The Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch died of throat cancer last week. Always some cruel twist of fate for a rapper. See The DOC of NWA & DMC of Run-DMC. We knew him as MCA. (Sheesk. This post already has more acronyms than a text message between 13-year old girls transcribing an FDA compliance manuel. BTW. […]
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Osama Bin Laden: One Year
This is not a celebration. Just a remembrance. One of the values of song blogging is that it freezes in time a sentiment or a feeling, less easily retained in simple prose. What the ipoetlaureate was doing the day he died. Performed by the ipoetlaureate. Music produced by Gudo. Today’s song blog here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/osama-neck-breaks.mp3″ […]
Les Miserables
Apparently wild ideological swings are not exclusive to American politics. Francois Hollande and incumbant Nicolas Sarkozy have advanced to the Second Round of France’s Presidential Elections. March madness or mma style, I guess. Sports frolic: Jon “Bones” Jones defeated Rashad “Suga” Evans in a lopsided and unanimous decision Saturday night at UFC 145. (Where else […]
Getting the Band Back Together
On the night we lose a legend in music and television hosting, in Dick Clark, there is some consolation that we are now toeing the line of a technology that can replicate and preserve and scrapbook in pixilated dimension our heroes of music. If you haven’t yet seen it, please immediately YouTube the hologram performance […]
Ram in the Thicket
Easter is about deliverance at base. And that’s an idea that can be embraced whether or not you share a belief in the specific Christian account. Stories of deliverance are common to all people. They are the pillars of our human hope — that our present difficulty would not last. Our great books and cinema […]
Almost Famous
I meant to get this out last week. The buzz has simmered some now. I had a show last Friday night and as I was walking through the lobby I saw, on an overhead monitor, George Clooney in handcuffs. He and his dad were protesting Omar Al-Bashir outside the Sudanese embassy, when they were arrested. […]
Willy Wonka
Blagojevich goes to jail Thursday . . . possibly for 14 years. 17 counts of political corruption. Stunning, right? Governor of Illinois. A Celebrity Apprentice contestant. Great bouffant. These people don’t go to jail for a decade and a half, right? Not for trading political favors, certainly? It feels like the white-collar iteration of the […]
All Bully
You know what the research shows? Bullies are the most disliked students at school. I know. I can break news. You know who is the second most disliked? Yep. Hipsters and Miami Heat fans. No, no I’m sorry. Wrong survey. Bully victims. Do you know what that means? They had it coming. Wait, sorry, again. […]
Mid Range
Well, just like “Tebow Time” before it, “Linsanity” has forced my hand. While those of us who consume life- and work-debilitating quantities of ESPN and sports talk radio think that all the world must surely have heard of Jeremy Lin, most of the world does not consume life- and work-debilitating quantities of ESPN and sports […]
JoePa
It’s just an impossible thing that one of the most revered figures in college football would essentially lose it all in the wake of a child abuse scandal and possible cover-up and then die of cancer within months. It’s a sad day for everyone. Although he made what was likely a severe, severe mistake in […]
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