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  • Is Global Warming Mostly Herd Thinking?

    When I get a whiff of herd mentality (imagine what that smells like, if you will), then I listen to contradictory evidence. John Stossel has earned a presumption of honesty and respectability, hasn't he?' [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:41pm EST

  • Kelsey & White Win in East Jesus

    Kelsey stomps the Democrat for State Senate, White out-preaches the other Republicans to run for the State House against the hapless Democrat. Read all about it here. [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:49pm EST

  • Kelsey & White Win in East Jesus

    Kelsey stomps the Democrat for State Senate, White out-preaches the other Republicans to run for the State House against the hapless Democrat. Read all about it here. [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:49pm EST

  • TN-08 "Blue Dog" Rep. John Tanner Calling It Quits

    More perhaps later, but this appears to be confirmed. UPDATE: Roy Herron's switching out of Tennessee Governor to the 8th District Congressional race.' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:21pm EST

  • TN-08 "Blue Dog" Rep. John Tanner Calling It Quits

    More perhaps later, but this appears to be confirmed. [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:21pm EST

  • Dennis Brooks Memorial Benefit

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:28pm EST

  • Memphis Police Helicopter with Infrared

    Check out this piece of police work using an infrared video camera aboard a Memphis Police helicopter. This suspect stabbed the police dog a dozen times before being apprehended. This video is fascinating in a chilling sort of way.UPDATE: Late last night, via the The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal:A Criminal Court [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:09pm EST

  • Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge Trailer

    Billed as "the biggest adult production in history," this recently caught my eye (18 and over only): Launch in external player [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:00pm EST

  • Scary Saturday: I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John

    For this Halloween Saturday night, there can only be one tune, this deep voodoo dirge; and I present it in its brilliant, originally recorded version, although there is an amateur video of Dr. John doing it live on YouTube. Trust me, though, just click this link for the song, and [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • FGF: Loup Garou Bal Goula - Willy de Ville

    For the Friday the day before Halloween, I figured I would do best if I just let the cauldron bubble enough. Loup Garou is Cajun French for werewolf. I thought Mink DeVille was pretty cool back when. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:25pm EDT

  • FGF: O.V. Wright - Memphis Soul Singer

    I don't do too many aggregator posts, but I'm making an exception for this awesome posted article that embeds most of O.V. Wright's important recordings. Go there and click on the first play arrow, and you'll get the whole program. If you want even to pretend to know about Memphis' [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • FGF: The Girl From Ipanema

    An antidote to poltical cynicism the day after we elected a new Mayor of Memphis: One of the greatest hits that ever will be. [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:22am EDT

  • Wharton Further Ahead in Latest Poll

    I'll come back and fill in more details. Meanwhile, click on over to see the full results and give WREG-TV some love.' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:10pm EDT

  • 2012 Movie Trailer: OMG

    Now watch it full screen HD. [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 3:58pm EDT

  • Moreland & Arbuckle Coming to Memphis

    I was listening to Bandana Blues podcast #301 this weekend and heard a record that reminded me of Richard Johnston: "Diamond Ring" by Moreland & Arbuckle.  These two young men are from Kansas but seem to love Mississippi hill country blues.  In some of their YouTube videos, they use a drummer, [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 1:48pm EDT

  • Benefit Sunday for That Helena Blues Festival

    Brad Webb passed this along to me. I guess this society is trying to raise money to support the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly known as the King Biscuit Blues Festival before some New York ____'s bought the King Biscuit trademark and wanted to be paid for this festival's [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 6:40pm EDT

  • Feminization of Human Males

    Catching up on blogging saved links. Check this one out: a cross-cultural parallel to what's been going on lickety-split since Glam Rock shoved itself down your MTV channel.Japan's 'herbivore men' -- less interested in sex, moneyFukasawa said Japanese men from the baby boomer generation were typically aggressive and proactive when [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 1:04am EDT

  • What Is Twitter?

