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“Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
– Thomas Edison
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It’s a little something for everyone today! Remember the Beatles? I do. Here’s an early “video” by the Fab Four with “I Am the Walrus.”
And for a real change of pace, here’s Mae West from 1937′s “Every Day’s a Holiday” singing “Mademoiselle Fifi.” This is how you stage an entrance, folks.
And now, Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur singing “Bosom Buddies” from “Mame,” in a 1986 performance from the Tonys. Rosie O’Donnell should have hired them for her live show.
Capping off today’s matinee, one of the prettiest voices of the Rock Era, Phoebe Snow, in a 1989 performance of her mega hit, “Poetry Man.”
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beforeI spent untold minutes thinking of Britney this Thanksgiving. She’s our crazy relative on the mend, whose antics at last year’s VMAs are still a fresh horror. I watched a YouTube clip of Brit performing this week at the Bambi Awards in Berlin for an audience of mostly tuxedoedTeutons, who didn’t offer the pharmaceutically enhanced pop monger a standing ovation for her lipsynched gyrations and recovery. It was the same old, old Brit — the ‘Circus’ minus the freak show.
after
I miss the bonkers, unpredictable Britney, shaving her head and driving aimlessly from Starbucks to filling station; the late-night, pink-wigged, snatch-flashing cracky Brit of all-night drugstore runs, shouting at paparazzi and followed by helicopters. And yet it seems unkind to think fondly of her bipolar buffoonery, but I do.
duringThat’s the Britney I miss, y’all. She’s only 27, so there’s always the possibility that she’ll finally be freed of her paternal conservatorship, and forget to take her meds… especially when she needs a little publicity — which won’t be anytime soon. I wish her well. Mostly.
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Meg Ryan, as she appeared Wednesday at the Berlin premiere of “The Women,” and Heath Ledger as The Joker. So alike, and yet so different.
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Try not to fight with your family. Count your blessings. Get in touch with your gratitude.
Thank you for visiting Chexydecimal!
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President-elect Barack Obama made a surprise visit Wednesday to St. Columbanus Parish and School in Chicago to wish schoolchildren a happy Thanksgiving.
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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in daydream believer, hooray, legends, ya gotta love itWhen they don’t like what’s going on in Bangkok, they show up en masse at the airport and shut the thang down!
The People’s Alliance for Democracy stormed through police lines at Suvarnabhumi Airport and shut down the place as they seek to oust the prime minister.
Then again, if this were attempted at LAX, this would probably end up in gunfire.
Forget it kids, stick to the streets.
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Reports say that horse-faced horse’s ass and Republican asswipe Ann Coulter broke her jaw and had to have it wired shut. I don’t believe it, but that’s what’s going around.
Ann is best known for spouting her right wing haterade on chat shows, leaving many anxious to shut her up. Apparently someone or something has, but no reports list the cause of her jaw problem, other than that she often flaps it.
If this hateful conservoslag has been silenced, even temporarily, there is yet one more reason to give big thanks this Thanksgiving.
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Norman Rockwell painted “Freedom From Want” in 1943, celebrating the great promise of America.
Hundreds of people waited in line on Tuesday to receive a free turkey and box of food at the annual Thanksgiving Banquet in a Box distribution provided by the Denver Rescue Mission, which planned to distribute food to as many as 1,200 families.
America will recover. Perhaps people will finally realize that Republican policies don’t work, and that we as a nation are as strong as our informed citizenry. Help where you can. Happy Thanksgiving.
Photo by John Moore/Getty Images
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Don’t hate, people, it’s not good for you, and former Los Angeles Film Festival director Richard Raddon, a moron, I mean, Mormon, has resigned in the wake of criticism of his $1,500 donation in support of hate — aka Prop 8.
At first, board members refused to accept his resignation when his donation was revealed, but they came to their senses on Monday, probably when they realized that they need the gay$ to keep the festival going. Please do not upset the queens!
Raddon is quoted by Reuters as saying in a statement, “I have always held the belief that all people, no matter race, religion or sexual orientation, are entitled to equal rights. As many know, I consider myself a devout and faithful Mormon.” Dude’s a little fucked up.
Raddon has been director since 2000. Now he’ll have plenty of time to be a devout Mormon!
In other Prop 8 news, please boycott A-1 Self Storage. The owner gave almost $693,000 to ban gay marriage in California. That’s some serious hate. And if the Knights of Columbus (an alleged fraternal benefit society) ask you for money, just say no. They gave $1.25 million. Haters suck.
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
