Pete C

"I'm a Christian" is a stupid answer to "where are the socialists, where are the communists..." Outside of "what's your religion?" I can't think of any question it wouldn't be a stupid answer to.

Jumping Jehosaphat Jehova Sam Butera and the Witnesses

Jo Jones Cozy Cole Big Sid Catlett

Aaron Neville Neville Brand Brandy (a fine girl; what a good wife she would be)

Tom Thumb Pinky Lee Learned Hand

Xaviera Hollander David T. Nederlander Morey Amsterdam

Smart guy, but the first comment is a stupid statement from any angle, and the second is a stupid answer to your question.

Yvor Winters Larry Summers Some other fat asshole

Dragan Armansky Darren Aronofsky Ben Aronov

Kevin Bacon John Hamm Lancelot Link

Lafayette Leake Lafayette Harris, Jr. Lafayette Gilchrist

Sam Most Sal Mosca Sol Yaged

T.S. Eliot T.S. Monk Rootie Kazootie

Foxy Brown Foxy Brown Foxy Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_Brown

Nunca.

Lest it seem that I discard post-colonial studies, no, it has provided useful frames for literary and social discourse. My problem is with an academic left that is hermetically cocooned in the certainty of its "postmodern" perspectives contra differing (whether competing or actually complementary) perspectives, a kind of fundamentalism. Actually, it's probably very relevant to discussions of American music, as one of many modalities. Here are some links that come from positive perspectives, not some kind of David Horowitz hatchet job, which would be much worse, I'm sure, than what it sought to critique. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Intro.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/10/ Clearly, since we're probably in agreement on most things since your conversion. Of course, political converts, regardless of the direction of the conversion, are often of a fundamentalist intellectual style, so it's an easy shift, replacing one fundamentalism with another.

Gale Storm Zasu Pitts Trudy Pitts

I feel your pain. I was unemployed three times between 2002-2007. It was only a career change (back to an earlier career) and a considerable drop in compensation (due to the differing pay scales for the two careers) that got me back to work, hopefully for the last job of my life.

There's only one appropriate response to a comment like that. Don't muddle the discussion with facts.

Radio Raheem Spike Lee Spike Jones

"Post-colonial theory" gives him special powers... (nb: I used to piss him off from the left when he was a pre-grad-school right winger. Now I can piss him off from a different corner of the left than his, i.e. the one that still cherishes those corny old European enlightenment values.)

I've actually never heard Spalding, but put-downs of the bad Pizzarelli are always appreciated.

Dylan Thomas Danny Thomas Doubting Thomas

Reese Witherspoon Pee Wee Reese Pee Wee Marquette

Cookie Lavagetto Famous Amos Mr. Chips