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Posted on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 05:40:47 PM EST
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    You guys.... (5.00 / 0) (#9)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:13:34 PM EST
    may have heard about the compassionate hero store owner who gave a would be thief 40 bucks and some bread...totally figures he's in trouble with John Law.  

    No good person goes unpunished...

    "Maybe that was a nice thing to do at the time," said Legis. Kate Browning (WF-Shirley), who represents the area, referring to Sohail giving $40 and a loaf of bread to the would-be robber. "But I know who he is, I know what he was doing. No sympathy for him."

    That totally figures as well...here's to having  more Mohammad Sohails than Kate Brownings in this world.

    California strawberries and NZ Braeburns are (5.00 / 0) (#13)
    by andgarden on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:26:15 PM EST
    excellent this week.

    That's funny. California strawberries (none / 0) (#16)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:41:32 PM EST
    available in CA aren't all that tasty (talking supermarket here).  

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    I guess you keep the dregs ;-) (none / 0) (#17)
    by andgarden on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:42:59 PM EST


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    The Splendid Table had this great (none / 0) (#24)
    by samtaylor2 on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 07:29:15 PM EST
    Segment on Strawberries.  So yummy.

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    Strawberries for dinner (5.00 / 2) (#29)
    by gyrfalcon on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:21:23 PM EST
    In my family, we had strawberry shortcake for dinner-- I'm talking dinner now, not dessert-- several times during strawberry season every year-- fresh-made hot baking powder biscuits drenched with sliced, slightly crushed and well-sugared berries and their juice, cold mixture of whole milk and half-and-half poured over all, served in big soup bowls.

    Ohhhhhhhhhh!  The combination of textures and temperatures and flavors is beyond belief.

    If the row-cover tents I just threw together work to keep the critters from eating all the berries as they ripen this year, I'll be able to have that unspeakably delicious dish a couple times with my own fresh-picked strawberries in a couple weeks.

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    Washington strawberries (none / 0) (#28)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:12:01 PM EST
    are the very best, but I doubt any other states see them.  They're so perishable they only last literally 3-4 days after they're picked -- and that's if you can get them straight into the fridge.

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    Washington strawberries may be good, but (none / 0) (#36)
    by caseyOR on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 10:29:50 PM EST
    the very best strawberries are the succulent and oh so delicate Hood strawberries that appear in Oregon for approx. 3 weeks every June. They, too, are too fragile to travel.

    Hoods are so amazing I do not ever eat any other kind. Those 3 weeks in June are a delight.

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    The Pears (none / 0) (#44)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 09:42:37 AM EST
    from the orchards in the region of Mt. Hood are kind of amazing too.  Best I've ever had in my life.

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    That is a really boring song. (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 05:49:48 PM EST
    P.S.  Should I expend any energy worryiing about NYT article on ex post facto rulings on fouls (flagrant and otherwise)?  

    No way... (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 05:56:32 PM EST
    Talking Heads...I like their geeky grooves...that David Byrne is out there.  I need to get familar with more of their stuff...one of those great bands that gets lost in the shuffle.

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    Once in a lifetime (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by sher on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:11:35 PM EST
    check it out on Youtube: David Byrne/Talking Heads great performance and music

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    That's my favorite song of theirs (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Democratic Cat on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:14:22 PM EST
    Talking Heads is one of my all-time favorite bands. Perfect for the college angst that has never quite left me--or most of my friends.

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    Sick tune... (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:22:46 PM EST
    no doubt...but I'm a bit partial to Psycho Killer.

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    Great tune (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by sher on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:26:30 PM EST
    and I can appreciate Verdi and Talking Heads

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    Like I say... (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:29:21 PM EST
    when people ask "what kind of music do you like?"

    "Good music"

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    Have you heard Shawn Colvin's version? (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 07:18:26 PM EST
    Just her acoustic guitar and beautiful voice. Shows what a good song it is. The two renditions could not be more different, and I love them both.

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    They were my favorite band (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by otherlisa on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:46:08 PM EST
    and inspired me to learn to play bass and start my own band. I must have seen them close to 20 times in concert. First for free at UCLA in 1978.

