communist.
your knee-jerk reaction is simplistic at best, bigoted at worst, and moronic no matter how you look at it.
consider this my pledge that i will no longer patronize any dunkin' donuts store, buy any dunkin' donuts products, or even say nice things about such a gutless and bigoted corporation such as yours.
boy, are you guys cowardly, or at least stupid.
no more of my dollars will you see.
130 royall street
canton, ma 02021
tel: 800-859-5339
double addendum: letters are being written! update here!
triple addendum: a.n.s.w.e.r. also calls for a boycott!
Labels: action alert, food, protest, right hypocrisy
environmental stories....
rising lead, crime linked. a new study from the university of cincinnati suggests that there's a connection between young children with high levels of lead in their blood and whether they commit crimes as adults. - cincinnati enquirer
exposé: chemicals in food. if not for the work of a muckraking journalist a century ago, the fda might never have existed. now, with information from investigative journalists, the senate is challenging the fda to back up legislation on bisphenol a. - bill moyers' journal
get used to high food costs, water shortages. shocked by rising food prices? get used to it -- and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report on climate change in the united states over the next half-century. - seattle pi
auction off the right to pollute. all three presidential candidates are in support of cap-and-trade, but a closer look shows views differ on how polluter permits should be allocated. - marketplace.
children who lived in katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments. doctors fear that tens of thousands of youngsters may face lifelong health problems because the temporary housing supplied by fema contained formaldehyde fumes up to five times the safe level. - ap
Labels: environment, food, katrina, pollution, toxins, water
get well card
take some time off, libby, and screw blogging! get well soon!
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plus, world war two was really, really bad! who'd a thunk!
the rude pundit ain't in a forgiving mood when it comes to lackeys and co-conspirators in the bush administration. mcclellan doesn't get to say, as he does in the book, "the collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise." not when he said, in late january 2004, months after the invasion, regarding the chimeric weapons of mass destruction, "yes, we believe he had them, and yes, we believe they will be found. we believe the truth will come out." no, the little bulldog bitch who every day snarled at the press, even when caught in outright lies, does not get the bounty of fulsome forgiveness.
hopefully, the book will tank, and mcclellan will be reduced to blowing hannity for nickels. screw this obsequious pig-fucking son of a bitch, this grubby little man-whore, attempting to purge his soul of the taint and stench of death and sorrow while pulling in a buck or two. he's not honorable enough to have fallen on his sword, rhetorically or literally. and he's not even loyal enough to have shut the fuck up (at least an admirable quality in the abstract). he deserves a room in hell lined with televisions playing his sneering statements of complicity on an endless loop while he's forced to sit on a couch made of the bloated corpses of katrina victims. way too little, way, way too late, you miserable bucket of spooge.
we were reminded of the rapper who, when hearing that george harrison dissed rap music, said "hey, it's george harrison. now if it had been john lennon or paul mccartney, it might have meant something."
wake us up when ari fleischer turns his coat.
addendum: the moderate voice sez the discrediting of mclellan has already begun.
bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb
awol plans iran air strike by august
the george w bush administration plans to launch an air strike against iran within the next two months, an informed source tells asia times online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the united states recently. two key us senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected new york times op-ed piece has yet to appear. the source, a retired us career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community, speaking anonymously, said last week that the us plans an air strike against the iranian revolutionary guards corps (IRGC). The air strike would target the headquarters of the irgc's elite quds force. - asia times
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
skippy's tuesday nite music club
billy idol - eyes without a face
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rip sidney pollack & dick martin
he was executive producer of the new hbo film "recount" about the 2000 presidential election, and he produced two high-profile films not yet in theaters: kenneth lonergan's "margaret" and stephen daldry's "the reader."
on tuesday, hollywood mourned the loss of the well-liked, prolific filmmaker. he had worked with seemingly every a-list star in the business, from robert mitchum to al pacino. but pollack collaborated with robert redford more than any other — seven films, including "out of africa," 1973's "the way we were," 1975's "three days of the condor" and 1979's "the electric horseman."
"sydney's and my relationship both professionally and personally covers 40 years," redford said. "it's too personal to express in a sound bite."
and, having started out as an actor himself, pollack was an actor's director and an actor's actor. along w/redford, the biggest stars in movies countd him as one of their best collaborators in their careers. tom cruise (the firm), george clooney (michael clayton), barbra streisand (the way we were), paul newman (absence of malice), jane fonda (they shoot horses, don't they?) and hosts of others did some of their best work either under pollack's directorial hand, or thanks to his producing skills, or along side of his acting talent.
our favorite acting moment by pollack was in tootsie where he played dustin hoffman's long-suffering agent, when hoffman, dressed in drag to get a part, confronts him in the russian tea room, he pleads, "michael, i begged you to get therapy."
sidney pollack was one of a vanishing breed, a director/producer who made movies for the audiences and not the studios. we will miss him.
also passing this weekend was dick martin, half the comedy team who brought america rowen and martin's laugh-in. hollywood reporter:
forty years after its 1968 premiere, it's difficult now to recall the degree to which the raucous and brazen comedy-variety hour shook the status quo during that tumultuous year in america's social history and during the four years that followed. but it was massive. and as the adorable dork to rowan's sophisticated straight man, martin was the effervescent straw that stirred the stream-of-consciousness melange.
unlike tom and dick smothers, rowan and martin lent no political sensibility to "laugh-in." they were almost like a vaudeville warm-up act. it turned out to be the right move. martin, in the guise of irrepressible oaf, embodied a certain restrained genius for which he rarely received proper credit.
say goodnight, dick.
Labels: passings
to quote duncan again....
u.s. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter, a closely watched index showed tuesday, a somber indication that the housing slump continues to deepen. - ap
Labels: housing bubble
Monday, May 26, 2008
skippy's memorial day music club
harry nilsson - remember
the video is but a series of stills of nilsson, plus some shots from the flick you've got mail, in which this song played an important part.
but the melody and lyrics, combined w/harry's plaintive voice, makes for a haunting feeling about the ethereal quality of memory, and how it is the only thing that helps us keel all of that and all of those who have passed, in our hearts.
