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Saturday, September 20, 2008

American Dream



Barack Obama
election 2008
presidential politics
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Posts about Music and Bands

  • Hiromi Uehara - A Musical Wonder
  • The Sami: Europe's Indigenous People
  • Celtic Classics
  • A Girl & a Harp
  • Andalusian Piano
  • World Cup of Tango
  • Marcia Ball - Wicked Boogie Woogie
  • Blues Award to Maxwell
  • Robben Ford Starts it Up
  • Joe Bonamassa - Teaching the Blues
  • Sharon Shannon is the Gallway Girl
  • Sparrow Quartet Featuring Washburn & Fleck
  • Enver Ismailov - Exotic Guitar
  • J-Pop Redux
  • Sa Ding Ding - Chinese Diva
  • Heavy Metal Monk
  • Ersi Arvisu - Classic Chicano Rock
  • Alternative Mexican (Latin)
  • Lila Downs - Mole' Ole'
  • Latin Rhythms Playlist
  • Cumbia - Musical Gold from Columbia
  • Manu Chau - Rainin in Paradise
  • Spain's Musical Regions & Traditions
  • European Sounds
  • Portuguese Fado
  • Balkan Gypsy Tango
  • Accordion Action
  • The Rankin Family - Real Folk
  • Tony Furtado - New Album, Awesome Musician
  • Why Should the Devil Get All the Good Tunes?
  • AfroPop, Music from Mother Africa
  • Lucky Dube, RIP
  • Winwood Scores With Dirty City
  • Rise Up - 2007's Summer Anthem
  • Bluegrass Fusion
  • Guitar Love
  • Maximum Blues
  • Slide Guitar Sightings
  • Slide Guitar by Debashish Battacharaya
  • J-Pop
  • Cape Breton in October
  • Cuban Cowboys, Surf Rock
  • Delirium at La Scala
  • Gypsy Music
  • Ladino Language Tunes
  • Magical Musical Pairings
  • Audiophilia

Cape Breton Island & Celtic Colours Series

  • Cape Breton Bound
  • Cape Breton Island's Celtic Colours
  • Celtic Culture - Alive on Cape Breton Island
  • Cape Breton's Scottish-style Woolens
  • N. America's Only Single Malt

Posts about Cool Places

  • Dirtiest Hotels in the US
  • Lisbon Rocks - Fado Rules
  • Madrid: Always On
  • Seville's Spring Fair
  • Flamenco Stylin
  • Spain - Road Diary
  • Barcelona's Boqueria Market
  • Morocco - Road Diary
  • Morocco's Mother of all Marketplaces
  • Morocco - Marrakech Slide Show
  • Lisbon Rocks & Fado Rules
  • Venice and Pytor Ilyich's Suite
  • Canadian Music Enclaves and Festivals
  • Cape Breton in October
  • Uzbekistan - Central Asia
  • Tiny Homes - Some New Designs
  • Chichen Itza Voted World Wonder
  • Oregon's Fall Colors & Chanterelles
  • Ashland is for Lovers
  • Bandon by the Sea, Oregon
  • Tree House Bed and Breakfast
  • Tiny Homes Rule
  • Berlin Goes Virtual
  • Hamburg in 3-D
  • India Rising

Posts about Culture

  • TED Conference 2009
  • Crystal Wall Lancaster's Art
  • Comics for Adults
  • Brazil's Favelados - Animated
  • The Art of Mexican Cooking
  • Bolivia's Fighting Cholitas
  • In Defense of Gossip
  • Outrageous Street Art Videos
  • European Street Art
  • Graffiti - Street Art
  • Gypsy Art & Music
  • Persepolis & Iranian Film Favs
  • African Tribal Art
  • Bollywood Dance as Intercollegiate Sport
  • What's Up With J-Pop?
  • Paul Farmer - Great Man, Good Read
  • Rules for Radicals
  • Movie Madness
  • World Fusion Bookshelf
  • Sweet Little Parlour Mysteries
  • Authenticity - What is it?
  • Revising History - Everybody's Doing It
  • Documentarians Shock Revisionists
  • Hate Radio Hacks
  • Turkey Re-examines Hadiths
  • Dracula Dies in Germany
  • Royalty in YouTube's Era
  • YouTube Launches Tenor
  • World's Greatest Salsa
  • Fanta Graphics & Upton Tea Catalogs
  • Ugly Betty - Love and Rockets
  • Film Favorites
  • Honda FCX Clarity Rocks World
  • Christian Clergy Clash on Christmas
  • Dumbing Down the NFL
  • When Capitalism Fails Consumers
  • Is the US Becoming a third World Nation?
  • Fusion? Or not?
  • Will NPR Save Radio?
  • Psychoacoustics - Sound and Emotion
  • Conversation with an audiophile
  • House Wine
  • Predatory Business Practices
  • Celestial Teapot - First Reported Here
  • Title Nine's 35th Anniversary
  • Chicks Rule at Grammy's
  • Help End FGM
  • Wii has so Won
  • Whine of the Week
  • Belushi 25 Years On
  • Viacom Gives Joost a Boost

