Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Current Riders of the Purple Sage
Saw the New Riders of the Purple Sage in town last month and now, through the generosity of Dawg House Audio and Tim Steigler, have a chance to re-hear the show. Had a great old time that night and think it holds up well on disc. Highly recommended.
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Black Gold
Just watched Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Despite the overbearing subtitle, it is actually pretty deft in making its case to the average 1st World coffee drinker. It starts off with the coffee side of things for the first 50 minutes or so, then spends some time on the more general issues…
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Comfort Women Apology Withdrawn
Via Farls at LGM I read that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has withdrawn the Japanese government’s official 1992 apology for atrocities to “Comfort Women”, enslaved into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. Celtic Dragon runs a longer entry on this, including some gut-wrenching, absolutely nauseating first-hand testimony. What a horrible,…
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GD 19710621 Chateau d’Hérouville
edited 20110903 In January 2007, Hanno Bunjes made a post at his now defunct blog at yurk.net describing the joy of discovering some almost-unseen video footage of the Grateful Dead playing at Chateau d’Hérouville near Paris, France, on June 21, 1971, from the French government’s archival copy (Vive la bureaucracie!). I had a link to…
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Yes, we torture
According to Col. Stuart Herrington. Via Sully.
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IOs and Politics
Henry notes that Putin is pushing back against the OSCE. First, I am less sanguine than Henry about the pure-drivenness of the OSCE’s motives. Makes perfect sense to me that it should be anti-Russian. Power –> institutions. Second, Putin is a scary man. “Spook spooky spook” — hilarious! Third, sure is getting chilly in East-West…
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Battle of Algiers
Finally saw Battle of Algiers last night … magnificent! It will reward repeated viewing. Of course, the torture and counterinsurgency techniques depicted seem, with certain exceptions, relatively mild compared to what we are surely doing in Iraq and in connection with the GWOT. With certain exceptions (the bombing of occuped houses, execution), a sense of…
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Plaidoyer pour la France
Thank you, Rob.
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Will the Rhino Roar?
“The Music Never Stopped” torrent site (tmnsp.net) has been rebranded as Jerome’s Place, likely in anticipation of a less benign attitude toward torrent Grateful Dead related material by the new “keepers of the vault”, Rhino Records. Will the Rhino roar? Too soon to say, but I wouldn’t bet against it. In the meantime, RIP TMNSP…
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Long Time Gone
Six months, long time away. I could never be a real (regular) blogger. Anyway, I am going to try to post occasionally.