Opening instrumentation. Hammond organ, clarinet, saw, standing bass.
Mister Anthony
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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More from "Million Dollar Legs"
Minister: I've brought you an ultimatum.
President of Klopstokia (WC Fields): I don't want any. I'm full. I've just had goat stuffed with eels.
President of Klopstokia (WC Fields): I don't want any. I'm full. I've just had goat stuffed with eels.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Million Dollar Legs
President of Klopstokia (WC Fields): Take this message to my Privy Counselor.
Major Domo: Right away. Where is he?
President: Now where would a Privy Counselor be?
Major Domo: Right away. Where is he?
President: Now where would a Privy Counselor be?
Monday, January 3, 2011
Life in the Senate
"The procedural exchanges grew so dense that at one point we were voting on the following: a motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring to a vote the motion to call up the resolution."
from "The Good Fight" by Walter F. Mondale, with David Hage.
from "The Good Fight" by Walter F. Mondale, with David Hage.
Favorite Book
The candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee are a literate bunch. And when asked to name their favorite book, their answers were revealing, to say the least.
Maria Cino's favorite is the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Reince Priebus named The Reagan Diaries as his first choice. And current RNC Chairman Michael Steele's favorite is War and Peace.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Steele recited -- which is actually a line from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
But the real highlight of the exchange came when Ann Wagner responded to the question, saying, "Probably my kitchen table." What was she referring to exactly? Her favorite bar, apparently, which she thought she was being asked. Her favorite book, though, is George W. Bush's new memoir, Decision Points.
from Talking Points Memo: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/ann-wagner-names-favorite-bar-not-book-at-rnc-chair-debate.php
Maria Cino's favorite is the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Reince Priebus named The Reagan Diaries as his first choice. And current RNC Chairman Michael Steele's favorite is War and Peace.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Steele recited -- which is actually a line from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
But the real highlight of the exchange came when Ann Wagner responded to the question, saying, "Probably my kitchen table." What was she referring to exactly? Her favorite bar, apparently, which she thought she was being asked. Her favorite book, though, is George W. Bush's new memoir, Decision Points.
from Talking Points Memo: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/ann-wagner-names-favorite-bar-not-book-at-rnc-chair-debate.php
Friday, December 31, 2010
2010 Jambalaya Winners
The most interesting books I read for the first time in 2010 (in order of reading) (and always subject to change):
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
Honorable Mention
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
After Claude -- Iris Owens
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
Honorable Mention
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
After Claude -- Iris Owens
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
2010 Reading List
in reverse order of reading:
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
After Claude -- Iris Owens
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter -- Antonia Fraser
Indian Country Noir -- Sarah Cortez (ed.) & Liz Martinez (ed.)
The Big Boom -- Dominic Stansberry
Hint Fiction -- Robert Swartwood (ed.)
Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers -- Alasdair Gray
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
The Blue Hammer -- Ross MacDonald
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
Djibouti -- Elmore Leonard
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
The Finkler Question -- Howard Jacobson
My Driver -- Maggie Gee
Packing For Mars -- Mary Roach
Baked -- Mark Haskell Smith
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -- Jack Weatherford
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
Halls of Fame: Essays -- John D'Agata
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- Steig Larsson
Skylark -- Dezso Kosztolanyi
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
All That Follows -- Jim Crace
The Girl Who Played With Fire -- Stieg Larsson
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Joey's Case -- K.C. Constantine
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
How To Sell -- Clancy Martin
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Executor -- Jesse Kellerman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
Reporting At Wit's End -- St. Clair McKelway
The Ask -- Sam Lipsyte
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Life Itself -- Elaine Dundy
The Chalk Circle Man -- Fred Vargas
The Southpaw -- Mark Harris
Dark Star Safari -- Paul Theroux
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Water's Edge -- Karin Fossum
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Risk -- Colin Harrison
The Hot Rock -- Donald E. Westlake
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Ticking Is The Bomb -- Nick Flynn
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary -- M.R. James
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' -- David Bianculli
The Three of Us: A Family Story -- Julia Blackburn
The Original of Laura -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much -- Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
After Claude -- Iris Owens
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter -- Antonia Fraser
Indian Country Noir -- Sarah Cortez (ed.) & Liz Martinez (ed.)
The Big Boom -- Dominic Stansberry
Hint Fiction -- Robert Swartwood (ed.)
Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers -- Alasdair Gray
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
The Blue Hammer -- Ross MacDonald
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
Djibouti -- Elmore Leonard
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
The Finkler Question -- Howard Jacobson
My Driver -- Maggie Gee
Packing For Mars -- Mary Roach
Baked -- Mark Haskell Smith
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -- Jack Weatherford
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
Halls of Fame: Essays -- John D'Agata
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- Steig Larsson
Skylark -- Dezso Kosztolanyi
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
All That Follows -- Jim Crace
The Girl Who Played With Fire -- Stieg Larsson
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Joey's Case -- K.C. Constantine
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
How To Sell -- Clancy Martin
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Executor -- Jesse Kellerman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
Reporting At Wit's End -- St. Clair McKelway
The Ask -- Sam Lipsyte
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Life Itself -- Elaine Dundy
The Chalk Circle Man -- Fred Vargas
The Southpaw -- Mark Harris
Dark Star Safari -- Paul Theroux
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Water's Edge -- Karin Fossum
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Risk -- Colin Harrison
The Hot Rock -- Donald E. Westlake
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Ticking Is The Bomb -- Nick Flynn
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary -- M.R. James
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' -- David Bianculli
The Three of Us: A Family Story -- Julia Blackburn
The Original of Laura -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much -- Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
After Claude -- Iris Owens
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter -- Antonia Fraser
Indian Country Noir -- Sarah Cortez (ed.) & Liz Martinez (ed.)
