Naked Avarice

Randall "Duke" Cunningham, the priggish fatcat Republican Congressman who got caught with his fat pink paw in the cookie jar, was sentenced to 8 + years in prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes.

Along with the congressman moniker, he was able to ride the Vietnam Vet coattail rightfully, pridefully for decades. Now he is a disgraced Vietnam Vet. But 'Vietnam Vet' won't identify him so readily anymore. Crooked Congressman is now his cross to bear.

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saturday morning me//
coffee & bailey's/honey wheat bagel/
indian print long skirt/black t/black tights/
black ballet flats/old black shawl/
sore from too much too soon bike riding/
listening: Jeff Beck on the radio/
how's about you?/

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HAPPY FRIDAY!
Bring 'Em Home
Devendra Banhart, REM frontman Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and Rufus Wainwright will perform in the Bring 'Em Home concert in New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on March 20th, the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, to plead against the war in Iraq.

The singers will join activist Cindy Sheehan in her effort to bring the American soldiers home from Iraq and to stop the war.

Among the celebrities expected to attend the event are Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo, while Steve Earle, Fischerspooner, and Peaches will be among the other performers. [MORE...]

I applaud these people who lend their time and expertise to the cause of bringing 'em home, but I can't help but feel there are many people too apprehensive to speak out against the war. Their silence is deafening.

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Wolfgang's Vault is the online site of the vault contents of rock promoter Bill Graham's estate. Fortunately, Graham was a pack rat and kept everything from the Fillmore East and West. Vintage tickets, posters, and reels of performances. The recent buyer of his extensive estate has catalogued and priced most of the items for sale. Link

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Friday Random Ten - Why? Because I feel like it.

1) In The Sun - Michael Stipe w/Joseph Arthur
2) Blackout - Lovedrug
3) Dancing With Mr D - Rolling Stones
4) All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
5) Bull In The Heather - Sonic Youth
6) Presence Of The Lord - Blind Faith
7) Cracking Up - The Jesus And Mary Chain
8) The Bottle - Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jacks
9) Book of Saturday - King Crimson
10)The Antler of the Midnight Sun - Comets on Fire

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Web Trail | Impending Iran attack?, Low-Fat bOING bOING, Bare Care, Pass the PDR, Busted, Iknow Eno

Inevitable Iran Attack? The official excuse for the attack is the possible nuclear weapons program in Iran: ex-CIA agents Paul Pillar and Ellen Laipson as well as retired United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix state that if Iran were really trying to build atom bombs, then the most effective way to stop this would be a guarantee from the US and Israel not to attack Iran. [MORE...]

The popular bOING bOING is a good website in part because they have something for everyone. But there are some topics that just don't interest me - particularly the tech stuff that's way over my head. And that's where bOING bOING LITE comes in.

McSweeney's Career Days is very funny with a Memo
To: All Employees
From: Paul Pell, President and CEO, Die Mold Industries Inc.

Bush BUSTED!

Please Call Home is the working title of a feature-length documentary about the Big House -- the Macon, Ga., residence in which the Allman Brothers Band lived during the early '70s.

About 35 UC San Diego students stripped to their underwear – and in some cases, wore nothing but poster boards – yesterday to persuade university administrators to adopt more stringent labor codes for the manufacturing of all university licensed apparel. [More...]

And goes running for the shelter... - Alcibiades Dream a clinical, but honest account of a drug user in college.

Did You Know?
Brian Eno did the Windows 95 startup sound.

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HOTEL CHELSEA BLOG
Have you seen the Hotel Chelsea, Living With Legends blog? What a mighty fine niche for blogdom. I had the opportunity to stay there one summer and it's just as fabulous and decandant as it wants to be and still rocking with interesting stories.

ftp: At least once a week the blog receives an e-mail from a reader who writes, "How can I move into the legendary Hotel Chelsea?" Well, we snuck in via a sublet. If that fails, there is an apartment available in the East Village that a blog reader or two might be interested in renting. It's a two bedroom apartment in the building that graced the album cover of the '75 Led Zeppelin album, Physical Graffiti.

The website has stories of the current residents, like musician Tim Sullivan, who's lived there since 1982 and former residents as Rufus Wainwright, Patti Smith, William Burroughs, Arthur C Clarke, Mark Twain, Jimi, Janis, Dylan Thomas, and many other writers, artists, and musicians.

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