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May 24, 2003
Bob Dylan's birthday
Born May 24, 1941 as Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, it's Bob Dylan's birthday. Happy #62!
Bob Dylan must be the most written about musician in the whole rock era. There may not be that much original and worthwhile to say about him at this point, but you have to try.
For a little different thought, I'd like to reiterate briefly the analysis of Walter Rimler's classic book Not Fade Away. He argues, obviously correctly, that Bob Dylan's main achievement comes as a composer of classic MELODIES.
Everyone goes on about Dylan's fancy wordplay, including Dylan himself. Paraphrasing, Dylan has as much as said that his melodies don't matter, that it's all about the words. He could write them down in a book, and they'd mean just as much.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Dylan was completely wrong when he said that. Hardly anyone would have ever heard of him if he were a mere page poet. Besides the fact that hardly anyone pays attention to ANY page poet, he still would not be that much of a stand out. "Mr Tambourine Man" doesn't mean much laid out on a page. It is the tender melody that the words carry along the breeze that makes it so meaningful.
Indeed, a lot of the lyrics to even some of his best songs are meaningless crap. My personal favorite example is "I Want You" wherein he sang "Your dancing child with his Chinese suit, he spoke to me I took his flute, now I wasn't that cute to him, was I? But I did it because he lied, because he took you for a ride, and because... I want you." Those words are meaningless random drivel, but I can sing you back the whole song- and dig it. It's all in the TUNE.
Bob Dylan has- by whatever thought process he went through doing it- written many of the very best tunes in the history of recorded popular music.
posted by Al at 5/24/2003 03:50:00 PM
Screw Chris Hedges
So NYT reporter Chris Hedges got booed off the stage while speaking at a college commencement ceremony in Rockford, Illinois. Good.
If a professor brings a guest speaker to your poli sci class, then you should give him a listen even if you think he's a fool. You need to be exposed to other people's points of view, etc.
If someone is speaking at a lecture hall or out on the green saying stuff you don't like, you have no right to prevent them from saying their piece. When some punks show up at a speech just for the purpose of being disruptive, they need beat down. Let them say their piece. Maybe you can argue with them afterward or during Q&A if you please. Or you can just stay the hell away from them.
That does not, however, mean that you have a right to inflict yourself on people anytime you can weasel your way to a microphone. A graduation ceremony is for graduates and their families, not for some yahoo to jack himself off in front of a captive audience.
Graduation is about the graduates. Junior has worked for years to earn this degree. His folks have put themselves out tens of thousands of dollars to get him through. It's THEIR day.
Then some jackass from the NYT comes out to wag his finger at them at precisely this important personal moment, telling them that they're a bunch of bullies and everybody in the world hates them. Honk off, jackass. Do it on your own time.
Then this buttmunch reporter comes back the next day with his little feelings all hurt. He's heartbroken at how uncivil we've become because his captive audience refused to remain captive. The graduates booed you? Hey, that's THEIR free speech- and it is THEIR day.
Mr. Hedges, when your people from the New York Times are having a meeting to figure out better ways to lie to people and spread commie propoganda, I don't come storming in to rant Ayn Rand at you and tell you that you're going to hell [even though you are:)].
Mr. Hedges showed rudeness and disrespect for the graduates and their families by inflicting his harangue on a captive audience that didn't sign up for a political argument. For my part, I would be most delighted to have Ann Coulter show up at a graduation ceremony and start harassing the damned liberals. However, it would not be welcome by all the hard working Democrats in attendance, and would be just as inappropriate as Mr. Hedges' remarks. Plus, Ms. Coulter has better manners than that.
You got booed off the stage? Brother, you asked for it.
CLICK HERE for a transcript of Hedges' commencement speech
CLICK HERE to download an mp3 file of the event. [If this comes up dry, search Kazaa for "Chris Hedges Rockford"
posted by Al at 5/24/2003 03:50:00 PM
May 23, 2003
Mommy would be so proud
With all the porno sites on the internet, I somehow nab the #8 Google result for "ass.jpg". It is for a page of stills from The Shield that has a picture "out of his ass.jpg" with a female officer noticing from whence Vic Mackey pulled a very good save.
