“Please Come Home For Christmas,” from the Eagles.
The presidential races have taken quite the turn, haven’t they?
On the Democratic side, in a direction that should be no surprise for NWN readers. On the Republican side, into more chaos.
I knew Hillary Clinton really was not the “inevitable” candidate she and her team and almost all of the media made her out to be. I didn’t see Mike Huckabee’s rise coming — though Mitt Romney’s problems were evident — but did figure out he was for real.
None of which is to say that presidential nomination contests in either party are anywhere near over.
It all makes for an interesting Monday Morning Quarterback coming up.
But that’s for Monday. In the meantime, here are the Eagles with their version of a Christmas song, “Please Come Home For Christmas.” First released as a single in 1978, then re-released as a single in 1996 and in 2005, it’s actually a cover of a Charles Brown song from 1960.
The Eagles’ new album, incidentally, Long Road Out Of Eden, is doing very well in the US and around the world. It’s still high on the US charts, at #3, even though it was released at the end of October. (#1 on the US country charts.) It’s #1 in Europe and #1 in the Asia-Pacific region. They won’t be singing the blues for real this Christmas.
Not too bad for Linda Ronstadt’s old back-up band.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, is the treasure
hunting history buff sequel to the surprise 2004 hit.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets looks like a fun movie, with a little bit of thought, for the holidays. The movie, which is the sequel to the madcap surprise hit from 2004, opens December 21st. The conceit is that the treasure hunting, conspiracy theorizing history expert — a nerdy sort of cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon — played by the amusing Nicolas Cage has to clear his family’s name when one of the missing pages from the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth surfaces and purports to show that his ancestor helped plan the assassination.
In order to clear the family name, Benjamin Franklin Gates — that would be Cage — and his crew have to get ahold of “the book of secrets.” Which is only in the possession of the President of the United States. In that book are America’s most important secrets: The truth about the JFK assassination, the missing minutes from the Watergate tapes, Area 51, and so on for the ultimate wet dream of conspiracy politics. And that’s the beginning.
Getting the book should be no problem. I’m sure Dick Cheney would love to turn it over.
Charlie Wilson’s War, talked about last weekend, also opens on the 21st.
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Oh no, I have to buy Christmas gifts. How’d it get to be Christmas so fast? Good song.
Oh no, I have to buy Christmas gifts. How’d it get to be Christmas so fast? Good song.
That’s a GREAT Xmas song!
I liked the first “National Treasurer” movie.
That was a fun movie.
One of my favorites, obviously. Terrific Don Henley vocal, nifty electric guitar from Joe Walsh.
>Jonas Blane :
That’s a GREAT Xmas song!
Dec 15, 2007 11:00 AM
One of my favorites, obviously. Terrific Don Henley vocal, nifty electric guitar from Joe Walsh.
>Jonas Blane :
That’s a GREAT Xmas song!
Dec 15, 2007 11:00 AM
The days just keep coming and going.
>Capitol Boy :
Oh no, I have to buy Christmas gifts. How’d it get to be Christmas so fast? Good song.
Dec 15, 2007 10:52 AM
“Christmas.” This is a racist sexist classist Eurocentric web site. I for one am disgusted.
chuckles, lightly …
Bill,
Good stuff…
Where you holding the NWN party this year?
Bill,
Good stuff…
Where you holding the NWN party this year?
Hawaii.
Wonderful…truly nice of you to host it. When can we expect to receive our tickets…you are flying us over, aren’t you?
Hope you retain the same chef…last year’s food was excellent. Wine selection was a little weak, but the food was marvelous!
The tix are in the mail …
Thank you. I’ll get the first round when we hook-up on the beach.
That sounds more like Robin Masters Day than Christmas.
That sounds more like Robin Masters Day than Christmas.
It’s amazing how the Eagles have kept it up. Most bands from the 70s have gone to crap. They look good and sound better.
Ann,
Re: sexist web site
I am disgusted too…LOL
I’ll drink to that!
“Please Come Home For Christmas”
My two favorite things great music and snow! Thank You:)
“Please Come Home For Christmas”
My two favorite things great music and snow! Thank You:)
I never got why Joe Walsh is in the Eagles. He doesn’t fit. He’s a boogie guitarist with a weird voice and strange sense of humor.
They wanted to give the band a tougher sound.
You’re welcome!
>carole w :
“Please Come Home For Christmas”
My two favorite things great music and snow! Thank You:)
Dec 15, 2007 04:39 PM
What won’t you drink to?
