Yeah, I didn’t know either, but he totally is. He wants us to have a king so we can have royal weddings and look at pictures of chicks in big hats and guys in gray vests. Hey, Matilda! Move to Monaco! Now!
Author: Alan Vanneman
New at Bright Lights: Monsieur Verdoux
My take on Charlie Chaplin’s “controversial” and not very good film about a foppish wife murderer is up at the 70th issue of the Bright Lights Film Journal here. The full issue, NSFW as always, is here.
“Fly”—Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, & Jeff Ballard
Sax, bass, and drums, respectively. Posted by “hibla.com,” who I guess is a cat named Joseph O’Kelly, currently a resident of London UK.
Megan McArdle can’t read. And she’s stupid.
A dude named Eric McGhee who runs a blog called “The Monkey Cage” is running a piece called “Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats?” McGhee analyses the impact of votes on four “controversial” bills—health care reform, the economic stimulus, cap and trade, and TARP*—on the fortunes of congressional Democrats in the recent election….
The Errors of Obama: One long and two shorts
When I survey the past two years, when I think of the ridiculous “we’ll get it right once we’ve killed enough people” war in Afghanistan, when I think of the long-distance murders via “killer drones,” of the continuing practice of denying the most basic human rights to our political prisoners lest they do anything that…
Monk in Japan, 1963—“Evidence”
With Charlie Rouse, sax, Butch Warren, bass, and Frank Dunlap, drums.
John Fedchock New York Big Band plays “Ruby, My Dear”
John Fedchock New York Big Band at the New Trier Jazz Festival, New Trier High School – Winnetka, Illinois, February 2, 2002 John Fedchock, leader saxes: Mark Vinci, Charles Pillow, Rich Perry, Rick Margitza, Scott Robinson trumpets: Jon Owens, Frank Greene, Scott Wendholt, Barry Ries trombones: John Fedchock, Keith O’Quinn, Clark Gayton, George Flynn piano:…
Red Mitchell & Bill Mays play “Klactoveesedstene”
This seems to be the only YouTube recording of Charlie Parker’s classic bop tune, and Red and Bill do a damn good job with it.
Dave Weigel, perchance too hip for the room, but still should not set himself on fire
Dave Weigel, recently bounced from the Wash Post for talking trash about conservatives, more recently covered a Richmond, Va. Tea Party convention and described one of the attendees, long-shot congressional candidate Floyd Bayne, thusly: Bayne is bald, goateed, and built like the bouncer at a club with a $10 cover. I give up, Dave. What…
Greg Mankiw is a big fat idiot
OK, Greg is, as I understand it, fairly svelte, and a distinguished Harvard professor to boot, but when you write a blog you go for the jugular. My sometime sparring partner/punching bag Brad DeLong, who really could stand to lose a few pounds, here knocks the stuffing out of Greg’s continuing whine that if those…