Rupert Murdoch, for decades one of the most powerful and feared media figures in the English-speaking world, appeared to many who watched his grilling Tuesday to be a confused old man. And from his standpoint, that wasn't necessarily a bad thing, professional crisis managers said.
At times, Murdoch seemed confused and slow to understand questions from the Culture, Media and Sport committee. At one point, he openly acknowledged that "I'm not really in touch" with the editors of all of his newspapers, although he said he did speak with the editor of The Sunday Times every week.
Investigators have found no sign of foul play in the death of a man identified as the whistleblower behind the scandal surrounding media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International, British police announced Tuesday.
Sean Hoare was one of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World. He was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, northwest of London, the British Press Association said.
An autopsy conducted Tuesday afternoon "has concluded there is no evidence of third-party involvement and the death is non-suspicious," Hertfordshire police said in a statement. Earlier, police had called his death "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious."
Strangely, this works on the Costco level, because they know who buys what and can notify them. Alas, we don't care about facts (h/t flag) so we are reminded that contender for ultra Stalinist District AZ.-08 Jesse Kelly (they're still counting Gaby and Raul) who is not completely wrong, in this video, but mostly wrong.
(the embed is dicking with me, so you can click through, or TRUST ME because I wouldn't distort anyone's words to make stupid jokes)
So, okay, we do indeed still need to wash and cook food. But what about cheese? Anyway, it doesn't matter because the thing to remember is that HE WANTS YOUR CHILDREN TO DIE!
So I sent his campaign email the link to the e-coli story to warn him to boil his cheese. Will update if I get reply.
Why not just say, "Let's put everything on the front page."?
Ramblin' Jack at Tipitina's in NOLA (soon after Katrina) with a little story about Cutty Sark and Bob Dylan.
When I was 9 or 10 and first tried to mess with a guitar (my Aunt's....the elitist folkie) this was a song I tried to learn. Never went any further as I showed no particular aptitude at the time. I remember thinking that his name was pronounced Dye lan and that there was someone else who's name was Dillon.
This was a little closer to the neighborhood....dunno...guy looks kinda Mediterranean (if you catch my drift, and I think you do) but ..Alec Ramsey...of the Highland Ramseys? Just to make sure, be suspicious of tartans on your next flight.
Just a little slice of what's on the ballot here. Tucson today, Arizona tomorrow.
Imma gonna guess they all FAIL because people will see
TUSD
Sales Tax
Salary Increase
TUSD Prop. 402 Largest local school district wants to allow their governing board (with community advisory committee) to do real-estate deals. Lotsa properties they could sell or lease, or exchange for something else.
Not a bad idea; it's a positive in that they might raise some $$$$...except lotta people don't think they manage their budget too well, so maybe they'll manage to fuck this up too. The crazier critics of course are out to destroy public schools in general. One half-truth opponents point to is that TUSD leased a building for $1 (one dollar). Well, $1 and in-kind donations of school supplies, plus the maintenance and utilities on a building no one was using that otherwise TUSD would have had to pay for.
Also, TUSD is a target because of ethnic studies and generally telling State Super to eat a bag of dicks.
I think I'm getting the hang of these guitar chords. For some reason scales were pretty easy, but it's taken a while to 'get' the connection from them to the chords on the fretboard. Don't matter how many times I read it and looked at diagrams, it was only when I had a enough muscle memory that there were some AHA!!!!!!!!! moments
The AHA! Moments on piano started with this guy. Probably not one's first thought as a source, but the days of running into Sunnyland Slim and offering a pint of Jim Beam to learn a few tricks are long gone. Especially if you lived in Goathugger, Arizona.
Shaharazade and I were in the Pearl District of Portland this afternoon. She needed new tennis shoes and the shop that sells a certain brand is there. We picked up a pair for her and she had to go to another shop around the corner. I think that's really why she wanted to go to the Pearl. It's a very nice store called Anthropologie. You might know it. They have lots of locations. Anyway, my point is they were playing music, as they always do, over the sound system and one song in particular, a modern one, reminded me of this first one and the one it reminded me of, reminded me of the rest.
Recently I uploaded my latest creation, a garage rock-y kind of song, "Boo-hoo-hoo". It got a pretty decent reception and I've been working on various possible follow-ups, like "My Old Man is a Drag" and "A Thorn By Any Other Name"...you know, the usual. To fire me up I've been listening to and watching the old school songs. Thought I'd share my inspiration with you...
Sometimes you never know what's going to go through your head. I've kept a list lately of tunes that just popped up for no good reason and then went looking for the videos.
Well....it's been known around here for a month or so that the 90s weren't my favorite years for music. Combined with a disturbing tendency of some talented but not necessarily big-time performers having their videos "embed-disabled" it took me a little longer to finally get it together. But there were some individual songs I liked. I'm cheating big-time here, doing the whole decade instead of a year or two at a time but at least I'll get this over with!
(actually Fri. evening rambling)
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So I got to thinking...it weren't not too long ago when radical environmentalist were blowing up stuff. (Not that I was in any way even remotely associated with, or aware of such activities, except for what I saw on the news.)
So I'm sure that they'll be happy to know that the (h/t brobin) media Wurlitzer now allows the defense: THEY MADE ME DO IT !!!!!! as in: OBAMAPELOSIMONSTER made me throw bricks, cut propane lines, bash in cars etc. because they're ruining MY COUNTRY!!!! i.e. They're ruining the whole fucking ecosystem.
Apparently the chronological thing is over. I just can't find 9 or 10 songs from the 90s that I like enough to post for your entertainment. Instead we're just going to free form it, with today's group of tunes being folk related, which includes blues and folk-rock. So here we go! Turn the hi-fi high and the lights down low! 'Cause here we go with the folk music show!
Taking a break from the chronological review of the pop world, here's a glimpse of my iPod. It's chock full of 50s and 60s stuff. I put it on shuffle and listed what came up. Some of these might be repeats but they're goodies so here we go!