>Sacramento Solon :
I’ll drink to that!
Dec 15, 2007 04:20 PM
What won’t you drink to?
>Sacramento Solon :
I’ll drink to that!
Dec 15, 2007 04:20 PM
I think they got into fitness, especially Glenn Frey, before it was too late.
The drug use was more controlled, too.
>Len :
It’s amazing how the Eagles have kept it up. Most bands from the 70s have gone to crap. They look good and sound better.
Dec 15, 2007 01:58 PM
Bill Bradley :
What won’t you drink to?
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A Republican victory next November for starters…
So, it appears the Des Moines Register has backed Clinton and McCain.
How ’bout them apples?
Here’s the editorial.
Here’s Politico’s take…
The last Iowa caucus winner the Register endorsed was Walter Mondale. In 1984.
The last Iowa caucus winner the Register endorsed was Walter Mondale. In 1984.
Edwards, who received the endorsement last year, had a great quote somewhere…
Went something like, “I’m very happy for Hillary. But, all that endorsement seems to do is get you second place.”
Something like that.
Wow!
Next stop, Vegas Culinary union:)
I’ve always considered the Register to be a boring paper — its editor moderated the dreadful debates I had to watch and write up the other days — and its endorsement hasn’t been that big a deal.
>Tommy Boy :
Edwards, who received the endorsement last year, had a great quote somewhere…
Went something like, “I’m very happy for Hillary. But, all that endorsement seems to do is get you second place.”
Something like that.
Dec 16, 2007 08:13 AM
Dear god…that is unbelievably funny!!!
“Tommy Boy :
Edwards, who received the endorsement last year, had a great quote somewhere…
Went something like, “I’m very happy for Hillary. But, all that endorsement seems to do is get you second place.”
Something like that.”
Dear god…that is unbelievably funny!!!
“Tommy Boy :
Edwards, who received the endorsement last year, had a great quote somewhere…
Went something like, “I’m very happy for Hillary. But, all that endorsement seems to do is get you second place.”
Something like that.”
Edwards got that endorsement last time. He lost.
I for one don’t consider Edwards “step over the bodies” second place in Iowa four years ago a loss.
Though it wasn’t first, it was still a victory.
Ps. Earlier, when I said Edwards received the endorsement “last year,” I meant last cycle. Whoops!
Pps. Forgot to mention last night the Obama and McCain got the Boston Globe, which is relevant to New Hampshire.
I wonder if Will Smith’s huge new movie is a good sign for Barack Obama.
I wonder if Will Smith’s huge new movie is a good sign for Barack Obama.
It can’t hurt. Will Smith is the biggest movie star around, his movie just had the biggest December opening in history, and he has the same ears as Obama …
Well, TB, after that victory — in which the unendorsed John Kerry actually won Iowa going away — Kerry never looked back. Edwards won only one primary, his home state.
>Tommy Boy :
I for one don’t consider Edwards “step over the bodies” second place in Iowa four years ago a loss.
Though it wasn’t first, it was still a victory.
While I’m talking Edwards and endorsements…
Two labor groups – one with California roots – are running independent expenditure campaigns on his behalf through 527 committees…
Workign for Working Americans
and
Alliance for a New America
As a refresher:
When the SEIU International endorsement fractured, it allowed individual locals to make their own endorsements. If a state SEIU organization has endorsed a candidate, other states’ locals can come in to help that candidate. The cannot come in to the state against the locally endorsed campaign.
So, since Edwards got the Iowa (and New Hampshire?) SEIU local endorsement, other SEIU’s from around the country can come in there and help out. On the other hand, SEIU members from Illinois can’t cross the border to support Obama – who their local endorsed.
It’s amusing.
>CADTS :
Dear god…that is unbelievably funny!!!
It’s amusing.
>CADTS :
Dear god…that is unbelievably funny!!!
The only thing the Clinton campaign wanted more than for Hillary to get the Des Moines Register endorsement was for Edwards to get it.
>Tommy Boy :
While I’m talking Edwards and endorsements…
Edwards lived to fight another day, and stayed alive long enough to get on the ticket for the general.
The only people who truly “lost” Iowa were Dean and Gep…
And silly Wes Clark, who didn’t play there. Ugh!
But perhaps Clark didn’t want to win. Maybe it was just to get a little campaign experience, so he’s ready to be Clinton’s running mate this time around.
Not that the Clinton’s have been planning a run for that long, or anything.