Peace activist Medea Benjamin , author and co-founder of CODE PINK , gave a presentation last evening at the Coffee Underground . This was i...

Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade This song is a perennial pop-Christmas standard in the UK, and I have been on a five-year campaign to turn...

Last evening, Occupy Greenville sponsored a Teach-In featuring a showing of Sick Around the World , followed by a spirited and lively discus...

I love this song passionately! Time to play it, officially kicking off the DEAD AIR Christmas season. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade Look t...

London's Burning - The Clash

Well, not totally wordless, but no words from ME today... And as always, these come courtesy of Yellowdog Granny! PS: Mr Daisy loves Nancy,...

At left: Is it--? Yes it IS! It's Phil Spector as Santa Claus! Take cover! NOTE: This is one of my favorite posts, although my blog...

Halloween on a SUNDAY has been something of a big deal here in the fundamentalist upstate. The kids went out for trick-or-treat last night...

Words cannot express how much I love this song... I recently thought of the line used as today's blog post title, whilst considering ...

At left: Our Lady of Good Counsel, stained glass from St Mary's, Greenville, SC. In this post , I quoted a progressive feminist ...

Photo of the greatest writer and philosopher of the 20th century, JG Ballard, from The Northern Light . I have been trying to articu...

I guess I shoulda used these for Halloween, but decided to save them for Friday the 13th. :) ~*~ The first is from the British antholog...

At left: Art on Main Street, Greenville, SC, from kids at Mitchell Road Christian Academy. Aside: I love LARGE photos for my blog, as r...

Daran at Feminist Critics has just posted a link to a London Daily Mail article by William Leath, titled Why do my son's books tell him...

This was my favorite song when I was 14 or something. I heard it on my way home from work and got all mushy and squishy, thinking nostalgic...

Juliette de Bairacli Levy was born in privilege and grew up with everything. As a young woman, she studied veterinary medicine in the Unite...

The greatest living writer of our time has passed. There is nothing else to say. And now he belongs to the ages. ~*~ Ballardian c...