Sorry. I couldn’t fit the Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine up there. Also it appears that I am going to need bigger business cards.

Anyway I’m late because I’ve been busy catching up on a LOT OF EMAIL from people concerned about my anticipated demise at FDL which, if the rumors are correct, means a FDL ninja is going to go Trotsky Icepick on my ass or something. Or not. Also there are a lot of emails from  people offering great deals on Russian brides but that is to be expected in the spring when love is in the air and the spring white sales are in bloom.

Here is your Random Ten-ish:

Rise Up With Fists – Jenny Lewis
It’s Just That Simple – Wilco
Mystifies Me – Son Volt
Seeker Who Are Lovers – Cocteau Twins
Glitter Freeze – Gorilaz
What The Devil Wanted – Whiskeytown
Spirit In The Dark – Herbie Mann
Steamgauge 99 – The 101’ers
Peace For South Africa – Oscar Peterson
War – Edwin Starr
and the overflow: Stoney End – Laura Nyro

Also, thanks to Paul in Bloomfield for the Meters anthology, and Bill in Rapid City for We Were Promised Jetpacks. You guys are swell.

Production values in the sixties were awesome

Starr*/Feingold 2012!

* Yes I know Edwin Starr is dead, but:

Age and Citizenship requirements – US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Nothin’ there about being alive. Suck on that, constitutional scholars…