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Two Cow Garage/Todd May

Todd May

2 Cow Garage

girl trouble

blizzard inconveniences me

more later...

rock & beer

1) Clampdown @ Ravari Room 2) The Beatdowns @ Ruby Tuesdays 3) "enough, i'm walking home"

 

Lucero & friends

 

 

I was cleaning out my camera and found a photo of Lucero playing one of the last shows of Little Brothers.  The crowd was ha

 

d a shit kicking backwoods thing going on, yelling "yee ha!" and then smashing bottles on the floor. Even the jaded Lil Bro bar staff

 

 

was alarmed.

WVKO is back! Power to the people!

On Monday WVKO 1580 A.M. will start broadcasting the following lineup (subject to change):

Monday-Friday:
6AM-9AM   Bill Press
9AM-12PM  Stephanie Miller
12PM-3PM  Ed Schultz
3PM-6PM   Randi Rhodes
6PM-8PM   Rachel Maddow
8PM-11PM   Thom Hartmann
11PM-1AM   Jon Elliot
1AM-3AM  Lionel (rebroadcast)

Weekends is the Air America Feed with shows hosted by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Ring of Fire), Sam Seder, Rev. Welton Gaddy (State of Belief) and Laura Flanders (Radio Nation, with writers and editors from The Nation magazine).
You can stream the new station here: http://stream.wvko1580.com:8000/listen.pls

And here's a good web article on it:

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/11/all-you-need-to-know-about-wvko.html 

 And a web site will be here shortly: http://www.wvko1580.com/

WVKO  has a long history serving the black community in Columbus, as well as playing great gospel music.  Besides the amazing singers, I've heard some of the best bass players on that station.  It's fitting that VKO  will the strong voice in a city that the world watched Americans try and fail to vote.

It looks like 2008 will be another coup, watch this week's NOW:  Will the 2008 Election Be Fair?

And just in case you haven't read the definitive case that the 2004 election was stolen, you can read Bobby Kennedy's piece here.

This is the most important article Rolling Stone has ever printed, don't you think?  It's a sad time in this country when Rolling Stone out does every newspaper in the country.

Please, drink a double expresso and dig in!

censored letter to editor concerning Rush

   Reading John P_tric's review of a Rush concert, gives me the same feeling I had when the Ku Klux Klan burnt a cross in my family's front yard. So I didn't actually read it. "Milosevic, Saddam, now Rush" seemed like a hatchet job to me. I don't read P_tric's reviews much like I don't listen to crack addicts when they beg for money. Your readers must of sensed this situation went from mildly amusing years ago to down right deranged. Does he hate power trios or just Canadians? Is he mad at the fact a progressive metal ensemble has been selling out stadiums of thirty freaking years?  Is it because Rush is two thirds Jewish? Now that I think of it, Geddy Lee's parents were survivors of concentration camps at Dachau. Hasn't Geddy been though enough abuse already?  I'm not saying P_tric is anti semitic, I'm saying he wants to deny Rush's right to exist. Who's to say what sets off a sociopath.

  I have to remind myself that this is the same John P_tric who was fired from the Columbus Dispatch for plagiarism. Apparently he'd take quotes out of other interviews and made it like he asked the questions.  Legend has it, John would write about shows he's never attended. He would hear that a band had a violin player and write that the guy played well, even though the violin player was actually in the hospital with a broken leg. This happened twice. What are the odds that John P_tric would write about a show he didn't attend, say the violin player played well when he was in reality, lying in a hospital bed? That crazy scenario happened twice.

Besides being busted for making things up and not showing up, I also remember John as a frustrated guitar player. He'd twang away in the band called the Hoot Owls with his greasy pompadour, signature shit eating grin, eyes too close together. That band actually made rockabilly boring. The transition into middle aged record store know-it all-must of been a rough one. Combining abusive crappy daytime TV aesthetics and rock journalism for a free paper seemed like a good gimmick, but I'm sure it doesn't pay too well. We all can be mean and judge mental at times.  When I saw John dancing at that Budos Band gig last month, I thought he was learning disabled and effeminate,. Then again, maybe that's just the way he dances.

Meanwhile Rush plays to 60,000 fans and has their latest album debut at #3 on the Billboard charts. It's not fair, is it?  I'm beginning to see a pattern.   Green with envy.

   The sad truth is there are a hundred bloggers doing his schtick and all one has to do is enter something like "RUSH IN RIO" on You Tube to figure out what a Rush show is like. If John P_tric continues crashing the party every tour, I suggest Rush gets a court order and treat him like the creepy stalker he's become.

Ashawnti Roberts

Just had to share this.   Wow.

Tom Sawyer (bootleg), One Little Victory, YYZ, Cygnus/Working Man, Leave That Thing Alone, Xanadu, and the new single/video Far Cry.

OSU graduation day! That means hugs!

__Townes Van Zant - Dead Flowers

 The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle

Times New Viking @ Ravari Room

 

Columbus (on foot)

The alarm rang and I made coffee. After packing my player with pod casts, I walked through the hazy dusk, clinking my car keys to scare away raccoons. Then something really strange happened. Apparently, I bought my 97 Integra with what I thought was a  disconnected and inoperable car alarm in it.  Well, today it magically came alive and armed itself. Long story short, I had my car towed to a garage and I fear this $50 alarm will cost way more to remove. This put me in a position to call off work and walk around town. I realize that without a car, people assume I'm a bum who may ask for change. I got the walking blues.

  It's chilly outside, so it may be my Aqualung coat and my dirty sneakers that leaves the impression I'm a hobo. I had breakfast at McDonald's for the first time in years. Bacon, egg, biscuit, cheese, and coffee. Breakfast is breakfast, I guess.

Ohio's capital city has become a habitat for strolling geese and hawks flying overhead.     Picked up a newspaper.  There's a new cold war.  Wonderful.  Earthlings totally suck.