Labels: holiday, skippy's music club
in memorandum
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l - r
s - z
Labels: afghanistan, iraq war, supporting our troops
Sunday, May 25, 2008
skippy's sunday nite music club
deanna durbin - largo al factotum
from the film for the love of mary, here's the divine ms. durbin lending her soprano vocals to a usually-tenor aria, as she explains her own comic interpretation of the barber of seville.
she looks quite fetching in a moustache.
Labels: skippy's music club
i contacted comcast
Labels: action alert, fox news, obama, violence
Saturday, May 24, 2008
skippy's saturday nite music club
the juicy fruits - goodbye, eddie, goodbye
this is the opening number from the best brian de palma film ever, phantom of the paradise.
potp (1974) manages to spoof rock and roll music, the recording industry, horror films, the faust legend, and movies in general. darkly comic and far ahead of its time (making fun of the band kiss the same year they began recording, spoofing meatloaf and goth music years before those were popular), phantom starred paul williams, who also wrote the faux rock songs, including this doo-wop 50's number about a rock singer who deliberately kills himself so his songs would hit the top of the charts.
Labels: skippy's music club
phoenix freeway blogger
Labels: aWol, freeway blogger, mccain
but an assassination joke on top of a malignant brain tumor report, now that's comedy!
a: hillary, because as a democrat she should know better.
sure, michael savage played a montage of dead kennedy songs w/schwarzenegger's "it's not a brain tumor" line (from kindergarden cop) on his radio show the day after ted kennedy's terrible diagnosis was announced. but he's a repubbblican, and a screeching head pundit at that. we expect that sort of thing from slime like him.
but what was hillary's excuse?
indeed, it's hard to read that line and come up with any other interpretation. nytimes:
the speed at which the remarks were transmitted and reacted to illustrated the new reality candidates are grappling with in this year's campaign, in which mr. obama's own remarks about "bitter" small-town voters ricocheted around the internet.
mrs. clinton's remarks were initially reported online by the new york post, whose reporters were not traveling with the clinton campaign but were instead watching a live video feed of the meeting with newspaper editors. its report quickly jumped to the drudge report, then whipped around the internet and on television, with outraged comments piling up on web sites.
campaign aides were taken aback by the quick reaction to her remarks, but then quickly realized that mrs. clinton had to backpedal. she then spoke to the traveling press corps for the first time in more than a week, at a supermarket here.
"earlier today i was discussing the democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and senator kennedy waged in california in june, in 1992 and 1968," she said. "and i was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into june. that's a historic fact."
the nypost points out how inappropriate it is to make assassination remarks about the first african american front-runner for a presidential candidacy:
the rev. al sharpton, who has already expressed anger toward clinton during the race, planned to spend his rally today at his harlem-based national action network addressing "a sense of outrage and dismay at statements made by" the new york senator, according to his office.
those words, senator?
you actually invoked the nightmare of political assassination.
you actually invoked the specter of an inspirational leader, at the seeming moment of triumph, for himself and a battered nation yearning to breathe free, silenced forever.
you actually used the word "assassination" in the middle of a campaign with a loud undertone of racial hatred - and gender hatred - and political hatred.
you actually used the word "assassination" in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again-troubled land and fractured political landscape might target a black man running for president.
or a white man.
or a white woman!
you actually used those words, in this america, senator, while running against an african-american against whom the death threats started the moment he declared his campaign?
even if we give her the benefit of every doubt in the world, and assume she had no clue that what she was saying would be taken so intensely as negative, she is still incredibly insensitive to current events, ie, sen. kennedy's recently diagnosed brain tumor, as well as large amounts of racial divisiveness that her campaign has helped to propagate.
it will be interesting to see how she crawls out from under this one.
Labels: clinton, democrats, hillary, kennedy, obama, prez campaign, violence
it's bad when your enemies outnumber your friends
sources familiar with the situation said the bush-mccain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the convention center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.
another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.
bush's arizona fundraising effort for mccain is being moved to private residences in the phoenix area. a white house official said the event was being moved because the mccain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media. the white house official said to reconcile that the tuesday event will be held at a private venue and not the convention center.
Labels: aWol, fundraiser, mccain, prez campaign, republicans
what did you pay today?
in montecito, a filling station which is one of the few left to offer full service has definitely set a record with their $5.64 a gallon for full service premium unleaded. the prices jumped a whooping 40 cents in one day. if you're ok with filling your own tank be prepared to still pay over $5, the self serve premium is at $5.19 a gallon. - keyt
Labels: gas
Friday, May 23, 2008
skippy's friday nite music club
garbage - only happy when it rains
Labels: skippy's music club
da buzz on da buzzing off bees
pesticides: germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation. the german federal office of consumer protection and food safety has suspended the registration for eight pesticide seed treatment products used in rapeseed oil and sweetcorn. - london guardian
honeybee loss. a few weeks after honeybee keepers in the southern german state of baden württemberg reported a wave of sudden honeybee deaths, federal authorities have ordered a suspension on the sale and trafficking of clothianidin-based pesticides. - chemical & engineering news.
germany suspends pesticide approvals after mass death of bees. the german office for consumer protection and food safety (bvl) has reportedly suspended the approval for eight pesticides after the mass death of bees in one state. - all headline news
the mystery of b.c.'s dying bees. something unknown killed 30 per cent of british columbia's bees over the winter, throwing fruit production into turmoil. - toronto globe & mail
Labels: bees, canada, environment, germany
kangaroo blogging friday
kangaroo island kangaroo
Originally uploaded by halloo9
Thursday, May 22, 2008
skippy's thursday nite music club
rilo kiley - the moneymaker
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just paid $4.22 today
Originally uploaded by santa barbarian
this fire isn't a banana slug
a wind-whipped wildfire burning out of control threatened several homes in the santa cruz mountains this morning, closing schools and prompting some evacuations.
the blaze, first reported around 5:30 a.m., had grown to more than 1,700 acres by midmorning and was completely uncontained, according to the california department of forestry and fire protection. the flames sent a thick cloud of smoke into the air that could be seen miles away.the fire is in the mountain range that separates santa cruz and santa clara counties, and the rural area is dotted with homes. at least 20 homes were threatened by the blaze, said chris morgan, a state fire prevention specialist. - latte times
Labels: brush fires, california, santa cruz
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
he said, 'war is always the same, sir'...
and then he closed the door...
