Bob Schneider: Let the Light In
Here’s the video for a great pop song by Bob Schneider, from his most recent album A Perfect Day.
Youtube Video
Here’s the video for a great pop song by Bob Schneider, from his most recent album A Perfect Day.
Youtube Video1 | Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 3, 2011 4:39:36pm |
The video's actually very funny, when you realize what's going on in it.
3 | Daniel Ballard Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:31:51pm |
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel
I been lurkin. Kinda laid up sick today. I did put up another photo Page.
4 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:32:01pm |
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel
Where is everyone?
I just got back from dinner.
What do you think of David Weber's making his latest 'Honorverse' novel, A Beautiful Friendship, for the teen audience?
5 | Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:33:11pm |
6 | jaunte Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:33:52pm |
7 | Shiplord Kirel Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:34:21pm |
Heehee! Texas Tech is trailing Texas State 10-9 at the half. One media prophet favored Tech by 42 in this game and the Vegas line is Tech by 19.
This result matches media coverage. To get streaming audio, you have to go to Texas State's Bobcat network. I go through KZNX in Austin. The Red Raider network, through flagship KJTV radio in Lubbock, does not have streaming audio. KJTV's on-air announcers, who will remain mercifully nameless here, are among the lamest and most amateurish in major college football anyway. Among other things, they cannot get the yard lines right on something like a third of the plays, which confuses the hell out of the listeners. The 33 is rendered as 23 or maybe 17 or whatever random perception the disembodied chatterers happen to have. They also mis-state the down on a huge percentage of the plays. If you hear "3rd down at the 17," it could just as easily be "4th down at the 33."
8 | prairiefire Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:36:29pm |
10 | Varek Raith Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:45:03pm |
11 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:50:44pm |
OK, here's something to talk about:
Stanford Law School professor Ralph Banks’s Is Marriage for White People? is essentially about a black American interviewee he calls Audrey. She’s 39, graduated from prestigious black college Spelman, and has an M.B.A. She has travelled the world and has a plush job with a multinational consulting firm. She is also unmarried and sees few signs that that will change.
What interests Banks is that Audrey is, in this last detail, typical. Seven out of ten black women are unmarried, and college-educated black women are twice as likely as their white female peers not to be married by their thirties. That is, they’re no more likely to marry or stay married—black divorce rates are also twice as high as white—than white women with only a high school diploma. The picture is little better for black men, fewer than half of whom are husbands. (Affluent black men, in fact, become less likely to marry the more money they earn—the reverse of the trend for white men.) Moreover, neither Africa nor slavery is the culprit here: as late as the 1950s, nine in ten black women married.
Banks’s book focuses mostly on black women, partly because their rates of singlehood are higher, partly because they were more forthcoming in interviews, and partly because he sees them as the ones who could solve the problem. “For black women, being unmarried has become the new normal, single the new black,” he writes.
It’s now standard to point to the high incarceration rates of black men, which render the ratio of women to available men unsuitably high, as a main cause of the black marriage crisis. But Banks focuses on educated black women, whom we would not expect this problem to affect. Audrey’s singlehood owes to other factors. One is that black men “marry out” of their racial group (about one in five) more than black women do (fewer than one in ten). Asian and Latino women are over three times as likely to marry out of their group as black women.
12 | Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 3, 2011 5:58:47pm |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
Black women will have to become more open to nonblack partners, Ralph Banks argues.
I'm not sure who Ralph Bank is but I like his ideas.
13 | Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:00:08pm |
Also see: "I'm Not Going To Think About Her" Tales Of Mere Existence
14 | austin_blue Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:00:51pm |
Thanks for posting my homeboy, Charles. He used to date Sandra Bullock, who also lives here. She has a restaurant here in town.
15 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:04:15pm |
I am watching The Thin Man with William Powel and Myrna Loy. Ahh a good movie.
16 | Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:04:50pm |
Anybody notice what's really going on in this video?
That's not Bob.
17 | austin_blue Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:06:30pm |
Watching the LSU/Oregon game. Smashmouth football.
Question: Why have a blimp over a domed stadium? Seems like a silly waste of fuel.
18 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:07:00pm |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
I don't know where the hell all these disproportionately single black women are, but they're not showing any particular interest in my white self, that's for damned sure. *grumble*
Of course, nobody else does either, but still...
19 | blueraven Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:09:48pm |
re: #14 austin_blue
Thanks for posting my homeboy, Charles. He used to date Sandra Bullock, who also lives here. She has a restaurant here in town.
He is also nice guy. He played at Mr BlueRavens company picnic, probably around 10 years ago, I guess. He took the time to chat with my star struck pre teen daughter.
She treasures that autograph and still loves him to this day. Of course now she can see him in the clubs!
20 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:10:29pm |
21 | blueraven Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:11:01pm |
re: #16 Charles
Anybody notice what's really going on in this video?
