Original "Senor Blues" by Horace Silver '59

(thanks for the link, Crooks and Liars!)

Bassplayer Joke of the Week!

Two Bass players walk past a bar....

Wars vs Tax Cuts 101 (a chart)

click to 'embiggen'

Deficit-worry is BS! Just ask St.Ronnie!

Beatles REUNITE!!!

Ringo's Birthday Bash (thanks, gaviganj !)

Exceptional wall-painted animation by Blu

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

A Message to Rudy from The Specials

Pity the Invisible Homeless folks

Dig deep and help these poor souls with their

horrible affliction, Invisiblemanitus!  How can

you standby and do nothing?

West Side Lights, NYC

A new member of "What Light Does When Nobody's Looking"

Fishes on Friday! Happy 4th Ya'll.

click to feed them!

Tanning Tax goes into Effect! World Ends.

OMFG, there's a new tax of 10% on Indoor Tanning sessions!  (oh, the humanity!!)

I wonder if the tax even begins to cover those uninsured tanners who are treated for Melanoma....I can't believe the rightwingnutz are upset over this tax.  Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and current research shows indoor tanners are 74 percent more likely to get it than non-tanners.

And yet Billions-Per-Month-for-War is just fine n dandy.  Oy.

What Light Does ... Mobile edition!

A new member of the

What Light Does When Nobody's Looking

collection....shot with my mobile!

Al Franken Defends Justice Marshall

Conservative Republican are using the Kagan hearings to rail against Thurgood Marshall,

with unintentionally hilarious results. 

 Grayson/Frankin 2016??  (Thanks, TPM!)

It's Better In Somalia!

Ain't That A Bitch - Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Blockhead's Awesome Vid: "Music Scene"

Cool video from Blockhead's latest album, "Music Scene! (thanks, DoseNation & BoingBoing!) Animation by Anthony Francisco Schepperd. Maybe he can work on one for Hard Bargain!

1970 Johnny & Edgar Winter doin Frankenstein!

Rare clip! Gladsaxe Teen Club, Denmark (1970) Johnny Winter(vocals/guitar) Edgar Winter(keyboards/drums) Uncle John Turner(drums) Tommy Shannon(bass) - thanks, Grinderman!

Jimmy Fallon nails it!

"Here’s a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they’re catching it with ducks".


—Jimmy Fallon

Four Yorkshiremen

Including John Cleese and Graham Chapman, pre-MontyPython, and Marty Feldman!
(thanks, CrooksAndLiars and BlueGal!)

OK Go's Rube Goldberg thang is Awesome

Irony anyone?

File This Under "DUH!"

Adult content predicted to drive sales of 3D TVs - by Jane Leung (Media Asia)

-- Pornography could be the major catalyst for the sales of 3D television in Japan. The controversial content is fuelling the 3D business in Japan, where a pair of porn stars are leading the charge in developing three-dimensional entertainment that is compatible with Sony and Panasonic televisions. READ...

Celeb Sightings Last Night in Soho!

Dean Winters and Eamonn Walker

These former castmembers of HBO's "Oz" series sat next to us last night at Pao

on Spring St. in Soho. I overheard Winters saying that this morning he was to begin

shooting a film with Danny Glover. My band played at Don Hill's across the street, and

I extended an invite to Walker to stop by....(he didn't).

Truth in Cartoons!

newsflash: U.S. Drug War a Failure

Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance Network, Director of Media Relations wrote this on HuffPo:

AP Bombshell: "US Drug War Has Met None of Its Goals"
...........I have been the director of media relations at the Drug Policy Alliance for ten years and this is one of the hardest hitting indictments against the drug war I've ever seen. READ THE REST HERE

Heller Nails It!