COUNTRY LEGEND PORTER WAGONER HAS DIED, ANSEL ADAMS AT THE INTERNMENT CAMPS, CRIMINALS AND THEIR T-SHIRTS, AMSTERDAM FIGHTS FOR PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS!
Free tacos tomorrow, Tuesday at TACO BELL'S all over the country from 2 to 5. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=3780185&page=1
Find the Taco Bell near you: http://www.insiderpages.com/store_finder/results/taco_bell/Chicago/IL
This excerpt from Eric Clapton's book is powerful and moving. http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/11/clapton200711
The BBQ spot all Chicago has been waiting for- and didn't even know it. You'll find:
honky tonk bluegrass friday night. Music from 7-9. Reservations are accepted. And on Saturday night live cowboy blues and country music also.
http://www.honkytonkbbqchicago.com/
http://www.honkytonkbbqchicago
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. The Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints.
When he offered the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/aamsp.html
When he offered the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/aamsp.html
Criminals and their t-shirts
In Amsterdam demonstrations have begun to save legal psychedelic mushrooms http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071027/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_mushrooms_dutch
TV reporters with hidden cameras bring a computer with a $25 defect to various computer repair companies. Turns out that most of the "techs" range from $200 idiots to outright $2000 scammers http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/youtube.pl?IDLink=3166622
TV reporters with hidden cameras bring a computer with a $25 defect to various computer repair companies. Turns out that most of the "techs" range from $200 idiots to outright $2000 scammers http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/youtube.pl?IDLink=3166622
American Apparel has the hottest ads. Not ok for work
Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi uniquely combined the popular theme of beautiful women with his personal specialty, warrior prints showing legendary heroic figures from Japanese and Chinese history. From the historical woman warrior Tomoe to the fictional sorceress Takiyasha, from ancient empresses to present-day criminals, Kuniyoshi's dynamic portrayals show women who were not just passive beauties but strong, courageous, talented, and sometimes even wicked
Welcome to crime scenes featuring Barbie, Ken, and others. Barbie dolls are tortured, mutilated, burned, and dismembered. Not ok for work
The world has cleaned up Ghandi's image over the years. Here are the forgotten facts:
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton performing Run That By Me One More Time on the Porter Wagoner Show circa 1973
The most requested song Porter and Dolly did on their TV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW9uk6BHXt0
The tearjerker SILVER SANDALS is about a child with polio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7ybR8KgL4
I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home
For I didn't know the cold hard facts of life
I passed a little wine store on the corner
I pictured pink champagne by candlelight
I stopped the car right then got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life
A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
He said I'll take two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winkled as if to say you know the rest
I left the store two steps behind the stranger
From there to my house his car stayed in sight
But it wasn't till he turned into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life
I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
And I drank a fifth of courage and walked in
Lord you should've seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell or I'll rot here in this cell
But who taught who the cold hard facts of life
Who taught who the cold hard facts of life
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home
For I didn't know the cold hard facts of life
I passed a little wine store on the corner
I pictured pink champagne by candlelight
I stopped the car right then got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life
A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
He said I'll take two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winkled as if to say you know the rest
I left the store two steps behind the stranger
From there to my house his car stayed in sight
But it wasn't till he turned into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life
I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
And I drank a fifth of courage and walked in
Lord you should've seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell or I'll rot here in this cell
But who taught who the cold hard facts of life
Who taught who the cold hard facts of life
Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12, 1927 – October 28, 2007) was an American country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suits and blond pompadour, Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show. Together, "Porter and Dolly" were a well-known duet team for many years. Parton wrote the song "I Will Always Love You" after Wagoner suggested she shift from story songs to focus on love songs.
In a buildin' tall with a stone wall around there's a rubber room
When a man sees things and hears sounds that's not there
He's headed for the rubber room
Illusions in a twisted mind to save from self-destruction hmm it's the rubber room
Where a man can run into the wall till his strenght makes him fall and lie still
And wait for help in the rubber room
From his blurry vision of doom a psycho in the rubber room
The man in the room right next to mine screams a woman's name hits the wall in vain He's in the rubber room
I hear footsteps poundin' on the floor God I hope they don't stop at my door
Hmm I'm in the rubber room
Now they've come to get me but they find
I'm a screamin' pretty words tryin' to make 'em rhyme
I'm n the rubber room hmm a psycho I'm in the rubber room hmm
When a man sees things and hears sounds that's not there
He's headed for the rubber room
Illusions in a twisted mind to save from self-destruction hmm it's the rubber room
Where a man can run into the wall till his strenght makes him fall and lie still
And wait for help in the rubber room
From his blurry vision of doom a psycho in the rubber room
The man in the room right next to mine screams a woman's name hits the wall in vain He's in the rubber room
I hear footsteps poundin' on the floor God I hope they don't stop at my door
Hmm I'm in the rubber room
Now they've come to get me but they find
I'm a screamin' pretty words tryin' to make 'em rhyme
I'm n the rubber room hmm a psycho I'm in the rubber room hmm
Wagoner brought James Brown to the Grand Ole Opry, produced a rhythm & blues album for Joe Simon, and appeared in the Clint Eastwood film Honkytonk Man. [1] During the mid 1980s, Wagoner formed an all girl group called The Right Combination which was named after one of Porter and Dolly's hit records. He also hosted "Opry Backstage" during the 1990s on the Nashville Network where he interviewed guests. He also made a guest appearance on the HBO comedy series Da Ali G Show, being interviewed by the fictional character Borat in its second season. Though Parton's departure caused some animosity on both sides, the two reconciled in the late 1980s and have appeared together a number of times in the years since; Parton inducted Wagoner into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Wagoner