The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Rome - West Knows Best

    By Orion on Tue, 11/09/2021 - 6:19am |

    We used to love America.

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    Billy Idol - On Christmas Day

    By Orion on Fri, 11/05/2021 - 12:30am |

    Billy is bringing music back. 

     

     

     

     

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    PHILIP OF MACEDON & DIVIDED, DECLINING SOCIETIES

    By Orion on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 3:09am |

    I was reading about Ancient Greece and wondered aloud if a figure like Philip of Macedon would appear at some point and unite an America that is divided in about every conceivable way there is to be divided. That or a figure like Napoleon Bonaparte: 

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    Tony Stark's Workshop | Iron Man Music (One Hour)

    By Orion on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:21am |

    I really enjoyed this. Apologies in advance - you have to watch it on YouTube yourself.

    Brilliant parody is back on SNL

    By artappraiser on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 2:05am |

    One of my personal favorites is the look on Mellen's face when Kyrie is vaccinated

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    Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point (Official Music Video)

    By Orion on Thu, 10/07/2021 - 8:45am |

    First Billy Idol, then Limp Bizkit, now Tears for Fears! Finally, music is back. Living without it this past decade wasn't fun ....

     

     

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    Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change

    By Orion on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 4:00am |

    "Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change"

    I enjoyed this interview.

     

    Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

    By artappraiser on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:02pm |

    Good exchange of letters in the NYRB in which Sean Wilentz briefly summarizes the most compelling reasons not to regard the United States as founded on white supremacy https://t.co/zz7PRGMgvX pic.twitter.com/HxRwRp1GJV

    — Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 2, 2021
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    Flora Midwood - The Bandits

    By Orion on Thu, 09/30/2021 - 4:58am |

    When I blogged here frequently years ago, I posted about how mental health blogger Jennifer Lauren Reimer passed away. Well, anyways, one of her friends wrote and performed a folk song about her that got some circulation.

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    Billy Idol - Bitter Taste

    By Orion on Thu, 09/30/2021 - 2:54am |

    Well, this sure took me by surprise. I can imagine Marty McFly traveling 30 plus years in the future and everyone is wearing masks, riding electric bikes and listening to this song ...

     

     

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    Simone Biles

    By artappraiser on Wed, 09/29/2021 - 5:13pm |

    Ed Asner & the Secular Rabbi

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/31/2021 - 11:54pm |

    How the character full of good stern advice came to TV

    https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/ed-asner-secular-rabbi/

    Third World Magic - Captivation & Exorcism

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/29/2021 - 7:15am |

    Whether we use the term "shithole countries" or not, it's often there in how we discuss these people seen or not seen - their options, their plight, the shrunken terms in which we think of their possibilities. Not that most of us have expansive lives - pretty mundane, limited existences however we try.

    Me too, I want some of Bob Dylan's estate

    By artappraiser on Tue, 08/17/2021 - 11:03am |

    Southern Civil War hero (kind of)

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 6:52pm |

    longer thread

    Bob Odenkirk *not* dead

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 1:11am |

    Catherine of Aragon, Riot Grrrl

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 10:33am |

    More badass than suspected the daughter of the Reconquista held her own against the Scots - plus 24 years with Henry the VIII made her by far the most significant of the sextet.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-catherine-aragon-led-england...

    Fuck art, let's smut

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/20/2021 - 7:52am |

    Culture shootout at les grandes archives -

    or #BeBreast as the former first lady escort would say.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/louvre-calls-in-lawyers-over-pornhubs-hard...

    When your wife say she wants a hobby...

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/18/2021 - 10:40pm |

    aka "how we survived the pandemic halfway intact"

    Yes, they have a ton of these. Visit Toyah's channel - she's a nutter.

    And thanks to YouTube and European regs i can't see "controversial" content from a 63-year-old woman without registering a credit card to "prove my age"- rave on, punkers!

    https://youtu.be/4lOqYxUN1Cg (2 videos in 1!)

    Channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qNbAuf8-7pxyzAp50IKl3SCtQtEYJKq

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    "One Hour of Vintage Summer Music"

    By Orion on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 3:53pm |

    From Jake Westbrook on YouTube:

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