Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s January 28, 2009 NY Times story about President Obama’s White House style is welcome news. There is now at least an appearance of substance over form in the Oval Office: If there is one thing Mr. Obama has not gotten around to changing, it is the Oval Office décor. When Mr. Bush [...]
Archive for January, 2009
“I’m not really a plates kind of guy.”
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, Obama!, tagged East Wing, Executive Mansion, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, history, Obama!, Red Cross, sheep, teddy roosevelt, West Wing, White House, Woodrow Wilson on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Locked In The Wood Shed.
Posted in journalism/news media, Politics Straight Up, tagged democrats, politics, republicans, Washington DC on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I do not know what it is going to take for the mainstream to stop applauding and defending Republicans and their policies. If I had not seen it happen, I would not know that there had been a presidential election in which the voters of this country repudiated — beyond any shadow of a doubt [...]
Gah.
Posted in Bush, Historical Information, tagged bush, bush administration, cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Mark McKinnon, Rumsfeld on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vanity Fair has up “An Oral History of the Bush White House.” It’s painful and difficult to read. The trash-talking is kind of humorous, but I am left with a residue of deep irritation. Bush & Co. treated the American people like the schmucks they obviously were and drove the country into one ditch after [...]
Our Gracie watches herself watching Mr. Mittens on Youtube.
Posted in Animals, Videos, tagged cats, video on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Look at me and tell me if I don’t have Brazil in every curve of my body.”
Posted in Comic Relief, music, Videos, tagged 1943, busby berkeley, carmen miranda, dance, Hollywood, music, video on January 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat,” sung by Carmen Miranda, accompanied by Busby Berkeley‘s spectacular dancing girls, from the 1943 film The Gang’s All Here. Busby Berkeley is at it again. Welcome to Banana Island. Only beautiful women with big bananas and little organ grinders with monkeys live here. Carmen Miranda is the queen and [...]
Frank Zappa.
Posted in music, shopping, Videos, tagged classical music, frank zappa, interview, music, video on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a video of one of the last interviews Frank Zappa did before he died in 1993 from prostate cancer. The interviewers are Jamie Gangel and Katie Couric. If we cut cut those two out … Zappa might not have cared whether he’s remembered but he truly was one of the 20th century’s best [...]
Saturday Jumble.
Posted in Historical Information, Obama!, tagged inaugural speech, Obama!, wordle on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Mudflats, AKmuckraker did a Wordle of La Palin’s State of the State address, so I thought I would do one of President Obama’s Inaugural Address. What jumped out at me was “America Every New Nation Today Must Work Less.” Now, I thought the point of the Wordle exercise was to get a general [...]
Our Gracie watching Mr. Mittens on Youtube.
Posted in Animals, Videos, tagged cat watching cat on youtube, cats, video on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
