David Carradine, dead at 72
I rediscovered the Kung Fu series only recently and completed the whole DVD set of season one a few days ago. I used the famous Grasshopper quote in my first post to this blog. In honour of Carradine,...
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Koko Taylor. Sam Butera. David Carradine. All gone in the last day. If you don’t know who these people are, here are some pointers. Koko Taylor: blues singer. These clips seem to be slow to load today....
View ArticleRemembering David Carradine
from: The Huffington Post Lawrence Bender: Remembering David Carradine. One of the most wonderful memories I have of David is from first day of training. We had created a training center where all the...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin: On Robert McNamara
A trillion dollars will likely have been spent on the Iraq war by the time it is truly “over.” And, like Vietnam, for nothing. A trillion dollars to execute Saddam. A trillion dollars to create a...
View ArticleUnited Breaks Guitars
This is too funny! A guy upset by what united airlines did to his expensive guitar produced a music video and posted it on youtube.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
View ArticleCan we stop with the Firsts now, please?
First we had the term First Lady. And that was good. Sounds a bit elitist, I suppose, but the idea was respect for the position and unacknowledged time and energy. The First Lady is more or less an...
View ArticlePopular things – transit fraud and my name
It’s the beginning of the month, so I’m looking at my web stats for the various websites I have a hand in. The results are amazing … I write a blog on the metal stamping industry called Stamping Out A...
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