Update: As of 11-24-03, this very post ranks #4 in that Google search. Woo-hoo!
posted by Al at 5/23/2003 11:45:00 PM
American Idols await personality software
I tried to think that simply not being a gross reality show was some redemption for the American Idol phenomenon. In view of the big season 2 finale, this thin reed does not hold up.
American Idol does not in any significant way even try to pick someone with something to say, an artist. Bob Dylan or Eminem would never, ever have come out of any of these tv talent shows. They're not looking for artists at all, but with someone who can do a certain type of rote emoting.
Jebus, look at the songs they're picking. "Imagine" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water"? I'd be hard pressed to think of two less imaginative choices of songs to sing. This is besides the fact that they're not doing any songs of their own composition, nor bringing in original outside songs at all.
I could not pick out even one hint of an original thought or quirk in word, deed, performance, anything. I don't know when I've seen two performers more utterly devoid of personality than Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken. They are both technically cable of carrying a tune in a bucket. One's a chunky black guy. The other's a geeky looking white kid. That's about all there is to say about either of them.
They've both got recording contracts. Like the Clarkson chick, they'll probably sell a couple of copies of their first record just from the momentum of the Fox publicity machine. Then after a few weeks they will sink, never to be heard of again. They'll have a new crop. Hey, there are at least a couple of kids in every high school glee club in the country who could do this just as good.
The only hope for any lasting or meaningful career for any of these people will have to come from the miracle of modern technology. Studio engineers can already do a lot to fix performance mistakes in the studio. They won't need them that much, though. Again, these kids can carry a tune.
What they need is a personality. Hopefully, the record companies can get some Personality 1.0 software to inject at least some fabricated individuality, even just a tiny spark of something not utterly generic into their recordings.
posted by Al at 5/23/2003 12:53:00 AM
May 22, 2003
Brian Wilson to perform Smile live
From Billboard:
Thirty-seven years after aborting his most ambitious project midway through recording, former Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson, plans to resurrect the long-lost "Smile" album in U.K. concerts next year.
Boo-yah! The schedule only calls for these few UK shows, but I predict this will expand to at least a few American shows. At a minimum, we should get a live recording or DVD. Having seen him live (with Paul Simon) a couple of years ago, I'll tell you he does not need the Beach Boys to do his thing. He needs them about like Simon needs Artie- which is to say not really at all, other than for sentimental reasons.
Some of this legendary Smile material we've already heard scattered to the winds, including "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains." Some we haven't. It will be fascinating to hear his most complete presentation of this material.
posted by Al at 5/22/2003 11:55:00 PM
Bernie Taupin's birthday
Bernie Taupin was born this day, May 22, 1950. Happy #53!
As the lyricist for all of Elton John's best material, he's one of the most successful pop songwriters of all time. For that high level of success, he gets very little credit. Elton's tunes sell his lyrics, but that's true of any lyricist. Elton wouldn't have kept him around if he weren't outstanding.
One of my big favorite Bernie Taupin lyrics is "Bennie and the Jets"
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
But they're so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
Bennie and the Jets
Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they're blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong
He gets right at teenage rebellion as a crass trendy consumer product. The poetry and sound of this is really good. He gets the breathless contrived trendy fake-hip talk "Hey kids, plug into the faithless". He also gets a good closer with the "fight our parents out in the street". That's good stuff.
posted by Al at 5/22/2003 10:53:00 PM
Elvis Costello gets stupid
Elvis Costello can count few fans more loyal than me. I identify with him as a person more than any other musician ever, and count him on strictly musical merits certainly in the top ten artists of the rock tradition.
So count it as friendly criticism when I say that Elvis was plain talking stupid at a dinner where he was being honored by ASCAP on Tuesday, May 20, 2003.
"We all live in fairly dangerous times in terms of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. A lot of the songwriters that I've admired and learned from ... are people who spoke in matters of conscience as well as matters of the heart. I think that it's essential that we defend that right."
Bullshit, Elvis. What danger is this? Is John Ashcroft going to throw the Dixie Chicks in jail? Has he had Tim Robbins took out and shot? Has Sean Penn even been given a traffic ticket for trafficking in stupid ass useful idiocy?
