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3 years late or 7 years early, let's commemorate 53 years since Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959, at 22 years old. At the time he had been relatively famous for 18 months. His widow and others blame producer/manager Norman Petty for witholding about 100 grand in royalties which forced Holly onto a miserable winter tour to pay the bills. But that's

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The Virg leaves the house long enough to review a first run movie from this decade. He finds it somewhat moody, mournful and somber. Over at Movies Eat the Soul.

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The Virg reviews the Swedish version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" over at Movies Eat the Soul.

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He is frequently called a polemicist by a lot of people who don't know what that means, I suspect.  To me, he seemed like the very model of a British man of letters. Polite but abrupt, profane but distinguished (he gives a detailed account of his one experiment with Brazilian waxing), upper class but not unpleasant about it (I fondly remember MSNBC's Chris Matthews on TV referring to Hitchens as

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Walter Russell Mead is an amazingly prolific writer and thinker with a less than knee-jerk conservative bent. He casts a wider intellectual net than any serious blogger I've read. And, perhaps aside from the great Steyn, I can't find anyone who can string multi-syllabic words together in a more pleasing rhythm. Here he contrasts physicists' response to the recent, doubtful, discovery of a

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Been travelling waaay to much to post properly. This was the grisly scene outside the south Texas convention center hotel I'm inspecting.  Art and tragedy go hand in hand I guess.

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My belated Halloween post over at Movies Eat The Soul got in just under the wire but it's perfectly in time for Dia de los Muertos, or un-muertos as the case may be.

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Oh well, why not? The cemeteries are nice this time of year, too. 

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The virg is travelling today. Mark Steyn reviews a fairly obscure favorite of mine "The Limey" here: http://www.steynonline.com/4592/the-limeyI won't try to top it.The non-linear bit is a little distracting but not a deal breaker. Terrence Stamp has one of the great glares, and as Steyn notes, he plays tough with a spring in his step.

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Instapundit provides this brief quote about the Occupiers by Andy Kessler from behind the WSJ pay wall: Maybe this is all really about disappointment. I spoke to a young woman who had clearly bathed more recently than most. I asked her why she was at OccupySF. She told me she’d done all the right things. Studied hard. Graduated college. (She was an art major.) And now she can’t get a job. It

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So the wife travels to Boulder, CO to visit family and maybe do a little purchasing for the retail co-op she’s part of. She ships 3 modest size boxes back by the United States Postal Service. Now, this woman knows how to pack cups and saucers and bric-a-brac. I have seen it. Two to three generations worth of crystal stemware and real china have followed us to the places where such things break,

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The Virg returns to Movies Eat the Soul with reviews highlighting the obvious linkage between Robin Hood and Dinosaur Jr.

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The Virg's daughter emails... "We just initiated this girl into Sigma Alpha. She gets one dollar for every three views on youtube and it's on tosh.0's blog thingy. I KNOW THIS GIRL!" So view away....

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Somehow I think the University of Wisconsin-Stout police force could tolerate a staff reduction if they're down to policing posters from nine-year-old TV shows. It ends with a script quote that helped make the series dear to the heart of libertarians and conservatives, "I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll

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If one Googles "Movies Eat the Soul", one finds that it pops up on at least page 2 of the results, which is some kind of improvement, mostly due to my obsessive editing. In celebration, the Virg reviews a movie from this decade, Contagion, and even adds a rip-snortin' update to his Young Man's Guide to the Austen Movies pages slinking down the right side of the blog. I've got a fever, and the

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As much as I would like to rant and rave, I can't imagine doing it any better than this.  "As Mayor Bloomberg’s office has patiently explained, there’s “not enough room” at the official Ground Zero commemoration to accommodate any firemen. “Which is kind of weird,” wrote the Canadian blogger Kathy Shaidle, “since 343 of them managed to fit into the exact same space ten years ago....Upon arrival

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...limps back into view with a new name and old attitude and a couple short reviews of mediocre movies.

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Paranoia strikes deep...My other blog will re-emerge in a week or so as Movies Eat the Soul or something even less clever. If I want to continue filling the intertubes with my movie musings, it is probably time to genericize it a bit. This means I will have to learn to write a synopsis. That should be fun.

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Photo MontageThe Houston Tea Party was held outside downtown with a stage in one area and a booth area about a 100 yards away. Thankfully, it was a beautiful windy day. I''ll make a very un-SWAG and say 2000 people, but this isn't really my specialty. The crowd was polite and I saw no evidence of left wing agitator moles. All negativity focuses on Obama or the media, rather than Congress,

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....in Leavenworth, Kansas.

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Glad to see that he's back on the charts and bankin' some royalties. A Christmas classic to be sure.For proof that the Europeans really are different from us, go see this horror show. I keep waiting for someone to start machine-gunning the zombies off the balcony.Merry Christmas to readers one through two.

