Monthly Archives: September 2008

Argus Hamilton On Dennis Kucinich Before The House Judiciary Committee

Den­nis Kucinich appeared before the House Judi­ciary Com­mit­tee Fri­day and laid out his case for impeach­ing Pres­i­dent Bush for lying about Iraq hav­ing weapons of mass destruc­tion. The president’s best bet is to plead igno­rance. He can prove that.” — Argus Hamil­ton on Den­nis Kucinich before the House Judi­ciary Committee

Lykke Li — Youth Novels (2008)

With all of the hoopla for female artists com­ing out of the United King­dom (Amy Wine­house, Adele), it would be easy for Swedish import Lykke Li (real name is Li Lykke Tim­o­tej Zachris­son) to get lost in the shuffle.

David Letterman On Nancy Pelosi Calling The Bush White House A “Total Failure”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is call­ing the Bush White House a total fail­ure. I don’t know, I think he’s doing OK — if you don’t count Iraq… the econ­omy… Afghanistan… the mort­gage cri­sis.” — David Let­ter­man on Nancy Pelosi call­ing the Bush White House a “total failure”

Conan O’Brien On Disney’s Planned Chinese Disneyland Theme Park

The Walt Dis­ney Cor­po­ra­tion announced that it is going to build a Dis­ney­land in main­land China. Appar­ently, it will be the first Dis­ney­land built for chil­dren by chil­dren.” — Conan O’Brien on Disney’s planned Chi­nese Dis­ney­land theme park

Mirah With Spectratone International & The Evening Episode

I’ve been wait­ing a few years to see Mirah, and I finally was able to catch her live as she came around Sacramento’s Press Club Tues­day night (11.9.08).

Matt Keating — Quixotic (2008)

Keating’s lat­est expanded effort Quixotic encom­passes 23 songs with kind of Amer­i­cana folk rock not usu­ally heard out­side of clas­sic rock radio sta­tions or dive bars. The album cover says it all. If you look, you’ll usu­ally find what you’re look­ing for and the great Amer­i­can land­scape and all of its for­mer and hope­fully still exist­ing won­ders are just wait­ing to be explored.

Jay Leno On Barack Obama Choosing Joe Biden As His Running Mate

Barack Obama sent out a text mes­sage for his vice pres­i­dent choice at 3 a.m. He told every­one he picked Joe Biden. How do you think that made Hillary Clin­ton feel? She finally gets that 3 a.m. call — and it’s to tell her they picked Joe Biden.” — Jay Leno on Barack Obama choos­ing Joe Biden as his run­ning mate