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    'Stop Making Sense' (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 07:11:01 PM EST
    Soundtrack album - all live cuts. Like them best that way.

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    Yeah, I called it an album (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 07:13:41 PM EST
    First bought it on vinyl!

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    Ha! (none / 0) (#25)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 08:02:12 PM EST
    Made me check the vinyl collection.  I've still got Naked ('88), SMS ('84) and More Songs about Buildings and Food ('78).

    Yes, I know I'm old.  

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    Yeah, so am I (old, I mean) (none / 0) (#26)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 08:28:07 PM EST
    Actually I was a late comer to The Talking Heads. I have friends that are a few years younger who got really into them in college, and they took me to the 'Stop Making Sense' movie when it came out. Then I got hooked, at least on that soundtrack record. Never went back and bought the older stuff - oh yeah, I was broke! Probably thought even the soundtrack record was an extravagance, since I had just seen the movie ;-)

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    The Long Riders... (none / 0) (#27)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 08:52:49 PM EST
    ...the Talking Heads--it's like "I Love the 80's" around here!    

    Who could ever forget DB wearing an over-sized white suit doing his patented "dance" moves.  Good times, good times.  

    The Tom Tom Club is quality stuff too.  

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    And I thought I wore some big shoulder pads (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:37:16 PM EST
    back then. Really, I pretty much had a jacket like the 'Big Suit'.  Oh lord, and I think I wore it with leggings! Just shoot me.

    DB had the moves - "dance" indeed.

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    Well, anything to escape the (none / 0) (#30)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:28:16 PM EST
    Reagan years!

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    Byrne's music is okay, I guess... (none / 0) (#43)
    by EL seattle on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 01:16:28 AM EST
    ... but the Tom Tom Club is so perfect in it's own way.

    I mean, has any David Byrne solo piece ever popped up in something as playful and interesting as this video track?

    (The video looks like what you'd get if Kenneth Anger had a daughter or something and she made movies just like her old man.)

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    Had I known it was David Byrne, I would (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:49:26 PM EST
    not have posted such a sacriligious comment!

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    Life is boring (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:06:57 PM EST
    This is actually one of the great songs of all time.

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    As k dog would say, I'm in a different (none / 0) (#11)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:19:51 PM EST
    groove.  Just heard a fabulous performance of the Verdi "Requiem" in San Francisco.  Now that's music.

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    Have you heard (none / 0) (#38)
    by Democratic Cat on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 10:39:39 PM EST
    MTT and SFS do any of the Mahler symphonies? It's not the Talking Heads but it's fabulous nonetheless. All available on CD too. They did the Sixth Symphony during the week of September 11. That concert was a very moving experience.

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    I just heard MTT conduct San Francisco (none / 0) (#39)
    by oculus on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:00:49 AM EST
    Symphony in Shubert's Rosamunde overture and Unfinished Symphony, Berg songs, and Berg orchestral pieces.  Songs were the highlight, with Christine Brewer. I have heard MTT conduct the orchestra playing Mahler.  He's "got it."

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    Don't know the recordings, but (none / 0) (#40)
    by gyrfalcon on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:16:06 AM EST
    MTT has always understood the 9th the way only a very old person should by rights.  He and Lenny are the only ones who really "get" what Mahler was doing with it, IMHO.

    The 6th is the only one of the M symphonies I don't really know.  Thanks for the reminder to go look it up.

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    I would have enjoyed hearing Barenboim (none / 0) (#41)
    by oculus on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:21:34 AM EST
    and Boulez conduct the Mahler symphonies at Carnegie Hall recently.  In chronological order.

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    Hear, hear (none / 0) (#31)
    by mcjoan on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:32:13 PM EST
    Thanks for this one, A.

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    Lyrics are better: (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 05:52:24 PM EST
    link

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    even if you are not into games (none / 0) (#4)
    by Capt Howdy on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:06:41 PM EST
    you will love this

    it is the opening (called a cinematic) for the new Rock Star game based on Beatles music.

    if you can find a higher res version please so.  it is mind blowing.
    stick with it.  it gets better and better

    Comment without comment. (none / 0) (#6)
    by lentinel on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:07:16 PM EST
    Today, our President, Mr. Obama said, "Five guys was good. This is better."