Labels: life
skippy's wednesday nite music club
david archuleta - don't let the sun go down on me
addendum: much to our surprise (because archuleta did so well last night), david cook won! so here he is from an earlier show, with an interesting take on michael jackson's hit:
david cook - billie jean
Labels: skippy's music club
don't forget the bigot vote
Labels: clinton, democrats, prez campaign
hardly ball
and that's the underlying issue here: shouldn't we be just as troubled, or even more troubled, by james' confidence he'd receive a free pass than by the fact that he was pushing such propaganda? doesn't the overwhelming attention to this one incident also underscore its uncommon occurrence?
so while matthews certainly deserves credit for upending such a duplicitous political narrative, it's not enough for him to bask in this all-too-rare instance and then allow a roster of other guests - most notably, bigger fish in the pond than kevin james - to reappear on his show and push similar false frames without recourse.
matthews can't have it both ways: he can't claim to be "tough" while only stomping on the occasional lightweight.
Labels: matthews, multi-millionaire media, punditry
oh boy...
despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during hurricane katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which new orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.
outside engineering experts who have studied the project told the associated press that the type of seepage spotted at the 17th street canal in the lakeview neighborhood afflicts other new orleans levees, too, and could cause some of them to collapse during a storm. - ap
Labels: katrina, levees, new orleans
parroting the political talking heads...
Labels: obama
send a get well soon card to sen. kennedy
moveon.org has an online card here that you can sign, and sen. kerry will hand-deliver it.
let sen. kennedy know he is in your thoughts and prayers.
Labels: healthcare, kennedy
hate speech
Labels: kennedy, right hypocrisy
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
skippy's tuesday nite music club
carrie underwood & rascal flatts - god bless the broken road
in honor of both acts winning their respective categories sunday nite at the country music awards, carrie for best female vocalist and the flatts for best vocal group...
Labels: skippy's music club
malkin after midnight
the biggest problem with the republican party is that they've spent far too much time associating themselves with sociopaths such as yourself. you make them look bad. really, really bad. to recap some of your greatest hits:
- stalking the frost family to prove that they're really secret katrillionaires, and then crying like a child when sane people called you out for it.
- posting the numbers of uc santa cruz anti-war protesters on your website, even after you knew that your readers were calling them with death threats.
- sneeringly posting cindy sheehan's divorce papers on your website, and then once again crying like a child when you took criticism for it.
- claiming that john kerry shot himself to get out of vietnam.
- writing a despicable revisionist history justifying the internment of the japanese in world war ii.
Labels: gop, punditry, right hypocrisy
in the land of $1.2 million median priced homes
harvey was forced into homelessness this year after being laid off. she said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in santa barbara, where the median house in the scenic oceanfront city costs more than $1 million.
she lost her condo two months ago and had little savings as backup. "it went to hell in a handbasket," she said. "i didn't think this would happen to me. it's just something that i don't think that people think is going to happen to them, is what it amounts to. it happens very quickly, too."
harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws social security to help make ends meet. but she still cannot afford an apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to sleep in her car, along with other women who find
themselves in a similar predicament. there are 12 parking lots across santa barbara that have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness. these lots are believed to be part of the first program of its kind in the united states, according to organizers. - cnn
welcome to my world.
Labels: california, homeless, santa barbara
sad news for democracy
doctors discovered the tumor after the 76-year-old senator and sole surviving son of america's most storied political family suffered a seizure over the weekend. the diagnosis cast a pall over capitol hill, where the massachusetts democrat has served since 1962, and came as a shock to a family all too accustomed to sudden, calamitous news.
it's our job now to support him in the way that the supported us for so many years. he's not just a great senator, he is a great friend. he is beloved by me and beloved by colleagues," obama added.
clinton, speaking on the campaign trail, called the news "very difficult."
"obviously, he's a fighter. there isn't anybody like him. he gets up and goes out and does battle on behalf of all of us every single day. and i know he's a fighter when it comes to the challenges he's facing right now," she added. watch clinton speak about her colleague »
we at skippy international wish him and his family the best.
Labels: healthcare, kennedy
mad about war
Monday, May 19, 2008
skippy's monday nite music club
jesus and mary chain - her way of praying
Labels: skippy's music club
down the penrose lane
Labels: penrose
siegelman speaks
...."i think this will make watergate look like child's play when it is fully investigated, not so much this case because certainly it's not about me. it's about restoring justice and protecting our democracy and, because this case shows the lengths to which those who are obsessed with power will go in order to gain power or retain power, it has attracted the attention of the national press.
this was a pernicious, political plan that was set in motion by karl rove to further his espoused dream of establishing a permanent republican majority in this country, and what he left out was by any means necessary. - the anniston star via think progress and talk left
2041...an environmental swan's song?
the yacht known as 2041 blew into the harbor on sunday, may 18, in the first leg of its five-year voyage to promote sustainability, a strategy devised by polar explorer robert swan, whose lecture tour will shadow the yacht as they both travel around the world. the highly entertaining brit spoke at the santa barbara maritime museum on sunday, and will speak at ucsb on wednesday, may 21. he first came to international attention after leading a 900-mile antarctic hike to the south pole without benefit of such high-tech amenities as radio or other communications or navigational devices, just sextants. his yacht's name refers to the year when an international2041.
treaty that put a moratorium on mining and drilling in the antarctic is due to expire. swan does not want to see mining resume in the antarctic
because of the environmental damage it would wreak.
...after swan's talk, the audience trooped down to the dock for a tour of the 2041, where all of the electrical equipment, from refrigerators to computers, is powered exclusively by the yacht's two wind turbines and eight solar panels, and stove runs on alcohol rather than gas. flat panel leds(light emitting diodes) provide the light below deck. - sbindependent
2041 Peterman Island
Originally uploaded by divide & concur
Labels: environment, global warming, ocean, santa barbara
75,000 people
sen. barack obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now.
the campaign, citing figures from duane bray, battalion chief of portland fire & rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak. - wapo
got milk?
