Music – Post Tenebras Lux

Rupert Murdoch vs NYC

ByLars March 3, 2014 0 Comments

Via a conservative friend on Twitter, I see ol' Rupert Murdoch essentially laid down his media empire's marching orders for the foreseeable future, at least as far as New York City's new leadership is concerned: Now that I think about it, perhaps Sean Hannity's whine earlier in February that he was leaving New York because of all the taxes was the first shot across the bow of the new initiative...

RIP, Pete Seeger

ByLars January 28, 2014 0 Comments

(update, 1/30: Greg Mitchell has a first-person account of Pete's last night from Peter Yarrow) Today, I have no words. If you need words, do yourself a favor and let them be his, not mine or anyone else's. Here are my three favorites (last one at the bottom): I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I...

The Boss Does Not Approve

ByLars January 15, 2014 0 Comments

Uh- oh. For a guy who's built a large part of his image around Springsteen song/Jersey imagery, this one's gotta sting Chris Christie a little bit: Not least, perhaps, because Bruce actually does carry a fair amount of cultural weight in America, but particularly in New Jersey. Rule of thumb: when your scandal leaves the realm of op-ed pages and Sunday political shows, and hits the network late...

GOP Candidates-N-Tha-Hood

ByLars January 24, 2012 0 Comments

Sending this one out to my man Mitt "8-Ball" Romney and his vulture-capitalist gangstas from Bain:

Sending This One Out to the FOMC

ByLars September 20, 2011 0 Comments

...in anticipation of tomorrow's big announcement:

Happy St. Paddy’s, Y’all!

ByLars March 17, 2011 0 Comments

That's the kind of cultural mash-up you get in The Deep South™ 'round this time of year, heh. Here's the lads on New Years of last year, at an NHL clambake at Fenway:

Lunchtime Doodling

ByLars March 15, 2011 0 Comments

Live at the Isle of Wight festival last summer, The Strokes (in the middle of a "comeback"); New York City Cops (They Ain't Too Smart):

Happy Veterans Day

ByLars November 11, 2010 0 Comments

This isn't a holiday that gets as much play as some others, but it's unquestionably worth celebrating nevertheless. And that goes double when we're still embroiled in one war which recently achieved the dubious honor of becoming our chronologically longest-running war (Afghanistan), and we've just "finished" perhaps the least-necessary and most ill-considered war in our nation's history: Iraq....

Vietnamistan

ByLars June 21, 2010 0 Comments

In "honor" of the war in Afghanistan last week surpassing the Vietnam war as America's longest official war in history, I give y'all Alabama 3 (strangely, from Brixton, England - they're the guys who did the Sopranos theme song, Woke Up This Morning), with a track off their new album, Revolver Soul, sadly and presciently titled "Vietnamistan."

Good Morning, GOP!

ByLars March 7, 2010 1 Comment

Sending this one out to James O'Keefe III and the rest of Michael Steele's homies who're down with GOP (yeah you know me!). Enjoy!