1. Mulatu Astatke is back with a new LP collaboration.
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information 3
2. Rewatched Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. Gal is funnier by the minute.
3. This Matt Taibbi article I missed from January- still blisteringly funny!
FLAT N ALL THAT – Matt Taibbi (New York Press)
When some time ago a friend of mine told me that Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, was going to be a kind of environmentalist clarion call against American consumerism, I almost died laughing.
Beautiful, I thought. Just when you begin to lose faith in America’s ability to fall for absolutely anything—just when you begin to think we Americans as a race might finally outgrow the lovable credulousness that leads us to fork over our credit card numbers to every half-baked TV pitchman hawking a magic dick-enlarging pill, or a way to make millions on the Internet while sitting at home and pounding doughnuts— along comes Thomas Friedman, porn-stached resident of a positively obscene 11,400 square foot suburban Maryland mega-monstro-mansion and husband to the heir of one of the largest shopping-mall chains in the world, reinventing himself as an oracle of anti-consumerist conservationism. (Read full article)