Posted on October 27, 2007 by Sam Smith
Howdy folks - time now for yet another episode of Scholars & Rogues’ critically acclaimed Saturday Video Roundup! Today we pay tribute to men, mostly. It’s hard to be a man, especially when there are so many things that a man is without. For example, here are some men without shirts.
Filed under: Marketing, Popular Music, culture, entertainment, freedom, humor, music, popular culture | Tagged: Abercrombie & Fitch, idiots, Men Without Hats | 4 Comments »
Posted on October 23, 2007 by Sam Smith
The World Series starts tomorrow night and people around here have gone Rockies crazy. I’m getting asked a lot if I’m excited, and the answer is yes - Go Red Sox! They all want to know “why aren’t you rooting for Colorado?” So I’m answering them:
First off, the Red Sox are my favorite team. Second, [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Constitution, Democracy, Fundamentalism, Marketing, Religion, Religious Right, Sports, business, civil liberties, conservatives, culture, dominionism, entertainment, freedom, popular culture, society | Tagged: baseball, Boston Red Sox, Charlie Monfort, Colorado Rockies, Dan O'Dowd, evangelicals, World Series | 72 Comments »
Posted on October 17, 2007 by Jim Booth
(Part I Here) It takes a while to drive up to a decent trout stream from where I live. About the time the first side of the cassette ended (sides one and two of The White Album) I stopped at a country store for a diet green tea and a protein snack bar [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, popular culture | Tagged: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 16, 2007 by Jim Booth
Autumn fills me with yearning. Maybe it’s those first twinges of approaching winter - a warm evening begets a frosty morning - that come unexpectedly, as crises or messages from long feared lost loved ones do, when one isn’t expecting them, bringing fear or joy so suddenly that one isn’t able to anticipate [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, popular culture | Tagged: Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr | 4 Comments »
Posted on September 15, 2007 by Jim Booth
I saw Elvis Costello two nights ago at (interestingly enough) the Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC (a suburb of Raleigh). It was an excellent show, and if he’d had a better audience, it would have been a great one.
The amphitheater only holds about 2000, so it was a fairly intimate setting for [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Millennial Heroes, Popular Music, Xer Heroes, music, popular culture | Tagged: Elvis Costello, postmodernism | 4 Comments »
Posted on September 3, 2007 by Jim Booth
My fellow Scrogue Denny Wilkins (Dr. Denny to you) passed along a great essay by Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review on the gradual disappearance of book reviews and book news coverage from newspapers that appears in the latest issue of Columbia Journalism Review. Wasserman’s essay hits on some [...]
Filed under: Newspapers, books, literature, news, poetry, popular culture | Tagged: anti-intellectualism, intellectuals, Literary Journalism, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, News Corp, prose, pulp fiction, reading | 9 Comments »
Posted on September 2, 2007 by Martin
Earlier this month my fellow Scrogue Gavin Chait and I discussed the ins and outs of creating a centralized standard for social networking–basically being able to migrate your “online identity” from LinkedIn to Facebook to MySpace and so on. (Short version: Gavin loves the idea, but I was wary of the potential privacy and [...]
Filed under: Internet, Internet commerce, Scroguely Works, net neutrality, politics, popular culture, social media, social networks | Tagged: Brad Fitzpatrick, customer service, economics, enterprise 2.0, Generation Y, identity, identity theft, Internet 2.0, linkedin, new economics, online marketing, peer-to-peer, social entrepreneurship, social web, user-generated content | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 31, 2007 by Jim Booth
When Tom Snyder asked John Lennon in the famous Tomorrow Show interview why he became a musician and formed a band, Lennon replied slyly, “For the birds, Tom. That’s why every guy does it. To get girls….”
Pattie Boyd was one of the most famous of “the birds….”
Now Boyd has published her [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, Rock & Roll, popular culture | Tagged: Beatle wives, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, Linda McCartney, Maureen Starkey, Patti Boyd, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Ron Wood, Yoko Ono | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 23, 2007 by Jim Booth
I think maybe this starts at a Who concert in 1976:
I went to the concert with two musician friends of mine and some women who, for reasons obvious to me at least, shall remain nameless. Toots and the Maytals, one of the great reggae bands, opened the show. In retrospect, they played a nice [...]
Filed under: Baby Boomers, Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, Xer Heroes, education, entertainment, music, popular culture, race relations | Tagged: American Idol, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bono, Brian Wilson, Clear Channel, Dixie Chicks, famous parents, George Harrison, Graham Parker, hip hop, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Live 8, Live Aid, Live Earth, media spectacle, Millenial Heroes, mobile technology, Paul McCartney, Public Enemy, rock and roll swindles, satellite radio, sellouts, Smashmouth, The Doors, The Temptations, U2, XM radio, Yoko Ono | 21 Comments »
Posted on August 17, 2007 by Jim Booth
Today is the 38th anniversary of the ending of The Woodstock Music and Art Fair at Bethel, NY.
For all us Boomers who became what Hunter called “The Generation of Swine” and who’ve elected the likes of Thrill Bill and The Decider as OUR POTUSes, time for a little assessment and reflection on what Woodstock [...]
Filed under: Baby Boomers, Boomer Heroes, MIllennial Generation, Popular Music, music, popular culture | Tagged: class warfare, drug culture, gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Max Yasgur, media spectacle, whirled peas, Woodstock, world peace | 5 Comments »
Posted on August 16, 2007 by Jim Booth
Elvis is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
There is no doubt that Elvis is dead these thirty years this very day. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
All that follows may or may not have happened. I’m [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, popular culture | Tagged: Elvis Presley | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 9, 2007 by Jim Booth
Woodstock is for sale.
Sort of.
Max Yasgur’s farm, made famous by the Joni Mitchell song (which most folks know in the CSNY version) is on the market. Its current owner is tired of fighting the local “powers that be” over use of the property for anniversary concerts.
The figure who’s lost in all this is NY dairy [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, Popular Music, popular culture | Tagged: Max Yasgur, Woodstock | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 3, 2007 by Jim Booth
Posted on July 31, 2007 by Jim Booth
Ingmar Bergman, a giant of 20th century cinema, died yesterday. He was 89.
That’s the news. But that’s not what we should be talking about today as we enter the “re-evaluation” phase of the Swedish film maker’s distinguished career. I think we must ask a difficult question about Bergman’s films:
In a world that allows [...]
Filed under: Boomer Heroes, art, popular culture | Tagged: Ingmar Berman, world cinema | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 26, 2007 by Jim Booth
Britney Spears is preggers with her third child.
She’s not sure who the father is.
Yes, of course, I understand the implications of this….
Filed under: Popular Music, popular culture | Tagged: Britney Spears, media spectacle | 15 Comments »
