Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tiny Inventions, a Brooklyn-based animation studio run by husband-and-wife team Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, recently created a fun and charming music video for Playhouse Disney called “Davy Crockett in Outer Space.” The song is by They Might Be Giants, and they co-directed the piece with designer/illustrator David Cowles. Max and Ru have also created [...]
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
This afternoon, for some strange reason, I was playing the banjo and the Davy Crockett Theme song came out -- at least what I remembered of it. So I went looking for a recording and found one here . That version is in the key of E, and very slow. So I transposed it down to D and sped it up a bit. Here's an MP3 file that's much more playable for fiddlers and banjo players: Davy Crockett in D . The complete...
York Town Square (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Davy Crockett and other luminaries visited Charles Barnitz's Springdale Mansion after its opening in 1828. Crockett did not impress certain members of the Barnitz household. Background posts: Exploring ornate Springdale Mansion , Imagine: 70-foot boat navigated York County's Codorus Creek and Who were York County's most influential citizens, Part I . Maureen Beattie of Longmeadow, Mass., found an...
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Exhumations are fairly rare events. Generally when someone is buried and gone, they stay buried, but from time to time events dictate that a body must be brought from the grave. This seems to happen even more often with the famous, for a variety of reasons. Here is our list of the 30 most famous [...]
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I'm not as familiar with Disneyland, living as I do on the eastern half of the continent. I've spent much more time at its younger brother in Florida. But regardless, it was the first, and it turns 53 today. Here's the live broadcast from the opening. There's a lot to see in this, [...]
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
A pest control company in California is deliberately targeting cats, both feral and domesticated, in an attempt to improve business.
The Evangelical Spectator (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Southern Fried Chicken is a secret. The confederate army fought the civil war and never once did they give out the recipe. When captured they refused to list the ingredients. Often confusing the union troops by confessing to recipes that included garlic, honey and cinnamon. None of which were true representation of the real recipe. It's one true delicacy. How the world ever found out about it you can...
Posie Gets Cozy (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
So, I had this idea, a loose dress for cool summer nights. . . . I was just thinking, like, North Woods, cabin on the lake, marshmallow roasting, you know, as you do when you are gonna chill out and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Glowing words from this past weekend's Firedoglake Book Salon: So here's a puzzler: How do you write a book about a vicious, evil man...
The Hollywood Liberal (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Bruce Kluger And David Slavin: Young Dick Cheney: Great American So here’s a puzzler: How do you write a book about a vicious, evil man like Dick Cheney without turning it into an offputting angry rant? Well, I have read the answer, and it is called Young Dick Cheney: Great American. So [...]
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
So here's a puzzler: How do you write a book about a vicious, evil man like Dick Cheney without turning it into an offputting angry rant? Well, I have read the answer, and it is called Young Dick Cheney: Great American .
A Keyboard and a .45 (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Not to cast slurs on the man... ...but I read on the internet that Barack Obama was seen bayoneting Davy Crockett at the Alamo. Wearing a keffiyeh. Well that just cost him my vote!
View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
...but I read on the internet that Barack Obama was seen bayoneting Davy Crockett at the Alamo. Wearing a keffiyeh . That'll cost him votes in Texas. Don't tell his cybernauts I told you this or they'll come get me.
The Evangelical Spectator (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
There are no topless bars in Knoxville, Tennessee. All our bars live in the woods. Eat honey, leaves. Although they are classified as meat-eaters, bars do enjoy a drink now and then. They're mostly carnivores, or meat-eaters, bears are really omnivores, like we are. All the bars we got have four legs, a snout. And they say grrrr. They eat read meat and plants. About 90% of the bar's diet of eastern...