Labels: food, food safety
Sunday, May 18, 2008
skippy's sunday nite music club
big joe turner - if you remember
big joe is da man! and here's he's live at the apollo from 1955...
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gold rush
interior department to hold alaska oil lease sale
the interior department said friday it is moving forward with an oil and gas lease sale covering nearly 4 million acres in alaska's national petroleum reserve.
the government says the lease area could hold 3 billion barrels of oil.
...the national petroleum reserve-alaska sits on federal land that is part of alaska's north slope, lying just west of the arctic national wildlife refuge.- ap
Labels: alaska, environment, oil
environmental stories sunday
dead water. too much nitrogen being washed into the sea is causing dead zones to spread alarmingly. - economist.
biotech companies rush to patent plant genes. biotech seed companies are behind a wave of patent claims on dozens of 'climate-ready' genes. - nature.
plans for new coal plants under fire. protesters are to launch one of the hardest-hitting environmental campaigns for more than a decade over plans to build a new generation of coal-fired power stations in the uk. london observer
inupiat sue to fend off danger of offshore oil. as mayor of alaska's wealthy north slope borough, edward itta is keenly attuned to the importance of oil, but his enthusiasm for the industry plummets when conversation shifts to offshore extraction. -ap.
chinese flee flood threat from quake. thousands of earthquake survivors fled tent camps and villages in sw china after the government warned that several lakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing because landslides have blocked water flow. the official death toll is now nearly 29,000. - new york times
water adds to worries in china's quake-hit sichuan. there is water everywhere in china's quake-ravaged sichuan province, where rain is hampering rescue efforts and reservoirs are pressing against weakened dams. but for some people there is not a drop to drink. - reuters.
effects of tce still a haunting mystery. a subterranean chemical plume -- thought to be latent under layers of dirt, asphalt and cement -- was found to be pushing toxic gases through the foundations of hundreds of buildings south of the ibm campus in the heart of the village. binghamton press & sun-bulletin
world's poor pay price as crop research is cut. damage from the brown plant hopper, threatening the diets of many poor people and occurring at a time of scarcity and high prices, could have been prevented. researchers say budget cuts prevented them from doing so. - new york times.
one country's table scraps, another country's meal. americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study. it works out to about a pound of food every day for every american. - new york times.
how secure is our food supply? the price of rice is rising. wheat is in short supply. bees are dying. what's next? vancouver sun
Labels: china, environment, food supply, oil
Saturday, May 17, 2008
skippy's saturday nite music club
jane's addiction - been caught stealing
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lion of the senate
Lion of the Senate
Originally uploaded by Oscar H Matatquin
let's hope he roars some more...
senator edward m. kennedy was rushed to a hospital this morning in cape cod, where he was treated for a serious – but unknown – illness.
the boston globe reported that mr. kennedy had suffered stroke-like symptoms and was transported by helicopter to massachusetts general hospital in boston. the cape cod times published a photograph on its web site of mr. kennedy on a stretcher as it was being loaded onto a medical transport helicopter. - nytimes
Labels: kennedy
Friday, May 16, 2008
skippy's friday nite music club
devotchka - till the end of time
from little miss sunshine
Labels: skippy's music club
jesus wouldn't laugh
the nonstraight talk express
sen. john mccain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors, public records show.perhaps they should change the name of the company to suncor(ruption)
mccain, who has made fighting special-interest projects a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, inserted $14.3 million in a 2003 defense bill to buy land around luke air force base in a provision sought by suncor development, the largest of about 50 landowners near the base. suncor representatives, upset with a state law that restricted development around luke, met with mccain's staff to lobby for funding, according to john ogden, suncor's president at the time.
the air force later paid suncor $3 million for 122 acres near the base. it was the highest single land transaction of the private lots purchased by the government — three times the county's assessed value and twice the military's estimated value. suncor also donated another 122 acres. alan bunnell, a spokesman for suncor's parent company, pinnacle west capital, said the donation was meant to minimize the company's tax bill and enhance the value of adjacent property it owns. - ustoady
Thursday, May 15, 2008
skippy's thursday nite music club
tine thing helseth - trumpet concerto, third movement by franz joseph haydn
she's pretty hot for a baroque trumpet player. but then again, she's scandanavian, from oslo, norway, winnger of the norwegian grammy in 2007 for "newcomer of the year"...
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mad about aWol
madam speaker
"we have a protocol, sort of a custom, informally around here that we don't criticize the president when he is on foreign soil. one would think that that would apply to the president that he would not criticize americans when he is on foreign soil."the dixie chicks should write a song about this.
"i think what the president said in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in israel." - reuters
oh, sh**....
raking through sludge exposes a stink. a former us epa scientist is suing the agency's officials and researchers at the university of georgia in athens, alleging that they manufactured and published false data to support the use of potentially harmful sewage sludges as fertilizers.- nature.
stuck in the mud. the environmental protection agency must gather data on the toxicity of spreading sewage sludge. - nature
environmentalists battle burlington over human waste fertilizer. environmentalists and homeowners are protesting a request to use human and household waste to fertilize local farmland. - greensboro wfmy tv
treated sludge has prompted health concerns. scientists, neighbors and the courts continue to raise questions about whether treated sewage sludge is dangerous, even as the federal government continues to promote spreading it on farms. - macon telegraph
Labels: environment, epa, farmers, science, toxins
the gop must stand for something
republicans received a hard shot in mississippi. greg davis (for whom I campaigned and who was a well-qualified candidate) narrowly lost a special congressional election in a district president george w. bush carried four years ago with 62% of the vote.unapologetic deceitfulness appears to be the goal
With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the vote was 54 percent for Mr. Childers to 46 percent for Mr. Davis (nyt).
unless, to be fair, when you're creating you're own reality, 8% is a narrow loss.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
skippy's wednesday nite music club
kimya dawson - loose lips
from the juno soundtrack, this video is a montage of stills from the film and various shots of stars ellen page and michael cera.