The correct answer is NO. There is no significant censorship of political expression in America or Elvis' home in Great Britain. There's not even a hint of it. No one is trying to stop people from speaking their minds.
The only "danger" is that if you say stuff to piss people off, then they might not buy your records or go to your movies. Fine. You don't have any "right" to expect to say anything at all that you want and not have it affect how people react to you. You have a right to say what you want and not be beaten up or killed, but you don't have a right to expect me to keep buying your movies if you say stuff to make me hate you.
Even this much lesser usage of the term "danger" is not a danger to free speech, but only your pocketbook. Tim Robbins can say whatever he wants all day long. There's no danger of him being censored. Hey, knock yourself out. Sean Penn can make whatever kind of movie he wants to go out and make. He can buy cameras, film, rent a stage. Whether anyone else wants to invest tens of millions of dollars of their own money to back a movie by someone whom a good portion of the country actively hates is another issue altogether.
In summary then, anyone has a right to stand up and say whatever they want without fear of being beaten or jailed. They do not have a right to do things they know are going to piss their fans off and then whine about it if their career hits the skids.
Even this hitting of skids really hasn't happened. The Dixie Chicks are still selling quite nicely, thank you. Sean Penn was never a big star; he among others gets to use this bogus free speech martyrdom as an excuse for an already dead in the water career.
Elvis is way too smart and sophisticated for this nonsense. When he says "dangerous times in terms of freedom of speech" he implies that there is some evil fascist mob mentality out to lynch the poor brave souls who would dare to speak out. There is nothing of the sort, and he goddam knows better.
Now these are somewhat dangerous times in terms of actual DANGER to all of us. There are people trying to kill us, all of us infidels- you, me and Elvis.
It is nonsense unworthy of Elvis to even use that same word "danger" to refer to the possibility that you'll lose sales for your record if you piss on the people trying to defend us from actual danger.
posted by Al at 5/22/2003 07:59:00 PM
May 21, 2003
Fats Waller's birthday
The only reason Thomas aka Fats Waller "ain't misbehavin" is cause he's long dead. He was born on this day 99 years ago, May 21, 1904.
Best known as the author of "Ain't Misbehavin'", this mischievous PK composed a great many songs, played some badass piano, and exhibited an idiosyncratic gusto for life that continues to bring joy many decades later. He had a broad-ranging artistic style that would work in front of upscale musical connisseurs in a concert hall or playing to a whorehouse full of drunks.
His last professional performances were caught in front of Hollywood movie cameras for the classic musical Stormy Weather. You should own this movie and/or the soundtrack. He died a few days later of pneumonia at age 39 on a train headed back to Harlem, December 1943.
Which only adds a bit of poignancy to his spirited performances of the hit, and in a beautiful battle-of-the-sexes duet with Ada Brown, "That Ain't Right". It all looked so fine, then it was gone. As he said repeatedly in his hook line on screen and final public words, "One never knows, do one?"
Among Mr. Wallers more stellar recordings, you might sample some of these:
Ain't Misbehavin
The Viper Drag
Honeysuckle Rose
Keeping Out of Mischief Now
Hog Maw Stomp
Smashing Thirds
A Handful of Keys
Tea for Two
posted by Al at 5/21/2003 12:50:00 AM
May 20, 2003
Dixie Chicks: I hate you, please come back!
The Dixie Chicks have left, and I hate them. I wish they would come back. When they were disrespecting the president, cursing them gave me reason to live. Most importantly, it drug in a lot of web traffic and attention for ME and other Blogcritics. We fight because we love.
Then the girls responded with the infamous nude lesbo Entertainment Weekly cover. Oh Jebus! All is forgiven!!! And yet more traffic and attention for columns about this.
Now they've abandoned me. They haven't done anything controversial in weeks. They won't return my calls. Spirits and traffic are down.
Please girls, come back. If you come back, I'll even listen to some of your music. I'm not saying that I'll go out and spend actual money on your crappy records- that's really asking too much. If you come back though, I promise to download a couple of your songs and make myself listen to them at least once.
Come on, do I have to beg? Don't make me beg. You know that only infuriates me, and makes me want to start cussing you again.