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Snow in south Texas. Is Al Gore in town?My daughters' 96 Camry (made in Japan) with ornament, as photographed when I got home with my wife's 2001 Windstar van (made in Canada). I picked up the van from the shop after spending $369.00 to repair one (1) of the four (4) automatic windows that won't operate. All the windows on the Camry work just fine, as do all the windows on my Accord (assembled in

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....before the heartburn

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Nuevo Progreso, Mexico.Arturo's Restaurant Rich, flamy goodness.

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I first ran across him as SoxBlog, and then on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and then at the Weekly Standard. Fine writer and better on the radio than one would think, given his "Baahstan" accent. Always good natured and positive on the radio.The only "major" blogger kind enough to visit this poor blog and send an email. I'll miss him.

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...just too busy to post.couple miles west of downtown Houston, Monday night, looking out my office window. Couple million people out there....glad I didn't mail the Netflix....please let there be ice cream...ohh, and don't forget Galveston/Bolivar Peninsula

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This is life in houston for the time being. No power in the woodlands, but the weather is nice.

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it was a good run. cant complain

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fewer boards on that side of house. more rain now

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of wind at 5:45. many roof pings and bonks. still have power

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in our neighborhood. now blogging on phone

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woke up from branch landing on roof - that's the sound I've been afraid of. Big winds right now and will get bigger for next half hour at least. Power still on. Something small just fell on neighbors car.Cat wants out. Maybe not.

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The Weather Nerd is serving as a pretty nifty clearinghouse of info on Hurricane Ike. At least until my power goes.

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The boards are on most windows, trimmed a few tree limbs away. Stood in awe of the number of trees around our house and cars and decided one of them would fall by morning.The problem with the Woodlands is that every property has five trees that can hit a house two properties away. It's impossible to guess which one has your name on it. But at least we're not in Galveston. Lord help those people.9

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A few weeks after Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Rita tore through the (relatively sparsely populated) Texas - Louisiana border region and made a helluva mess.It’s easy to forget that Rita was supposed to hit Houston, but broke right, leaving 1 million Houston-area evacuees on the highway. Now comes Ike. It may break right but for the time being it appears that it could hit Galveston Bay and head

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Waaaay better than I hoped. The crowd helped. He showed good instinct in taking the crowd with him. Brit Hume and Juan Williams mention green backdrop. Heh.Rove goes through his checklist. He keeps stats. Cool. 67 paragraph.So I wasn't the only one wondering what the hell the backdrop was. Oh it was a school.Sorry I was so slow posting comments. Don't get many of those.

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College night... a little late to the party.Well, Cindy's never going to project a lot of warmth. The new hair almost makes her look too young and for such an old guy.The little sincere head shakes seem kind of overdone with the camera so close - too close.Here comes the video -Nothing here you couldn't do with a nice home computerMomma's boy. OkayFirst I've heard of his father standing at the

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Hugh Hewitt just finished his interview with authors of the book, The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him.I listened and got scared. You should too! The transcript from a 3-hour interview may not be up for a while, though.

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Borrowing Mickey Kaus's old line...In September, when it becomes to clear to the last subterranean dwelling Republican that McCain can't beat Clinton, or Obama, or Clinton-Obama, we'll have Florida to thank.

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CNN will be interviewing John McCain and Mitt Romney, and SENATORS Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama."Tired of leaders who ask nothing of us at all." Good line.She's good enough on TV, but just a little too understated. East Coasters are yawning gigantically.Nobody cares about Greensberg, KS. Sorry. How did we get to global warming? Whining about deployed Kansas National Guard. Calls herself

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My Drudge and blog-addled brain usually finds Gagdad Bob's exquisite writing to be almost exhausting. But even I can grasp this post on the elections.

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When you're ready for a grim, Mark Steyn world view, without the humor, try the Brussels Journal.Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from nativeEuropeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resistand are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are preparedto fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will

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Several blogs including Powerline link to a Christian Science Monitor article about the lack of "Radical Islam" breeding grounds in the U.S compared to Europe.In a nation where mosques have sprung up alongside churches andsynagogues, where Muslim women are free to wear the hijab (or not), and whereeducation and job opportunities range from decent to good, the resentments thatcan breed extremism

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Drudge links this article about companies "implicated" in providing E. Coli contaminated bagged spinach. He doesn't mention the delightful name of the first company involved, "Natural Selection Foods". Awkward.

