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It’s often said that the President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world. This cheesy photo-op shows Obama as just the opposite. What do you want to bet the staffer responsible for this gaffe is looking for work now?
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In your Wiccapundit’s continuing quest to discover good cheap bourbon, I present Very Old Barton 6 year old:
A touch of vanilla in the nose; a bit of a bite on the finish. Not bad at all for a bourbon that was about 15 bucks for a liter and a half.
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Wow. We’ve been on Twitter less than a week, and one of our tweets showed up in the Twitchy feed. I feel like going all Navin R. Johnson on it: “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! I’m somebody now!”
Here’s the link – we’re about 9 tweets down:
http://twitchy.com/2012/05/08/hijack-alert-white-house-offers-congress-to-do-list-citizens-respond/
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I have a weakness for inspirational videos. They remind me that I have no excuses. This is a particularly good one. It’s also a reminder that when experts say “you can’t”, tell them to get fooked.
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Marine Stands Guard For Honorary Marine. A twelve-year-old boy.
See that this story goes viral.
(h/t Weasel Zippers)
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Apparently, there is a marvelous new technology that is part of the InterWebTubes, called Twitter, I believe. Elphaba has helped me through my technological ham-handedness, and I am now part of the Twitterverse. Follow me, as I mercilessly mock the Left in real time!
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What do you think a video game would look like if the Federal Government was in charge of designing it? Well, wait no longer. Only the game has been designed by USC, under a $40,000 grant from the NEA, so it really is just a Federal Government design by proxy. And the theme of the video game?
Walden Pond.
I’m certain this will suck nine kinds of ass, because, frankly, Walden (the book) totally sucked ass. For a couple of scorching take-downs of this wretched liberal claptrap, see:
Wal-Dumb: A Review of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
Now, if the videogame added a first-person-shooter feature so that players could hunt the pathetic liberal cretins shambling around the Waldenverse, then maybe we’d have something to talk about.
(h/t Ace)
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This spot-on video got the Twitter account of its producer – Free Market America – suspended. I wonder why.
(h/t Michelle Malkin)
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Talent like this is just … sick. This guy is shredding on four different instruments. How insane is that?
Nice little vocal touch in the middle: “Maybe I should find a job, instead of wasting my time.” Har. And to show it’s not a fluke, here he is burning on Chick Corea’s insanely difficult “Got A Match?”
Skill like this should be illegal. Thankfully, it’s not.
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A “critic” is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased — he hates all creative people equally. – Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
Your Wiccapundit was enjoying the following solo piano performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue by Jack Gibbons, who is renowned for his note-for-note transcriptions of Gershwin’s piano roll performances. It’s long, but it is so worth it.
This extraordinary performance (and even more extraordinary musical composition) lead me to think of one critic’s reception to the Rhapsody In Blue that was published the day after its debut performance.
How trite, feeble and conventional the tunes are; how sentimental and vapid the harmonic treatment, under its disguise of fussy and futile counterpoint! … Weep over the lifelessness of the melody and harmony, so derivative, so stale, so inexpressive!
Lawrence Gilman, New York Tribune, February 13, 1924.
Who is Lawrence Gilman, you say? A music critic and the composer of such musical masterworks as “A Dream of Death,” “The Heart of a Woman,” and “The Curlew,” all of which are lost in the mists of time, just as the memory of his existence is. As for Gershwin, his work is regarded as classic American music, and is still frequently played today.
When Gershwin died at the untimely young age of 38, the best-selling author John O’Hara said: “George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.”
Music critics. What a waste of space.
