So let’s say that New Orleans Council Member Stacy Head bleaches her hair, has some cervical orthopedic problems, and gets caught (without makeup) committing some petty offense. Her mug shot might look like this.
Your blog or other web site may look good on your operating system, on the browser you use. But it may not look so good on other operating systems or browsers. Mister Thorne points out an example and suggests a solution: the World Wide Web Consortium’s free Markup Validation Service. Just plug in your URL, and the MVS will point out HTML code that may cause problems.
I tested it by plugging in the URL for this blog. It seems that embedded YouTube videos carry troublesome code. Fortunately, this blog is just for fun. And since I have fun embedding YouTube videos, I’ll continue to do so. I’d think differently if this blog were for profit instead of just for fun.
The first version I ever heard of The Ballad of Hollis Brown was by the Neville Brothers on Yellow Moon. It hit me in the solar plexus. Here’s the original version, by Bob Dylan.
... because Dan Lukasik is doing a much better job of it than I ever could. Whether or not you think you have depression, if you’re a lawyer with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction, read Dan’s latest post.
This guy from Iowa, born in 1979, was inspired by the movie Saving Private Ryan. So every year around Memorial Day, he paints a patriotic mural on a rock near his home town. My favorite is the 2007 edition.
When the 4th of July coincides with Saturday-Evening Blues, this song must be posted.
See also WAC?, where you’ll find Robert Johnson’s Crossroads performed by John Mayer and Eric Clapton.
Apparently this blogging thing can enhance one’s legal career. Steve Dillard, chief instigator of my favorite conservative blog, Southern Appeal, has made the short list for nomination to the Georgia Supreme Court. Congratulations, Steve. (And if it’s possible to pull the Ga. Supremes farther right—please don’t!)
Today I learned that my favorite band from Akron, Ohio, the Black Keys, will be in New Orleans to perform at the Voodoo Experience on Halloween weekend (Oct. 30, to be precise). In case you’re deciding whether to see them, here are a couple of videos to help you out. Both come with commercials, but both are pretty good, so consider the commercials as the price of admission. Both videos are from this DVD, so if you want to watch and listen to more of same, well, you know what to do.
First up: “10 a.m. Automatic.” You may have to sit through a short Baccardi commercial to watch it. It continues with a couple of minutes of another song, “Thickfreakness.”
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Next up:“Grown So Ugly.”
So let’s say that New Orleans Council Member Stacy Head bleaches her hair, has some cervical orthopedic problems, and gets caught (without makeup) committing some petty offense. Her mug shot might look like this.
I know that “bad stuff happens in threes” is B.S.—three of anything will happen if you wait long enough. But Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett (the ultimate 70s poster girl—see left), and Michael Jackson in 3 days? Spooky, especially for someone like me, who came of age in the 1970s.
My friend Dan Hull is plugging The Lost and Found Family, which he describes as “a poignant, uplifting, instructive and remarkably powerful family film set in the American South.” Personally, I think Dan just has the hots for the star, Ellen Bry.
Professor John Guillebaud (University College, London) claims that the main cause of population growth is sex. (Hat tip to Improbable Research.)
Happy Summer Solstice, everyone. Here in New Orleans, it’s hot as hell, and we have about three months more of the same to, uh, look forward to. So today is as good a day as any to post Eddie Cochran playing Summertime Blues.
Today’s daily mediation from HenriNouwen.org is worth sharing:
This edition of Saturday Evening Blues was inspired by an experience I had during the last Easter Triduum. I was practicing with the choir in the church sacristy, and I noticed the super-cool keyboard that the music director had brought along in case we needed it for rehearsal. It had a lot of gizmos and gadgets on it, so I joked with the music director that she could play it while channeling Billy Preston. The response: a blank stare, along the lines of “Billy Who?” After a few conversations with a few other choir members, it became apparent that in the entire room, I was the only one who knew who Billy Preston was.
Oh dear! What to do about such a tragic situation? The answer came to me today: Post a Billy Preston double feature for Saturday Evening Blues. If you’ve never heard of this man, please peruse the Wikipedia article about him and his official web site. Or just watch these videos of two of his many hits. The first is Will It Go Round in Circles, complete with old-school ’fro. The second is my favorite Billy Preston song, Outta Space.
Now you have an idea who Billy Preston was and is. My work here is done.
You may or may not be a lawyer who wrestles with depression. You may or may not sometimes wonder whether your life is out of balance. If you fall into one of those categories, or if don’t, but are interested in reading a blog written from the heart, one with a spiritual bent, then check out the Lawyers With Depression blog. It’s by Dan Lukasik, editor of the Lawyers With Depression web site. That is all.