Ah, The Frights Gone By

For those of us who struggle with last minute costume ideas...

Things can be surprisingly quick and easy.



And of course, one could always find something more ornately apropo:





There are many who like a touch of levity:



...And couples who wish to explore their secret desires.



Perhaps some would like to pay tribute to a pop group of the day:



However you choose to advertise your inner self, have a safe event, and please don't play any juvenile pranks...if you can help it.



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Is It True That I'm No Longer Young?

Depends

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Born with a silver spoon but never a greasy heart, who's seen a time for love and a time for letting it be...And now, she paints the parade.

Happy birthday, Grace Slick.

Flash In The Plan

"Five minutes, Mister DeLay!"

Now, Tom, you go too far with the comedy.

Besides, who cares if he's a Marxist?

After all, consider the source.

Now, make America laugh, funnyman

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Like A Good Guy Does

The End, My Friends

He's old, and his skin is cold...The end of laughter, and soft lies.

Sunday Overnight

Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Henry Grimes, 52nd Street Theme, Rome, 1963.



The Miles Davis Quintet, Walkin', 1967.

Jazz Because

Merl Saunders, Aunt Monk, 1974.

Condolences to his family and friends.

Clown Shoes Don't Make It

Dogheart Polytricksters No Seh Truth

Irie, children, rub-a-dub style with brethren Max & The Marginalized...calling out Babylon and the bloodclot bald-head downpressors with Hounds.

Purple Heart Bandaid, Stat

Oh, the humanity

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Fish Out Of Luck

Oh Baby, Save My Soul, I Just Couldn't Wait For You

MC5, Skunk (Sonically Speaking).

Dolschtosser

R.I.P., the Human Tornado

Sorry to hear of the passing of Rudy Ray Moore, a/k/a Dolemite ('Who?') and Petey Wheatstraw...The man who made them dance.

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(links NSFW)

The First Generation That's Learned To Fight

'My friends', Max and the Marginalized have embarked on a new fantastic voyage to share with us.

But first, A toast...To Your Health.




Be sure to download their latest release,
The John McCain LP ...at a computer convenient to you.

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That Old Blackface Magic

A couple of years back, I was a racist.

Well, not really...But a highly publicized work of mine trafficked in racist imagery, and by doing so utterly devalued a larger point that I was attempting to make. For that error in judgement, I alone am responsible.

At the time, this circumstance sufficed to provoke some whose agendas I agreed with (and some with whom I did not) into a heated discussion of my character and motivations.

Most of this dialog was as accurate as any conjecture could be regarding an individual cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, yet although some words that were 'intended to wound' indeed left their mark I eventually healed up and moved on, resolving to learn from the experience and avoid a repetition of the same lack of sensitivity toward others.

Since that time, I have noticed that in spite of the publicity surrounding that event (a brief, but rather loud ballyhooing not only within the then-limited confines of the blogosphere, but also within numerous organs of the mainstream media), others continue to insist on using that same imagery replete with its historically negative connotations whenever they wish to disparage something or someone whom they disagree with.

One could draw a simplistic conclusion from this, I suppose - that, given a chance not to dabble in exponentially hurtful material, some insist on their right to be ignorant, racist fucks regardless of the consequences.

I find it a somewhat discomfiting fact in the West that some of the so-called 'visual pundit' class appear all too willing to continually use 'blackface' (and this time,on a black man) as a marginalization stratagem toward denigrating an individual's well-reasoned philosophical choice - and when pressed on it, find themselves completely unable to justify said usage. Qu'elle surprise!

To imply that one is a traitor, and purblindedly ethnocentric, merely for casting their own lot between two starkly opposed alternatives, shows a philosophy distinctly bereft of the critical thinking skills needed to survive the oncoming hard times brought about by years of deliberately malfeasant Right wing governance.

Good luck with that evolutionary strategy, assholes.

Red Hot Running Mate

...apologies to the great Tex Avery.

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Sunday Overnight

A taste of the Roaring 20's with Jelly Roll Morton, Hesitation Blues.



...and Count Basie with his 1953 lineup, Softly With Feeling...R.I.P., Mr. Neal Hefti, here playing Repetition with Bird on alto, 1947.

Hey, Mavericky

Still Water (Peace)

R.I.P., Mr. Stubbs.

Can't Touch This

John McCain Was A...

...POW.

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"My friends", our friends Max & The Marginalized have released a fine platter for your perusal (and earned themselves a hearty repast after 52 songs in 52 weeks - mission accomplished, gentlemen).

Here's a little sample - Teflon John.



Show them some love, and don't forget to vote - like Canada did.

F*ckin' snowbacks

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Jazz Because

from 'Charlie Parker With Strings', Just Friends.

Was it only 4 years ago

...Really?

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"Crash! Fwee-Whoop! Pow!"

h/t Andrew Sullivan.

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Passages

My friend SteveAudio has notified us that his mother, Ruth, passed away Saturday evening.

Condolences to her family and friends.

'May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrow but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love'

Sunday Overnight

Pharoah Sanders, with Joe Farnsworth, Nat Reeves, and William Henderson - Lazy Bird.

Bumps Before Stumps

End Of The Freeway

A Failure To Elucidate

Wish I Could Just Stand Up And Shout It

We're Gonna Be A Star!

Sunday Overnight

Remembering Jimmy Blanton (1918-42), one of the first double bass virtuosi, laying it down here with Duke on Jack The Bear.



And Duke again, playing Caravan with Max and Mingus on the Money Jungle date, 1962.

Middle Class Killers

For my old pal Jane.

;>)

Last Tango In Wasilla

Reader Request, number 7 in a series

Lucky number 7 goes to the Big Apple's finest, Distributorcap, and won't he be surprised, surprised, surprised.

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The Devil To Pay And No Pitch Hottie

Watch Me Pull An Election Out Of My Hat