December « 2009 « Throatpunch

Worried that the Iranians might soon lead the world in throwing its citizens behind bars, thus taking America’s crown, Obama declares: Let their people go!

President Obama, who campaigned with the heady pledge, “Yes, We Can!” has firmly stated “No, We Can’t” when it comes to using the executive office to correct injustice. A posthumous pardon of boxing’s first black heavyweight champion can’t be done because – as The Los Angeles Times puts it:

[Posthumous pardons] consume precious time and resources [...]

Hotlink at your own peril

A few days ago, I noticed that three images from this site were being hotlinked at other websites.

For those of you who don’t know what hotlinking is and are too lazy to click the link I provided, hotlinking is when someone uses an image from your website without bothering to save the image on their [...]

Bootlicking Texans

You’ve probably already read about the 4 year-old kid who got suspended from a Mesquite, TX school because his hair is too long.

I’m fully aware that Texas is one of the top 4 states for general asshattery (The other three being Missouri and Kansas, with Florida at a solid #1). Shit, I don’t get defensive [...]

Rock & Roll Footnotes: Indo-Rock

I was dicking around YouTube the other day, listening to Wanda Jackson’s version of “Jealous Heart” when I noticed in the “Related Videos” sidebar a 1961 version of the song by someone named Lydia. I’ve discovered a lot of cool shit on YouTube, but this is the first time I would say – as cliche [...]

What the hell is jazz, anyway?

From Reason’s Brickbats:

Spanish police responded to a call at the Siguenza Jazz Festival after someone complained that saxophonist Larry Ochs and his band weren’t jazzy enough. The fan insisted that his doctor had warned him it was “psychologically inadvisable” for him to listen to contemporary music and he said that was what Ochs was playing. [...]

Three Little Bops

If you’re like me, you learned a great deal of music appreciation from watching Warner Brothers cartoons. (Carl Stalling was a genius!). One of Warner Brothers’ best – IMO – musical cartoons was the 1957 Friz Freleng Looney Tune, Three Little Bops:

Here it is in Eye-talian:

If that’s not enough, here it is in [...]

Askimet kicks a little too much ass

I use askimet to block comment/trackback spam, and it works… a little too well. I have moderation turned off, but pretty much any time someone posts a comment for the first time, it gets flagged as spam by askimet. Once a commenter has been recognized as a non-spammer, their comments should show up immediately.

I’ve been [...]