As I will soon be employed with a salaried position, I have anticipated my imminent disposable income with glee, concocting new and amusing ways of accomplishing the disposal. I have decided to once again collect something (don’t laugh, it’s nerdy): volumes of The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. They are hardbound, young readers’ books from […]
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Sound Advice
As a member of Atlanta’s Goodie Mob, rotund rapper Cee-Lo wasn’t just one of the greatest voices in ’90s hip-hop but one of the great voices in pop music, period. With his Reverend Ike flow and surfeit of downhome wisdom that was genuinely wise, Cee-Lo’s contributions often put Goodie Mob songs over the top, and […]
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BUNKER CAMP CLAIMS FAVORABLE POLL
Lane Provine, consultant to several candidates this year, has results concernng the race for City Council District 1 (Frayer/Raleigh/Cordova), in which his client, Republican Wyatt Bunker, is challenging incumbent E.C. Jones. Provine maintains that Bunker has a slight lead over Jones, who has served District 1 for several terms.
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CITY BEAT
NO WAY OUT?
This weeks property tax hike is too much, and property owners will flee to neighboring counties. Or it’s not enough, and services will suffer. Nobody’s happy.
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BUNKER CAMP CLAIMS FAVORABLE POLL
Lane Provine, consultant to several candidates this year, has results concernng the race for City Council District 1 (Frayer/Raleigh/Cordova), in which his client, Republican Wyatt Bunker, is challenging incumbent E.C. Jones. Provine maintains that Bunker has a light lead over Jones, who has served District 1 for several terms.
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FORD CHALLENGES BUSH ON WMDs, IRAQ UNREST
U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, a member of his party’s congressional Blue Dog caucus and of the equally moderate-to-conservative Democratic Leadership Council, continues, somewhat conspicuously, to try to find a middle way on Iraq and other national controversies. But, like Massachusetts senator John Kerry, whom he supports for president, Ford may be edging toward a position of sharper opposition to President Bush on some key issues.
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POLITICS
TENNESSEE’S GOT GAME
NASHVILLE — Events of the last several days have greatly improved the outlook– at least in Tennessee — for two of the Democratic contenders vying for the right to challenge President Bush in next year’s presidential election. Those two are Florida senator Bob Graham, who was in Nashville Saturday night to deliver the keynote address at Tennessee Democrats’ annual Jackson Day dinner; and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, whose recent rise in the polls has been accompanied by a surprisingly strong fund-raising surge.
Posted inFilm Features, Film/TV
Winging It
Good morning, angels. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Wear the skimpiest outfits possible within the letter of the law (but outside the realm of good taste or practicality) and behave so garishly bubble-headed that you lull your foolish male adversaries into blissful, appreciative oblivion. I will send a jive-talking supervisor from South-Central […]
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Short Cuts
Send Wire (Pinkflag) Remember Wire, the band of arty punks (more like artists who jumped on the punk bandwagon rather quickly in 1976) that released two perfect albums of stripped-down guitar rock (Pink Flag and Chairs Missing, in 1977 and 1978, respectively) and then went on to record ever more obscure crap throughout the ’80s? […]
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Sound Advice
It was about a year ago when the awful thing happened: I was driving somewhere between Memphis and Nashville and listening to an oldies station. Gordon Lightfoot had just finished singing “Sundown” and I was fully expecting to hear a Neil Diamond tune like “Cracklin’ Rosie” or maybe that “Sheila” song by Tommy Roe. But […]