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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: November 2014
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Why do good people vote for bad ideas? As a society who wants to move forward we need to figure this shit out. In other words, how has the GOP turned into a party where knowledge and thought are a weakness and blindly consuming Fox News falsehoods and narratives is virtuous? The day after the election I read something by The Rude Pundit that stuck with me:. Political moments of our time, right? The great question is "Why? When fears are presented a...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: August 2015
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Friday, August 7, 2015. What the hell happened to True Detective? True Detective has one extended 90-minute episode left to wrap up a mess of a season. Even with the last two episodes, "Church in Ruins" and "Black Maps and Hotel Rooms," catching a spark reminiscent of the first season, the finale would need to be a hail Mary miracle shot to keep this season from being remembered as anything but disappointing. If Season 1 was a 10 (and it was! Velcoro, Vera, Caspere, Bezzerides,...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: March 2015
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. A *no spoiler* review of The Walking Dead and why it is so successful. The following review does not. You can make the argument that we are currently in the. Golden age of television or you can argue that we are in the second. Golden age of television; either way, there's no denying that the best writers of our time have migrated towards the medium. Is not one of those shows. Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon. That follows ever...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: February 2015
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Monday, February 23, 2015. The Four Recent Losses in Journalism and Why It Matters. If there were ever a time to write about journalism, this is it. Four of the most respected journalists in the biz are either gone or in the process of leaving- and all are exiting on top or while falling down. Beginning in in my late teenage years throughout my 20s, that focus shifted a with a sharp sense of urgency to musicians. I began asking myself, "What's the use of working towards sel...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: What the hell happened to True Detective?
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Friday, August 7, 2015. What the hell happened to True Detective? True Detective has one extended 90-minute episode left to wrap up a mess of a season. Even with the last two episodes, "Church in Ruins" and "Black Maps and Hotel Rooms," catching a spark reminiscent of the first season, the finale would need to be a hail Mary miracle shot to keep this season from being remembered as anything but disappointing. If Season 1 was a 10 (and it was! Velcoro, Vera, Caspere, Bezzerides,...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: October 2014
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Friday, October 17, 2014. Why you should vote in the midterm election. The midterm elections are coming up in a couple of weeks, and if you're like me, you've never even considered voting in them. They don't have the sex appeal of the Presidential elections where we can strut our civic participatory asses around feeling like we did our part for our "team," whichever side that is. But extremist politics call for extreme efforts, like voting in the midterm elections. So go vote a...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: Right Wing Extremism, fed by fear and hate, is our biggest threat.
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Right Wing Extremism, fed by fear and hate, is our biggest threat. 8220;You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” - Dylann Roof, suspected Charleston shooter. We have to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK! Nearly every GOP candidate within their election cycle, echoing the constant mantra of Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, and most at Fox News. In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum. Last year of 38...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: Why the Ferguson and Baltimore riots are different than every other riot in history
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Why the Ferguson and Baltimore riots are different than every other riot in history. Have you noticed that the recent riots in Baltimore and Ferguson seem different than every other riot we learned about in school or see in the movies? Have you taken a moment to wonder why this is? Riots are not the same as. Riot we’ve ever learned about. Will they see them with our perspective? The uncomfortable truth that we all need to face is the only thing different ...
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles: September 2014
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Thrown Under the Love Bus. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. The Good and the Bad of the Lockn2014 Experience. Is a great festival, and it might be the future of music festivals, but I certainly hope not. Lockn' is an experiment in the ever-changing music industry to find success in a world where the actual art of recorded albums is being devalued every day but the group experience of the art, such as massive festival packages, is slowly swelling into an over-saturated economic bubble. The random-discovery ...
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