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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 4:41pm EDT

  • Cigarette Girl: the Movie

    This post is overdue, but still on time. The hype I saw was good enough to pull your jaded Wintermute into this Cigarette Girl movie trip. Before I subject you to the seductive imagery that sucked me in, I want to slip in a couple of comments (please don't even' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 3:38pm EDT

  • Cooper-Young Festival This Weekend

    This would have snuck up on me (I know, it's sneaked up, I enjoy dialect sometimes) had I not kept a link in my "to be blogged" folder in Favorites.The 2009 Cooper-Young Festival is this Saturday, September 19, 9am-7pm. Here's the poster (click to embiggen), and the schedule is below [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 5:21pm EDT

  • Wintermute Endorses in Memphis Mayoral Contest

    Like all of you, I have pondered the offerings of the candidates in the special election to choose a new Mayor for Memphis.I have not dug to find out what every one of the 25 candidates left in the race after the withdrawal deadline wants to do if elected. In [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 8:37pm EDT

  • Stream Big Star's New Release Free

    NPR.org has the first disc of the new Big Star box set free for streaming until it's released next Tuesday. You can listen to the whole disc or each of the 26 songs individually. Here's the player for the whole first disc: H/T to Amy Gastner Starks, one of the original [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 12:22pm EDT

  • AC Wharton for Memphis Mayor Blog Button

    Here's the new AC Wharton for Memphis Mayor blog button.Click on it to go to the AC Wharton for Memphis Mayor website:To get this blog button to show your support for AC Wharton for Memphis Mayor, copy and paste this code into your template wherever you want it, for a' [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 2:49pm EDT

  • Bill Haslam: Prepared to Lead?

    I'm not the tennrogerthat who posted this on YouTube, and I have to tip my hat once again to the indefatigable Kleinheider.  I don't know this guy, but I found his performance rather strange for a guy running for Governor of Tennessee. [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:27pm EDT

  • Overton Park Shell Benefit Saturday

    You're Invited to the Kick-Off Party! We're getting geared up for our Fall 2009 free concert season with a special Kick-Off Party on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 7:00pm.....and you're invited! We'll be rockin' with special guests: Hill Country Revue Jimbo Mathus Blind Mississippi Morris & Brad Webb Delta Joe Sanders Date:          August 29,' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 4:51pm EDT

  • Memphis Political Calendar

    Jon Carroll, Steve Ross, and Steve Steffens created a Google Calendar for the upcoming special elections:To get a Memphis Mayoral or Senate 31 event on the calendar, email:Name of Candidate or PartyDate, Times and Address of EventFundraising or Open Eventto electionsmemphis at gmail dot com.*********************************To get this calendar on your [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 3:09pm EDT

  • Billy Lee Riley, RIP

    From The Official Rockabilly Hall of Fame¨: "Billy Lee Riley ... one of the greatest original Sun Recordings artists, peacefully passed away on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 am. His family was at his bedside. Funeral arrangements are pending." Read the rest at the link. There is already a star-studded memorial [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 1:38pm EDT

  • McKensie Morrison's Mug Shot

    Here's the dirt we've been waiting for, thanks to Amy L. Edwards of the Orlando (Florida) Sentinel: In the months after she graduated from Spruce Creek High School in 2005, McKensie Morrison was charged with cocaine possession, got married, lived without electricity and watched her husband beat a 75-year-old man with' [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 11:01pm EDT

  • Blues on the Bluff in Memphis Saturday

    Click for more info: http://wevl.org/bob/ [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 4:55pm EDT

  • Anyone Recognize This Fool?

    If you do, call the cops. Details here. [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 4:28pm EDT

  • Herenton "Describes" Cohen Ringtone

    As a public service and because this has provided me with so much mirth, I have put together a free ringtone wherein Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton "describes" Congressman Steve Cohen. You can download it here (right-click, save target as). I might even send it to your phone if need be, [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 12:19am EDT

  • There Are Already Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court

    From the Washington Times:If confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be the sixth Catholic to sit on a bench that, before the current crop of justices, had featured only six Catholics in its entire history.I have been talking about this for years now. [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 10:59pm EDT

  • "I was just following orders."

