VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF AMERICA'S FINANCIAL WOES

Grim facts that should be sending both parties scrambling to curb the coming financial disaster for America:


Obama self-righteously declares:

"We have to live within our means..."

Yet his policies have increased our national debt to astronomical levels.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Until one remembers that Obama is in campaign mode. Is he ever in any other mode?

The Seven Wonders of WonderCon 2011: Behind the Music of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, PUSHING DAISIES, TRUE BLOOD, BONES & More!

At the “Behind the Music: Composing for Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy” panel, presented by CW3PR, fans heard from some of the most gift musical talents on television today about how they entered the realm of musical composition...KEEP READING AT THE TV ADDICTTipster: lysaleelee

SPRING!

In honor of spring (hat tip to Leslie), even though we're going through a last blast of winter here in the D.C. area this weekend, and never mind the final words on the videotape:


I have a yellow tiger kitty, so I admit that this video touched my heart in a special way.

A break from politics helps us to regain perspective.

OUR LEFTIST-PERVADED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

A musical presentation satirizing the tripe our children are being taught (found at Conservative Hideout 2.0):

Keef's Life

Last week, since I had a 40 percent off coupon plus 5 bucks reward from a bookstore here, I asked barista Aco and Ujang what books to buy.

Ujang, somewhat unsurprisingly, came up with the Handbook of Development Economics. Aco, however, had (better) idea: the biography of Keith Richards, Life.

It's the book everybody in town now talk and write about. From David Remnick of Newyorker to Michiko Kakutani of NYT to our own Taufiqurrahman --who lambasted a mediocre review by a music critic-turned-political pundit in our you-know-what daily.

I ordered my copy. Keith Richards', that is.

To celebrate Keef's biography, the Cafe plays Happy from Exile on Main St. album and Salt of the Earth from Beggars Banquet album.

Independence Day 2010

Happy Birthday, America!

One more video, in which a reading of the Declaration of Independence begins around time marker 4:20:

MUSICAL INTERLUDE FOR A SUMMER'S EVENING

Spotted at Social Sense, below is George Gershwin's "Summertime" to accompany masterful photographs:



A much needed break from politics to soothe the soul.