Labels: skippy's music club
neutral no more
edwards, who received a thunderous ovation when obama introduced him to a crowd of several thousand, said, "brothers and sisters, we must come together as democrats" to defeat mccain. "we are here tonight because the democratic voters have made their choice, and so have i." - ap
Labels: john edwards, obama
and you wonder why they hate us
the u.s. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. - wapo
to quote duncan, yet again....
us foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in april
....one in every 519 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in april. foreclosure filings increased from a year earlier in all but eight states. - ap
Labels: foreclosure
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
skippy's tuesday nite music club
the mcrackins - pollyanna
this is a promo video, and thus is black for about 25 seconds...but bil, fil and spot are worth the wait.
Labels: skippy's music club
"i'm not dead yet"
"i am in this race because i believe i am the strongest candidate. ... i can lead this party to victory in the general election if you lead me to victory now."
with half of the results in, clinton was ahead of sen. barack obama by a margin of more than 2-1.
childers led gop candidate greg davis 53-47 with more than 90 percent of precincts reporting. turnout increased substantially over the 67,000 voters who cast ballots in the april 22 open special election, with more than 100,000 voting in the runoff.
childers, who beat davis 49-46 three weeks ago but came up just shy of a race-ending majority, joins new democratic reps. bill foster (ill.) and don cazayoux (la.) to give democrats a trifecta of upsets in conservative house districts over the last two months.
the loss could send shockwaves through the republican party, where murmurs about a leadership shakeup have become more and more audible.
Labels: clinton, democrats, election, gop, hillary, obama, primaries
12,000 +
accepted level of earthquake risk in china 'too high'. the people of sichuan are now paying the price for living in buildings constructed to withstand an earthquake roughly one-fifth as powerful as the one that hit on monday. - new scientist
china crippled by loss of power, water, travel, life. monday's deadly earthquake occurred on a fault where south asia pushes against the eurasian landmass, smashing the sichuan plain into mountains leading to the tibetan highlands. - usa today.
a broad view of quake 'prediction'. uk and chinese geophysicists say they have a new approach to seismic monitoring that should allow forecasting of the time, size and sometimes the location of earthquakes. - nature.
Labels: china, earthquake
Monday, May 12, 2008
skippy's monday nite music club
charley patton - revenue man blues
charlie patton was the man who, if not the inventor of blues, then the guy who perfected thme. wikipedia tells us
Labels: skippy's music club
easy to solve problem....
mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.
the pumps, throwbacks to a bygone era on the american road, are difficult and expensive to upgrade, and replacing them is often out of the question for station owners who are still just scraping by. - latte times
no perfect 10 olympic score
the chinese authorities have launched a major rescue operation in sichuan province, after it was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the south-west of the country in 30 years. more than 7,600 people are feared dead, while many thousands more may be buried beneath collapsed buildings or injured, state media have reported. - bbc*update* the temblor has been upgraded to 7.9 the death toll nears 9,000.
Labels: china, earthquake
Sunday, May 11, 2008
unhappy mothers' day
because he made so many of them with his brilliant strategery and statements.
Labels: aWol, iraq war, military, soldiers, supporting our troops, war profiteering
skippy's sunday nite music club
mothers of invention - dog breath
Labels: skippy's music club
Saturday, May 10, 2008
skippy's saturday nite music club
the raveonettes - candy
new pop/rock from denmark...
Labels: skippy's music club
when bloggers attack!
in no way have anything whatsoever to do with the narrative being pushed in sam stein's post over at huffington post. stop.
whatever my readers are doing is their business. i am in no way involved. stop.
that mr. stein contacted the clinton campaign for comment, but no one bothered to contact me is typical these days. it's further proof that many do not care what happens after the nominee is selected. never mind that sam's narrative and the huffington post blasting it, without the full story, will make everyone's job even harder and the possibility of coming together in any meaningful manner more difficult. it also infers quite a different role for me, which is in no way connected to my readers' goal.
but to be clear, as i've said in my latest posts on the subject, here and here, i'm not involved in any campaign to write or "threaten" superdelegates, or in pushing a vote for john mccain. sam stein seems not to care, which has brought an onslaught of angry emails to my inbox, which i'm used to, and never mind that same stein and huffington post totally misrepresent my part in it all by giving a false impression that i'm involved. again, i am not.
we cannot see taylor being of the small-minded approach to email bombs, and knowing her to be a good democrat above all else, we doubt very seriously that she would even consider voting for mccain.
stein does add an update on his post stating that taylor insists she had no part in the mass emails. but he fails to apologize or retract.
happy blogiversary
Labels: blogiversary
down the penrose lane
Friday, May 09, 2008
skippy's friday nite music club
the reverend al green - raining in my heart
Labels: skippy's music club
just think....
Labels: earth
come to bermuda, avoid paying taxes!
today, the ap reveals a third contractor assisting the u.s. military's mission in iraq that is also dodging social security and medicare taxes. immediately after winning a dod contract worth more than $2 billion nearly ten years ago, combat support associates established csa ltd. in the cayman islands allowing it to avoid paying the taxes and evade scrutiny from the u.s. government:
the subsidiary, csa ltd., now employs about 2,000 american citizens in kuwait, where they support u.s. forces moving in and out of iraq. yet as a foreign corporation doing work outside the united states, csa ltd. does not pay social security and medicare taxes for these workers.in fact, according to the ap, "company officials" have acknowledged their immunity from u.s. law, noting that csa ltd. "is outside the jurisdiction of u.s. courts, so federal labor rules and anti-discrimination laws don't apply either." indeed, the globe noted that because of such practices, "workers cannot receive unemployment compensation when their jobs end and may be deprived of other protections under us law."
Labels: contractors, iraq war, mercenaries, pentagon, taxes
we thought he liked touching it a bit too much
wolf blitzer, lead anchor for the network's 2008 election coverage, said he'd grown increasingly uncomfortable with king's infatuation over his touchscreen sidekick. but blitzer claimed he didn't know until the pennsylvania primary that king and his "magic map" were counting more than votes.
"we were all very excited about pennsylvania. another big night for the best political team on television. but the truth is," explained blitzer, "viewers only saw john with his map on-camera. off-camera, he didn't leave her side. john didn't step away for refreshments the entire evening. not even for a skittle." blitzer, suddenly visibly upset, composed himself before adding, "later that night, long after pennsylvania had been called for clinton and most of us had already gone home, one of our producers brought a krispy kreme over to john. she found him with his pants around his ankles and his hand on florida. i won't get into what was resting on new jersey."
