Protest Music Protest and topical music including comedy. We're interested in the history of protest music, for instance labor songs, civil rights songs, anti war songs. We also feature contemporary protest music and we particularly want to hear your protest songs. This is an open group. Please join and post your diaries. If you want to help manage the group message me and I'll make you a BlogEditor. Of course Protest Music is on topic. But it doesn't have to be both. Protest or Music. Protest is on topic. Music is on topic.

You asked for it. You got it. Announcing the Jesse LaGreca Show

New York Observer.com ~ Jesse LaGreca, The Smartest Man on Wall Street? Jon Stewart, The Daily Show ~ Damn, that motherfuc$er brought game! Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor ~ Mr. LaGreca is obviously a pinhead. Steven Benen, WashingtonMonthly.com ~ . . . it seems to me LaGreca should be on television more. You asked for it, you got it. They are giving me my own show. I can't believe it either. More below the fold . . . .

Unfortunately my military uniform WAS American

So Kos has a front page diary about Sheldon Adelson stating "The uniform that I wore in the military, unfortunately, was not an Israeli uniform.  It was an American uniform..." I wore that uniform when I spent some time at Bien Hoa Air Base in 68 and 69 As a crew chief on this AH-1G Cobra, 1st platoon (Playboys), 334th AHC, 145th Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Brigade. The business end I didn't have much choice since there was a draft at the time and I enlisted to try and get a better deal like many of my peers who were also young and stupid (or just ignorant). But that's another story. One of the outfits at Bien Hoa was the Air Force unit, the "Ranch Hands". There mission was to spray Agent Orange over the countryside. We all know how that turned out.

Trumpelstiltskin and the Blessing

When last we visited our acquisitive antagonist in Trumpelstiltskin and the Conversation, the people of the land were made merry watching the mop of mayhem be so deftly outwitted at his own game by the benevolent O. There seemed then but the slenderest of expectation that Trumpelstiltskin would ever foist that fringed face of his upon the land again. LO, the frowning fiend has proven now again that he will not be anticipated.

Wisconsin Republicans Working for the [Capitol] Clampdown

In an effort to halt the daily irritations of the Solidarity Singers and other protest groups that converge on "the people's house," Republicans passed "rules" (not laws) restricting assembly. These "rules of decorum," passed last March assert that anyone visiting the capitol treat it like a church, library, or movie theater. There was a long list of prohibitions including drums, crockpots, easels, extension cords, large bags, food, massage chairs, beds, boxes, blankets, pillows, noisemakers, musical instruments, tables, chairs, furniture and masking tape. The inventory is very telling: a clear elimination of the ability to occupy the premises.

Best music videos of all time

OK, just my completely biased, but not without good argument for each, the top 10 music videos of all time IMHO:

Beauty Happens: Holders of the Lights and a Madison Overpass

There are plenty of local bridges to inhabit in our Milwaukee neighborhoods, but the Overpass Light Brigade is interested in traveling further afield to locations throughout our beloved state of Wisconsin as we try our best to convince, remind, cajole, coerce and persuade automotive passersby to vote our reptilian governor out of office. While we are wary of overstating the persuasive powers of our LED propaganda, we are committed to new sites, new roads, new bridges, and most importantly, new communities of people, so we have been exploring some hitherto unvisited bridges with our recently created "1% WALKER" signs. We hit Racine last week, are going to an anti-corruption candlelight vigil in Elkhorn in two days, and will team up with a group of eager activists in Appleton this next Friday. But when we want to go to Madison, we know who to call.

A visit with Abe Lincoln and Mother Jones

A couple weeks ago I had occasion to cross Illinois on my way between St. Louis and Wisconsin.  Along the way, I stopped to see two old friends.  Like, really old friends.  But they have been much on my mind lately, given the 99%, the current campaign season, the Republican assault on workers and women... and the need occasionally to step back from it all and take the long view of social change, political shifts, and progressive change.  So let's pay them a little visit, and a little honor.

My Friend Franklin Cincinnatus And The Mayan 2012 Thing

My friend, Franlkin Cincinnatus, is a funny guy, but, he can be very serious when he wants to be.  He calls himself a "Researcher". I know he spent some time in college, I just don't know how much.  He claims he makes his living researching "things primarily within the boundaries of what was the Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas".  We met at the Pecan Street Brew Pub in Johnson City, Texas.  He was "doing research" on "art and LBJ".  I had a piece of art in the Brew Pub and he said he was interested in why I painted it.  I was bartending at the time -- he was really more interested in free beer than "research".  I told him that I was in the process of writing a book about my grandfather possibly sneeking down to Mexico and fighting in the Mexican Revolution.  He assured me that he could help me with my research.   He tends to be more serious than funny these days -- at least I think he's trying to be.  He is kind of obsessed with the Mayan 2012 thing.  The following is a transcript of a conversation I recorded last week.

Saturday Night at the Movies: What's the Best Movie You Have Ever Seen?

The Greatest Films The Greatest Films can't be measured scientifically because greatness is extremely subjective.  The artistic greatness of films (and other works of art) can never be rated or quantified, although critics, reviewers, and fans still make ten best lists, hundred best lists, all-time greatest lists, favorites lists, awards lists, and generate results of polls... This selection of 100 Greatest Films in the last century of film-making covers - by conscious choice - a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors.  They are film selections that have undoubtedly left an indelible mark upon our lives and reflect the defining moments of the last 100 years - films that give us pieces of time we can never forget... These are films that give us pieces of time that we can never forget.  They have the power to entertain, enchant, inform, and move us emotionally - and change our perceptions of things.  link

A Fire with Wind Feather

Some Souls are Profound

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