How many years have I been calling this a cultural wasteland?

It'll end when I'm back on my feet,...

"The important thing is to see your hands in a dream,...in the dream in which I saw my hands, I looked in the mirror and my face was black, I'd turned into a nigger,..."

 

 

"Honestly, the god in me, don't allow for modesty,..."

Hmmm. Apparently somebody at Lionsgate really messed up (The Mad Men Theme, below) and, in so doing, ensured I'll have RJD2's newest, bestest, weak at the knees but hard as day-old jello soundscapes (above) until the day that sucker stops,...or drops. 

Ain't that a bitch. 

A clear and definite reason to live:

At this point, it's kind of embarrassing,...

"War-weary Americans and their distracted political leaders are less interested in responsibilities overseas, creating a vacuum of international leadership. But for better and for worse, neither China nor anyone else appears ready and able to fill America’s superpower shoes."

New Wave artists aging gracefully. An 80′s world gone by…

Even quacks must have free speech

Study: Casual Sex Might Be Making Teenagers Sad

9 Reasons 'Hookup Culture' Hurts Boys Too

Women are 'hard-wired' to regret casual flings - but men only regret NOT having them, study reveals

70% now think it is wrong for married people to stray

Michele Bachmann: ‘If God Wanted Everyone To Have Insurance, Why Did He Invent Miracles?’

William S. Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer is now a TMR ritual.

    

 And I mean, come on - it's Thanksgiving,...

 

 It's true - this "good cheer" is starting waaay too early: 

 Here's Everything Jonathan Franzen Currently Hates to make it up,...

 

 

 I'd be all "Jesus this" or "The Buddha said that":

It'd be brutal,...

 

For anyone still confusing Miley Cyrus, or anyone on The Voice, for talented or inspirational,...

 

 There's a new movie about a black girl who stopped slavery in England or something. I knew nothing about it or her.

And somebody in Mississippi is learning new things, too:

  "It is clear that slavery continues to have lasting impacts on our society. We are not living in a post-racial America. Disproportionate levels of poverty in the African American community are just one manifestation of slavery’s lasting legacy. In order to confront today’s societal ills, we must engage in a conversation with the past — one that can be truly painful, but at the same time, necessary."

 

A new Rock band likes driver training soundtrack vocals.

While USA Today has seen fit to do a new piece on Stanislaw Burzynski - learn that name. 

Crush him for fun.

The Pope wraps it up with a searing new message on The Scarlet Letter and related matters.

Nothing new about that, unfortunately,...

 

“The gunman had recently been kicked out of the group,...though it's not yet clear why.”

“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?”

“We were shooting a takeoff on ‘Midnight Special,’ just lying on the ground waiting for the machine that was supposed to make the fog effect to stop dripping hot oil on us—and to relieve the tension of that moment, we started ad-libbing these characters.”

“About 50 years ago Austin Wiggin Jr.’s mother gave him three predictions via palm reading: one, he would marry a strawberry blonde; two, he would have two sons after she died; and three, his daughters would form a popular music group. After the first two predictions came true, he forced his four daughters, Dot, Betty, Helen, and Rachel, into a band called the Shaggs, named after the popular haircut.”

ADDED - And still "better than The Beatles":

 

 

 Sue Eakin, author and civil rights leader