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• Thanksgiving Loudon's way

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:08am EST
  

• Creepy Joeâ„¢ pulls one from the Bush playbook

  A total embarrassment to the majority of Connecticut residents who favor a universal healthcare plan, Creepy Joeâ„¢ Lieberman has become a focus for vituperative remarks, and the butt of jokes on national television.
  
  
  But none of that seems to affect his curdled narcissism.
  
  Still, in a [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:27am EST
  

• No shit from Shinolas

  
  I've been meaning to make it down to Tapas on Ann St. in Hartford for months to catch the Monday night stand with the Shinolas, an erstwhile band consisting of great session players.
  
  Local guitar slinger, producer, film scorer and friend, Jim Chapdelaine, and' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• The Bogmen are back

  I know they've been reuniting once a year for benefits, but rooting around in the Bogosphere on a rainy Saturday, I discovered that the that one of the greatest unappreciated bands ever, the Bogmen, has gone back into the studio to cut tracks for an EP to be released' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:37pm EST
  

• Walking the Walk With Merrick

  It intrigued me: a decorated war veteran who support the military, but who is willing to walk across Connecticut with t-shirted companions demanding an end to the Afghan war. Merrick Alpert is a Democrat running against Chris Dodd for a spot on the Democratic ticket in the 2010 Senate race. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  

• The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly on the Gay'uns

  Marriage to someone of the same gender? You can't get they-uh, from he-uh.
  
  I got a nasty email message after playing this one on the radio this morning.
  
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  

• Sun and moon and stars

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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:35am EDT
  

• Creepy Joeâ„¢ creeps again

  
  Simultaneously shameless and shameful, Creepy Joeâ„¢ Lieberman, who thumbed his nose at Connecticut Democrats, and all Democrats, including candidate Barack Obama, and who was saved from ignominy by President Barack Obama, has taken the thumb from his nose and jammed it in our collective eyes.
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
  

• I know your material

  Comedian Richard Lewis (Curb Your Enthusiasm) was a guest on Keith Olbermann's Countdown last night and delivered a priceless, and hilariously scathing, anecdote about his only encounter with our Senator, Creepy Joeâ„¢ Lieberman. Be patient while viewing as Olbermann spends some time skewering Michele Bachman before he gets to Lewis.[...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
  

• The trouble with radio

  Is that there's precious little of what counts - individuality, creativity, insight, personality.
  
  Yesterday when I was raising money at WWUH, I thought about how great the radio I grew up with was, and how sad that it doesn't exist anymore.
  
  Thanks to everyone who called and helped [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:51pm EDT
  

• Allons a Lafayette

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I'm just back from being out of town for a few days doing some film production in Mobile, Alabama and Natchez, Mississippi. I found Mobile less charming than expected, and on the contrary, despite the ghosts' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• Eight miles high

  
  Certainly not the first to do it, but the idea of using wifi on an airflight is impressive. Right now we're somewhere over Jersey, and it's a bit turbulent. But, here's what's out my window. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
  

• Amy Farris, RIP

  
  Any of us who saw Dave Alvin touring this summer with his Guilty Women tour were likely as impressed by the band as we were by Dave.
  
  Sad news today, then, that fiddler, songwriter and wonderful musician Amy Farris has died. I met her [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  

• Tweaking the laws for the sake of the bottom line

  
  I found this essay by Russell Mokhiber via Susan Campbell's website at about the same time I finished reading Nick Reding's amazing book Methland, which describes how the crank epidemic has ravaged the country.
  
  Mokhiber asks why a non-profit organization like [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:13pm EDT
  

• Good thing she's not a country singer

  
  Sarah Palin went to a Hong Kong and bashed the president. When the Dixie Chicks did this to W, they got death threats and were blacklisted from radio stations and concert venues. The wingnut bloviators went ballistic (How dare she criticize the commander-in-chief at [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 10:51am EDT
  

• Here's one for Hartford

  Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:56am EDT
  

• Some damned good reasons to call the teabaggers, "racist."

