Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Ventures, has died. He inspired generations of guitarists to “Walk, Don’t Run.” There are plenty of appreciations in the “Pipeline“:
…. and you can surf up lots more on YouTube, including:
Induction of The Ventures into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“Wipeout“
More to come.
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Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.
The latest serving of Blogs with Bite:
Italian Innards, Snails, and Frogs – Main course recipes from the Italian Trade Commission. More conventional offerings here.
What Would Jesus Eat?– Blogger Lucas Land, a graduate of Baylor’s Truett Seminary, is interning at World Hunger Relief and farming. He explores intersecting issues of food and faith, sustainability and stewardship.
I Love Pickles – Website of Pickle Packers International, Inc., “a trade association for the pickled vegetable industry.” Tips and facts and recipes (including Saurkraut Chocolate Cake and Fried Dill Pickles).
Farida’s Azerbaijani Cookbook – Californian blogger and cook Farida Sadikhova Buyuran is originally from Baku on the Caspian Sea, capital of Azerbaijan.
Food Poetry – Charlston’s Doug DuCap observed National Poetry Month (April 2009) on his blog, HuggingTheCoast, with a celebratory aggregation of links to 42 well-chosen works.
This Is Why You’re Fat– ”Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks.” Caution: do not view this blog if you take medication to control blood lipids. Still, that Deep Fried Cheeseburger On-A-Stick does look mighty tasty. A Hot Beef Sundae for dessert, perhaps?
Museum of the American Cocktail – The physical museum is located in New Orlean’s new Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB). The drinks museum has a virtual exhibit is here, but mix it up with the MOTAC blog.
Read It and Eat – “A Culinary Expression of Awareness, Sensuality & Community.” Food, wine, recipes, photos, food issues, culinary culture.
Vintage Tea Rooms – “In the 1920s, especially, tea rooms became the fashionable places for women to meet friends in small towns, big cities, and suburbs alike.” A refreshing site by Jan Whitaker. Shall I pour?
Feast on the Cheap– “Delicious, healthy, homemade food should be easy and accessible – and shouldn’t require a massive bank account.” Recipes, and food tips from Mary Anne and Muriel Rittenhouse. Excellent advice on the well-stocked pantry.
Automobiles are changing, but the 2010 models come equipped with many of the deluxe interior appointments to which we have grown accustomed: formaldehyde, naphthalene, phthalates, carbon disulfide, toluene, acetone, xylenes, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, ethylbenzene, ethylene glycol butyl ether, bromine, lead, and other heavy metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These are the components of “New Car Smell,” the treasured aroma of factory-fresh automobiles, a true American aphrodisiac.
The poisonous perfumes emanate from the adhesives, paints, vinyls and plastics inside your new car’s passenger compartment, from carpet to headliner and dashboard to rear deck, for up to six months. The fragrant fumes may cause nausea, dizziness, asthma, and allergic attacks. One reporter compares the danger to glue-sniffing. At higher concentrations than found in car interiors, some of these chemicals are know to cause liver, nerve and kidney damage, birth defects, and cancer.
The government of Japan is on the verge of establishing a national “Manga Museum” celebrating manga (comicbooks or “graphic novels”), anime (animated films and videos), video games and technology art. The proposed new National Center for Media Arts would be built in Tokyo by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁, bunkachō).
There are indications that Tokyo’s prestigious Meiji University plans to open an amine/manga museum, but it is unclear whether the new government effort is in aid of the Meiji U project or would supplant or compete with it.
The doomed U.S. recording industry continues its dance of self-destruction. After 22 years, the Recording Academy (aka the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences or NARAS) has discontinued the Polka category of the Grammy® awards “to ensure the awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape.” Polka was the only Grammy® category eliminated.
The exclusion of this authentic and vigorous Roots Music has not gone unnoticed in America’s heartland:
Today, Friday June 12, 2009, television broadcasting in the United States of America converts from analog to digital technology.
Image (TV D-Day, after Edvard Munch) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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Our long National Capital Area nightmare is over, according to transplanted Californians. Fatburger is coming to the DC region. The first two will be Beltway burger joints: Fairfax VA and Columbia MD locations open in July. FB plans to open another in DC proper, near Howard University.
Five Guys might feel the heat, but Spike and Ray’s won’t worry until In-N-Out Burger comes to town.
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While in New York, Gen. Pedro del Valle, Gen. Mac Arthur’s commander of Artillery in Korea, presented [James von Brunn] with John O. Beatty’s [sic] famous Iron Curtain Over America. This book had a tremendous affect upon [James von Brunn's] life and career. Von Brunn became an historical-revisionist, committed to the belief that the true histories of WWI and WWII had been hidden from the American People.
– James W. von Brunn autobiography on his Artist website.
If Mr. von Brunn actually met Pedro A. del Valle during his years in New York, it is likely the man was either Inspector General of the Marine Corps or retired from the military (he did not serve in Korea).
Mr. del Valle became a vice-president of ITT in 1948 but retired from that corporation in 1952 to form a group called Defenders of the American Constitution (DAC). The DAC ideology was based on the pseudohistorical concepts of John Owen Beaty (Beaty’s wife was active in the organization). Mr. Beaty, who served in Army Intelligence during WWII, was an SMU English professor who claimed that his Methodist college was run by Jews, and all Jews are really a Central Asian race, the Khazars, and have been conspiring for a millennium to overthrow Western Christian civilization.
Invaders from the North brought down US Airways Flight 1549, say investigators. The Airbus A320 aircraft, safely landed in the Huson River by Captain Chesney Sullenberger, was attacked by migratory elements of a Branta canadensis contingent that crossed the border from Canada.
Scientists analyzed samples of feathers and pâté snarge the divebombers left in the aircraft engines, and DNA evidence indicates that the terrorist cell originated in Labrador or Newfoundland. Many theorists had posited a conspiracy of alien squatters, as millions of Canada geese have illegally settled permanently in the United States. When the attackers were identified as migratory foreigners, a great honk of relief emanated from America’s golf courses and cemeteries.
The news also recieved much attention in the Canadian media:
Firearms enthusiast James W. von Brunn wore a Confederate Army hat when he visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC this afternoon, firiing his rifle and fatally shooting security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns before he himself was shot by two other guards. The elderly attacker is in critical condition at George Washington Hospital.
The Museum will be closed tomorrow, June 11, 2009, to honor the memory of Officer Stephen Johns.
88-year-old Mr. von Brunn is a former advertising man, painter, frat boy, WWII Navy veteran, college football player, gun fancier, real estate broker, stock trader, publisher, pamphleteer, White Supremacist, anti-Semite, and conspiracy theorist.
According to the rambling autobiography he posted on an arts website, Mr. von Brunn was born in St. Louis in 1920 and attended that city’s Washington University, where he studied painting and got a degree in Journalism. After Naval service in WWII he lived in New York, resuming his art studies and working in advertising and film/video production. He couldn’t work in Jewish-dominated journalism, he wrote, because he refused to change his German name.