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via Instapundit"...To read some blogs today, you'd think that this was the 9th century, with camel-riding Jihadis ready to descend on helpless American towns, swinging unstoppable scimitars. It's not that way; it's more like the Ghost Dance or similar movements borne of frustration at losing, movements that do their damage all right, but that are doomed to fail. I don't mean to understate the

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I thought the "docudrama" did an excellent job of showing the sincerity and skill set of your average jihadist. They all seemed to be competent in existing in the western culture, they all seemed skilled at rapidly putting together things that go "bang" and they all seemed to enjoy their work. I think this is probably pretty accurate and pretty scary.Everyone knew the guy in college who liked

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Damn, too late to live blog the whole thing, maybe I'll do the President's speech instead.7:32 - Doesn't make a big deal of the "contested election", classy7:33 - I thought O'Neill left his briefcase at a party, not at a seminar - More legacy rescue7:34 - Nice to see the lady from "24" and Gary Schandling as C. Rice - I don't doubt that Clarke was ignored. New brooms can't help but sweep clean at

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I'll be forgoing the Simpsons premier tonight to do something I haven't tried before - live-blogging.Now, live-blogging a docudrama is probably dumb, but good practice for more important stuff and who knows maybe I'll contribute something useful, or learn how to type really fast. Obviously, I haven't seen the show yet. I'm not hoping for much even though I have enjoyed watching Clinton, Berger,

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The Brussels Journal has several posts on illegal aliens occupying Belgian Catholic churches with full support of the bishops.Perhaps most notably:Churches have been occupied in every Belgian diocese, except thediocese of Hasselt. Some churches currently have 700 people living in them. Manyof the sans-papiers are Muslims. They pray in the aisles while the walls display banners with the name of

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Great speech!!! Awesome!!Didn't believe a word of it.

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If like me you look to IowaHawk mainly for humor, you'll be surprised and impressed by his extensively sourced, by blogosphere standards, review of Black Americans in drag racing and stock car racing. Black History Month: Quarter Mile Soul

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Strategy Page has the Top 10 Signs that the Unites States is About to Bomb Iran. Do not mistake this for a prediction.Before any major military operation, there are always tell tale signs. Withall the talk about Israel or the United States bombing Iran's nuclearweapons program, it would be wise to check for the signs before taking thepundit prattle too seriously....My favorite:8 -Sudden loss of

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Drudge is linking to LifeSiteNews about euthanasia of patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This time the report is sourced back to National Public Radio, so those suspicious of LifeSite may find some corroboration. Might make some people think about their Do Not Resuscitate orders.If the story turns out to be true, I'm sure we can find a bioethicist, maybe

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As much as I’m enjoying watching Democrats and parts of the Left suddenly embrace racial profiling, I can’t find anything wrong with Bush’s statement -"I think it sends a terrible signal to friends around the world that it's OK for a company from one country to manage the port, but not a country that plays by the rules and has got a good track record from another part of the world can't manage

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Christopher Hitchens (connect from his website to "Shalom Professor Gates" to avoid the Times free registration), writing in the LA Times, offers a brief but fascinating look at mitochondrial DNA testing, or having your genome "done" and the potential surprises awaiting us all.The fantasy of ethnic purity is simply a fantasy, and the fantasy of racialpurity is not even a delusion, because we are

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I’m a little late to the party on the Cartoon Jihad, but does it seem like parts of the conservative blogosphere, especially Christians, another one here, are engaged in a kind of moral preening in their desire for the European and American press to self-censor in deference to the fragile sensitivities of Muslims?Let me be clear, I don’t seek a "clash of civilizations", nor do I agree with the

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Soxblog nails it exactly on Peggy Noonan's "pompous imperious tone she customarily adopts when she’s trying to show her highly cultivated sensitivities especially when compared to the rest of pundit-dom. Counter-intuitively, Noonan found the services to be “wonderful--spirited and moving, rousing and respectful, pugnacious and loving.”He does credit her with a couple zingers.

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The same day Austin Bay links to a Houston Chronicle story about New Orleans gang wars transplanted to Houston, we get this from Lou Dobbs tonight:(scroll down about a 1/3 of the page)REV. JESSEJACKSON, RAINBOW-PUSH COALITION: There's a profound population shift. The Latinopopulation was 3 percent. It's now 20 percent, and it's not just South CentralLatin America. It's also east and Europeans as

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Seems the pro-military right, of which I’m a proud if dissolute member, has decided to make Joel Stein famous - most notably Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin. Why? The few military people I know or am related to will not have their self-esteem dented by this callow 30-something. His Warriors and Wusses column is bound to seem funny to his 10 best friends. Otherwise, it’s just another flat attempt

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Flew from New Orleans to Houston and back today. The Big Queasy is still pretty ragged. Most traffic lights downtown are still not working. Most hospitals are still not open. Overall it’s a little cleaner than before Christmas. Found an open Subway sandwich place that was very busy and the help was friendly.No doubt New Orleans will be “chocolate” again. I understand that Mexicans drink a LOT of

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I'd like to believe there's a crisis in Hollywood, just because. Roger Ebert says the crisis is an urban myth. "...that has been tiresomely created by news media recycling one another. By mid-December, according to the Hollywood Reporter, receipts were down between 4 percent and 5 percent from 2004, a record year when the totals were boosted by Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which

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Does it seem like the Senate in general and Dems in particular are incapable of learning anything about their public image?If you’ve seen Dreyer’s great silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc" then you might remember some of the opening scenes where Joan’s accusers are filmed - without make-up – bulbous-nosed, hunch-backed, flabby-joweled, and leering at the girl, who looks up at them with

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