  
  It shouldn't be a charge one cascades as a facile rejoinder to every wrong the lunkheaded rightwingers unleash.
  
  But there's plenty of evidence, specific evidence, that racism is at the heart of a good many of the attacks on Barack Obama.
  
  So [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
  

• Jim Vicevich: one angry teabagger

  
  The Hartford Courant today printed an editorial about several incidents which indicate a loss of civility in the public discourse. Say the editors:
  
  The health care issue has seen incivility raised to a tactic — premeditated rudeness — in town hall meetings across the [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
  

• Teabaggers: great patriots, defenders of the Constitution, and brilliant spelers

  
  Hey Vicevich. We'll stop calling you a teabagger when you stop calling it, "the Democrat Party" and stop calling him "the young president." (By the way, do you take one lump, or two?)
  
  A march on Washington as pure, and white, as the driven' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 3:15pm EDT
  

• Creep's "wrongness" unmasked

  Thank you Keith Olbermann.
  
  

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:28am EDT
  

• Creep

  Your first impression about South Carolina Joe Wilson was correct. He's an opportunistic creep. His outburst during Obama's speech now seems more planned and premeditated than ever. Get this.
  
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• "Sorry" was easy, but it ain't good enough

  
  The boors are winning.
  
  At the town hall meetings mob rule has prevented meaningful discussion and debate on health care.
  
  And now, South Carolina's representative Joe Wilson decided to shout down President Barack Obama with a angry, "You lie."
  
  So much' [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
  

• In our classrooms, any president but this one

  
  Thank you Michael Wolff for confirming my suspicions. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• Reports of my traffic gridlock have been greatly exaggerated

  
  
  For weeks I've been hearing the ads. Rudy Giuliano bragging (what else is new?) about his "friends" like Colin Powell and Laura Bush and Joe Montana coming to Hartford to electrify, for $19.95 you during this terrible recession.
  
  My years of watching late-night' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 3:18pm EDT
  

• Could it be nicer: the view from the stage

  
  The lovely late-summer weather drove a huge crowd to the gates of the Rhythm and Roots Festival on Friday and Saturday. It seems as if today promises more of the same.
  
  I've been emceeing, as I have all of the twelve years the festival' [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Godverdomme, Bill O'Reilly, u klootzak, eikel, flikker op nl u paardenlul

  The Dutch are not happy with Bill O'Reilly. Neither are we.
  
  
  
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 9:57am EDT
  

• Morans abound

  
  I don't know which has made me laugh more in the past two days, Jonathan Ligon's Facebook collection of Morons With Signs (Facebook membership required) or the discovery (thanks to Pete Lehndorff), of Awkward Family Photos. [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  

• Saved by the music

  
  When I rolled out of bed at 4 AM this morning in preparation for the radio show I had some dark thoughts. Am I too old to be doing this? Couldn't I use the extra few hours of sleep? Was I really excited about getting' [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
  

• Voodoo Today Here Now 5

  
  
  
  
  Four years ago this week I was sitting at a cottage in Narragansett, Rhode Island, where I was emceeing at the Rhythm and Roots Festival, and I was on the phone trying to figure out how to get a video crew into [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
  

• More helpful hints for fighting fascism

  
  It's been a puzzle to me how the major AM radio station in the state has given itself over completely to right-wing blather (and the Red Sox and UCONN Huskies) when it neither reflects the feelings or attitudes of a majority of the population, nor [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
  

• First the good news

  
  Colin McEnroe will be back on the air, Monday at WNPR, otherwise known as Connecticut Public Radio, and his sidekick will be Chion Wolf, whose inbetweenies, have held weekends at WNPR together for these past many months.
  
  According to all reports, McEnroe's show' [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:39am EDT
  

• How to boil blood while on vacation

  
  Read the New York Times and find out that one of your Senatorial representatives, Creepy Joeâ„¢ Lieberman, has decided to come out against health care reform.
  
