Happy Thanksgiving 2009 from Earshot Presents
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. It’s time for the 2009 Thanksgiving slideshow from Earshot Presents. If you enjoy the video, please share it with your social media networks by using the “ShareThis” button on the bottom of the page.
The tune I chose for the video, “Be Thankful for What You’ve Got”, was an obvious choice. It’s been on very heavy rotation this year (one cover version at a time, each for months on end). For a lot of the country going through some hard times, the song’s message has never been so important to keep in mind:
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you’ve got.
Have a great holiday.
Lake’s Christmas Island: a perfect song
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Christmas Island: the perfect golden oldie circa 2009. LAKE are an Olympia, WA band that’s built to spill. The rotating cast of characters has been around since 2005, but 12 albums later, they’ve hit the nail on the head with Let’s Build a Roof. Buy it at the K Records website.
Malaria: The Cure
I just came back from the ASTMH meeting. It occurred to me more than once that if a giant fire engulfed the meeting, and my friends and I were the only people to escape, it would be really easy for us to get jobs. To that suggestion–I mean joke–my buddy Jose, pointed out that when all the Trop Med-ers were turned to charred ash and the world was not 1 ounce more worse off the next day, then we’d certainly be fired from our current positions with no hope of future employment.
Here is one suggestion: Barak Obama declared World Take Your Malaria Meds Day to be Christmas 2010. The date, Christmas, is not a religious thing; it’s just a date everyone knows because it’s Ricky Henderson’s birthday. The first 12 months of 2010 are spent delivering 6 doses of Coartem (the only drug that works) to everyone in Africa. Three doses can be used whenever people think they have malaria. On Christmas 2010 everyone takes 1 dose, a week later everyone takes dose 2, two weeks after that everyone takes dose 3. That should cover the entire continent for 1 month, and most mosquitoes don’t live longer than a month. All the malaria in people is then dead. All the malaria in mosquitoes is then dead. Bada bing.
That idea is not more or less stupid than anything else out there–believe me. Who knows? Men in Africa are getting circumcised to reduce their chances of HIV–who’d have guessed anyone would go for that?
David “Fathead” Newman’s Hard Times
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The talented David Newman, who alternates on this album between tenor and alto, made his debut as a leader at this session. Since he was in Ray Charles’ band at the time, Newman was able to use Charles on piano along with Hank Crawford on baritone, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, bassist Edgar Willis, and drummer Milt Turner.
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
No Mas Presents: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14: In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.
Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Alexander and Ilels original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America. When we stumbled across that piece this past June, Blagden and Isenberg were inspired to create a short animated film around the original audio.
The Bunk: The Pictures
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Update: Fat Cat with a Shaved Ass
My father agreed to take a picture of our 29 lbs. cat with a shaved ass. My father says he doesn’t know how to operate the camera. My mom does the picture taking for both of them, but I have hope.
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