Monday, July 11, 2011

Blues for a Summer Monday: "I May Be Getting Old, But I've Got Young Fashioned Ways"

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Muddy Waters: Young Fashioned Ways.

44 and the Debt-Ceiling Gambit: Death Struggle or Dance of the Wallflowers ?

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Who's right and who's wrong, where do we go from here?  The Financial Times reviews the circumstances of the current Dance of the Wa...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Apres Storm Tune: Comes a Time by Neil Young

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Thursday Afternoon - It's Raining in Here - Brooklyn Heights

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Issued by The National Weather Service New York City, NY Thu, Jul 7, 2011, 4:15 PM EDT Local Radar Map Updated Jul 7, 2011, 4:10pm...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Summer 2011 Thus Far -- What's Going On

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HBO’s Game of Thrones The Addams Family with Roger Rhees, Brooke Shields and Brad Oscar Beach Bar in Atlantic City on a Wednesday Aftern...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

CODA: MUST READ: NY TIMES on the Political (and Personal) Strategies That Led to Marriage Equality in the Empire State

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Today, a must read front page article by Michael Barbaro that goes behind the scenes to track the efforts, under the leadership of Governor ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

CODA: Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED to Star Foxx, DiCaprio, Jackson, and Walz to Star

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Variety, via the UK Guardian, reports on casting for Quentin Tarantino's slavery-era epic, Django Unchained. Jamie Foxx will take the ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Flatbush Solstice

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 After sunrise, June 21, 2011  Anticipating the Summer Solstice Guinevere, contemplating the summer solstice photos by Tony Napoli The su...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Society of the Spectacle: Et, Tu, Zizek? But Maybe Not

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According to the New York Post , Lady Gaga and another recent fave of DITHOB, Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, are buds. Since it i...
Friday, June 17, 2011

The Interpersonal Circumplex and the Papers of Dr. Timothy Leary

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Before he became synonomous with the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s, Dr. Timothy Leary was a former West Point cadet and a trained ps...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

By the Way --Happy Bloomsday

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Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 19...

CODA:NY Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill 80-63; Legislation Moves to GOP-controlled State Senate

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NY Times reports that the GOP conference in State Senate stalled on NYS Gay Marriage Bill, although Dean Skelos, Senate Majority Leader, rep...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Passage of Marriage Equality in New York State: At the Tipping Point

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Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't walking on water, yet, but his strong mandate, coupled with his administration's exercise of remarkable ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" -- The Dark(er) Side of the Old, Weird America

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Destroy the Brain offers an exciting and very very interesting script review by Michael Haffner of Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINE...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Weinerville: Why DC Colleagues Want Anthony to Hit the Road

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Interesting article by Steve Kornacki in Salon.com on why Congressional Dems are not supporting Congressman Weiner when his misstep -- while...