Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
People's Liberation Big Band
A new version of the Nutcracker and a new Christmas tradition. The People's Liberation Big Band once again performed their wild-eyed version of the Nutcracker in Kansas City last night. They first unleashed this alternative jazz version with its unusual time signatures and creative re-harmonizations in 2006. One of their next projects is a soundtrack to the 1925 silent film, Battleship Potemkin. I can hardly wait.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Train For Winter Survival Like The Cosmonauts
One of their many packages is their "Original Cosmonaut Winter Survival Training" in Russia, as pictured above. Oooo, yes! Sign me up! Those blue boots are so worth it.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Burl's Pearl's -- Burl Ives' Surprising Oeuvre
A departure from his regular Christmas fare, this collection is widely regarded as his "psychedelic" album. Conceived and recorded during his experimentation with hallucinogens.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Next To Godliness
If you don't need dry cleaning you can see Prince Okwina for a shoe shine
The name is so clever I can't get over it
A dry cleaners that cares more about justice than the rules (this Australian shop thinks its the Clint Eastwood of dry cleaners)
I would dirty my clothes just so I could come see this sign.
....Or this one
No, Really --The r Open
They clean clothes but will they clean their windows?
Kind of going overboard with the "green" concept.
You can't see it from here but there's surely a dry cleaners in there somewhere
Gets the award for best dry cleaners name ever
The only cleaners with a woman encased in glass. Also known as the WTF? cleaners
Have pants will travel
The dry cleaners that wishes it were a nightclub
Appeals to customers who can't settle on one color scheme
Dry cleaning with a little tongue
When only the very best will do
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
My Blog Goes In For Some Navel-Gazing
And so, without further ado --Labels from my blog:
afterlife, archipelago, axis of evil, azoic, bad hair, badass hair, baked Alaska, Bee Gees, big red cat, biologists, blocked creativity, bottom mud, Burl Ives My Ass Coalition, caffeine tremor, catfish, danish, Donovan, Eishenhower, Emma Peel, Eugene Debs, fungi, Gamma Ray (rock band), happy meat, Harpo Marx, hell, hemp intelligence, high altitude flight, HotPoint appliances, june bug, keffiyeh, lawn care, marrying the Beatles, Mashed Potato Hut, math nightmares, mediums, Mexican jumping beans, moderately gifted, Nick Drake, Noche de los Rabanos, non-violent civil disobedience, Obama, October, Pilgrims, poplars, pressure suit, Reinhold Niebuhr, sea-monkeys, Shatner, Srinagar, Stella Artois, tap-dancing, Tupperware Liberation Front, ways to transport plutonium, Wiley Post.
Monday, December 1, 2008
The Shepheardes Calender: December
A R G V M E N T.
From the Renascence Editions - an online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799, courtesy of the University of Oregon.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/december.html