“What The President Said,” a new protest song by David Poe and Sister C, features voices from the Women’s March and the LAX protest. The song challenges a president who many believe is imperiling American ideals with outrageous falsehoods, divisiveness, brinkmanship and incompetence, aiming to pander to base voters before midterm elections this November and …
Though the Reverend Billy Graham passed away Wednesday morning at 99 years of age, his failing health had taken him from public view for the last few years, and it was almost more of a surprise that he had remained a resident of our earthly realm up until then. For those younger than a certain …
Last week, Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air interviewed Finn Murphy, whose memoir, The Long Haul, was published last year. The interview was so entertaining that I immediately downloaded the book, and I was not disappointed. From its title and cover, one might think that the book would be a celebration of the open road …
In these four high-profile cases, adults covered up sexual crimes. The Catholic Church moved priests. The Boy Scouts kept their Perversion Papers secret. Penn State preferred profits over boys. As the gymnastics’ story has already unfolded at Molestation State University against female gymnasts, there will be an expansion to female co-eds, making the travesty more …
I am playing on Roots FM and getting interviewed… Things you learn live on the air. Selecta (Ras Isachar) introduces me to Kingston as a friend of Jamaica and the left handed guitar player then plays “No Woman No Cry.” Is this the real life? This just happened: I just played 3 songs live on …
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Without really intending to, we seem to have low-key ‘done’ Sundance this last week, mainly via the ewaitlist, which is cool fun. Of the headline grabbing films, we saw The Tale, (with Laura Dern, Jason Ritter and an eleven year old Isabelle Nélisse) which has amazing parallel times and lines storytelling. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4015500/ I can’t tell …
Lady Bird, the coming-of-age movie set in Sacramento, CA, has a stubborn disinclination to satisfy normal expectations. Whenever you expect the story to follow a certain path, it goes somewhere else, and whenever you think you know its characters, they always find a way to surprise you. This lack of cliche, along with the movie’s …
In the wake of the latest school shooting in Kentucky, a Wild West shoot out between student and teachers is not far away. No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, we are all living in that kind of America. Theories that having more guns will keep us safe are going to …
The Democrats are rolling out their latest weapon after the State of the Union address. Here comes Joe Kennedy Jr. part 3. He is actually the grandson of Bobby. Here are some stats. He might be worth 55 million thanks to inheritance bankrolled by his name sake, he is technically an (unoppressed) minority because he …
To be honest, I do not think social media is good for humankind. The internet had a chance to inform us, but this world has us in a tiny box where we fight like giant fire ants. This is mass manipulation and coercion on the grandest scale. …and for What? For What? To sell more …
Fans of the movie AIRPLANE, I had NO idea that it was taken from this obscure film ZERO HOUR. This is interesting if you are a fan. It IS the same movie, just not (intentionally) funny. Even has the “Looks like I picked the wrong week” line in it. It’s shot for shot in some …
If you’ve never seen it, you should. It’s on YouTube in a pristine print. “How Green Was My Valley” the 1941 Academy Award winner (Best Picture, Best Director JOHN FORD, Best Supporting actor DONALD CRISP, best cinematography ARTHUR MILLER, best art direction NATHAN H. JURAN, etc.). It’s an amazing oldie. They showed it to us …
Well my Jamaica tour got more exciting. It’s going to be a story. I am rolling with some good dudes when I sing in Trenchtown, and the crew I am shooting the ‘Free Your Mind’ video with are the legends. But why does it have to pop off right now? Jamaica is always going to …
The second annual women’s march began almost in disaster for me. I inadvertently left my camera bag with camera, lens and several memory cards at the ticket kiosk at Seattle’s light rail station, but didn’t realize I’d done so until I’d reached the boarding level and was ready to hop on the train. I rushed …
