Dog owners like McCain better? ...12:09 pm
According to an AP-Yahoo! News poll:
An AP-Yahoo! News poll found that pet owners favor McCain over Obama 42 percent to 37 percent, with dog owners particularly in McCain’s corner.
“I think a person who owns a pet is a more compassionate person — caring, giving, trustworthy. I like pet owners,” said Janet Taylor of Plymouth, Mass.
[...]
[John McCain] has a veritable menagerie, including Sam the English springer spaniel, Coco the mutt, turtles Cuff and Link, Oreo the black and white cat, a ferret, three parakeets and a bunch of saltwater fish.
On the other hand, the poll found that among people who don’t have pets, Obama leads McCain 48 percent to 34 percent.
But that still leaves McCain looking strong, since the majority of homes have a pet.
The American Pet Product Manufacturers Association estimates that 63 percent of American homes include a pet, including 88 million cats and 75 million dogs.
Both of those groups lean toward McCain: 43 percent to 34 percent for dog owners and 41 percent to 38 percent for cat owners.
While he doesn’t currently have a pet, Obama has reportedly promised his daughters a dog once the campaign is over.
Even in this, it seems, Obama is all about hope and promises!
I’m not sure what to make of this poll, especially since where I live dog owners are almost guaranteed to be liberal (but maybe that’s because where I live almost everyone is guaranteed to be liberal). I can say that New York City has at least one good conservative mutt, pictured above, naturally.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Money blues ...4:27 pm
So, as previously mentioned, Bob Dylan’s next release will be Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Volume 8.
It’s being released as a 2-CD set, currently priced for pre-order at $18.99, and then also as a 3-CD set, currently priced for pre-order at $129.99.
That’s right: the third CD, with 12 additional tracks, costs a cool $111.00. And we’re supposed to weep for the music industry.
OK, in addition to the third CD, you get:
- “150 page deluxe hardcover photo book of Bob Dylan ’singles’ from around the world”
- “60 page booklet with stunning rare photos and in-depth notes”
- “7″ vinyl single of ‘Dreaming of You’ and ‘Ring Them Bells’”
Still, the folks who dreamed up this sales and marketing strategy are well aware that there are a class of people out there called completists who will feel obliged to purchase the deluxe 3-CD set largely for the purpose of owning that third CD. It’s a crime. I mean, c’mon, photo books and commentary on Dylan: you can walk into any bookstore and find shelves full of that stuff. You shouldn’t have to buy a big expensive load of it in order to also purchase his music.
The world being what it is today, lots of people will just choose to buy the 2-CD set and download the third CD somewhere. And no doubt some will decide to just download all three while they’re at it. I don’t know what the answer is for the music industry, if there is any one answer, but it certainly can’t be this.
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More endorsements for Barack Obama ...4:09 pm
Barack Obama has a page on the photo sharing site called Flickr. On his profile, there are words of praise for him from fans far and wide. Here’s a few (these are comments that have to be approved by the user, i.e. Obama’s campaign, by the way):
zanalee says:
“Everywhere I go in NYC where I live, I feel this amazing spirit of support for you. I have never been so excited about a presidential candidate in my life! I wear my Obama button proudly. A woman on the train today told me I reminded her she should be wearing hers and she pulled it out of her bag and put it on right there! How amazing! What a wonderful feeling!…
Mark Klotz says:
“My self and many other Canadians would like to see Barack Obama become the next president of the United States. What great change this would bring throughout the world! I wish Barack Obama all the best!”…
single0tom says:
“i am a village guy from india .. i have been using internet for 8 yrs and finally i met a super power here. that is BARACK OBAMA.. he is beynd my all words..we can see the pic of his great support from inside and outside usa .. we all knew he is the right person for USA president”…
sarahfru says:
“Barack is the only person on my contact list that is going to save the world. Thankyou, Barack, now maybe I won’t have to move to France.”…
.Rabea. says:
“I am an Egyptian guy..
currently Usa is not my favorite country..
Yet, I really see the change glowing out from your eyes and you seem like a balanced, responsible, and strong person and leader..
I wish from all my heart that you win the elections and be a president,,
If you win, I hope you change the bad image of Usa in billions of peoples’ eyes..
and if you didn’t win You’d still be a great person in my opinion and many many others like me who believe in hope and peace..”…
Christian et Cie says:
“If I was American, I’d vote Obama!!”…
jazzman24 says:
“I can hardly wait for January 20, 2009, that’s when our country will rise to GREATNESS that it has missed for over two centuries!
Barack Obama will spend the next eight years making these United States Of America a place where ALL are created EQUAL!!!!!!”
Some might say, “Well, what’s the point? What’s the point of quoting these hyperventilating fans of Barack Obama? Their nuttiness has got nothing to do with him.” Well, I think it has everything to do with him. This kind of bizarre and unrealistic adulation comes straight out of Obama’s own rhetoric. “This is the moment. We are what we’ve been waiting for.” Etc. etc. He’s been quoted today as saying: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
The combination of his supporters’ inflated view of Obama with his own inflated view of himself is certainly funny, but perhaps it will become less and less funny as we near the real possibility of his being elected on this weird Salvation platform.