    The New York Times reported yesterday: The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 6:42pm EDT

  • Blacks as Conservative as Republicans on Some Moral Issues

    Blacks as Conservative as Republicans on Some Moral Issues: "Only 31% of black Democrats in America say homosexual relations are morally acceptable, roughly the same as the 30% of Republicans who agree, while very much different from the 61% of nonblack Democrats who say homosexual relations are morally acceptable."Trying out [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 6:10pm EDT

  • Hotmail Goes POP3: The Vista Windows Mail Workaround

    I was grandfathered in to accessing Hotmail via HTTP mail, but when I bought a new computer with Vista, I couldn't add my Hotmail account to Windows Mail. Microsoft announced recently that it has opened Hotmail to POP3 access by email programs and posted instructions for adding Hotmail accounts to Outlook' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 9:02pm EDT

  • Baby Boomer Animation

    Cleaning out some saved links, I found this funny Flash I think my mama sent me (until Newsday gets its server issues and Adobe Flash Player certificate problems fixed, I'm having to use an improvised link for the old one that went bad when Newsday changed servers):Click here to see' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 8:40pm EDT

  • Claire Robinson, New Food Network Chef from Memphis

    I got curious about the new TV chef on Food Network and found that Claire Robinson is from Memphis and used to work at Maggie's Pharm, (website) (recent news story), which has been selling oils, herbs, teas, and such in Overton Square since the 80's.  Here's a link to her Food' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 5:44pm EDT

  • Billy Lavender -- Memphis Livin'

    Some friends and acquaintances of mine have worked hard putting together an album of good blues under Billy Lavender's name, with the title Memphis Livin'. Click here to sample it. Below is the press kit video for the album, and below that, a video of a song off the record, "Singin''" [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 2:25pm EDT

  • FGF -- The Fibonaccis

    Here in Memphis we need a Feel Good Friday badly this week, so let me nudge my cohorts with this very unusual number. I was in bed watching this goofy movie Android with Klaus Kinski and fell asleep in the middle of it. I figured that out after I was awakened [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 3:33pm EDT

  • Wintermute Judges the International Blues Challenge

    The call went out early this year for volunteers to judge the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in February.  I hadn't done any judging since the Memphis Blues Society's preliminary competition a few years ago, so I signed up. I enjoyed being one of the three who judged one of the' [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 2:15am EDT

  • Artesian Well Digging on the Memphis Greenline

    More pictures that stayed in my cell phone until I could transfer them without paying Verizon.  I mean, I bought the phone, I'm not leasing it; but they disabled some features in the phone (Motorola E815) before they sold it to me (or had Motorola do it before shipping), like' [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:39pm EDT

  • Verizon Is Greedy - Have Some Home-Made Pizza

    I dumped some old cell phone pics after I got a memory card for my Verizon-issued cell phone.  That was the workaround a kind worker in the company store suggested after I griped about being forced to pay $0.25 to send every picture through their system to my email.  Verizon turned off [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 8:33pm EDT

  • Free Shows at the Memphis Shell Sundays in July

    Click pic to embiggen. [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 8:01pm EDT

  • Jim Strickland for Memphis Mayor Blog Button

    Here's the new Jim Strickland for City Mayor blog button.Click on it to go to the Draft Jim Strickland for Memphis City Mayor page on Facebook:To get this blog button to show your support for Jim Strickland for City Mayor, copy and paste this code into your template wherever you [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:31pm EDT

  • VotD: Rock Hard with Jimi Jamison

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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 6:22pm EDT

  • VotD: Rock Hard with Jimi Jamison

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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 6:22pm EDT

  • VotD: The (Memphis) Hellcats

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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:42pm EDT

  • Video of the Day: Jump Back Jake

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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 4:23pm EDT

  • Steve Cohen Votes for Supplemental War Funding

    Conyers didn't. Kucinich didn't. Cohen did. [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 7:48pm EDT

  • It's Hard Out Here for a Blogger

    Durn, here I am wanting to write something serious and important; but a Sam Adams beer, a blues podcast, and VirtuaGirls on my screen are making it very difficult. See what I mean?  It's hard out here for a blogger! [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2009, 8:56pm EDT

  • A New Movie Called Tennessee

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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

  • Laddie Hutcherson & the Guilloteens

    I am tracking down a rumor I hope is not true. For now, enjoy a piece of Memphis music history, a video of "I Don't Believe":That'd be Laddie on bass (the guitar with only 4 tuners, OK, the blonde guy).Click here for audio only but the whole record.The B side, [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 3:17pm EDT

  • Was Bruno Telling Eminem Rap Sucks?

