Archive for the 'History' Category

RIP Tony Schwartz

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The man behind this, probably the most famous political ad ever, died a couple weeks ago.

Schwartz was an expert sound gatherer and media analyst. Here’s an MP3 of an excellent radio show explaining his legacy far beyond the below. (Strangely, this is all that a YouTube search on his name yielded…)

Mike Gravel’s Helter Skelter

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Libertarian candidate running for President. Uh, I’m speechless.

Experience, change, etc.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Just words from the Boy Governor, same age at the time as Obama is now, etc.

Joe Pesci as Danny Ferrie in JFK

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

With new files released by the Dallas county DA’s office and the Beard stepping aside within the same week…well, who can resist resurfacing the most human moment from Oliver Stone’s ’90s classic? (Here’s a shot of the real Ferrie…how well did Stone pull this off?)

Keyes: Still Moshing

Monday, February 11th, 2008

How much tragically funnier the GOP ‘08 tour de force would be with a visible Alan.

You can’t say he never listened to Michael Moore…here’s one of the last bits of light-hearted absurdity we could afford before ‘00 turned to uh-oh.

Seems like a while ago, don’t it?

Dreaming

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Art of Field Recording - Dust-to-Digital

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Norman Mailer R.I.P.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

A bit of on-screen from the world’s toughest Jewish writer:

NM as part of When We Were Kings, calling the moment.


And from this summer, on his way out of the ring.

Mailer vs. Torn

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

As the old man fights against the shucking, we’re reminded of both his remarkable bib and his contentious nature, made viscerally manifest here with the hammer-armed guy who later played Artie on The Larry Sandler Show (this is long before the munchies terminally set in for ol’ Rip, apparently).

Background! Makes this look pretty yawn-worthy, eh?

Change of Heart

Saturday, August 11th, 2007


In this interview from April 1994, Cheney says that invading Iraq in Desert Storm would have been a quagmire and it wasn’t worth risking the lives of American soldiers.