The Road

Hi everyone,

I'd like to present Leah-Carla Gordone, and her new music video for the hit single "The Road" from her new CD "Dancing On The Dragon" on Butterfly Child Music. I produced this video, and we just released it. I hope you enjoy it!

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NPR : Links Between Illness and Global Warming?

NPR : Links Between Illness and Global Warming?

GLOBAL WARMING! MELTING ICEBERGS! OCEANS WARMING AND AFFECTING WEATHER PATTERNS AND ILLNESS!

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!

Politics as Sport...

So, I had an interesting thought today. Maybe I'd be happier if I just treated politics like a World Cup fan. I could just pick my teams, and watch it like ESPN. Hell, I could even start my own fantasy league online, and get other people to pay me for it. Can you just see the possibilities?

Fark.

Blog Here Blog There Blog Everywhere

Though I've been buried in podcasting for the last year, the sounds of Bloggers everywhere typing away at the computers their parents bought them, or their office computers, school laptops, cell phones and PDA's. The sound has gotten so loud I'm feeling some electricity here. Time for more blogging? Apparently. Who will read? Hmmmm. Who cares? Hmmmmmm. Apparently, many people. Maybe. Or maybe not. Either way I can hear all those keys tapping, and all those video cameras whirring (silently, of course). Tapping away at our collectively sleeping consciousness, taping our dreams for a time-delayed replay, and whispering "I'm here! We're here! Where are you?"...

It's been awhile...

It's been awhile, but I'm back...

Hey Mikey! He likes it!

AP/UPI/Rueters/BBC/NYTIMES/Washington Post, NYC, November 17- Early into his tenure at the Planetary University of Brooklyn, the young, and intense, scholar Colson Oliver is caught enjoying his latest revelation. Critics said he was just passing gas, but eyewitness accounts dispute these allegations. Yes Mikey, he likes it. He really likes it.

What's next for the handsome, young scholar? Will he find the answers he seeks? Will his handsome, young parents ever get some sleep? Stay tuned for more of "COLSON OLIVER, HANDSOME YOUNG SCHOLAR!"

(brought to you by the Planetary Council of Brooklyn and Hip Baby Productions)

LADEEEES AND GENTLEMAN!

It is my profound pleasure to announce to the world the arrival of it's newest baby-at-large, member of the Human Race, and the latest citizen of the Planet of Brooklyn:

Colson Oliver!

Born October 31, the son and first born, of my sister Alex, and brother-in-law Greg. He is welcomed into the world by loving parents, and a warm household made ready for him with much anticipation. As his uncle I welcome him too, with open arms. I salute his new parents as well, and wish the best for them as they embark on this new turn in their journey together.

Today the revolution begins, and the world will never again be the same...

Podcasting article in the Monterey Herald

Posted on Fri, Oct. 28, 2005

Podcasting power The Internet allows anyone with some compuer savvy to produce their own radio broadcasts

By MARC CABRERA

Herald Staff Writer

It's a gray Sunday afternoon in Monterey and Garland Thompson and Shawn Singletary frantically prepare to podcast to the world from their makeshift home studio.

On this day, the cramped apartment bedroom has been transformed into Studio T (short for Thompson), where a trio of computers are plugged into a 16-track Mackie recording mixer. Sound levels are checked on standard CD player headphones. The two Monterey-based poets operate their show, "Sunday Go To Meetin'" -- a reference to a popular Southern slang term denoting a post-church service gathering -- as if they will broadcast live to an audience of thousands; in reality, they'll be lucky if they get a few hundred.

"Welcome to the wonderful world of podcasting," Singletary says with a laugh...more

Oh by the way...

there's a new theatre in town when it comes to the big lights of New York City. In a historic moment this past sunday, the old Virginia theatre at 245 w. 52nd st. was renamed the AUGUST WILSON MEMORIAL THEATRE! A great moment of remembrance for a great playwright, and man. When i look at that building i will always remember August, and all he stood for. i hope you will too. Thanks August, for everything...

peace,
rd


Broadwayworld.com

Here we are...

Here we are! another day another dollar. its tuesday, and somewhere in the world a constitution has been declared approved by the people. the morning headlines started with some bombshells, and its hard to tell which way the winds will blow in Washington this week. Lets see what happens friday, then compare notes, shall we? right now, its off to rehearsal, Mr. Shaw (GB) is waiting...
-radiodogg aka G3

the New York Times

Katrina's gone to bed but...