    Bruno drops in on Eminem at MTV Awardsby ITN [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 3:40pm EDT

  • IFC Media Project Episode 204 -- A Venerable Newspaper Dies

    I happened to notice this series while selecting programs to record.  Episode 204 focuses on the demise of the Rocky Mountain News.  Here are a couple of outtakes: [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 2:32pm EDT

  • $5 Cover: Episode 10X

    Craig Brewer has revealed there is a reason for the strange truncation of the scene in $5 Cover in which Cody Dickinson tries to use Clare Grant to record some erotic noises. MTV thought it was too hot to cablecast in full or even put on the series' official website.' [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 5:40pm EDT

  • Steve Cohen Confronts FBI on Marijuana Prohibition

    This is the Steve Cohen I worked so long and hard for to represent us. H/T: Jackson Baker [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 2:34pm EDT

  • TN Legislators' Votes on the Anti-Abortion Amendment

    House:SJR0127 by Black - FLOOR VOTE: AS AMENDED MOTION TO CONCUR 5/18/2009PassedAyes...............................................77Noes...............................................21Representatives voting aye were: Barker, Bass, Bell, Bone, Borchert, Brooks H, Brooks K, Campfield, Carr, Casada, Cobb C, Cobb J, Cobb T, Coleman, Coley, Curtiss, Dean, DeBerry J, Dennis, Dunn, Eldridge, Evans, [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 11:55pm EDT

  • Reorganize Memphis in May

    I guess leaving incendiary comments on the vaunted Commercial Appeal website is not enough, so let me repeat myself here:The Memphis In May organization needs to take the last weekend event away from the archaic Memphis Symphony and its almost entirely local and cheap-ticket patrons, and give it to the [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 11:24pm EDT

  • Memphis Real Time Crime Center

    I can't get so used to my good friend John Harvey's excellence that I fail to give credit where it's due. Here's the latest swag John brought home to the city (click to make it huge):Here's a pic he sent me that I've been saving that I bet he thought [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 10:59pm EDT

  • Matriarchy Sucks

    It's time to revisit my awesome post, "The Tragedy of Bastardy." A local blogger kept telling me I could have written a book titled The Garbage Generation. I took the time to read it in its entirety online, and he was right: I endorse 90+% of the book.Those of you [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 9:51pm EDT

  • Sacrilege Meets MY Standards

    Enclosure: [download]
    I could hardly believe the cowardice of the management at Memphis' TV stations WMC and WPTY in refusing to air, for pay, this tame and actually silly advertisement for a local radio station's morning show. Yes, I lifted it off Rock 103's site. Yes, it took some skill and a third-party' [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 8:43pm EDT

  • Chris Jones Closing Argument

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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 6:24pm EDT

  • A Brief History of Weed

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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 6:18pm EDT

  • Memphis City Court Clerk Up for Grabs

    According to Jackson Baker: One dropout already from the 2010 Memphis mayor's race is city court clerk Thomas Long, who says he'll run instead for the county clerk's job that will be vacated by current clerk Debbie Stamson.OK, whom should we put in Long's place?  Suggestions in the comments, please.  I' [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 4:32pm EDT

  • Nanny State: The Book

    Now there's a book that exposes the Nanny Staters. See the description on Amazon. The author has a snazzy blog too. [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 3:56am EDT

  • Jesse Ventura for President

    Every person should take this segment to heart. I know many if not most of you would rather not let matters like this worry your pretty little heads instead of the usual "Someone was mean to me" or "I need to show I have money" or "I look so desirable." [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 3:22am EDT

  • Papa Top's Gig Tonight at Hi-Tone

    9:30 start time! There's some Austin throat on the bill too. [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 8:02pm EDT

  • OK, Then Surcharge the Fatsos Next

    Tennessee has turned into such a nanny state. State employees are facing a $600 surcharge that goes into effect next year for everyone in the employee health system who smokes or is married to a smoker. State officials hope the surcharge will provide an incentive for employee smokers to quit and save [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2009, 6:04pm EDT

  • Will Obama Legalize Pot?