Maybe we need counseling.Labels: dixie_chicks
posted by Al at 5/20/2003 10:28:00 PM
Terence Trent D'Arby on the Talking Heads
I'm generally a mid-level Talking Heads fan. However, I've never really been bowled over by Remain in Light, generally recognized by critics as their main masterpiece.
I'm going to have to give them another listen, though. Terence Trent D'Arby [aka "Sananda"] said this about them in a recent email to his fan list:
The Talking Heads' 'REMAIN IN LIGHT' is a landmark in western intellectual achievement,
it moves like raw primal spirit matter attached to a crackly ghostwire fading through impressions of distilled appalachian suffering and african flowering.
It is brilliant and was done before the record industry effectively learned to filter out and oppose such originality and offspring of spirit.
Sure, any idiot could start tossing big words at an album, but this is TTD. Hearing words like this from the guy who made "Sign Your Name" and the awe-inspiring Vibrator album gets my attention.
Maybe I've been missing something.
posted by Al at 5/20/2003 06:07:00 PM
You let my son have a BIBLE? You bastards!
I'd like to take just a quick moment to heap a little derision and mockery on one Bonnie Matthews from Belle Fourche, SD.
Her son came home from school with (grab your smelling salts) a Bible! The son told her a guy in the hallway gave it to him. She complained to the school, and found out it was some Gideons passing them out.
The fact that it was not being read or taught in a class or by a teacher or administrator at all did not placate her. Nosiree. She took it to the ACLU.
I tend to be pretty skeptical of the ACLU, but I'll give them some credit here. From the AP story:
While Matthews didn't like it, she isn't getting any support from the American Civil Liberties Union. Jennifer Ring, who heads the ACLU in the Dakotas, said distribution of religious materials in school is a form of free speech and religious freedom.
The ACLU is typically very hostile to Christianity. They are pretty good at hollering like the princess feeling the pea under 10 mattresses at any mention of Jesus within 500 yards of any government building. Yet even they said the woman's full of it.
How far out into dumbassery do you have to get to lose the sympathy of even the ACLU in an anti-Christian case? Yowsa!
She probably wouldn't have batted an eye if they were passing out Eminem CDs and porno.
posted by Al at 5/20/2003 05:23:00 PM
Billboard ban in Indy
From the Indianapolis Star:
The City-County Council voted Monday to block the construction of any new billboards until Dec. 1, a move backers say will let the city shape a sign strategy that addresses business and neighborhood concerns.
"Indianapolis has a sign-proliferation problem," said Cathy Burton, head of the Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations. A billboard study, she added, will focus on "what makes healthy neighborhoods."
The billboard debate has been one of the thorniest in the council this year. Neighborhood activists have long urged tighter restrictions on billboard placement, but some billboard industry officials argued a moratorium could cost them money and jobs.
Mayor Bart Peterson opened the debate in March with a proposal to block new billboards for a year.
Hmm. We have a "sign-proliferation problem"? What we actually have here is a First Amendment problem- yet nobody seems to look at it that way. Some handful of busybody buttmunches arbitrarily decides that billboards in general offend their fine-tuned little aesthetic sensitivities, so they'll just ban them. Why is this even an acceptable proposal for polite debate?
Why isn't the ICLU raising hell? There's not even a peep of dissent that I've seen locally other than minor crap about costing jobs in the billboard industry. It might be a billboard for Big Macs, or for Planned Parenthood. Hey, just shut up with it. We don't like signs, we'll just ban them.
Note that this insensitivity to free speech issues comes in this city primarily from Democrats. It was Democrat mayor Bart Peterson who pushed the ban.
This shows consistency on his part; the first big initiative he had when he became mayor was a ban on certain arcade video games that he didn't like. It's ok though- he was doing it for the children.
posted by Al at 5/20/2003 03:28:00 PM
What movie makes YOU want to kill?
So a couple of jackasses have gone off on killing sprees because of the Matrix movies. This is the lamest choice EVER. If I were going to fob the responsibility for my consciousness off on somebody else, it sure wouldn't be Keanu Reeves. Jebus Criminy, I would NOT go around admitting to people that my mind was controlled by some Matrix boy with an IQ that was below room temperature- in Celsius.