The Big Boom -- Dominic Stansberry
Hint Fiction -- Robert Swartwood (ed.)
Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers -- Alasdair Gray
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
The Blue Hammer -- Ross MacDonald
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
Djibouti -- Elmore Leonard
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
The Finkler Question -- Howard Jacobson
My Driver -- Maggie Gee
Packing For Mars -- Mary Roach
Baked -- Mark Haskell Smith
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -- Jack Weatherford
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
Halls of Fame: Essays -- John D'Agata
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- Steig Larsson
Skylark -- Dezso Kosztolanyi
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
All That Follows -- Jim Crace
The Girl Who Played With Fire -- Stieg Larsson
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Joey's Case -- K.C. Constantine
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
How To Sell -- Clancy Martin
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Executor -- Jesse Kellerman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
Reporting At Wit's End -- St. Clair McKelway
The Ask -- Sam Lipsyte
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Life Itself -- Elaine Dundy
The Chalk Circle Man -- Fred Vargas
The Southpaw -- Mark Harris
Dark Star Safari -- Paul Theroux
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Water's Edge -- Karin Fossum
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Risk -- Colin Harrison
The Hot Rock -- Donald E. Westlake
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Ticking Is The Bomb -- Nick Flynn
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary -- M.R. James
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' -- David Bianculli
The Three of Us: A Family Story -- Julia Blackburn
The Original of Laura -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much -- Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
After Claude -- Iris Owens
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter -- Antonia Fraser
Indian Country Noir -- Sarah Cortez (ed.) & Liz Martinez (ed.)
The Big Boom -- Dominic Stansberry
Hint Fiction -- Robert Swartwood (ed.)
Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers -- Alasdair Gray
How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
The Blue Hammer -- Ross MacDonald
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell
Djibouti -- Elmore Leonard
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson
The Finkler Question -- Howard Jacobson
My Driver -- Maggie Gee
Packing For Mars -- Mary Roach
Baked -- Mark Haskell Smith
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -- Jack Weatherford
A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
Halls of Fame: Essays -- John D'Agata
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- Steig Larsson
Skylark -- Dezso Kosztolanyi
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer
All That Follows -- Jim Crace
The Girl Who Played With Fire -- Stieg Larsson
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman
Joey's Case -- K.C. Constantine
The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes
How To Sell -- Clancy Martin
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Executor -- Jesse Kellerman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
Reporting At Wit's End -- St. Clair McKelway
The Ask -- Sam Lipsyte
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
Life Itself -- Elaine Dundy
The Chalk Circle Man -- Fred Vargas
The Southpaw -- Mark Harris
Dark Star Safari -- Paul Theroux
The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner
The Water's Edge -- Karin Fossum
The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Risk -- Colin Harrison
The Hot Rock -- Donald E. Westlake
I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett
The Ticking Is The Bomb -- Nick Flynn
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary -- M.R. James
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' -- David Bianculli
The Three of Us: A Family Story -- Julia Blackburn
The Original of Laura -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much -- Allison Hoover Bartlett
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Inspired Insult
"If looks could kill," I told him in between chews, "you'd soon find out that yours couldn't."
-- "After Claude" by Iris Owens
-- "After Claude" by Iris Owens
Monday, December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Badly Drawn Boy at the Troubadour
Badly Drawn Boy had a difficult last show of the tour at the Troubadour in LA on Thursday Dec. 16. He was extremely unhappy about the sound. He was extremely unhappy when voices from the crowd offered encouragement telling him it sounded good from the audience. ("Yeah but I'm up here.") He was unhappy when audience members strated heckling him about his behavior. ("Fuck you" "Stupid LA twats" "Cunts"). When an audience member said it was ok that it was late. ( "You are talking nonsense".)
"At least I'm being honest. You could at least applaud me for that."
"It's like being in a roomful of fucking lions or something.
No one should have to go through what I'm going through up here."
"Nobody cares as much as me about this."
"Just don't react to anything I say up here."
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/badly_drawn_boy_at_the_troubad.php
It was a marvelous Ricky Gervais / Russell Brand performance. (And he made it through to the end, and was convincingly contrite about it all.)
"At least I'm being honest. You could at least applaud me for that."
"It's like being in a roomful of fucking lions or something.
No one should have to go through what I'm going through up here."
"Nobody cares as much as me about this."
"Just don't react to anything I say up here."
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/badly_drawn_boy_at_the_troubad.php
It was a marvelous Ricky Gervais / Russell Brand performance. (And he made it through to the end, and was convincingly contrite about it all.)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Corrections of the Year, etc.
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2010/12/08/crunks-2010-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections/
A sample, perhaps familiar:
"This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men."
A sample, perhaps familiar:
"This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men."
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