Posts about Web 2.0 and Tech

  • Cloak of Silence Unveiled
  • Woz Joins Fusion-IO
  • Blogger Play Rocks
  • Blogger Elected in Malaysia
  • Blogger Beaten to Death in China
  • Military Blogger Dies in Iraq
  • Berners-Lee: Stop Internet Snooping
  • Internet Blocking Pervasive
  • Donate to Wikipedia
  • Citizen Scientists Needed
  • Matsushita Robot Destroys Energizer Bunny
  • Tagging Cyberspace One Year On
  • Wikia Search Engine Launches
  • Green Econometrics Blog
  • Google Announces Energy Initiative
  • Online Vocab Test Feeds Hungry
  • Microsoft Bids for Yahoo
  • Google Kicks Some Microsoft Ass
  • World of Warcraft & Call of Duty Publishers to Merge
  • John Poindexter - Govt. Uber Geek
  • YouTube Trumps La Scala
  • Plone Content Management System
  • Pimp my PC
  • 4th Annual Blogosphere Day
  • Brave New World for Marketeers
  • AdWords Adventure
  • Google Offers Web Apps
  • Web 2.0 in a Box
  • Torvalds Lauds Open Solaris with Reservations
  • Ian Murdoch Joins SUN
  • Viacom Gives Joost a Boost
  • XM and Sirius to Merge
  • Jobs on Open DRM
  • Tim O'Reilly - Publisher to Prophet
  • Wii has so Won
  • Whine of the Week
  • India Rising

Posts About Politics & Economics

  • Is The NSA Syping On American Citizens?
  • President's Message to Planned Parenthood
  • Populist Revolt Erupts
  • Women in Iceland Lead Recovery
  • Conservatives Love Porn
  • Bush Made Taxpayers Bail Out Banks
  • Big Bank Ballance? Better Worry.
  • Financial Tsunami Drowns Consumer Confidence
  • Banks Reeling as Recession Looms
  • Classism & Corporate Greed Devalue People
  • Don't Blame Conumers for Bad Loans
  • Sub-prime Scandal Leaves Schools Holding Junk
  • Financial Crisis May Bankrupt Cities
  • Bernanke Bet the Farm
  • Markets Crash - Panic Selling
  • Recession Confirmed - Unemployment Up
  • Is the US Becoming a Third World Nation?
  • Women in Business Shafted by Feds
  • Is Homeland Security an Excuse for Corruption?
  • End Cuban Embargo Now
  • Lakota Nation Secedes from US
  • Aussies Dump Howard
  • Pakistan Comes to a Full Boil
  • FOX News Sucks
  • Friends Don't Let Friends Watch Fox News
  • Rudy - Romney are Done
  • Germans File Charges Against CIA Agents
  • Historical Revisionism Redux
  • Documentarians Expose Revisionists
  • Rhetoric & the Costs of War
  • YouTube Debate a Success
  • 4th Annual Blogosphere Day
  • Bureaucrat Has Almost No Brain

Posts About the Green Economy

  • Fine Rides - Fuel Efficient
  • Uno Cycle - Totally Cool & Electric
  • Honda FCX Clarity Rocks the World
  • Mike Davies' Green Econometrics Blog
  • Google Announces Green Energy Initiative

Posts about Swag

  • Zoot Suits: East LA's Fashion Revolution
  • Street Fashion
  • The Quest for Authenticity
  • Vintage Baseball Leagues Swag
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I am a co-founder of Trilobyte Games and a long-time blogger. This is my personal opinion blog, reflecting my interests in pop culture, world music, web 2.0, viral (neural) marketing, privacy, politics & religion. Brain dump central. I live and work in sunny, southern Oregon - where I am involved in local politics and environmental conservation. Check out my Facebook profile. My resume can be found on Linked-In. @DonCarlitos on Twitter.

Charlie McHenry

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Online Writing Credits

Southern Oregon Magazine, publisher/editor
BlogCritics Magazine, contributing writer
Italknews.com, Sr. Italker
Pop Impulse, blog owner/editor
Portland Condo, blog owner/editor
Onward Oregon, contributing writer (volunteer)

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Music & the Blogosphere

M-Vid Oddities & Virtuosities

  • Boogie Woogie Guitar
  • Boogie Woogie Piano
  • Django and the Hot Club
  • Master of the Telecaster
  • The Canon on Electric Guitar
  • Robben Ford Live in Germany
  • Death has no Mercy: Blues Riders
  • While My Ukelele Gently Weeps
  • L. Subramaniam: Carnatic Fiddle
  • 3-D Animusic

Blogs & News Sites I Browse

  • World Impulse
  • Gaza Today
  • Dinosaurs and Robots
  • I'm Gina Smith
  • Boing Boing
  • Scholars & Rogues
  • The Unapologetic Mexican
  • Undercover Black Man
  • The Root
  • apophenia
  • The Viral Garden
  • Aurgasm
  • Live Science
  • Science Now by Science Magazine
  • The Thinking Blog
  • Infomed Commentary - Global Affairs
  • The Silenced Majority
  • Huffington Post
  • The RAW Story
  • My Direct Democracy
  • Dissident
  • Pure Pop from Poptastic
  • Street Seen - street fashions
  • Webomatica

Amanita Muscaria

Nature"s Art

Nature"s Art
Shrooms on a Cone

Slide Guitar Culture

If you love slide guitar, then you've gotta love Planet Dobro. The comprehensive site describes itself as an "Internet resource for the culture of slide guitar." That pretty much sums it up. If you haven't already visited, check it out.

Bluegrass Playlist Favorites

  • Alison Brown
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station
  • Johnny Staats
  • NewGrange
  • Nickel Creek
  • The Seldom Scene
  • Tony Furtado

Attraction"s Many Forms

Attraction"s Many Forms
Ferro-fluid Magnet

AfroPop Music Sites

  • African Music Gateway
  • AfroPop Homepage
  • BBC's "Echoes of Africa"
  • Kenyan & Tanzanian Music
  • Khadja-nin's Homepage
  • Link List - groups & musicians
  • Mali Music Site
  • Music Mali
  • Profiles of African Musicians

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