Jamie Malanowski

Month: August 2010

THE PARTIES IS OVER

Writing in The New York Times today, Marc Ambinder notes that “During this election cycle, a suspiciously large number of candidates with thin résumés and barely formed political identities are beating well-financed, better-established opponents. What’s more, these upstarts are winning primary races, in no small part, by running against the notion that their opponents were …

THE PARTIES IS OVER Read More »

THE AWESOME SAM BROWN

Sam Brown – “Horse to the water”?????? Andria | MySpace Video From The Concert for George, which she utterly stole from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton et al. Magnificent–and what a smile! Why was she never a major star?

THE GREATEST BEATLES

The problem with picking the greatest Beatles songs, as Rolling Stone has done, is that the Beatles were not always Great–you know, capital G Great, as in profound, but not only profound, also peerless. They were, however, prolific, creative, innovative, imaginative, relentlessly cheerful, and over and over and over again, perfect. Songs like “Lovely Rita”, …

THE GREATEST BEATLES Read More »

RABBIT, RUN

For ten days while Ginny and Cara were visiting the horse-rich campuses of Texas A&M and the University fo Kentucky (with a stopover in Colorado to see assorted grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins), Molly and I and the dogs played Rabbit Retrievers–chasing Steve (nee Tintin, but renamed after Steve McQueen of The Great Escape) and …

RABBIT, RUN Read More »