My neice, Quinn
CBS Evening News. Katie Couric’s exclusive interview with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Katie Couric - “I’m just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation”
Sarah Palin - “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to ya.”
Try to find you some. Bring them back to ya?
Oh America…please. Please vote. Vote like you’ve never voted before.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s rendition of Sarah Palin and Katie Couric’s one-on-one
Sarah Palin and Katie Couric, First Interview focusing on economy.
Should our children be reading political ploys? If I reckon correctly, it was about the same time when I was reading illustration books that I personally thought my daddy could be president of the United States. Shame on Meghan McCain for buttering up our nation’s youth (ie our future) and making a pretty penny at the same time.
“When the final news came, there would be a ring at the front door as if she no longer owns it or controls it - and outside the door would be a man … come to inform her that unfortunately something has happened out there, and her husband’s body now lies incinerated in the swamps or the pines or the palmetto grass, “burned beyond recognition,” which anyone who has been around an air base for very long (fortunately Jane has not) realized was quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous fowl that has been burned up in a stove, burned a blackish brown all over, greasy and blistered, fired, in a word, with not only the entire face and all the hair and the ears burned off, not to mention all the clothing, but also the hands and feet, with what remains of the arms and legs bent at the knees and elbows and burned into absolutely rigid angles, burned a greasy blackish brown like the bursting body itself, so that this husband, father, officer, gentleman, this ornamentum of some mother’s eye, His Majesty the Baby of just twenty-odd years back, has been reduced to a charred hulk with wings and shanks sticking out of it.”
- Ch. 1, “The Angles”
The Right Stuff
See best-selling author and journalist, and one of my personal favorites, Tom Wolfe, at the Harold Washington Public Library on October 16 in conversation with journalist, Carol Marin. Wolfe is known for his works:
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electrice Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The New Journalism, The Painted World, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, The Right Stuff, In Our Time, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Purple Decades, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Ambush at Fort Bragg, A Man in Full, I am Charlotte Simmons, and Back to Blood.
Jenny Lewis will showcase her soon-to-be released sophomore album, Acid Tongue, Sept. 19 at Epiphany Church. Critically acclaimed artist of Rabbit Fur Coat and front woman of Rilo Kiley, Lewis moves in stride with a newly found sense of confidence. She croons her spellbinding lyrics with a combination of folk, bluegrass, and psychedelic rock. Lewis collaborates with Elvis Costello and M. Ward on her new album; so concert-going hopefuls should cross fingers especially tight for surprise guest appearances.
Photo by A Sheckler
Emerging from the 70s, Steely Dan is still rockin’ original soul, funk, rock, and R&B. Front men Walter Becker and Donald Fagen filled the Chicago Theatre with wry lyrics and funky melodies, giving audience members their money’s worth. With enough hits to play long into the night, Steely Dan and their 10-piece band could only touch on some crowd favorites. “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Black Friday,” and “Kid Charlemagne” got the sold out crowd onto their feet. “The Royal Scam” was followed by a long and boisterous standing ovation, leaving all concert-goers with a touch of nostalgia.
