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Funny, but I’d forgotten I still had this until this evening when I dug it out from under some prints. I painted it directly from the Young Americans album cover when I was about 15. I’ve been a Bowie fan for a long time. Heroes wasn’t part of that album, but it’s your Reader Tips selection for tonight.
And if the music’s not your style, there’s this tidbit at Reason …the rare rock star who not only survived the ravages of drug addiction but also had enough sense of self-preservation to diversify his economic portfolio before the music industry imploded.

Your tips in the comments.

29 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. The live version of Heroes from the Concert for NYC 9/11 is very, very good as well, I think so more for the audience of firefighters & policemen. Not available on Youtube due to copyright but worth seeing…

  3. Nice work Kate.
    My favorite Bowie tune, even though he of course partnered with Queen on it, was Under Pressure. Saw him play it live. Will remember it always.

  4. “… who not only survived the ravages of drug addiction …”
    I suggest David Bowie did not survive the ravages of drug addiction. Perhaps in the short-term he did, but the damage that he inflicted on his body finally took its toll, that is, heart attacks and perhaps even the cancer that eventually took him.
    Mr. Bowie thought perhaps, as do all drug takers, that he was invulnerable. Little did he know. As smart as he thought he was, he hadn’t a clue as to how his drug addiction was ravaging his body.
    Our bodies are fragile enough as it is. Why do we inflict upon ourselves, voluntarily I should say, even more damage?

  5. David Bowie and Elton John were in that category:
    ‘Acts that heterosexual guys wern’t so sure they should be buying’
    but they bought their albums anyways because the music was original and it was interesting and today, just like Kate, a Bowie tune is playing over and over in my head but unlike some ear worms this one seems to me about right.

  6. For me Bowie was a great artist… a little weird sure, but also a genius… I can still remember my older sister playing the Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust albums up in her room… thought my sister was so cool… of course as I got older I also loved Bowie, especially those older albums that my sister wore out…” the man who sold the world” is a great song too… having a late night beverage and listening to the Hunky Dory album right now, “Kooks”, just so kewl! Also love the album he produced for Iggy Pop “the Idiot” and the Bowie album “Low”, Berlin sounds so bleak and beautiful. I remember reading an article a long time ago where Bowie was relating a story of a doctor showing Bowie photos of a human brain that had been ravaged by the excessive use of cocaine… the brain was like swiss cheese, full of holes, scary shit, Bowie said he quit the drug immediately after and never did it again. Regardless of the mans personal life, there is no doubt regarding Bowies talent as a song writer, he was and will remain one of the best. Thanks for the music David and the great memories… RIP.

  7. From The Rebel:
    —————
    The United States is a spiderweb of oil and gas pipelines already. Keystone XL would have added a few hundred miles. But Obama vetoed just that one.
    Now the same Obama administration that blocked Keystone XL is going to help finance an $18 billion oil pipeline — in Kenya.
    And it’s not even oil for Kenya itself, but for them to export and get rich. Which I fully support. Who wouldn’t? Well, the answer is Barack Obama wouldn’t, at least not in the United States.
    TransCanada didn’t ask for $18 billion from the U.S. government to build Keystone XL. They offered $7 billion of their own money to do it. Obama blocked it anyway.
    I don’t believe the rumours that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, where his father was from. But you know, he’s sure acting like it’s true.
    ———–

  10. Ich Bin Eine Mohammed Mit Uns.
    …-
    “Angela Merkel says Germany has lost control of the refugee crisis amid public anger over Cologne sex attacks”
    “‘Refugees are coming to Europe and we are vulnerable, as we see, because we do not yet have the order, the control that we would like to have,’ the chancellor said” (NP)
    …-
    “At terror memorial, French PM laments Jewish emigration”
    “Premier Manuel Valls joins Jewish leaders to mark one year since jihadist attack on Paris kosher market, Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine”
    “More French Jews emigrated to Israel last year than ever before, according to figures from the Jewish Agency — some because of security concerns after last year’s market siege.
    Concerns about anti-Semitism in France had already been high, and 2014 also saw a record number of French Jews emigrate to Israel.”
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-terror-memorial-french-pm-laments-jewish-emigration/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
    …-
    “Spanish newspaper: Europe got Muslims for Jews”
    “The truth must be told! All European life died in Auschwitz
    By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
    I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz.
    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts

  12. Kate, great painting!
    Bowie’s music is not my kind of music, but I feel for his fans. An artist’s passing is always sad.

  13. On the GOP establishment beginning to warm to Trump.
    Roger Kimball. (via Instapundit).

    What you hear people say is that “Donald Trump may have the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton.” But what that means is, “Maybe Trump can beat Hillary, assuming she is the Democratic candidate, but anyway, despite his bluster, he really is deep down a pay-to-play kind of guy, just like us. Ted Cruz, on the contrary, really means all that stuff about ending the ‘Washington Cartel’ and restoring Constitutional restraints on government. It’s OK to say that in election years, but we don’t want to elect someone who will actually try to do it.”

    http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/223682/
    Tho, if true, Cruz’s back-pedalling on the ethanol subsidy may belie Kimball’s thesis.