    Admittedly, I'm cleaning out some saved links with this post, but there seems to be some movement toward sanity by the Obama administration on the proven idiocy of euphoriant prohibition. First there was the painful example of Obama's natural caution that began to afflict him once he got on top and' [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2009, 5:55pm EDT

  • Memphis Belles Pinup Car Wash

    UPDATE: Bumpin' this up because the girls are so beautiful mentally and physically. Go get you some good vibes and a clean car for cheap.The Memphis Belles burlesque troop is having another car wash at Shangri-La Records on Madison. I went to the last one; and the girls did an' [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 3:00pm EDT

  • Frightening Friday -- Link Wray's "Rumble"

    Scary, menacing, yeah, that's a fair description of the way Link Wray came out of the starting gate playing guitar and looking the way he did. Crank this one up! [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Thelonious Thursday

    As perhaps my last alliterative music post title (this one's even digraphically alliterative), I give you a starting point on another "perhaps," perhaps the best composer ever in the jazz idiom, Thelonious Monk. Monk has plenty of videos on YouTube and plenty of full tracks on last.fm. Monk employed a lot more [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Streaming Video of Convicted Murderer's Jury Sentencing Hearing

    The Memphis Commercial Appeal is using a new service called USTREAM.TV to bring this from Judge Colton's courtroom at 201 Poplar. [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 4:06pm EDT

  • From the Mouths of Babes -- Carrie Prejean

    The Donald got it right. I could perhaps have said it better than Miss Cleans Up Really Nice, but I never won any beauty pageants. To be fair to myself, I never entered any. Well wait, my Mom entered me in some at the department stores back when, and I [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 2:03am EDT

  • Woeful Wednesday -- Magic Sam

    "Magic Sam" Maghett was another Cobra and Delmark Records alumnus like Junior Wells but died of a heart attack at the fan-cheating age of 32.  Sam was unforgettable in his own way.  Either reminisce with me or get hip to him for the first time through this post.  He was good [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Blue Monday -- Sleepy John Estes

    I was stage manager for the very first Beale Street Music Festival, produced in 1977 by Memphis attorney Irvin Salky.  I helped a blind country bluesman up the stairs to the stage for his set by holding his hand, one of a pair of the hugest hands I've ever seen.  They' [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Stolen Song Saturday -- Going Down

    I use "stolen" in the sense that Otis Redding used it when describing Aretha Franklin's far more successful cover of his "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." Don Nix wrote "Going Down," a guitar player favorite that has been covered over a hundred times by now; and Don fed it to Freddie King when he got' [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Johnny Keyes & the Magnificents

    My dear friend Johnny Keyes, lead singer for the Magnificents back when and Packy Axton's co-conspirator during the Stax/Fretone years, called me yesterday. Talking to Johnny, I finally got it straight that one of the tunes on the album he recorded in the 70's (that I had a co-write on) was [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 2:57pm EDT

  • John Jay Hooker Against Retention Referenda

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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 8:17pm EDT

  • Tore Down Tuesday -- Freddie King

    Lee Baker of Moloch couldn't rest until he got Freddie King to Memphis to play the Overton Park Shell.  Actually, Lee dreamed of the "Three Kings" show: Albert, B.B., and Freddie on the same bill.  He never pulled that off, but Freddie's show at the Shell was one I can' [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • Blue Monday -- Sam Chatmon

    I was watching TV one night in Memphis decades ago, and a guitar-playing singer came on the screen doing his rendition of St. Louis Blues (dum...dum...a-deedle-um-dum), and I was just floored. It was Sam Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks, the only member to have been captured on film/video. Get right [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 1:37am EDT

  • 30th HANDY Awards May 6-7, 2009

    It's time to be aware that the 30th (W.C.) Handy Awards (which some out-of-town renamers are trying to call the "Blues Music" Awards) are being given out in Memphis (where the hell else would be as good and right?) this week. You can click here for the Blues Foundation's page [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 11:45pm EDT

  • Lexie Carter Gets It Right

    I made the Shelby County Democratic Party April 2009 newsletter. Well, my mug shot did. I will likely be interviewed for same, so be sure to put parental controls on their site. Click the image below to read it better. [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 11:07pm EDT

  • Filibusters Are Unconstitutional

    Yes, the title is provocative, intentionally, and could be hedged in "ifs," "ands," "buts," and innumerable other qualifiers; but I'll stick with it on this simple ground: nowhere in the United States Constitution is a 60-vote majority required to end debate on a bill. Two-thirds majorities are required only in' [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 7:31pm EDT

  • Jane Harman: Traitor?

