It’s the day you’ve all been waiting for. Yes, the official start of the Syracuse basketball season. Tonight, SU takes on the Big Red of Cornell. We’re optimistic about this season, though you never really how things are gonna work out until you really get into it.
In other news, the beleaguered president of the fine institution for which I work has decided to resign for the good of the University (and so he can spend more time with the Mayor of Toronto). I really feel bad about the whole thing – he struck me as a good guy. Shows what I know.
Happy 64th to one of my all-time favorites. I finally just had to pick one of these, otherwise I’d spend my whole day just watching one after another. I’m sure Vernon can find some good ones.
Snow fluffies! Time to get the snow tires on.
I think I have to do this first.
I saw Richard do this one with EmmyLou Saturday night (just before daylight savings time ended) and as much as I adore Ms. Harris, Bonnie and RT tonked it.
and a little long form if you have some time to stream on the computer.
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Love the avatar & snow fluffies, pj!
AND the drive-by of Tom! :banana:
So I love this about the book Leaning In:
Another Thoughtful Take on “Leaning In,†This One By bell hooks, and Called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean Inâ€
Posted on October 29, 2013 by Ann Bartow
Read it here here at The Feminist Wire. Below is an excerpt:
Sandberg’s definition of feminism begins and ends with the notion that it’s all about gender equality within the existing social system. From this perspective, the structures of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy need not be challenged. And she makes it seem that privileged white men will eagerly choose to extend the benefits of corporate capitalism to white women who have the courage to ‘lean in.’ It almost seems as if Sandberg sees women’s lack of perseverance as more the problem than systemic inequality. Sandberg effectively uses her race and class power and privilege to promote a narrow definition of feminism that obscures and undermines visionary feminist concerns.
Contrast her definition of feminism with the one I offered more than twenty years ago in Feminist Theory From Margin To Center and then again in Feminism Is For Everybody. Offering a broader definition of feminism, one that does not conjure up a battle between the sexes (i.e. women against men), I state: “Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.†No matter their standpoint, anyone who advocates feminist politics needs to understand the work does not end with the fight for equality of opportunity within the existing patriarchal structure. We must understand that challenging and dismantling patriarchy is at the core of contemporary feminist struggle – this is essential and necessary if women and men are to be truly liberated from outmoded sexist thinking and actions.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare’: The origin of Spinal Tap
11.07.2013
01:09 pm
Manager: All right, well, we’ll take our instruments up to the room.
Bassist: Don’t know where my bass is.
Manager: I beg your pardon.
Bassist: I don’t know where the bass is.
Manager: Where is it?
Bassist: I think it’s at the airport.
Manager: You have to get back there, don’t you?
Bassist: I don’t know, do I?
Manager: I think you better.
Bassist: Where’s my bass?
Manager: It’s at the airport.
Guest let that idea ping-pong around his head for a while, and in 1978 Spinal Tap made its first appearance on an ABC sketch program called The TV Show, which aired at 11:30 pm. The initial target of the sketch was an NBC music show called The Midnight Special. In the book Risky Business: Rock in Film, R. Serge Denisoff and William D. Romanowski explain that the three main characters of the band were developed during video shoot. According to Harry Shearer (bassist Derek Smalls), “We were shooting a takeoff on ‘Midnight Special,’ just lying on the ground waiting for the machine that was supposed to make the fog effect to stop dripping hot oil on us—and to relieve the tension of that moment, we started ad-libbing these characters.â€
In the clip, Rob Reiner introduces the band not as “Marty DiBergi†but as Wolfman Jack. The video is a kind of repository of heavy metal video tropes—the endless over-emoting on stage, the quasi-choreographed physical interplay between the band’s members, a video montage including a trippy poker game and a death’s-head judge pronouncing the band to be “guilty,†complete with gavel. There’s also a sublime Busby Berkeley moment that no real heavy metal band would ever be caught dead executing—this is the reference to “lying on the ground†in Shearer’s comment above. And just to top it off, there’s a shot of a playing card—the ace of spades, natch—on fire.
You can’t tell from watching it—at least, I can’t—but the keyboardist in the video is none other than Loudon Wainwright III.
Good luck to the Orange on their upcoming season. Hopefully all will be well that begins well and a bunch of Boehner activists will not be trying to get them change their name from Orange. Boeheim, not Boehner!
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I hate to talk sports (‘cuz I know it turns a lot of people off), but….
As much as we love hoops around here, it really seems odd when people refer to us as a “basketball school.”
And it appears that football season is not quite over yet, which is nice. When I was a kid (yes, I was once a baby goat), we were a football school, and basketball sucked. Before Dave Bing, that is.
And if you’ve never heard of Wilmeth Sadat-Singh, you may want to read this story on Deadspin.
He was the first black guy to star for Syracuse at QB (he was also a basketball star), back in the 1930s.
So one day it’s okay that he plays but the next day it is not. Altered state of reality when what was true the day before was still true the next day. :bong:
Anyone else think the hazing thing among professional football players is very High Schoolie/immature and stupid? Grown men acting like idiots.
I am losing what appetite I had left for the NFL. One would think that they had a comish named Selig.
I have a hard time getting interested in the NFL these days (though they Jets are starting to make me feel like Michael Corleone – “just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”).
Not that I think it would be right to restrict where players can play (any more than I think anybody should be able to tell me where I’m allowed to work), but it’s hard to care about a team when the roster changes constantly.
And this current “hazing” thing is just plain stupid. Then again, most of the “jock” types weren’t they kind of people I’d really ever want to hang out with.
Rob Ford, now, that’s a guy that would be fun at a party.
This show does not podcast and only airs online in real time. I still haven’t mastered the capture but I will manage to hear it. I didn’t attend this one since I had already blown a chunk of cash on Linda Ronstadt and Christopher Guest recently. I caught Maron doing a similar series at the JCC recently that is available here.
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For over 15 years, Marc Maron has been writing and performing raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio and television. A legend in the stand-up community, he has appeared on “Letterman,” “Craig Ferguson,” and numerous other programs including “Conan O’Brien,” where he has appeared more than any other comedian — 47 times so far. This past year, Maron published his second book, “Attempting Normal.” Maron’s podcast, “WTF with Marc Maron,” featuring compelling monologues and in-depth interviews with iconic personalities such as Conan O’Brien, Louis CK, Robin Williams, Anthony Bourdain, and Judd Apatow, premiered in September 2009 and is a worldwide phenomenon with over 53 million downloads and counting. He appeared in conversation with Adam Savage on October 16, 2013.
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Thanks, Vern!
I just saw 12 Years a Slave. Good movie but quite a stomach churner. Now I need to read the book.