Rehnquist is Dead! Katrina's gone to bed! FEMA's Michael Brown should be hangin' his head! What a shame! All the pain! Michael Chertoff, you must be insane! Can't you hear the voices of the hurricane? Crying thru the rain. For years to come we'll be paying for this lame game, for these lame brains who say: '...wait for the professionals. We're doing all we can'...and New Orleans is now a DIASPORA...her people spread against the sky...or floating face down in the stagnant Ninth Ward waters...

The American Red Cross
Morgan Freeman's Hurricane Katrina Online Relief Auction
Katrina Relief Information/Links
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
The New York Times
The Associated Press
CNN

Things are heating up in Scotland...

Things are heating up in Scotland! Live 8 got things rolling and that's what the people are doing, rolling into town to be heard. Bob Geldof kept the pressure on this weekend in the media, and loads of African activists have been showing up to get their point across. What will the G8 leaders do? Will they notice? Do they even care? In other news, I heard Bush basically say he doesn't owe Tony Blair a damn thing. "I don't view this as a 'quid pro quo' relationship", Bush said. Say what? Man, that's cold! Blair has been his boy, his runnin' partner for this whole war on terrorism & Iraq thing since day one. When nobody wanted to hear about it Blair was beating people's eardrums and twisting political arms to get them on board. He told his own people to 'piss off, we're going', when it came time to go to war. Even though there were nearly a million people on the streets of London screaming 'No!' Blair has caught all kinds of hell in his own Parliament, as he stood up for Bush, and supported him, and this is how Bush repays him. I can only hope that Blair wakes up and realizes which side his Texas toast is buttered on. Otherwise he's one of the biggest suckers around.

Ted Kooser, America's Poet Laureate presents:

American Life in Poetry: Column 014

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

Often everyday experiences provide poets with inspiration. Here Georgiana Cohen observes a woman looking out her window and compares the woman to the sunset. The woman's "slumped" chin, the fence that separates them, and the "beached" cars set the poem's tone; this is clearly not a celebration of the neighborhood. Yet by turning to clouds, sky, and breath, Cohen underscores the scene's fragile grace.


Old Woman in a Housecoat

An old woman in
a floor-length housecoat
has become sunset
to me, west-facing.
Turquoise, sage, or rose,
she leans out of her
second floor window,
chin slumped in her palm,
and gazes at the
fenced property line
between us, the cars
beached in the driveway,
the creeping slide of
light across shingles.
When the window shuts,
dusk becomes blush and
bruises, projected
on vinyl siding.
Housecoats breathe across
the sky like frail clouds.

Reprinted from "Cream City Review," 2004, by permission of the author, a writer and journalist living in Boston. Poem copyright © 2004 by Georgiana Cohen. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited poetry. This column is reprinted with permission.

Happy 4th of July everyone! Happy Independence Day! - gt

On to Edinburgh!

So people are making their way to Edinburgh for the big G8 meeting. Bush made a speech this past friday talking about Africa, it's children, and the support they need. This is a good thing. I hope it's not just talk, and I'm even willing to suspend my usual cynicism when it comes to the idea of ending poverty. I think it's a grand idea, and why not? Why can't it be done? I'm especially thrilled that Art and Culture are the main vehicles for promoting positive, rational change, and creating an environment for constructive dialogue. I'm watching the G8 with renewed interest. Let's see what happens next!

Go Live 8! Death to poverty and starvation!

Just a quick post to say I've been checking out the concert clips from Live 8. I'm trying to find a live feed but so far I've only found AOL and the BBC, and they're running clips. AOL says it's live but they're showing Berlin and London, and it's still light out while it's still light out here in Cali. They're still tres cool though! I just finished checking out Green Day in Berlin, and they rocked the house closing with the classic Queen hit, "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS". I admit I've never been a real fan, or even paid that much attention to them ever since I first saw them in Dallas at Lollapalooza. But they did a great set, and I'm glad I caught it. I also saw part of Elton John's set, and he tore it up! Rocked it in true Elton John fashion! Add some Lucky Dube in from Johannesburg, and some Orchestra Baobob, Lindiwe and REM too, and you've got a heady brew for a saturday afternoon! Go Live 8! Death to poverty and starvation! G8 Leaders, you better be listening! It's time to step up to the plate and make history! Right now!

Should we end poverty? HELL YEAH!

