Hugh Laurie, the English actor who plays America’s most self-destructive television doctor, has released a blues album. Laurie enlisted Joe Henry and the great Allen Toussaint to produce the record, signifying that he has lofty goals for the album. According to Laurie people came up to him and suggested that he record a blues album. I suspect that these are the same people we have to thank for the supply of talent on American Idol. Please feel free to indulge the urge to roll your eyes at this barely disguised vanity project. Continue reading
Porgy
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After a long wait, a couple of false starts and lots of preening on the senate floor, the New York State Senate passed the Marriage Equality Bill 33-29.
Excuse me while I WHOOZAH! It is official. You may now marry your shoe, dog, computer etc. Lulz wut? You just wanted to marry the adult person you loved? Aaah well you can do that too. But you you wouldn’t want to disappoint the Archbishop Timothy Doland, David Tyree and company would you? Let’s have some of that anarchy they warned about. Get to the drinking and the gay marrying of everything New York! You finally earned some of that “Progressive State” cred.
What? I had to. Comment