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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I always imagine him looking like the Jon Anderson of Yes fame.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: louisev on September 14, 2011, 08:23:09 pm ---90% actually.
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Right, but the last time it was 90% was in the '50s. Since I was making reference to the Reagan Administration, which was the turning point, I went lower and sort of split the difference. Actually, in 1980 it was 70%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on September 14, 2011, 10:23:12 pm ---I always imagine him looking like the Jon Anderson of Yes fame.
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I don't know who he is, but I figure someone named "Jon Lee" must be from the South.
Edit to add: Well, his mother taught in Florida. ... ;D
At least this answers my question about what he looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson
Dang. No picture of Dexter Filkins. >:(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Filkins
Jeff Wrangler:
From my blog, today:
--- Quote ---At lunch today I read Gay Talese's article in the Sept. 19 New Yorker about Tony Bennett recording "The Lady is a Tramp" as a duet with Lady Gaga. I loved the article! I loved that Tony Bennett called Lady Gaga "a sweet little Italian-American girl who studied at N.Y.U." I thought it was very interesting that Lady Gaga has a vocal coach; somehow, I just don't associate in my mind singers like her having vocal coaches, yet, according to the article, her coach has also worked with Mick Jagger, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, Bono, and Jon Bon Jovi.
I also learned a bit about the song. Possibly I knew it was Rodgers and Hart and had just forgotten it, but I'm pretty sure I didn't know it was a show tune, from Babes in Arms (1937).
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Front-Ranger:
The only thing I didn't like about it was that it seemed to be a manufactured story.
So, TB had his birthday party in New York on the night of the Emmys and apparently Alec Baldwin, pissed that a joke he told about Rupert Murdoch was cut, went to the party instead of the Emmys. I missed the show because I had a slight eye infection. Looks like I didn't miss much!!
There's an upcoming story about the lone pharmacist in Nucla, Colorado that is very much worth a look.
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