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Well Hello There
Posted by: | CommentsBefore I go all Medieval on yall I would like to take this opportunity to formally introduce myself. Hi, I’m Shad. It’s pronounced as it is spelled. I am new here (well at least here ). In the coming weeks, months, and years I will be bringing you a variety of informative blog posts about a wide variety of topics. But for now let me take this opportunity to get share with you a few things that really annoy me about Asheville:
Press & Miller Events This Saturday
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When comedienne and progressive radio host Stephanie Miller was last in town for a live remote from the Orange Peel, my wife had to turn down an offer from Steph and the “Mooks” that I would have accepted — to tip a few after the meet-and-greet. (Besides having to drive a friend home, she didn’t think she could keep up.)
Radio host Bill Press has visited Asheville several times. This former California Democratic Party state chair twice pimped the WNC for Change health reform rally last June on his nationally syndicated progressive radio show. He also helped Blue Century by voicing one of its GOTV radio spots in 2008. Bill has your back.
Bill and Stephanie will be in Asheville again on Saturday to ask you to back the Buncombe County Democratic Party’s 2010 election efforts at a private fundraiser. Get behind the microphone with Stephanie Miller & Bill Press this Saturday and get amped up for winning again in 2010.
Saturday, June 5th, Noon until 2:00 PM
300 Webb Cove Rd, Asheville (map)
Save $50 on this event by signing up at the BDems Community page. Join the community and your ticket price will be cut in half. Instead of $100, you will pay only $50. Just use the bright blue “Contribute” button on the BDems Community home page to pay online.
Or contact any BCDP officers or purchase tickets in person at Mountain Java, 870 Merrimon Avenue.
The BCDP fundraiser is sandwiched between a 10 AM event at Mountain Java on Merrimon Ave. and another at 6 PM at Tingle’s Cafe downtown sponsored by 880 AM The Revolution and the Buncombe County Democratic Party. See here for more details of those events.
Catch Bill from 6 to 9 AM and Stephanie from 9 AM to noon, weekdays on 880 AM The Revolution.
Stephanie Miller and Bill Press return to Asheville
Posted by: | CommentsNational progressive talk-radio stars Stephanie Miller and Bill Press return to Asheville for a series of events on Saturday, June 5, 2010, brought to you by the Buncombe County Democratic Party, 880 The Revolution and Clear Channel Asheville.
Bill Press starts off the day signing copies of his new book, Toxic Talk, at Mountain Java on Merrimon Avenue:
10 a.m. at Mountain Java – 870 Merrimon Avenue
Next, meet Stephanie and Bill at a “funraiser” reception in North Asheville. Proceeds support 2010 election efforts of the Buncombe County Democratic Party:
Noon to 2:00 p.m. fundraiser – 300 Webb Cove Road
Tickets are $50 for members of the BuncombeDems.org online community website ($100 for non-members). Sign up online to save $50. Visit the BCDP website — BuncombeDems.org — click on the “Community” link and sign up as a member, then click on the “Contribute” link, donate at least $50, and come to the reception. Or contact any of the BCDP officers. Or get tickets in person at Mountain Java, 870 Merrimon Avenue.
Stephanie and Bill will greet listeners Saturday evening at a VIP reception at Tingle’s Cafe downtown:
6 – 8 p.m. at Tingle’s Cafe – 27 Broadway Street
Tickets for the VIP reception at Tingle’s Cafe event are free. Local Edge Radio personalities, Blake and Lesley, will have tickets — one per person — at the following times and locations:
- TODAY, Friday May 21: Â 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood Street (downtown)
- Monday May 24: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Mountain Java, 870 Merrimon Avenue
- Tuesday May 25: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wild Birds Unlimited, 1997 Hendersonville Road
- Wednesday May 26: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Green Tea Sushi, 2 Regent Park Boulevard
- Tuesday June 1: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Black Dome, 140 Tunnel Road
Friday Open Thread: Iconic
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This is your Open Thread. Make it something unforgettable.
Smackdown
Posted by: | CommentsRolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi is one of a kind. Fearless. Dedicated. Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Matt pulls no punches in his writing. His “great vampire squid” line will follow him into the afterlife.
Last week Taibbi couldn’t resist re-targeting one of his favorite Beltway sychophants, David Brooks, for his latest fawning tribute to America’s rich. Brooks believes they are simply “more industrious” than commoners. Brooks: Let Them Eat Work
True to form, most of Taibbi’s blog post is NSFW, but a brilliant smackdown nonetheless. Here’s a less-crude sample:
I would give just about anything to sit David Brooks down in front of some single mother somewhere who’s pulling two shitty minimum-wage jobs just to be able to afford a pair of $19 Mossimo sneakers at Target for her kid, and have him tell her, with a straight face, that her main problem is that she doesn’t work as hard as Jamie Dimon.
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Brooks is right that most of the people in that 5% bracket log heavy hours, but where he’s wrong is in failing to recognize that most of us have enough shame to know that what we do for a living isn’t really working. I pull absolutely insane hours in my current profession, to the point of having almost no social life at all, but I know better than to call what I do for a living work.
Still In There Pitching
Posted by: | CommentsI think Sarah needs to reconsider my sitcom pitch from Friday.
Tradition
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Love Songs from the Intertubes
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Born Again American from Born Again American on Vimeo.
Your Hooligan Bonus: A chorus that doesn’t begin with a non sequitur.
Rules and Metarules
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“Anything that can be done can be done meta.†– Charles Simonyi
It’s probably not necessary to explain here what “meta†means, but I’ll quote from Wikipedia anyway:
Meta- (from Greek: μετά = “after”, “beyond”, “with”, “adjacent”, “self”), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.
