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BBC NEWS Attack on urinal work brings fine Du-chompin at the bit - WWMD? 'Urinal work' = art. RTE.ie Entertainment - Lifetime Achievement Award for The Pogues Word is that Shane MacGowan will tour again with Pogues. Jake and I bought tickets at no small mark up. Pray to the Lord of the church of the Holy Spook that Sean paces hisself. FILM ROTATION: SIN CITY Comparisons Compares stills to comics. Sin City is a very dark movie. But not without trace of redemptive elixir. Beat Museum Doings - Reuters.com Inside the Beat Museum infinity goes up on trial. I am going to San Francisco but I dont think I will make it to Beat Museum.

When Otis Redding died [in Madison] I didnt know what was going on. When Wilson Pickett, died I cried. He was the first soul singer I heard, and the most direct, and the guy who got me into the thing. Wilson Pickett. I died in front of 40 people 0nce trying to replicate Mustang Sally. It isnt possible. His is irreproducible art. Midnight Hour was an oldie. But it was totally different than any other. The time and the place become one with the feel. The scream of anticipation and fruition that anybody could get. Everybody Needs Somebody. Huzzah beyond Solomon! Acing Eddie Floyd: 634-5789! [A Racine Exchange!] Windows into depths was Wilson. Even with Sugar, Sugar, he could find the reality that was otherwise apparently completely dormant. It is he who could take Hey Jude and turn it into screaming pathos beyond the pale. In the dark limousine in The Commitments. Wilson Pickett! Wilson Screaming Soul Pickett Poem My room in the house on North Bay Drive Waiting for Bob - gone now too ...

Smoking links: How do we look to the rest of the world and what should that cost? What algorithm breakthrough will make machine men - and has Google already discovered it? The latest from the Edge of the Sea of Rains. All this and more I must ponder. News Victoria De Grazia, "The Selling of America, Bush Style," NYT, 2002 Quote of the day "When our neighbors call us vermin/We send out Woody Herman/That's what we call cultural exchange." - Dave Brubeck (on Cultural Exchange) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/grazia.htm AI The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Newer Math? My read on Brooks: Google algorithms in search of the best answers on an adaptive network are being seen as a template for the type of math that might improve dramatically machine learning. http://www.technologyreview.com//wtr_16010,1,p1.html Computing The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Nano Antenna Gold nanospheres show a path to all-optical computing. http://www.technologyreview.com/N...

Time Square thronged - confetti falls. Mariah Carey preens, and she is the top preener in 50 years. It's the beginning of a New Age. And the headlines snake on the marquee.

Lotta people have blogs. And they have a unique way of chattering. They are part of a phenomenon that is being called “the long tail.” They are getting more buzz than traditional media these days. Of course they try to do traditional media things from time to time, and end of year lists is one of those things. No different am I - I have been doing a music list [The Veneberal Proud Truth Music Awards] on my blogs for a few years including last year . This is the year the music ground down to 16 rpm. Stuff was not as good. Which is not to say I didn’t hear a lot of great music, it just didn’t much of it fall into the boundaries of Jan – Dec 2005. My top pick and a lot other peoples’ – big white traditional media and long black tail media alike -- top pick comes from within the confines of the year and doesn’t. It’s the “Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.” Released this year, the CD comprises a 1957 concert recording for the Voice of America that was misplaced an...

From Jack, Cecelia, and Jacob Well we made it through another year. Still on the Hill. Jake involved with the busy activity associated with finishing high school and looking at colleges. Cecelia's group, The WOlf Cry singers, performed quite a bit..and C even made some road trips to Canada and Maine and rural Mass. With Jack's dad passing on, it was tough for Brother Mike and mother Mary. But she is at home and doing well. God bless us everyone. -J.V. For more: Jack's Eulogy for his father End of the year blog notes Musical picks of 2005

I try to read some history each year, usually U.S. history, often military history. This year I read Crusade in Europe . By Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower. Amazing. Maybe someone would correct me, but it is my impression that he really wrote this – it does not have the feel of the ghost writer that often comes in to provide the voice-over for the great man. The personality that comes through is quite similar to that which Eisenhower conveyed in public. Able. Able to create consensus. A listener. Casual. Hands in back pockets. Stern if need be. Analytical. Concerned for his troops. But most of all the sense emerges of Eisenhower being a modern organization man. The job for America beginning in 1940 [when Eisenhower is still a colonel] was to mobilize. Eisenhower proved adept at understanding this, and gradually - but not too gradually - bringing the forces to bear. He appreciated amphibious war, tank war, and air war. He came to appreciate all these over many years of basically boring assig...