Archive for 2012/02


Lloyd Dobler Wisdom

"I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or…process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought or processed, you know, as a career I don’t want to do that." Lloyd Dobler"Say […]

John Mayer Fights Scalpers

The Great Ticket Scandal – Dispatches | Channel4 UK [VIDEO] If only "60 Minutes" dedicated an hour to scalping… But American media is famous for refusing to question the status quo or skimming over the details to the point where the point is not made. Bottom line? The acts like it this way. Huh? The […]

The Stax Museum

1. It’s a fake. It’s in the right location, but the building is new, they tore down the theatre Stax was originally located in. History gets no respect in the U.S. We think young and new is best, and then, when the old is gone, it’s too late. 2. It was a theatre. Jim Stewart […]

National Civil Rights Museum

Early morning, April 4Shot rings out in the Memphis sky "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"U2 Actually, it was 6:01 PM. Not that we’d expect Irishmen to get it right. Not that we’d expect Americans to get it right, certainly not white Americans. I was sitting at my desk, doing my algebra homework, transistor by […]