LIVE 8

There are concerts all over the world this weekend and next week. All to end poverty by telling the G8 leaders in no uncertain terms to do so. A plan will be presented that addresses the issues facing all our nations today. It includes, debt relief, and Aid to the impoverished areas of the world, among other things. There are great looking, easy-to-use websites (www.one.org and www.live8live.com) that have all the info you want or need to understand what's happening. You can sign the pledge to end poverty, and send the leader of your G8 nation a message of your choice! There's a million citizen march that you can sign up for, and you'll be in great company with some of the high profile people who have signed. Now you can say you work with Bono, and Bob Geldof! This humble blogger as well. Click the link to the right to find out all out it now, then pass it on to your friends. Remember, the first step to change is to have the will, and that's where we come in. To show the will to do the right thing, and make sure the leaders of the 8 nations at the G8 summit receive that will, and do the right thing. Check it out. Let's end poverty. NOW! Sign the LIVE 8 List, go to the free concerts, join the march. Make yourself heard. She needs it, and so do we!

Start clicking stuff...

Hey, just wanted to drop a line or two to invite everyone to start clicking some or all of those links I've put up here. Especially the podcasting links. As you may know Apple released Itunes 4.9, the Podcast version this past Tuesday. Already over a million subscriptions to podcasts have taken place. They're still working out the bugs, and weren't prepared for the demand but it's happening! I've submitted our XML feed to Apple, and hope to see it in their directory soon. In the meantime you can listen to our one hour podcast called SUNDAY GO TO MEETIN' by simply clicking on the free player to your right. You can subscribe to it by using one of the many podcatcher programs, like Ipodder, IpodderX, Podnova, and many others, and putting our feed into your program where it says 'Subscribe'. Download us straight to your iPod while you sleep, play or work. Automatically. Then take us with you. It's the wonderful world of Podcasting baby! And we're all up in it!

Peace,
G

More of the same: Lies Lies Lies

CNN
The Washington Post

For the record let me state right now that I don't believe a word Bush said in his latest speech. In fact, I don't believe a word he says, period. He said there were WMD's. There were no WMD's. He said (and still says) there was a connection between 9-11 and Iraq. There was no connection. He said Saddam and his regime were a threat to the United States. He was not. Tony Blair said Saddam could launch a missile strike with chemical weapons in 45 minutes. In no way, shape or form could he have done that. Dick Cheney said that we would be welcomed with smiles as 'liberators'. If this is how they welcome 'liberators', and 'friends of the Iraqi People' I'd hate to see the way they treat enemies. Bush says we're safer now than we were before. Report after report (credible ones!) come out and show we're not. Bush says we don't 'negotiate' with terrorists. The major newpapers report on 'secret' talks we are conducting with the 'insurgency'. I feel like I'm dealing with two completely different realities every day, and I'm tired. The mental acuity necessary to find a way thru this insanity generated by fools is immense, and exhausting. Maybe this administration is made up of robots, automatons who run non-stop like the energizer bunny beating their war drum into the minds of America.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the only 'right' thing to do is totally withdraw all our troops in an orderly fashion, and shift our policy to materially support democratic groups within Iraq that don't want the nation to slip back into dictatorship, or corruption or rule by hardline Mullahs. When Bush says we must stay the course for the sake of the Iraqi people, and Democracy, this is another blatant lie. The reason we are afraid to pull our troops out of Iraq is that if we do we will not be able to insure that a government friendly, and compliant to ours will take charge. We risk losing any foothold that this war may have gained us into the second largest oil field in the Middle East. Remember, our forces got booted from Saudi Arabia, the number ONE largest oilfield in the Middle East. No more 'edge' there, kimosabe. Of course, continuing on in the current fashion is steadily eroding that foothold when, ironically, with a slightly different strategy we could be in like Flint. If done right, with the proper respect, and gestures, we would be offered dinner, desert and daughters by families across the land. The Garden of Eden would be open to us in way that military might could never achieve. Our prosperity would be unimaginable, and it's repercussions throughout the world would be magical. Yes, I said magical. Gene Roddenberry and JRR Tolkien labored hard for years to show us what this magic could look like. All we have to do is look and read to be given the gift of vision. On some level these men dreamed of inspiring us to be the best we could be against all odds, and to do the right thing. Maybe if we did just that we'd all see what America, and the world could really be. Maybe. At least we could try.