I guess I'll have to take back some of the nasty comments I've made about Comcast (which is my cable-TV provider). They've put The Boss's Super Bowl performance online!

Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band's Super Bowl Halftime Show - Blinded by the Hype

(urp) Thank you, Comcast! (/urp)

Over on Making Light, Patrick has a Voting-and-nervous-energy thread. This is sort of mine.

Patrick also posted in the "Sidelights" section a link to the "Yes we can (hold babies)" blog ("It's like Cute Overload crossed with Daily Kos"). For some reason :-) this was my favorite picture there:

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Bruce Springsteen and John Glenn

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Right now this is as close as I'm getting to declaring for either candidate, but I'm definitely endorsing this parody campaign video from SlateV:


Featuring snippets of some of my favorite songs, including the one I'm currently using as a ringtone on my cell phone, and one he once dedicated to my mom's hometown.

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The meme going around is to post a anti-war song.

They don't get much more anti-war than Edwin Starr's "War" (later covered by Bruce Springsteen, but I'd probably have posted it anyhow). There's probably a better transcription somewhere, but it's too late to search for it now:

( War can't give life, it can only take it away! )

The cover story of today's New York Times Book Review is an amalgam of reviews of various works about or inspired by Bruce Springsteen.

Nice pix of Bruce included in the article on the website (haven't seen the actual paper yet), and a web-only slide show called "The Bard of Asbury Park" (which unfortunately requires a program, Flash 6, that I ( Read more... )