My homies Dave and Brian have just released the first iteration of the ultimate site for guitar enthusiasts, Fretbase: Guitars, Tabs, Chords and More.
Check it out. This labor of love includes tons of info on guitars and those who play them, along with a killer blog to keep guitar newbies and longtime enthusiasts equally strung out.
Finally Rahm has (almost) as much influence as his brother Ari who is a major Hollywood power broker and most well known among us civilians for being the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold.
Of all the stupid, weird and crazy comments on the election season, I may have to nominate as the worst Bill O’Reilly’s reaction to the fact that Palin didn’t know subtle global details such as which countries are included in NAFTA and that Africa was a continent (not just a country that had a region known as South Africa).
O’Reilly’s response, in general, was that these factors alone didn’t seem like a big enough deal to cause tension in the campaign. He questioned the reporter with the following.
“It’s gotta be more than that, go…”
Seriously, can there be more than that?
This morning I had this weird feeling that although I am the same person waking up in the same bed in the same town in the same state in the same country, something is, to a remarkable extent, not the same.
It’s not just that a new guy is about to be our president. It’s that, on a very basic level, we all have to relearn what it means to be an American. What does it mean to black, white or brown in this country? How does the remaining institutionalized racism and the fact that we have a black president co-exist?
Even with a two year election cycle this all, historically speaking, happened so fast. And think about this for a second. For the first few months of the new year, it’s going to be pretty amazing and incredible and unbelievable to see an African-American family in the White House. But with the constant exposure they’ll all be getting, that novelty will quickly wear off. In a few months, seeing a black president is going to be just another visual we’ve grown accustomed to. It will seem totally normal.
And this is a reality that seemed unthinkable a blink of an eye ago.
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Here are some great photos from the Obama campaign.
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Henry Louis Gates: In Our Lifetime.
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Bigger than partisan politics? You bet.
We did.
Great moment for the American experiment folks. Great, great moment.
We are finally walking the walk.