Furthermore, the Matrix stuff just looks like popcorn movies made for Otto West, the classic cheesy would-be Nietzchean Kevin Kline character from A Fish Called Wanda. I'm sure the Comic Book Guy will be well satisfied with the pretense of having used that college education. Most of the natural audience for this material will soon mature a little and move on to the deep thoughts of Jim Morrison and the Doors.
Now when I someday snap and go on my killing spree, I'm definitely going to have a much more interesting choice for what movie to blame for my heinous crimes than this Matrix. It certainly won't be the same one everyone else is using.
Partly it will depend on whether I go on a good killing spree or a bad one. A bad one would be the kind where you just hate humanity and want to kill. If I go in for one of those, well there are many possibilities.
From recent years, Stepmom leaps to mind. I'll not elaborate on the torturous circumstances of my repeated enforced viewings of this vile torment. Suffice it to say that the perfectly bland, precisely vanilla flavored petty catfight could turn nearly anyone into a misogynist. That's before the total crassness of the dying mom scenes. A good Sarandon commie rant would have been pure blessed relief in the middle of this stale milquetoast. It's a wonder no one has been killed because of this one.
I could make a more obscure or "cool" choice. The Manchurian Candidate would be a good choice- especially if you happened to be specifically whacking John McCain. Senator, why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?
It would be different to blame your killing spree on a comedy. They wouldn't see that one coming. Pulp Fiction would be an obvious candidate.
Now a GOOD killing spree should be done in love, not hate. You know, where you kill someone to impress a chick. Shooting the president to impress Jodie Foster was the classic example. I can see how the Taxi Driver thing might push a fella the rest of the way off the hinges. Classic choice of focus for your crazy fit, but it's been done.
Looking for a movie performance that would inspire my killing spree, there are a few. The first two Hannibal movies have a nicely evil romanticism about them, but it's still Foster territory.
If I could get myself crazy enough not to remember that the actress is 90 something years old now, Simone Simon as Belle, the demonic French nanny from "over the mountain" in the 1941 classic The Devil and Daniel Webster might inspire crazed violence. That would be an excellent and less than obvious choice.
20 PAGES OF SIMONE SIMON PICTURES
Looking for something more modern, there's Juliette Lewis as Mallory Knox in Natural Born Killers. But that would just be redundant to the movie, wouldn't it?
WILDCARD: If you REALLY want to go for crazy, you could tell 'em you shot the congressman to try to get a date with Jessica Rabbit.
I'm still not quite satisfied with my choices. I'm looking for suggestions. Holla back!
posted by Al at 5/20/2003 01:24:00 AM
May 19, 2003
Pete Townshend's birthday
Pete Townshend was born May 19, 1945. Happy #58!!
I don't know that I have any great new insights to offer on the old man, but Pete Townshend is rock ruling and rules rock. As a songwriter he excelled most of all. Also as a guitar player, as an arranger, as a restless spirit and all around rocking daddy, he's as good as this music gets.
Besides the handful of commonly touted masterworks [Tommy, Quadrophenia, Who's Next], might I put in a suggestion that you look further into a couple of my other Who favorites, The Who Sell Out (where you can find out "what makes a man a man" Answer: a "Tattoo" of course) and Who by Numbers.
Some of the solo albums start getting thin, but you can hardly go wrong buying a Who album.
posted by Al at 5/19/2003 02:22:00 AM
God bless Fox
For some years now, quite consistently ALL the most interesting new shows [other than South Park] have come from the Fox network. Comedy [Titus, Bernie Mac, Malcolm in the Middle, Wanda at Large, Greg the Bunny], drama [The Shield, 24, Buffy, Dark Angel, and most obviously animation [King of the Hill, Futurama].
This comes mostly from simply the courage to try something different. Again and again Fox tries things that are highbrow, lowbrow, quirky and askew from the most obvious. This report from the Kansas City Star about a presentation on the new network shows for the advertisers again underscores this point- and makes me interested in seeing some of these.
The difference between Fox versus a normal (ie dull, stale) network comes out best in comparing two similarly themed shows presented for next fall.