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Be My Baby: Obama gets the definitive celebrity endorsement ...12:57 pm
Barack Obama has been endorsed by the creator of the famous “Wall of Sound” production method, i.e. the accused murderer Phil Spector. Spector wore a “Barack Obama Rocks” badge in an appearance at a hearing in preparation for his upcoming trial in the shooting death of an actress named Lana Clarkson. (This is the second attempt to try Spector in this case; the first ended in a mistrial.) The story is reported today in an LA Times blog.
I like Phil Spector. Neither this endorsement nor any possible future conviction for murder will make me throw away those recordings of the Ronettes and the Crystals and so on. Geniuses have their flaws. You’ve got to take the crunchy with the smooth. In Phil’s case, he’s never lacked for the crunchy elements.
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And speaking of great men and their flaws, there was a story yesterday on Barack Obama’s address to UNITY ‘08, a convention of four minority journalism associations. There are no doubt a number of things worthy of comment in terms of what Obama said, but look at this part of the report on his appearance:
Obama, who appeared tired in his first major appearance since returning Saturday from a 10-day trip abroad, met with a receptive audience at the Chicago convention. Some journalists had waited three hours for the 40-minute appearance.
[...]
Obama, who acknowledged that he needed a nap, stood up to say farewell to the audience of journalists, many of whom gave him another standing ovation.
Let’s get this straight. We’re told that Obama returned on Saturday from his overseas trip. The address was on Monday. He “appeared tired” and “acknowledged that he needed a nap.” Just imagine for a minute that this story had been written about John McCain. We would never hear the end of the jokes about how the 72 year-old senator needs his naps. Actually, they wouldn’t be jokes. I think there are those who would use such an occurrence to seriously question the Republican candidate’s vitality, health and strength. No doubt at some point during this campaign such an issue will be raised, perhaps prompted by some gaffe or incident of some kind. All I’m doing here is pointing out the double-standard in advance.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tell Tale Signs ...3:52 pm
The news is out: Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Volume 8 will be released on October 7th. Edna Gunderson in USA Today has the full track listings, various details, and a video clip from a 1993 performance of Ring Them Bells: Bob Dylan reveals many facets on ‘Tell Tale Signs’.
The two-CD, 27-song set, out Oct. 7, contains previously unreleased studio recordings, demos, alternate takes, live tracks and rarities spanning 1989 to 2006, a rich period that generated the lauded Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy. A third 12-track disc is part of a limited-edition deluxe set in a hardcover slipcase with a book with photos of all of Dylan’s singles. The 27-song version also will be issued in a limited-edition four-LP set.
Listeners will discover a wealth of fresh material and multiple versions of songs with altered lyrics, moods and styles.
And the BobDylan.com site has been revamped and relaunched once again. You can get an mp3 of the previously unreleased Dreamin’ Of You (a new single!) there after jumping through a few hoops. It includes many lines that were later used in Standin’ In The Doorway.
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Addendum: And let’s include the track list here too. (more…)
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How’d they know? ...3:32 pm
When I went to YouTube a little while ago, there was a list of video clips headed “Recommended for You.” Top of the list was the clip below of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison performing This Train Is Bound For Glory. It’s apparently from a Christmas show in 1977, and they dedicate the song to Elvis, as he’d passed on that same year. Just goodhearted fun.
Bob Dylan likes his trains, and likes mentioning them in songs. Some phrases from this song ended up in his tune Tryin’ To Get To Heaven.
Some trains don’t pull no gamblers
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Cuil is not cool ...4:38 pm
There’s a new search engine called “Cuil” which is debuting and attracting a lot of press, as a possible competitor with Google. From my admittedly selfish perspective, I’m not impressed. Aside from its terrible slowness (obviously the servers are overloaded today), I can’t say very much for its accuracy when a search for the simple and familiar term rightwingbob retrieves a page of results that does not even include this very website!
The very first result (which on Google would be this website) is a profile for someone on the Free Republic message-board who calls himself “rightwingbob”. Be assured that this person is not related to your friendly host here. And I don’t think that he’s, you know, that Bob either. There are other “right wing bobs” out there who also happen not to be me. Not being a litigious type, I take a live and let live approach to these other bobs, but, as the saying goes: accept no substitutes.
Anyhow, I’d say that the folks at Cuil.com have a lot more tinkering to do.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
What good ...1:50 pm
On YouTube you can see and hear Bob Dylan and his band performing his 1989 song, What Good Am I?, from a concert in 1995.
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It’s somewhat interesting to contemplate that the guy who wrote a verse of such unadorned simplicity as the following:
… is the same guy who wrote:
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Hollywood conservatives meet secretly; plot non-America-hating ventures ...9:36 pm
With names like Gary Sinise, Pat Boone: this is clearly a wave that has only begun to crest. Full story by Amy Fagan in the Washington Times.
“It’s a growing movement, and word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business …,” said 1950s singer Pat Boone, one of the few conservatives to talk about the movement publicly. “If certain studio execs - hirers and firers - learn that this is a movement and growing, and that some of these people that they hire are of this inclination, these people could be unemployed.”
[...]
“A Friend of Abe is someone who has reverence for those who serve in our military and believes that American liberal democracy is a unique success, different from others, and it’s worthy of the respect of our popular culture … of Hollywood in particular,” said screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd, who helped organize Friends of Abe luncheons when they began four years ago.
[...]
Actor Kelsey Grammer, a Republican, is aware of the group but won’t comment further, his publicist said.
Talk about blacklists!
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