the brain police

  ( apologies to Judy Collins )  By the time we got to Whitestock We were half a billion strong According to the FOX NEWS singalong And ever...

The Righteous Brothers You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling 1964 Written by Phil Spector, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill and produced by ...

AND I'M GONNA SELL IT TO YOU!

A few days ago, I was visiting a friend and we were talking about gardens and the overload of the end of summer. When everything seems to ge...

I had to post this. Especially after I posted Ben l'Oncle Soul's version of Crazy, which was originally performed by Gnarls Barkely...

Any Revolution Has To Start With You

Jim Hurlbut: You were born in Omaha, is that right? Malcolm   X: Yes sir. Hurlbut: And your family left Omaha when you were what? One year o...

I posted a piece by Ben l'Oncle Soul earlier this year, but this was the piece that I saw on French TV that convinced me. The song is C...

M ax Ernst was born on April 2, 1891. He was probably one of the most inventive, prolific artists of the 20th century. In earlier posts, I h...

A segment from nne of the greatest black comedy/horror movies ever made, Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampirte Killers. No matter what...

Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide ...

I have been looking for this piece on YouTube for a while...Situation off of the 1970 Jeff Beck Group album, Rough And Ready. This was a pr...

New York's backward history: In the mid-1600s the notoriously anti-Semitic Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant turned down the request of th...

I've had a frustrating evening dealing with expedia.fr...so, it's late and I am posting this blast form the past. Rodney Dangerfiel...

A slime mould oozes into a fancy restaurant and is offered a wine list. The list has only 2 bottles, one priced at $7.00 and another better...

I'm a frikkin Repubican and I don't have to make sense! Now git offa muh lawn!

In the late 1920's, Max Ernst became fascinated with steel cut engraved illustrations in old books. He took images from novels, scientif...

"The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden story. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because wanted to...

The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by tur...