Every year, it seems there are two shows introduced by two networks that bear uncanny resemblances to each other. This year, the too-close-to-be-a-coincidence programs are ``Joan of Arcadia,'' a CBS program about a teenage girl who receives messages from God; and ``Wonderfalls,'' a show Fox will introduce in January, which Berman said was something like ``Touched by a Loony Angel.'' It's about a 20-something girl who receives supernatural messages from the souvenirs she sells at Niagara Falls. While ``Joan'' is earnest and touching, ``Wonderfalls'' is filled with quirky characters and funny plot twists.
Which one of those shows might actually turn out to be interesting? Let me suggest that CBS needs "earnest and touching" broke off up in them. This sounds like some more bland, mushy Touched by an Angel crap to replace the very tired and lame from the start show that we have only just gotten the hell rid of. The Wonderfalls show, however, might have some personality, some oddly personal perspective and style. It might just turn out to be stupid, like The Pitts. But the premise starts out off-kilter enough to see that it's going to be different from anything else going. I for one will be interested in giving it a shot.
On the other hand, there are still more people every week watching Everybody Loves Raymond than ever watched the late, lamented Titus- which died on the vine, so what do I know from a hit?
posted by Al at 5/19/2003 12:54:00 AM
May 18, 2003
Saturday Night Live's tired season finale
Live broadcast on May 17, 2003 Guest host, Dan Akroyd - Musical guest, Beyonce
The show has been fairly weak much of this season, and they pretty much limped off with some mildly amusing material. Mostly the writing just hasn't been there.
Dan Akroyd was a waste. He was purely going through the motions, with no creative spark whatsoever. Most particularly, he didn't even do a monologue, but merely invoked the names of John Belushi and the Blues Brothers, then brought out Jim to sing some or other blues song. They couldn't even be bothered to put on the outfits and make some schtick. Lame, lamer, lamest. In best Comic Book Shop guy voice, "worst monlogue ever."
I want to give somewhat higher marks to Beyonce. I've never paid much attention, but she certainly makes a striking performer. For starters, she's obviously an extraordinary physical specimen. In fairness, she actually can carry a tune. Introducing her, Akroyd referred to her "soul fire". She certainly had a passion and commitment to her material. The steps she was doing and the dancers behind her were outstanding. Damn this girl would be dangerous if she had an even vaguely decent underlying song to work with.
The opening "Hardball" sketch was pretty good, mostly for the Santorum satire. Even Tracy Morgan's last dibs on Al Sharpton fell fairly flat. The TV Funhouse cartoon was at least somewhat amusing. The only other sketch I can even remember a few hours later was a dog restaraunt, where a lot of good creative effort went into spinning the grotesqueness of the menus of stuff dogs like to eat.
The most interesting parts were the swansongs for departing cast members Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan. Kattan had a pretty limber bit re-creating most of his major characters in one standing maybe two minute bit at the end of the Weekend Update.
Other than Sharpton, Morgan had one major bit, his Sammy-Davis-in-outer-space routine, with Maya Rudolph as the hot space girl. Then Tracy starts with some business about getting into the booty, and Maya stops the scene, telling "Tracy" to cut it out. This set up his last line on the show, something like "Come on Maya, you know I've been wanting to get you pregnant." I for one appreciate the spirit of that finale.
More interesting though was watching him over the closing credits. He made a little sign reading "What a ride!" to display for the cameras, and a very odd controlled look. He wasn't laughing or smiling whatsoever. He had a look of someone struggling hard to control some kind of strong emotions.
That was sure more emotion than anything else coming from this cast at this point.
posted by Al at 5/18/2003 11:31:00 PM
A Mighty Wind rocks!
I have an extensive review of A Mighty Wind up in my "fan pages" section.
posted by Al at 5/18/2003 05:54:00 PM
Truth trumps
Truth is real, and it eventually wins. Just sometimes it takes awhile. On this day in history, May 18, 1967, Tennessee Governor Ellington repealed the "Monkey Law" arbitrarily forbidding the teaching of evolution that had been upheld in the infamous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
posted by Al at 5/18/2003 04:40:00 PM
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