Labels: cnn, election, multi-millionaire media, snark
lt. governator garamendi is singing
if left unchecked, the rising sea levels caused by global climate change could leave stockton under water, california's lt. gov. john garamendi warned thursday in a talk to members of san joaquin county's legal community.
...in addition to capricious flooding and spells of drought driven by climate change, he said california laws have to account for things such as levees and how water is stored in natural aquifers that supply drinking water.
attorneys have a say in how the law is shaped when they take related cases, he said. he recommended a mind-set, drawing upon his experiences in the late 1960s with the u.s. peace corps in ethiopia. he recalled that tribes greeted each other asking, "how are the children?" - stocktonrecord.net
Labels: california, global warming, government, lawyers
howly australian shephard
Heart and Soul
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New Clip: Dumbledore and Harry Discussing Horcruxes
Jul 13, 2009
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Thanks much to WB who let us know of another new clip from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, that can be seen here via Yahoo Movies. In the scene which takes place in his office, Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) is speaking to Harry about Voldemort and the Horcruxes. Enjoy! UPDATE: Now available for download (in an iPod friendly form as well) here in our galleries.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out THIS WEEK!


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NPR's Seabrook Reflects On A 'Broken Washington'
After 14 years with NPR and nearly a decade covering Congress, Andrea Seabrook is striking out on her own. She's going to produce a podcast and blog called DecodeDC. Before she heads off, we wanted to get a debrief and some perspective. After all, Andrea's time in those marbled halls of Capitol Hill started before Twitter, before the Tea Party, before the first female House speaker and before that institution's approval ratings sank to near single digits.
What questions do you have for Andrea Seabrook? Call us at 800-989-8255. Our email address is firstname.lastname@example.com, and you can join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION. Andrea Seabrook is still, for a little bit, NPR's congressional correspondent until July 27th, I believe.
LUDDEN: Andrea, she's here in Studio 3A. Welcome.
ANDREA SEABROOK, BYLINE: Thank you. I'm delighted to be here.
LUDDEN: So can you go back those nine-plus years? Do you remember what it was like when you first kind of started getting your head around how Congress works?
SEABROOK: I remember, yeah, it was the time of Dennis Hastert and Tom DeLay, and the Republicans in charge of the House and the Senate. It was the time of the Hammer. Tom DeLay was a very effective whip and then majority leader in the House of Representatives. It was a time when you could still smoke all over the Capitol. You could still smoke in the speaker's lobby, and really, it sounds like ancient history, but I mean....
LUDDEN: Not recent? Wow.
SEABROOK: ...it's just a few years ago. 2000 - the beginning of 2003.
LUDDEN: Could women wear pants?
SEABROOK: Yes, women could wear pants.
LUDDEN: I think Hillary Clinton broke that barrier. That wasn't so long ago.
SEABROOK: I did get kicked out of the - off floor once for wearing open-toed shoes.
LUDDEN: Seriously?
SEABROOK: Seriously.
LUDDEN: In the past year nine years, holy moly.
SEABROOK: In the past three years.
SEABROOK: Yes.
LUDDEN: Never knew that was not appropriate.
SEABROOK: Yeah, there's all sorts of things you do. I mean, you can bring a dog into the Capitol. Lawmakers are still allowed to smoke in their offices, and they do all the time.
LUDDEN: The only time I've been looked at for open-toed shoes is in Iran.
SEABROOK: Yeah.
LUDDEN: That's crazy.
SEABROOK: Interesting. That's very interesting, Jennifer.
SEABROOK: Yeah, it's a different place. I mean, the thing about Congress is that it - those hollowed halls where they make the nation's laws, they often bypass those laws themselves. They don't pass a lot of laws on themselves. For example, most of the OSHA rules and ergonomics rules and labor standards and so on don't apply in Congress, as well as smoking laws and some all sorts of other things.
LUDDEN: Huh?
SEABROOK: Yeah.
LUDDEN: So what was your - well, I guess, maybe that was just a list of it. I was going to ask you your biggest surprise.
SEABROOK: That was - I remember finding it very surprising. It was very surprising how few people, lawmakers in 2003 really used the Internet or understood the impact of the Internet. It's surprising for that matter how few lawmakers now really understand the impact of the Internet and sort of the changing dynamics of their own voters.
LUDDEN: Really?
SEABROOK: Yeah, their own constituents. I mean, frankly, if you look at the data, the number of constituents any congressman has to answer to or represent is - it averages out to about 600,000. And there's no way that any one person could keep track of how 600,000 people are thinking about anything. And so they usually have a legislative assistant or two answering phones. Now there's no way two people answering phones could keep track of 600,000 phone calls in a two-year cycle. That's if every constituent called once. Now people don't do that very often. But there's this huge, newfangled thing called the Internet, which lawmakers are slowly starting to marshal to the end of representing their own constituents. But it is very slow.
LUDDEN: Well, and the Internet lends itself to very engineered and/or highly orchestrated campaigns. And how do you know that that actually represents your 600,000 people?
SEABROOK: Yup. Well, that's something that they could work out, I think, if they could - if they would.
SEABROOK: And so they may not understand this all, but don't they all have their Twitter accounts now? Or at least many of them seem to.
Yeah. One of my pet peeves, personally, is lawmakers on Twitter who aren't actually the lawmaker tweeting. There are some lawmakers who tweet a lot. John McCain is well-known for his tweeting - Chuck Grassley, outgoing. He's well-known for tweeting. But a lot of lawmakers just have their PR guy send out a tweet every once a while that says, oh, you know, Mr. Smith is supporting this bill. Mr. Smith is filibustering on the Senate floor. But - and that's not really helpful to anyone. Twitter, I think, is best when it's a conversation between real people.
LUDDEN: Rudolf(ph) in Kansas City writes in for you: Ask Andrea if she's encountered a gridlock during her time covering Congress, since that word is synonymous with Congress, especially within the last three years. Is it the only last three years that - the ways things...
