Today is Thanksgiving in the US. It commemorates both the Puritans living through their first year, with more than a little help from their Wampanoag neighbors, and the beginning of the end of the Wampanoag’s existence as a tribe. Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time when we give thanks for the good things in [...]
Today is Thanksgiving here in the US. Here at Chez Evil we’re getting ready for dinner sometime this afternoon, just the three of us (possibly our neighbor and his “friend”, if they’re around this year). We’re also bracing ourselves for the Battle Over the TV after dinner – if there’s any hockey on at all [...]
Das Lisenlottenbett – Black Tape for a Blue Girl Your Heart is an Empty Room – Death Cab for Cutie Farewell to Kings – Rush Cry to Me – Heart Hooray for Santa Claus (Theme from “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”) – Sloppy Seconds Sweet Dreams (are Made of This) – Eurythmics I Often Dream [...]
Stigmata Martyr – Abney Park Pibroch (Cap in Hand) – Jethro Tull Human Behavior – Bjork String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 92: II. Andante – Shostakovich Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Songe d’une nuit du Sabbat – Berlioz Blue Joy – Mark Mothersbaugh Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes Edge of the [...]
Jared Polis, announced Democratic candidate for CO-02, is spending Thanksgiving in Iraq and Jordan. Read his essay; he’s got lots of good, sound reasons for going. We wish him a safe, uneventful trip.