    I have been suspicious of Congresswoman Jane Harman ever since she failed as a member of the House Intelligence Committee to stand up against Bush administration wiretapping. Now I feel vindicated by the revelation that she was recorded by the NSA in 2005 agreeing to try to get espionage-related charges [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2009, 11:57pm EDT

  • Bill Gibbons & New Media

    I think you have to give Bill credit for doing new media right in his campaign for Tennessee Governor. For example, I saw this link on Facebook, clicked it, and decided to repost it here.  Bill Gibbons meeting with West Tennessee bloggers, fancy that!  I can't try to take all the' [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 5:32pm EDT

  • Far Out Friday: Sonny Sharrock

    As I teased in a previous post about Pharaoh Sanders, here's one about the avant garde guitar player he introduced to the world: Sonny Sharrock. Like Pharoah, Sonny had a most exquisite lyrical side that he showed to great effect so memorably on Sanders' album Tauhid, especially on "Upper And" [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • 4/20: It's My Birthday!

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    Posted: April 26, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Ophelia Ford Does a Mailer!

    Yes, I've called for Ophelia's head before and may do it again. She is or at least claims to be my state senator, so that gives me extra rights to dump on her.However, she evidently hired someone capable of doing a professional-looking mailer. Here it is (click on each page [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2009, 7:41pm EDT

  • Vibrators & Masturbation

    I collected the link to this video months ago from an email from the company that makes Trojan® condoms. I thought it was funny, even ludicrous, but I've been occupied with other matters and have not used the video as jumping off point for a discussion until now. Watch it:OK,' [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 6:24pm EDT

  • $5 Cover Ramping Up

    I've criticized Craig Brewer in the past on this blog, but his fallback project of short episodes about Memphis musicians is a return to roots that helps us appreciate the good things we do have here.  Watch the trailer ("teaser") for the series below, go to the site for the' [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 9:26pm EDT

  • RIP James Hyter

    Obituary here. [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 2:32pm EDT

  • Bill Gibbons on Knoxville TV

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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 4:25pm EDT

  • Wine in TN Grocery Stores

    If you've ever lived in or spent much time in a state that permits wine to be sold in grocery stores, you know that Tennessee's prohibition on same is just a relic of America's pitiful Prohibition madness. In my opinion, the Against lists below are where you'll find your Nanny [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 10:52pm EDT

  • Penn Jillette on Dope

    [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 6:54pm EDT

  • Bill Gibbons Blog Button

    Readers can click on these buttons to go to Bill Gibbons' campaign website.To get this blog button to show your support for Bill Gibbons for Governor of Tennessee, copy and paste this code into your template wherever you want it, for a 220 pixel-wide button:[...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 11:55pm EST

  • Digital Billboards Under Fire

    First it was Republican "Bluenose Mike" Ritz who, as Director of the Memphis/Shelby County Office of Planning and Development, wanted to make his name by devastating the outdoor sign industry to make Memphis as insipid as Germantown. Now it's more officials with a residential development uber alles mentality, like City Council member Reid [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 10:53pm EST

  • Jump Back Jake

    This may be the last time I ever try to help a musician or a band out on this blog, so don't expect anything effusive, because no matter how sterling my praise, I've never gotten so much as a thank you in the comments from any one of them.This group [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 9:33pm EST

  • MPD Anti-Crime Neighborhood Presentation

    Here is a series of segments of a fine presentation given by Memphis Police Department Colonel Billy Garrett to the Vollentine-Evergreen Neighborhood Association on how residents can help police fight crime in the 'hood.  You can click on the video embed below to go to YouTube and pick the rest' [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Selection

    FINAL UPDATE: Lorrie Ridder named judge.UPDATE: I swear, I do not know what criteria this Judicial Selection Commission actually does use to come up with its picks (which is another reason, besides the plain meaning of the Tennessee Constitution, that I favor a return to direct election of all Tennessee [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 3:34pm EST
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