  18. Change. Right, change back to Laurentian cronyism. Ah yes, from creative campaigning, to creative budgeting, to creative taxation, to creative options for Bombardier, to creative patronage, to creative corruption. How much should Leary offer up to rid Canada of cabin boy?
    “The Montreal-based company is seeking up to $1.3-billion from Ottawa for its troubled C Series aircraft. The Quebec government already pledged $1.3-billion in October to help Bombardier complete the aircraft.
    Officials from the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and the Prime Minister’s Office are actively examining whether to provide direct investment or credit financing to Bombardier.
    “These are all the options under consideration right now. It will move fairly rapidly. If anything happens, it’s going to happen this winter,” according to a senior federal official, who was not authorized to speak on the record because of the sensitive business and political nature of the discussions.”
    Then again they could shift good paying jobs to Bombardier, from more good paying jobs destroyed by the taxes to pay for this largesse nonsense. Government is poor at picking winners but losers are good at picking government. Here’s more evidence.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-mulls-options-to-give-bombardier-financial-boost/article28124937/

  21. From Allen West’s web-site:
    “According to NBC News, Iranian military forces are holding the boats on the island of Farsi in the Persian Gulf. Ten American sailors were aboard the two riverine patrol boats for a training mission when one of them began experiencing mechanical problems, officials said. It remains unclear whether the boat drifted into Iranian territorial waters before it was seized.
    Search and rescue teams from the USS Harry S. Truman strike group attempted to help the crew but stopped after the boats and sailors were captured by the Iranian military, according to USNI News.”
    http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/01/breaking-2-u-s-navy-boats-seized-by-iran-10-sailors-are/

  22. This prof is nuts…
    Daily Caller News Foundation
    A newly-released video shows a professor at the University of California, Merced (UC-Merced) teaching his students that 90 percent of terrorist attacks in America are conducted by white men who are “religiously motivated and politically conservative.”
    WATCH:
    The video, recorded in October, was released by The College Fix. It shows professor Ross Avila lecturing his “Introduction to Psychology” class on the topic of heuristics, mental shortcuts people use when trying to assess information or solve problems.
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/12/university-of-california-teacher-says-90-percent-of-us-terror-attacks-conducted-by-white-christian-conservatives/

  23. The Justine government leaves ’em laughing.
    …-
    “Bill Morneau tells Montreal audience Liberals will ‘get Canadians moving'” (cbc)
    …-
    “Can the Trudeau government dance to economic funk?” (G-M)
    …-
    “Major cities won’t participate in federal homeless count, leaving huge gaps for anti-poverty strategy”
    “The decision by places like Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary, among others, to not join in the federal initiative could make it more difficult for the federal Liberals to create a promised anti-poverty strategy.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/major-cities-wont-participate-in-federal-homeless-count-leaving-huge-gaps-for-anti-poverty-strategy

  24. Memo to Media Party: Bring out yer dead.
    ““My goal is to ensure that the journalism traditionally provided by the printed newspapers is given a new life and prolonged, while new media formats for its distribution are being developed,” Lenfest said Tuesday.”
    …-
    “Major Philadelphia newspapers donated to non-profit group after scraping by through years of layoffs”
    “PHILADELPHIA — The owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com has turned over the media company to a non-profit institute in the hope that a new business model will help them survive the digital age and stanch years of layoffs and losses.
    Local philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, who bought the media company 19 months ago, will give the struggling properties to the newly formed Institute for Journalism in New Media and donate $20 million to endow the enterprise.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/major-philadelphia-newspapers-donated-to-non-profit-group-after-scraping-by-through-years-of-layoffs

  25. O’narcissist’s legacy: a lame duck, impotent impostor; a prisoner in “a hotbed of cold feet”.
    “Representative Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican, tweeted Tuesday. “As commander-in-chief, President Obama needs to do everything in his power to liberate these sailors from Iranian custody.””
    …-
    “Iranian Detention of U.S. Sailors Clouds Obama Address to Nation”
    “Just hours before President Barack Obama was set to deliver his final State of the Union address, reports that 10 U.S. sailors had been detained by Iran were threatening to overshadow the prime time address to the nation.”
    “‘Cold Feet’
    “The White House tonight is a hotbed of cold feet,” Cotton said.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-12/iranian-detention-of-u-s-sailors-clouds-obama-address-to-nation

  26. Not this again. I thought the Chretien government already tackled poverty and homelessness. What about all those groups they funded to create signs: “End Poverty Now”. What about that homelessness initiative where they spent millions of Federal dollars to solve the problem? One year later the ONLY thing that had happened were bureaucrats in Ottawa getting set up in offices. This is just going around the same territory. In truth, the federal bureaucrats have no idea how to solve poverty and given their union wages, they probably have no idea what poverty even looks like. This is the same old Liberal idiocy. Some people never learn. Sadly, some of those who never learn are Canadian voters.

  28. From the original post at Frontpagemag:
    “Now, in an attempt to placate a small, though noisy group of complainers, Mayor Bill De Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton have acquiesced to demands that the police treat with kid gloves a select community.”
    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Bill De Blasio will do more damage to New York City than Osama bin Laden did.

  29. In other words, the same cities who wanted the long-form census so that government can have plenty of information to form social policy and spend lots of tax dollars won’t divulge numbers on homeless for that same purpose?
    Hypocrites.

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