Oh, no. Yes, I mean, absolutely, the last, really, year and a half is what we're talking about. From - for the years 2009 and 2010, when Democrats controlled everything, it was very, very productive. In the years that Republicans controlled everything, when George W. Bush was in the White House and Republicans had the House and the Senate, it was very, very productive. It's when you have any friction at all that you have full friction.
But isn't the whole system supposed to work when there's friction? I mean, we're supposed to have the system where the two sides hash it out, right?
SEABROOK: Yes.
LUDDEN: You're not supposed to have one side only in control.
SEABROOK: You know, Jennifer, what you're saying is how I felt when I first went to Congress. I felt like, this is awesome. It's the great train wreck. Let's get in there and see the wreck of the ideas and watch them work it out and do it and, you know, see what comes out of it. And sometimes, I find that still works. There are glimmers.
But one of the reasons that I am leaving to start a new project is because of how broken Washington really is and how difficult it is to try to cover a place, tell Americans, tell our listeners what is going on with their government day to day and not just cover what they say. I mean, we're in position, as journalists, where we - you know, what the speaker and the majority leader and the minority - what they say is news, right? But most of what they say these days - all day, every day - is spin. So it's very difficult.
I mean, my - we're in very strange position. I think NPR is a - has done better than anyone in the news business, frankly. I could say that now that I'm leaving. I'm very, very proud of having worked here. I think our Washington desk is amazing, and I've learned everything I know from the people there. But it's - I am going - my intent is to attempt to do - do it a little differently.
LUDDEN: You know, listeners are - writing in about this. There's Colin(ph) in St. Paul, who says, hello. He's a former intern at TALK OF THE NATION.
SEABROOK: Hi, Colin.
LUDDEN: And he wants your perspective on, you know, the pack journalism mentality, what's it like covering the slow-moving institution, covering policy versus politics. And then Dante in Cleveland says: Does Andrea have insights and hopefully practically suggestions about what the average American can do to change the dysfunction?
Well, those are two different questions. The pack journalism is a real problem. There are still - well, journalism has died in a lot of ways at the state level, where lots of crazy things are going on. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of reporters, hundreds in the Capitol. And for the most part, they are covering the same thing every day. They are running around to the same press conferences. And that is a real problem.
SEABROOK: There's a real sort of idea that, oh, this is the one news thing today. Everything else doesn't matter. There are lots of policy questions that are ignored. And part of that is - and I know this is true for NPR - we just don't have the resources to cover everything all the time. And our listeners won't want to hear everything all the time, anyway.
In terms of what you can do as an American, as a citizen of any political stripe, you should be very careful to research who you vote for and spend your vote very wisely. Don't allow anyone to sway your opinion. Go and allow - go and do your own research and look at how lawmakers actually vote. Sometimes - I know this is going to be shocking. Sometimes, they can be misleading in their campaign.
LUDDEN: Really?
SEABROOK: For example, if they - if you hear a lawmaker in a campaign say, well, I introduced a bill that would have done X, Y, Z. Well, yeah, any lawmaker can introduce any bill that says anything. And so at the beginning of every Congress, there's a lawmaker who introduces a bill that would get rid of the IRS. And he goes out and he campaigns on it, and he says: I want to abolish the IRS. I introduced a bill that would do this. There is no practical way that the United States government is going to abolish the IRS right now.
LUDDEN: It's a painless measure.
SEABROOK: So - yeah. And they can put anything they want into the hopper. It doesn't mean it's going to come out of the hopper. So, you know, you have to be very careful. And remember, you get what you vote for. You have - if you want someone who's rational and reasonable, then you have to go look for that person and take your vote out of the emotional realm of your brain and into the rational realm of your brain.
LUDDEN: All right. Let's go to a caller, here. Mark in Little Rock, I think, has a question on leadership. Hi, Mark.
MARK: Hi, I'm shocked, shocked that politicians...
MARK: ...hide their real intentions in their campaigns. Goodness, gracious.
LUDDEN: Yes, breaking news.
MARK: My question - I'm changing the question than the one I had originally, because of what Andrea just said. You know, your coverage has been impressive, Andrea. Congratulations.
SEABROOK: Thank you, sir.
MARK: If Washington is that broken, who broke it and who can put it back together again?
SEABROOK: Well, we broke it.
LUDDEN: Thanks, Mark.
SEABROOK: We broke it.
LUDDEN: We, the people?
SEABROOK: We, the people, broke it.
MARK: Really?
SEABROOK: Yes. I do think so, Mark. I know that's surprising, but I think - really, there are many, many problems that have come together to create what we have right now, which I say - and this is not NPR saying it. This is Andrea Seabrook going off to a new thing. I say Washington is broken. Washington is dysfunctional, and I will start with that point from - with DecodeDC.
But the - there are many reasons, and one of them is that people, Americans, real people, you have bought this line that we are on two teams in this country. There is a red team, and there is a blue team. If you ask a few other people, there's a green team and there's a Ron Paul team and whatever. You can make a million variations. But generally, there's a red team and a blue team.
And people truly believe that because they're on the red team, their blue team neighbor is fundamentally different than they are. Their brains work differently, and they don't trust them. When we've gotten to the point where your partisan stripe comes before your American citizenship, our shared culture, our shared values in this country, then we have a real problem at the nation - national, federal level. We vote for people who are going in there to fight red or blue instead of put that stuff down at the end of the election cycle and work on real problems that need to be solved.
LUDDEN: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. Roger is in Norfolk, Virginia. Hi, Roger.
ROGER: Hey. How are you doing?
LUDDEN: Good.
ROGER: Good. Andrea, first of all, thanks for your service to all of us listeners in Washington for the past decade.
SEABROOK: Thank you.
ROGER: A lot of people have been focusing on the dysfunction coming out of Congress, but I'm wondering who have been the most remarkable representatives and senators that you've seen, from your point of view, during your time covering that body?
SEABROOK: Well, the - I need to separate those two because there...
SEABROOK: ...there are many, many remarkable lawmakers, many of whom are partly responsible for the dysfunction. You know, I think Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader and whip before that, who was later indicted by a grand jury in Texas and left Congress in - somewhat in disgrace. I think he was a remarkable man. And I'll tell you, that in covering Tom DeLay, I never had to question if what he was saying was spin. He said what he meant. You asked him if he was going to continue the assault riffle ban, and he said, nope. And you said, well, why? Most Americans support a ban on people owning assault rifles. And he says: because I don't.
