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‘Bulo’s Music For the Masses: Lost in the ’80’s, Volume 1
The Beast Who Slumbers generally likes his music the way he likes his roadkill-raw and visceral. He also likes music that engages both his brain and his butt. So, if you’re looking for techno-electronica dance trance crapola like, say, Echo & the Bunnymen, you will have to look elsewhere. El Somnambulo sets out to prove […]
‘Bulo’s Top 10 2010 Republican Targets-#7
21st Representative District-Mike Ramone “This ain’t a purchase, it’s a rental.” Thus sayeth Tom Waits, El Somnambulo’s favorite philosopher. And thus sayeth the Beast Who Slumbers about Mike Ramone’s 2008 win in the 21st. Granted, it’s a rental with an option to buy, but the warranty on returning the product to some dusty warehouse has […]
Breaking! EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Coming across the wire from the Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency today plans to propose regulating greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that these pollutants pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare, according to several sources who asked not to be identified. The move, coming almost exactly two years after the Supreme […]
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Republican Targets in 2010-#8
8. Sixth Representative District-Thomas Kovach ‘Bulo doesn’t rate this race higher b/c, since defeating Mike Migliore in the special election to replace Diana McWilliams, Kovach has been more of a Dave Ennis-moderate than Wayne Smith- whacko or Greg Lavelle-blowhard. He is voting his Bellefonte/Claymont area district so far. He’s also signed onto some D-sponsored feel-good […]
Delaware Issues Forum Mystery Solved-With Inspirational Music Video!!
The News-Journal’s J. L. Miller has broken the news that the mysterious force(s) behind the so-called Delaware Issues Forum site is none other than Charles Irenee Augustus Alexis Eleuthere Lammotte Bouvier de Flanders Copeland. And, of course, Copeland says that there “…was no intent to be all that mysterious.” He simply didn’t want to ‘influence […]
‘Bulo’s Countdown of 2010 Republicans to Target-#9
For those late to the show, the Beast Who Slumbers is counting down his list of favorite 2010 Republican targets. He has chosen these criteria in making his list: (a) the race must be contestable, and the D must have at least some reasonable chance of winning; and (b) ‘Bulo must prefer change to the status quo […]
Wrong Williams Channels Seinfeld-Writes Column About…Nothing
El Somnambulo is suing Williams for the 2 minutes of his life he wants back after wasting it reading his quote column unquote this morning. ‘Bulo will not provide a link b/c it will only encourage Williams to continue writing the thinnest gruel around, and he doesn’t wish to inspire further lawsuits or wastes of […]
El Somnambulo’s Countdown of His Top Republican Targets in 2010-#10
With the General Assembly out of session for a couple of weeks, the Beast Who Slumbers has decided to fire up the Political Hot Stove and list, IESHO, the top races that the Democratic Party and, more importantly, the progressive wing of the Party, should target. Fret not, Rethug friends, ‘bulo will soon follow with […]
Breaking News from 144 Years Ago: Was Lincoln Dying of Cancer When He Was Shot?
The answer is, (a)maybe and (b) scientists now have the technology to find out. But, here’s the question raised in this Philadelphia Inquirer article: Should we find out? Here’s the long (Lincoln) and short (synopsis) of it. A small Philly museum has part of a pillowcase that has some of Lincoln’s blood and brain matter […]
Whale Meat Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When
Looks like the annual Japanese whale catch fell short of fears expectations thanks to those pesky militants from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who, BTW, pulled this off w/o the use of assault weapons, go figure. Even though whale meat consumption is down precipitously in Japan, tradition dictates that the hunt continue. Not to mention […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Easter Edition
LEAD STORY-New York Times: “States Shredding Social Safety Nets to Balance Budgets” Maybe Pierre duPont should come on here to explain how raising taxes on the Silverspoonistas is engaging in ‘class warfare’, while cutting vital services to the most vulnerable is not: Perhaps nowhere have the cuts been more disruptive than in Arizona, where more […]
Rant of the Week, Perhaps of the Year
El Somnambulo is more likely to show up at Easter services (he’s Jewish) than to tune into ‘Conservative Talk Radio’. However, when a ‘conservative talk radio’ host, John Batchelor, goes all Howard Beale on the GOP and pronounces it dead, the Beast Who Slumbers collapses into a paroxysm of pleasure (not that that is an […]
‘Bulo’s Saturday Music for the Masses-Richard Thompson Edition
If there is a greater singer/songwriter/guitarist currently performing, the Beast Who Slumbers hasn’t heard them. In fact, El Somnambulo considers Richard Thompson to be the best guitar player he’s ever heard live. Yet, RT remains a relatively well-kept secret. Not to WXPN listeners, who named his “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” the #1 all-time quintessential ‘XPN […]
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