Chicago music luminaries Robbie Fulks, Califone, Sally Timms, the Waco Brothers and others are playing “A Big Brain Benefit” at 7 p.m. Sunday, November 9 at the School of the Art Institute Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan. The concert will benefit Diane Izzo, a singer-songwriter who recently had a $100,000 operation to remove a crippling brain tumor. Tickets are $20.
You can buy tickets through TicketWeb. If you want to donate, go to www.dianeizzo.com and use the PayPal link to donate funds directly to Diane and Marco. More info after the jump.
Jim Domen, the Ted Haggard-looking guy in the middle, celebrates returns for Proposition 8.
When asked his opinion on the passing of the ban, Domen said “The thought of two men having sex is sick and gross. It’s just disgusting. There’s the hairiness, and the anus, it’s just—it just makes me shudder. I probably wouldn’t support a ban on lesbian marriage, but since it’s all or nothing, I have to be a staunch supporter.”
The drawing would be of you, dear reader, looking very dignified and responsible. You’d be in a voting booth casting your ballot.
That’s it. Not too funny, really, but I think it’s an important picture.
OK, fine, you’re in a thong, but it’s in no way a comment on the democratic process. You see, the thong’s underneath your clothes. So it’s your little secret.
Wishes: President Barack Obama makes an immediate effort to cross party lines. He leads bipartisan efforts to regulate lobbying and electioneering. Obama appoints John McCain and Hillary Clinton to high level posts in his cabinet. Obama pushes for environmental legislation that works to cancel out Bush’s eight years of efforts to weaken regulations. Obama succeeds in providing at least catastrophic health coverage for every American. The Obama Administration works to cut spending and also revamps or creates more targeted social programs. Dick Cheney has his final heart attack, preferably while walking alone in the wilderness.
Owl&Bear is giving away a copy of Sunday At Devil Dirt, the second installment of duets from Scottish belle Isobel Campbell and gravelly guy Mark Lanegan.
The apparently Scottish-American Talking Heads singer (who also writes a great blog) sent out a mass email this evening with some thoughts on tomorrow’s vote.
Mississippi (Alt.) - Bob Dylan
Out Like a Light - The Panics
I Left My Heart All Over The Place - Tim Rogers and the Twin Set
A Man Like Me - Beulah
Arms Of A Thief - Iron And Wine
Red Alert - Angela Desveaux
Measuring Cups - Andrew Bird
Standing Bird - Love Psychedelico
Carol and Sanford - The Hectors
Black River Killer - Blitzen Trapper
Jodi - The Dodos
Floating in the Forth (Live) - Frightened Rabbit
Leggy Blonde - Flight Of The Conchords
Creation Stepper - Pit Er Pat
Sarah and Todd Palin understand disability so well that they gave their son, who was born in April with Down syndrome, a joke name: Trig Paxson Van Palin (”in homage to the rock band Van Halen“).
I can’t argue that any child named for Van Halen shouldn’t be mentally disabled, but the joke first name and the rock star double-whammy makes me wonder if the Palin train of thought didn’t go something like Heck, he’s retarded; he’ll never know.
Sure, the Palin family names have been joked about for some time (”Track” is second-worst), but Trig Van Palin is beyond the pale. I can’t imagine the Palins opening their garden variety kids up to quite the same level of ridicule.
Call me crazy, but I don’t see the Vice President using the word “delight” in a context that doesn’t involve butchering a fresh kill, polluting something, or discovering that his daughter has chosen to stop being a lesbian.
No matter how much we wish it weren’t so, America is split in two. The two sides—call them conservative vs. liberal, red vs. blue, or “real” vs. “elite”—have very different dreams for America. And while, yes, at the end of the day we are all brothers, standing united with our fellow countrymen in times of turmoil, the two Americas have been playing a decades-long tug-of-war that has usually resulted in stalemate. The results of Tuesday’s election, however, will be a huge victory for one half of the country, and could finally steer America down a single decisive path.
First, Republicans called a potential Obama Chief of Staff “among the most vitriolic and partisan people in American politics,” evidently right behind [every member of the Bush Administration, beginning with Bush]. Now, they’re accusing Obama of not supporting the freedom of speech, evidently right behind [every member of the Bush Administration, beginning with Bush].
ViaScott Horton at Harper’s, where Horton also notes that McCain (”palled around”) with the apparently evil Rashid Khalidi on a large-scale funding of a West Bank project.
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