The ARTHUR Blog http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:52:36 -0800 Yahoo! http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/432/arthur-names-its-man-of-the-year/ Iraqi journalist/shoe-thrower Muntader al-Zaidi is the clear choice for Arthur Magazine's coveted "Man Of The Year" award for 2008. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:52:36 -0800 Charles Potts http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/411/a-t-shirt-says-it-all-denver-cops-commemorate-their-dnc-08-pro-violence-strategy-and-now-you-can-too/ The Denver Police Department is facing several lawsuits over confrontations with protesters at the Democratic National Convention. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:30:10 -0800 Paul Krassner http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/384/who-cares-what-musicians-think-about-politics-theyre-not-experts-theyre-artistswhich-is-exactly-why-we-should-listen/ Last week I got a call from Randy Randall, guitarist for Los Angeles rock duo No Age, who are currently on the Sub Pop record label. Randy was flustered, talking a mile-a-minute, about what had just gone down. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:11:45 -0800 Jay Babcock http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/377/with-magick-on-her-side/ Arthur columnist Erik Davis comments on Sarah Palin and African witchcraft Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:01 -0800 Erik Davis http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/370/evidence-of-americas-cultural-decline/ A few days ago, staff archivist/office mascot, Dave Snoobs, was rifling through the Funkadelic reissue CDs that came out a few years ago, when he found a reprint of Billboard magazine's "Top 50 Best Selling Soul LPs" for the week ending December 12, 1970, tucked away on the CD tray for Free Your Mind and Your A** Will Follow. We've re-posted some of it below. Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:53:45 -0800 Jay Babcock http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/366/glorious-nowhere/ Carducci and his Laramie buddy David Lightbourne--a disciple of pre-Elvis rock and roll and a charismatic folklorist curmudgeon--have been curating the Upland Breakdown, a day-long music festival held in late-August at the homey Beartree Tavern in Centennial, since 2000. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:08:44 -0800 Elliott Johnston http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/364/the-sphinxs-jaw-just-dropped/ Thirty years ago, the Grateful Dead played the pyramids during a solar eclipse. Paul Krassner was there. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:04:04 -0800 Paul Krassner http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/360/zen-bastard-in-denver/ Playboy magazine had assigned me to cover the Democrats' convention in Denver. A few days later, my assignment was withdrawn. I was able to put that disappointment in perspective by meditating until my head was about to explode. Coincidentally, disappointment would become a subtheme of the convention. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:10:48 -0800 Paul Krassner http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/358/the-power-of-aspirin/ On the 40th anniversary of the antiwar demonstrations at the Democrats' convention in Chicago, Yippie Paul Krassner remembers how it all got started... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:41:52 -0800 Paul Krassner http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/347/how-magic-are-your-mushrooms/ When he saw the contents of the baggie he removed from my pocket, he asked a rhetorical question--"So you like mushrooms, huh?"--with such hostility that it kept reverberating inside my head. I hadn't done anything that would harm somebody else. This was simply an authority figure's need to control. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:59:06 -0800 Paul Krassner