The events of Sunday July 21st 2024 into Monday the 22nd then all the days that followed reminded me and most of us politicos of the political ‘birth’ of Barack Obama in early 2008. Whether you experienced that on January 3rd when he won the Iowa caucus, or on the February 3rd Super Bowl weekend […]
The New Kamalot
July 31st, 2024 · 4 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
Tags: Barack Obama·Beyonce·Ella Fitzgerald·Joe Biden·Kamala Harris·Louis Armstrong·Modern Family·Taylor Swift·will.i.am
Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review
June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built. It sounded too wild to be true! And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]
Tags: Acid Tests·Bob Weir·Dead & Company·Duke Ellington·George Lucas·Grand Canyon·Grateful Dead·Jay Lane·Jeff Chimenti·John Mayer·Las Vegas·Millennium Falcon·Oteil Burbridge·Sphere & Loathing in Las Vegas·Taylor Swift·The Sphere
Why I Love Joe Biden
December 31st, 2023 · 35 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
First of all, he’s an Irish leprechaun, and I’m very pro Irish leprechaun. Second — he’s also an empath . . . as opposed to a sociopath. As he likes to say in his Irish way — “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” He’s smart, hard working, Gets Things […]
Tags: Amanda Gorman·Barack Obama·Chuck Schumer·Hakeem Jeffries·Joe Biden·Nancy Pelosi·Stuart Stevens·Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, the Grateful Dead and The Beat Generation
November 30th, 2023 · 28 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Music
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]
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