  Lieberman says reform will have to wait until the recession ends.
  
  His critics are already [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 7:37am EDT
  

• How to skin an eel

  
  It's difficult to believe that our week at Shobac is nearly over.
  
  The rugged beauty of this spit of land which pokes out into the Atlantic is breathtaking, particularly the way in which the view changes with the tide, and the angle of the [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:11am EDT
  

• And you thought Americans loved their cars

  Enclosure: [download]

  We took the last remaining cable ferry across the LeHave River, had lunch at the funky LeHave bakery, and then headed for the unspoiled beauty of Crescent Beach in Dublin, but then...
  
  
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 7:01am EDT
  

• Funny, I coulda sworn you were Bobby Zimmerman

  
  In a case of mistaken identity, Bob Dylan finally owns up to who he is. [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 10:46am EDT
  

• Posting intermittent, vacation imminent

  
  I'm sitting in the sitting area of one of the amazing amazing, spare, beautiful and functional cottages architect Bryan MacKay-Lyons has built on the site of an ancient village, and working farm in Upper Kingsburgh, Nova Scotia, awed by the spectacular view of the LeHave' [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 6:44am EDT
  

• Fighting fascism one a-hole at a time

  
  Those of you who fell into despair after reading Sara Robinson's essay on fascism, as I did, can take heart that the same author has responded to the many people who responded to her original essay with some commonsense advice about fighting the fascist [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 2:57pm EDT
  

• A little of what Mike Seeger helped us discover

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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 5:32pm EDT
  

• Sharks rising to the chum spread on the airwaves

  It's impossible for me to feel anything but contempt for the people in this video. I have not the power to excuse or forgive their stupidity, their boorishness or their misplaced piety. The video speaks for itself.
  
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 4:41pm EDT
  

• And the cotton is high

  Summertime finally arrived in CT today, as the thermometers hit 90 degrees for the first time.
  
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:46am EDT
  

• Freedom of speech, goon squads and fascism

  
  I've been troubled this week by the denouncements by liberal commentators and the Democratic party of the troublemakers who have shown up at town meetings to disrupt the work of politicians pushing a national health plan.
  
  The First Amendment guarantees free speech, and so' [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:40am EDT
  

• Tears of Rage

  Rare footage of The Band at Woodstock.
  
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:39am EDT
  

• Mike Seeger, RIP

  
  
  When Ramblin' Jack Elliot sent dedicated a song to an ailing Mike Seeger at the recent Newport Folk Festival, it was the first that I heard that he was sick. Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger's half-brother, was profoundly influential in the preservation of folk music, particularly in saving the' [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 6:57am EDT
  

• Mumblers

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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:57pm EDT
  

• Billy Lee Riley, RIP

  The most underrated Sun Records artist died Sunday. I heard it on the CBC. [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
  

• Iron and Wine: huh?

  
  I was anticipating the performance of Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) perhaps more than any other at Saturday's Folk Festival 50 (Newport Folk Festival). The glowing reviews, the profile in the New York Times Magazine, the adulation of his followers.
  
  So immediately after Mavis [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:58am EDT
  

• Gillian Welch at Newport

  
  My favorite set from the festival, made available by NPR (in fact you can hear most of the festival performances at this site). Be sure to listen all the way to her version of the Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit (though the reverb on the [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
  

• Brilliant booking at Newport

  
  
  
  
  Saturday at Newport was a wonderful day. The most wonderful thing for me was the number of young people at the festival.
  
  Whoever was responsible should be lauded for creating a lineup that appealed to a very broad demographic.
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  Posted: August 01, 2009, 10:08am EDT
  

• Founder and re-founder

  
  
  So he can't call it the Newport Folk Festival, but a rose by any other name... George Wein started the Newport Folk Festival 50 years ago, and when new owners couldn't turn it into the Bonnaroo of the Northeast, he reclaimed it just in [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 10:44am EDT
  

• Newport 1963

  Four years after its founding.
  
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:55am EDT