This is the last day of National Poetry Month. The talented singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant has figured out a way to honor twenty-six poets: compose music to their poems. The result: Leave Your Sleep, a 2 disc CD—released earlier this month— along with a booklet about the poets’ words and lives. I give it an A [...]
Hey Craig – You’ve got some idiots working for you. Or perhaps it’s just an example of the Trickle Down Theory and the apple doesn’t fall from the tree? In which case, you need to change your name from Newmark to Missthemark. Today I tried to post an employment opportunity on your site: Craigslist.org. I [...]
[Part 1 of a 2 Part Series] Anne Lamott spoke to a packed crowd last Friday in Petaluma, CA (forty miles north of San Francisco). The sold-out event at Copperfield’s Bookstore was for a reading of her new novel, Imperfect Birds. But with Anne Lamott, you always get more than just an author reading his/her [...]
Whoo Hoo! Green Day’s American Idiot Musical opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre last week to RAVE reviews! The NY Times called it “blunt, bold, and aggressive in its attitude…thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought Broadway musical adapted from the blockbuster pop-punk album by Green Day.” USA Today awarded American Idiot 3 ½ Stars [...]
Random Jambalaya continued, kinda like brain stew. And I know it isn’t Saturday. I’m catching up… Best quote of the week: President Obama in Beckley, West VA yesterday at the Memorial Service for the t twenty-nine miners who lost their lives in the Upper Branch Mine Explosion on April 5th. He said that the miners [...]
[NOTE: This blog was supposed to have been posted last night but my bandwidth bit the dust...] Yesterday was my 200th blog. And do you know what that means, boys and girls? No, YOU don’t get a prize. I do! (Oh pipe down and go write your own blogs. And don’t you dare spill your [...]
Rise and shine! It’s Earth Day and the Earth is still here! But at the rate we’re going (and the way we are living), Mother Earth will not last forever. I don’t know about you, but I dig living on this planet. And especially in that section called the good ol’ U.S. of A. (although [...]
Mark Twain died 100 years ago today. He predicted his own death. In 1909 he said: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. [...]
When comparing the filmic adaptations of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, I’m afraid the Brits win this one. A few blogs ago I commented on the movie Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow (4/13/10). All I can say is, “What a difference 14 years makes!” My 1996 reaction was that Emma was a delightful and entertaining movie. I also [...]
This morning I updated my NetFlix queue to delete a movie to be released tomorrow on DVD. I had originally debated about putting this movie on my list in the first place. But now I’m sure: Click! Removed! The decision came after reading an internet article by Roger Ebert and his comments on violence in [...]