    Your Senators at work: (none / 0) (#8)
    by Anne on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:12:56 PM EST
    From a (surprisingly good) diary at dkos (my emphasis - and h/t to Corrente, where I first saw this):

    Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of PNHP and associate professor medicine at Harvard Medical School, reported that Baucus had said he might be willing to drop charges of unlawful conduct and disruption of Congress against 13 people but had no intention of opening up any hearings to include single-payer. Himmelstein also announced the release of two new studies. The first, being released Wednesday, reportedly finds that some of the largest investors in tobacco stock are private health insurance companies. The second, to be released Thursday, reportedly shows that not only are personal bankruptcies increasing, but 62 percent of them are now due to medical debt.

    Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and a practicing registered nurse, reported that Baucus had implied he'd made a mistake in not including single-payer but that it was too late now.

    Himmelstein is one of two physicians featured on a recent Bill Moyers' Journal, where a very good discussion about health care reform and single payer took place.

    So, it's too late now to talk about reforming health care via single-payer.  No intention of even allowing single-payer advocates to be heard in a formal, public hearing.

    Max Baucus is not my Senator, and from what I am seeing and hearing, he has no business being anyone's Senator.  Not with an attitude like this.  But I bet the insurance lobby loves them some Max Baucus...mmmm....yeah!

    Now, in the House, Nancy Pelosi is threatening to take the climate change bill away from the committee responsible for it if that committee does not vote to bring it to the floor.  Say what you will about Pelosi, I would love a Senate Majority Leader who would have a come-to-Jesus meeting with Baucus and tell him he'd better by-God allow people to be heard or he would take the issue away from him.  Fat-freakin' chance, huh?

    The blood boils.

    You beat me to it, Anne. (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by dk on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 07:01:11 PM EST
    I had actually come over to post this too!

    Of course, the Obama administration is driving the legislation, so ultimately the responsibility is with the President on this.  I guess the poster at Kos might not have seen Obama's "goldilocks" healthcre TV ads in the GE, in which single payer was an extremist position equally bad to the worst Republican backed nightmares.  The left and the right are always equally bad, don't you remember?  /snark

    At least there's one good senator, though.  

    Senator Sanders said after the meeting that if healthcare reform did not create a single-payer system it shouldn't be done at all, and that within three or four years we would realize we'd solved nothing. He said that it would be better to increase funding for community health centers and take steps to make it easier for medical students to go into primary care, than to enact major reforms that didn't go to the root of the problem.

    Go Bernie!!

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    This is a good one (none / 0) (#32)
    by joze46 on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:32:23 PM EST
    Hey Big Tent the music video is

    Pretty good, however the background belly button stuff has to go. After four minutes and twenty seconds in to the music an organ cathedral tunnel effect with a lamp dance was something. Not sure what the message was but it was kind of cool. That guy is good, the lead singer, but has a hang up; that tattoo has to go.

    The start of the music reminds me of the old long version beginning of the Folsom blues the John Cash song "from the movie" a real long repeating bass start up to me was cool. Still looking around for that movie version.

    The lamp stuff represents something, good balance, and the old bulbs, and lamp shade, a Sherlock moment for me. There is a sublime message I am still trying to sort out. This is a buy if I see it thanks for the tip...

    The movie is Stop Making Sense (none / 0) (#34)
    by ruffian on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:07 PM EST
    sounds like you would enjoy figuring it out!

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    Will Orlando win any games? (none / 0) (#35)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 10:13:46 PM EST


    Yes (5.00 / 1) (#37)
    by Steve M on Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 10:39:23 PM EST
    I guarantee it!

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    Beautiful (none / 0) (#42)
    by phat on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:49:46 AM EST
    Aside from this being a great song from a great band, which it is. It certainly makes me smile.

    On top of that the band so obviously are enjoying themselves and the filmmaker did a genius job of showing it. The audio is just about perfect, too. Watch the interactions amongst the performers.

    Great.

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