Just found this on YouTube; Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" live. One of the most horrifyingly beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, this has long been regarded as her greatest vocal performance, and though I own this on no less than 3 separate recordings, I’ve never seen her perform it live. YouTube, man. YouTube.
Paris In The Fall
I really don’t think I could recommend the Paris Las Vegas highly enough. It wasn’t the cheapest for sure (nor the most expensive by a LONG SHOT), but its location, room, accoutrements, all were top-notch. Sealing the deal for us, of course, was the fact that when we went to Bally’s to buy tickets for the Price is Right show, we got them at a pretty sweet discount because we were staying at Paris. We ate at two of the hotel’s restaurants, both of which were delicious, and brought home a couple cheezy ceramic balloon mugs that are now proudly displayed in our kitchen. On Saturday we didn’t even leave the hotel, we liked it so much.
Why I’m Voting Obama (Part 5)
28 October 2008
So, last week I didn’t write about Barack Obama at all, really. I had a whole eloquent piece crafted about abortion, and I deleted the whole thing and walked away. Why? Because frankly I just don’t want to get into that whole bag of BS on this website. I’m pro-choice but that has almost nothing to do with why I vote the way I do, and if you can’t bring yourself to vote for Obama just because of abortion, then I’m not sure you’re convincable in the English language.
Instead, I’m going to let Barack make his closing argument in his own words, which are inevitably better than mine:
29 October 2008
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