That's not Bob.
I thought something looked funny about that beard!
22 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:13:01pm |
re: #11 Dark_Falcon
my affinity for women crosses color barriers...my time in Jamaica led to a fond appreciation for mixed colors....wow!...the most beautiful women in the world...
24 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:15:43pm |
re: #17 austin_blue
Watching the LSU/Oregon game. Smashmouth football.
Question: Why have a blimp over a domed stadium? Seems like a silly waste of fuel.
it's always something isn't it?....another question would be, why spend the money to dome over a football stadium?
26 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:19:06pm |
re: #20 albusteve
on ABQ, takin care of meat business
Who did you kill and chop up this time, Steve?
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27 | Varek Raith Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:24:11pm |
re: #18 negativ
I don't know where the hell all these disproportionately single black women are, but they're not showing any particular interest in my white self, that's for damned sure. *grumble*
Of course, nobody else does either, but still...
Hah, I know how ya feel.
:/
Come on, ladies!
I'm tall, dark, evil and handsome!
28 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:27:50pm |
re: #27 Varek Raith
Hah, I know how ya feel.
:/
Come on, ladies!
I'm tall, dark, evil and handsome!
The disadvantage is that he's a vampire, and not some wimpy emo-Twilight vampire either. Think Colin Farrell in the new Fright Night.
29 | Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:28:05pm |
I love Bob! He was just at the Belly Up, my friends went, but I couldn't. Got to hang out with him after the show.
30 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:28:10pm |
re: #26 Dark_Falcon
Who did you kill and chop up this time, Steve?
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I'm having grilled breast of road runner, sauteed in a Beef-O-Roni marinade...with a cold PBR to chase it
32 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:29:53pm |
33 | Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:31:04pm |
re: #32 albusteve
to a blind man
Blind, not blind, it doesn't matter. I've been told I'm good with my hands.
34 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:33:22pm |
re: #30 albusteve
I'm having grilled breast of road runner, sauteed in a Beef-O-Roni marinade...with a cold PBR to chase it
Albusteve, succeeding where Wile E. Coyote has always failed.
35 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:35:55pm |
re: #33 b_sharp
Blind, not blind, it doesn't matter. I've been told I'm good with my hands.
they probably lied
36 | jaunte Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:38:23pm |
Mother Nature still stubbornly refusing to grant Rick Perry's rain prayer.
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
37 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:41:48pm |
re: #36 jaunte
Mother Nature still stubbornly refusing to grant Rick Perry's rain prayer.
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
mine too, but nobody posted it....
actually I stacked rocks into a rain cairn, Comanche style
39 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:43:39pm |
re: #36 jaunte
Mother Nature still stubbornly refusing to grant Rick Perry's rain prayer.
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
but!
People are probably hoarding winter survival gear right this minute.
40 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:43:43pm |
news flash!
1,352,904 people prayed for rain today in west Texas...that's a fair number of posts, eh?
42 | Varek Raith Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:46:36pm |
re: #36 jaunte
Mother Nature still stubbornly refusing to grant Rick Perry's rain prayer.
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
She's trolling Texas.
43 | Varek Raith Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:49:15pm |
News on Katia looking a bit better.
Image: at201112_model.gif
44 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:51:40pm |
re: #43 Varek Raith
News on Katia looking a bit better.
Image: at201112_model.gif
positive guesses are always welcome...we don't need more death and destruction...seeing how the feds might bill you for getting trashed by a storm...revenue!
45 | jaunte Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:56:30pm |
NASA data reveals anomalously hot summer
NASA data shed light on the persistent heat over Texas and Oklahoma:
"It is worth noting that even though the pressure anomalies [atmospheric pressures in the lower troposphere] were small (Figure 3b), they could drive changes in the atmospheric circulation sufficient to break heat records at the surface."
46 | Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:57:19pm |
47 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 6:58:29pm |
48 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 7:05:13pm |
re: #36 jaunte
Mother Nature still stubbornly refusing to grant Rick Perry's rain prayer.
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
Rick Perry prayed that no rain would fall upon his hair, and God answered him with a drought in Texas. In atonement, Rick Perry should leave Texas and stand outside in a thunderstorm. I don't know if the chance for him to be hit by lighting is a plus or minus in that scenario.
/entirely kidding
49 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 7:06:39pm |
re: #48 Dark_Falcon
Rick Perry prayed that no rain would fall upon his hair, and God answered him with a drought in Texas. In atonement, Rick Perry should leave Texas and stand outside in a thunderstorm. I don't know if the chance for him to be hit by lighting is a plus or minus in that scenario.
/entirely kidding
ever read any Stephen Hunter?
50 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 3, 2011 7:12:35pm |
51 | albusteve Sat, Sep 3, 2011 7:14:02pm |