Category Archives: Video

Today’s Music: “Cold Morning Shout”

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin

Actually, I’ve never heard of Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod before; just happened to run across them at the Fraulini Guitars site, but they cook up some nice rags-and-blues guitar pickin’ here. Enjoy!

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Rick Santorum’s ‘Gifts from God’

Posted on February 9, 2012 by admin
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Mr. Stupid Runs For Senate

Posted on February 9, 2012 by admin

In a party chock full of assorted lamebrains and knuckleheads, Republican ex-Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan stands out as someone ‘special.’  I’ve seen him speak on television:  the man is founding-fathers-were-all-Christian-zealots, liberals-caused-the-Bush-2008-crash, Sharron-Angle dumb.  Now he’s cranking out racially-tinged and … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: “Shake, Rattle and Roll”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by admin

Big Joe “Boss of the Blues” Turner was a Kansas City blues belter who started out in the 1920’s at the age of 12 playing in K.C. dives and, by the ’30’s and ’40’s, was performing with a whole host of … Continue reading →

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Bill Hicks’ Last Words, Written Feb. 7, 2012

Posted on February 7, 2012 by admin

{Republished from Fishink, August 28, 2011] Bill Hicks wasn’t a stand-up comic like Jerry Seinfeld, and he didn’t tell jokes; he used spike-in-the-eye satire to make his philosophical points, and he told the raw truth as he saw it, which … Continue reading →

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Fox Lies When Called on Its ‘Christian Values’ Hypocrisy By Obama

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin

It’s painful to laugh this hard, but when Fox News, owned by an immoral old viper like Rupert Murdoch, damns Obama for quoting Jesus while letting innumerable Republican pinheads use their screwy idea of Christianity to push peevish hatreds, inane … Continue reading →

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Today’s Quotes: Archaic Religion and Atheism

Posted on February 5, 2012 by admin

“No one in their right mind would let a first-century dentist fill their children’s teeth. Why, then, do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children’s minds?” — Michael Dowd “Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.” … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: Little Walter, “Juke” and “My Babe”

Posted on February 3, 2012 by admin

Marion Walter Jacobs, AKA ‘Little Walter’, along with Big Walter Horton and a couple of others, defined the ‘Chicago Saxophone’ sound on the harmonica way back in the 1950s. Instead of playing first position ‘country’ harp, Walter moved to second … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: Albert Collins, “I Ain’t Drunk”

Posted on January 29, 2012 by admin

The Ice Man definitely cometh here, with Albert Collins bearing down on his humbucked, minor-key-tuned Fender Telecaster with nothin’ but the blues.  I’m glad I got a chance to hear Albert live down on Lincoln Ave. in Chicago before he passed … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Posted on January 28, 2012 by admin

Here’s Kim Wilson, the guy Muddy Waters once called the ‘greatest harmonica player since Little Walter,’ tearing it up with his band The Fabulous Thunderbirds which once included Stevie Ray Vaughn’s older brother Jimmie on guitar, playing some of their … Continue reading →

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