Mr. Dilbert: They said they couldn’t insure my house. I got nothing. It’s hurricane season again and I’m living in a FEMA trailer with my sick wife!
The New Orleans: Labor of Love project is a grassroots public-awareness campaign that’s working to get volunteers down to New Orleans to help rebuild homes in the worst-hit areas [...]

Yelping frontman Ben Bridwell (who looks like he may be related to hip-hop-video-stars Will Oldham and Zach Galifianakis) may not have Obama’s jumper, but dude’s got some kinda game at least! His Band of Horses has also got a new cd in the can and yay for them for putting this new song up to [...]

 

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Remember the Bush-Gore debate back in 1999 or so, where Bush decried “foreign entanglements” and liberal-minded “state-building enterprises,” saying they would bloat the federal budget and divert funds from Amuhrica? It’s gotta be on YouTube somewheres.
The facts of the Bush presidency have demonstrated there was no conviction in any of that blah blah. Today’s [...]

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Ulrich Schnauss: checks email on stage. Max Roach: best drummer ever.

P+P swung by Falcon on Sunset Friday night to check out the scene at the L.A. launch of Generation O— the Obama camp’s effort to rally twenty-something support. See what we found, including a few minutes with L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, after the jump.

I love metal. Metal is one of very few music genres that demands an equally rabid devotion from both its purveyors and its fans. Metal has evolved over the years, but the power and intensity that it is founded on has always remained unchanged. It will forever be the refuge of the misfit and the [...]

 

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Most delicious soundbite: “Public service is noble and honorable.” Um, yes, sometimes. Other times, not so much. Goodbye Gonzo.

The New York Times Sunday ran a piece by Pam Belluck reporting that some countries have lowered the voting age to sixteen and asking whether such a move would be a good idea here in the US, as some legislators have proposed. The writer’s approach to the story was essentially to find a few fat [...]

Giuliani wants to privatize healthcare, “that’s how you drive prices down,” he says, likening access to medical technology to access to the iPhone (“that new iPod that can do everything.”) He’s convincing in part because he believes what he’s saying and because he can talk a stream of sentences our current president would have trouble [...]

In my new neighborhood today, someone in an old Ford threw something wrapped in blue plastic onto my porch at like 4:30 in the morning. Terrorist? Turns out it was a rolled-up paper item with words and images somehow pasted all over it. Gotta be the most elaborate welcome-to-the-neighborhood prank ever.
How is the CBS “Kid [...]

Fox’s unwitting reality TV show on the soft-core bleach-blond death of television journalism.

Thanks to Salon’s ace Video Dog team for posting this from Scott Bateman. These are Cheney’s thoughts in 1994 on the wisdom of invading Iraq in order to oust Saddam Hussein back in the Desert Storm days, in 1990, when Cheney was working for the first President Bush. The reasoned nature of the comments, the [...]

CNN’s chief international correspondent and all-around news celebrity Christiane Amanpour delivers a three-part report on politicized religious fundamentalism beginning tonight. No doubt the series will be entertaining and informative, but probably mostly for what it says about Amanpour and the timidity and provincialism of CNN. The ads, of course, look a heap of Hollywood cliche, [...]

Would attacking Pakistan make up for the fact that his name sounds a lot like those of America’s two top terrorist bogeymen?

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R.I.P. Tony Wilson, a mad music pioneer connected somehow to all the music you love.