SEABROOK: You know, I mean, it's just, you know, there was just no varnish on any of that, and I really appreciate that. On the same - by the same token, covering Nancy Pelosi and her rise from the Democratic leadership into being the first woman speaker of the House, she is an extraordinary woman. One story that she told me is when she was a teenager in high school, she was in a debate class and picked a debate topic out of a fishbowl - or her debate partner did. And the debate topic was: Do women think?
LUDDEN: Oh, dear.
SEABROOK: So she went in her career from do women think, to the first speaker of the House.
ROGER: Wow.
SEABROOK: I find that extraordinary. There are endless extraordinary stories, and I will continue to cover them, though, in a different way. You can get me in a podcast.
LUDDEN: All right, Roger. Thanks for the call.
ROGER: Thank you.
LUDDEN: Let's squeeze in just a couple more, here. We're kind of close to our time. Steve in Toledo - hi, there.
STEVE: Yes. My question is, as a history instructor, you go back to the Compromise of 1850. Those gentlemen stayed in Washington all the time. They dined together. They'd visit each other. They got things done. These guys are, you know, flying in and out. They don't spend a lot of time in Washington. Wouldn't it made more sense if they spend more time in Washington to get to know their opposition?
LUDDEN: Good question. Thank you, Steve.
SEABROOK: Yeah, it is a great question, Steve, and it's one that I find myself mulling over, especially when we have these weeks of, quote/unquote, "work" that go from Tuesday to Thursday in the U.S. Capital. I sometimes wonder - you know, the Congress didn't used to be a year-round thing. In many states, it's just three months of the year. And I wonder sometimes if they shouldn't have, you know, three-month work periods and then some time off or - I don't know. There would be ways, I think, to fix some of the problems by getting them to be nicer to each other.
LUDDEN: All right. We have one, last question, here. Beth in Cincinnati.
BETH: Hi, Andrea. It's your dear sister-in-law.
SEABROOK: Oh, hi, Beth.
BETH: I'm so glad I caught the show, and we are all wishing you the best of luck, but are very sad to not be able to hear you anymore on NPR. As you know, we listen to it all the time, and your nephews' cheer, Aunt Andrea, Aunt Andrea, every time you're on.
SEABROOK: Alex, David, Sammy, hello.
BETH: So, anyway, best of luck, and we'll be excited to see what's next.
SEABROOK: Thank you.
BETH: But we'll miss hearing you.
LUDDEN: Thank you for your call. And, you know, we will all miss you, too, Andrea.
SEABROOK: Thank you very much. The podcast will be called DecodeDC at DecodeDC.com. The first episode will be out at the beginning of August.
LUDDEN: We will look out for it. Andrea Seabrook, NPR's congressional correspondent extraordinaire.
Tomorrow, we'll talk about the job crisis up in the - crisping up the Corn Belt. It affects much more than the farmers. Listen in for that. This is TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. I'm Jennifer Ludden, in Washington.
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I found a nice obituary for Emily Meigs Biddle (Mrs. J. Williams Biddle) in the Springfield Republican, dated 23 Nov 1905. I always like finding obituaries. I use them quite a bit in my research and particularly like seeing what clues to other relatives are noted. Emily M. Biddle's obituary finishes by listing her children:
"She is survived by a son, Dr. Thomas Biddle, two daughters, Mrs. Richard Caldwalter and Miss Emily Biddle of Philadelphia." [1]
The interesting thing here (aside from the misspelling of "Cadwalader") is that her oldest daughter, Christine, Mrs. Richard Cadwalader, died 23 Mar 1900 and did not, in fact, survive her.
|Death date on Christine Biddle Cadwalader's death certificate [2]
|Death date on Emily Meigs Biddle's death certificate [3]
|Informant on death certificate of Emily Meigs Biddle [3]
So if I assume the informant on Emily Meigs Biddle's death certificate is her son, that certainly doesn't imply he would have had anything do with her obituary. But I find it odd that such an error would be made given that Christine pre-deceased her mother by a full 5 years.
If nothing else, this reminds me to be careful about information gleaned from obituaries and what clues I take away.
[1] "Death of Philadelphia Summer Resident," Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 23 Nov 1905, p. 10, col. 3; digital images, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 27 April 2013).
[2] "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," index and image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKSN-82L : accessed 27 Apr 2013), Christine B. Cadwalader, 1900.
[3] "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWNR-9YL : accessed 27 Apr 2013), Emily M. Biddle, 1905.
[3] "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWNR-9YL : accessed 27 Apr 2013), Emily M. Biddle, 1905.


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Designs on Denver
The work of dozens of Denver artists and designers is for sale in one crafty little boutique this week.
As part of Create Denver Week, jewelry and clothing, notebooks and handbags are on display at the Pop-Up Market, 1600 Glenarm Place, No. 110, through Saturday.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., but if you stop by Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. you might also get tasty treats provided by the Denver Cupcake Truck, live music by DJ White Girl Lust and have your picture takent with the Denver Blue Bear.
And of course, you can also shop.
On our initial foray to the Pop-Up market, we spied bracelets and earrings from Tivi made of metal and exotic woods, acrylic jewelry from Sandra Fettingus, and funky totes and laptop bags from RedCamper.
There are 27 lines in all represented, according to Samuel Schimek, whose background in art creation, promotion and retailing put him in a good position to craft the store's merchandise mix.
We also liked the men's jeans, shirts, T-shirts and hoodies from DVLP, and Jil Cappuccio's printed coats made from 1970s-era fabric.
Prices range from $1 for one of Becky's Buttons to $3,000 for an oil painting by Lisa Kowalski. A wide range of affordable items in between include handmade greeting cards, notebooks, album cover art and posters. Many items are made from recycled or vintage materials.
By nature, pop-up stores are short-lived, but it's a shame that something like this isn't a fixture on the 16th Street Mall, a place to showcase the city's creative talents to loccals and visitors alike.


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