I don’t know why he swallowed the fly, Keyboard Cat, perhaps he’ll … have a freakass ghetto meltdown

OK, I’m pretty sure I came across the following Keyboard Cat cover act by actor Ron Livingston at icanhascheezburger.com, and I will take you on the journey through YouTube that it sparked: This led to a reporter who swallowed a fly — I don’t know why he swallowed the fly — but hijinks ensued because …

Prayer request for my friends from community band

The patty pans squash plant I was checking on yesterday when I saw the goldfinches in the zinnias turned out this afternoon to have a stalk so damaged that I was going to pull it this evening. But before I headed out I had the impulse to check my e-mail and learned that one of …

Shelby Steele sums up the racial grievance industry

This popped up in my Facebook feed from Karen Kelly. Steele provides the perfect description of the motivations of the NAACP and its fellow travelers and useful idiots in the racial grievance industry. What they have done to feed their own greed and lust for power is enslave blacks to racial grievances instead of creating …

Sassy Gay Friend saves The Giving Tree

H/T The Bloggess at Good Mom/Bad Mom: “It’s about damn time someone set The Giving Tree straight.” Coming attractions: I am not satisfied with the post I’ve been working on the last couple of hours, so it will have to wait for tomorrow, or another day, but I will post the video of Shelby Steele …

Earn it — do not say 'liberty' and 'all' until DADT is repealed AND gays have equality

The music in the video above is from Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony and is based on the gospel hymn, “Goin’ Home.” I am in the Bel Air Community Band and this is the music we play over and over during the “laying of the wreaths” ceremony for the fallen members of each military branch on …

Elina Garanca sings 'Chanson Boheme,' 'The Gypsy Song,' from 'Carmen'

Slow version: Fast version: As I noted in an earlier post, mezzo soprano Elina Garanca sang Carmen in the Metropolitan Opera’s January 2010 production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which I saw in May on PBS. I love the intelligence, humor and playfulness that Ms. Garanca brings to Carmen, that her Carmen is a woman of …

Elina Garanca as Carmen unites heaven and earth

Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Carmen sings the “Habanera.” On Sunday (May 16, 2010) I happened on PBS’s series, “Great Performances at the Met,” featuring the January 2010 production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen. I haven’t seen many productions of Carmen, but I have the feeling that this is one of the best of all time because …