If Amazon was really on our side why would they be investing the 100 billion dollar might into taking away jobs from hard working American mothers that actually have some dignity and a still almost decent pay check as cashiers. We see the End Game. Putting women out of work, whether single, married, separated, or …
The news for American Football just keeps getting worse. The latest study points to repeated hits to the head, not concussions, and not even ‘stingers’ and ‘seeing stars’, as the main cause of CTE. At first this was all just a wake up call for football players to realize that something they might experience multiple …
After the Portland Trailblazers’ win over the Indiana Pacers last Thursday night, comedian Cedric the Entertainer got up from his courtside seat afterward and took Coach Terry Stotts’ place at the podium for the postgame press conference: Thanks to the graciousness of the Trailblazers, I’ve been in that briefing room a couple of times. Usually, …
Well Tom Petty died of an opioid overdose, just like Prince and Michael Jackson. I know they were all in pain from the wear and tear of touring. These are my Idols too, I am not diminishing them. I am stating the obvious and undeniable fact that this country, from top to bottom is taking …
As always, I sleep in on a Saturday morning ’til about 11:30, take a quick shower, then walk up Roy St. from my apartment on Summit Ave. for a leisurely lunch with Tim Cook at Siam on Broadway. Once the customary ten-star Thai cuisine has been consumed, we briefly duck into Orpheum Records to hassle …
Swedish death purge dilemma ~ More karate fighter bases than karate fighter guys. Hate to throw the excess bases away, but what to do with them? The fighter guys were broken in battle while the base endured. (It is an arm work out.) Posted by Jill Kuhel on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 – Jill Kuhel
Did you know Belushi was an All State linebacker in Illinois? That partly explains why he was a ‘fat man’ doing back flips on stage at 30 like he was on the Chitlin Circuit. Legend has it that live he was one of the most electrifying frontmen of all time. Like Prince himself later accomplished …
Oh hell nah’. This 1984 sh_t is so depressing. Does law enforcement have to battle robots? Why do they need these robots peering in our windows and hounding us like bleated foxes their masters will precautiously choke to shreds? https://www.goskagit.com/news/skagit-county-sheriff-s-office-deploys-new-aerial-unit/article_d33ad8dd-8025-54e1-92bc-7565917337e4.html Crime has been dropping since 1994. I would rather be less safe. But that’s the …
One of the great tests of Bit Coin and America itself is whether all of the people that voted for Bernie Sanders will voluntarily pay their fair share of taxes on the wealth they draw from cryptocurrencies. Just because you can launder the money doesn’t mean you should. Bernie is watching you. It’s easy to …
New James Bond plot: The founder of Bit Coin Satoshi Nakamoto, was an American that passed away leaving his massive stake in the crypto-coinage dormant and unreachable. But a hard drive is found in a garbage dump in Nigeria where an enterprising teenager realizes what he has on his hands. He accesses Satoshi’s stake and …
BITCOIN CRASH: I was just telling someone yesterday, that if I had anything that gained 5 times it’s value I would sell half of it, and see what happens with the rest. Start with 5, you have 25, sell half you 7.5 more than had when you started and 12.5 in your pocket. But then …
Tonight as I hibernate like a honey bear, and tidy up The Staxx Brothers Global Headquarters, I am living up to this vow. I vow to listen to every one of the 10 $1 Christmas records I got for Megan’s mom Laurie Leer last year. I chose these ten wisely, but I also had a …
Is Steve Pool if KOMO the greatest Weatherman of all time? His career numbers are staggering. And who can forget when he hooked up with Bruno Mars on his show Front Runners back in 1992? Dude has been doing Weather so long in Seattle he was predicting weather on D Day. This is a selfie …
Well WTF? Who has heard about the lost invention, Starlite? It’s one of those stories that seems like the plot for a science fiction film and a comedy, but it’s actually kind of a tragedy. You feel like this a hoax…but tell me this isn’t too strange to be fiction: An eccentric (yet marvelously talented) …
Books are powerful, but it’s really how you use them that counts. I am no Warmonger but I love the message of Art of War, because its great theme is that best move on the battlefield is to never have to go to the battle field. Now that doesn’t mean appeasing to a stronger, or …