Review: Johnny Cash - Legend by Wally Bangs, Aug. 9
Another great personal journey that goes a long way to explaining how musicians get deep down into people's souls and stay there, stuck, barbed, even in the face of later poor musical choices. Which was not the later fate with with Johnny Cash. Nice. Nice. nice. I reviewed Cash but I couldn't have written this piece.
CULTURE/ TECH Lisa Hoover's pick of the week.
Multi-tasking and organizing emotional breakdowns by Parker Owens, Aug. 11
Parker Owens’ daughter went back to school last week and it sounds like she’ll be doing reports on Stephen Covey books.
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POLITICS Lisa Iannucci's pick of the week.
Know Your Enemy: Who Are We Fighting In Iraq? - by The Bulldog Manifesto, Aug. 12
Who or what are we fighting (for)?
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VIDEO: Eric Berlin's picks of the week.
Review: Murderball by Erin McMaster, Aug. 8.
Erin McMaster gives us the goods straight-up and hard-hitting, just
like the rough-and-tumble and fascinating sport of Murderball.
Review: The Devil's Rejects by Tom the Dog, Aug. 10
What can you say about Tom the Dog's first Blogcritics post? It's no
barker. Okay, sorry for that... it's great. Really. Read it.
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BOOKS: Pat Cummings' picks of the week
Pat has had fried computer-itis but is back for the attack next week.
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Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
So so delayed. Sorry.
2 - gypsyman
I'm hung in cyberspace right now conducitn a long distance interview with Ashok Banker in India, and it looks like his ISP has crashed, so I decided to cruise the site. Look what I found. Thanks Temple.
I remember something else about the time when Keith Richards got busted for Heroin. My high school used to do a speaker series, and that year the attorny general of Ontario came to speak. Boy did he get grilled about Richards.
People got up and said there's no real point in sending this guy to jail, he's a junkie, it won't help him or anybody else. Anyway he won't do the time, he'll just never come back to Canada.
Now politicians are never supposed to contact judges(right!!)But nobody had ever heard of sombody being sentanced to doing benefit concerts before for posesscion of Heroin. I'd like to think our "disscussion" with the attorney general helped shape the descision.
Of course the fact that he was boinking the Prime Minister's wife probably didn't hurt...was that out loud..oh oh.
3 - Aama
yr going to publish that Ashok Banker interview, I hope, gypsyman...ask him about Byculla Boy
Temple - I read that last comment about DrPat as he had fried computer-tits:) Coffee time
4 - Tom the Dog
Very cool! I'll add the button to my site later today. Glad you liked my first post as much as I like posting here.
5 - -E
Heh cool. Maybe now all you crazy cats will go see Murderball :-P
6 - Temple Stark
Oooh, Erin is THAT -E-
I remember you. Pleasantly.
7 - -E
It is my attempt at being stealth.
But, seriously, good picks this week (even without the Murderball one). I enjoy the picks because I get to read some reviews folks wrote that might have slipped off the front page when I wasn't around one day.
8 - Eric Berlin
Please keep 'em coming, Tom !
9 - Natalie Davis
Thanks, Mr. Stark. One note: The section quoted above was written not by me, but by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.