These Days: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
The Presidential Race: Nobody believes that Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon Republican running for President has much in the nature of a chance of getting the GOP nomination, so consider this his reward for dissing Obama to his face at the National Prayer Breakfast over 30 months ago. Currently in a dead heat with Trump in Iowa, he doesn’t have a prayer.
Live: Lake Street Dive tonight. and a secret Darlene Love gig at Highline Ballroom -test driving her new album, no doubt. Free with RSVP. Doctor Who cancelled October. I like Gaucho fine, but enough to see Steely Dan perform it on a Friday night in October?
Recorded – Five days into the week and The Weeknd’s Beauty And Madness is the one I’m going back to over and over again. No excuse babe, it is a gorgeous soul mood music with hooks out its ears. Bethany Howard’s other band Thunderbitch released their debut album, a good time raucous rock and roll animal.
The Iran Nuclear Deal:Per The New York Times: “President Obama all but clinched victory for his Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, as two Democratic senators, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Chris Coons of Delaware, threw crucial support behind the landmark accord.”. Meanline hardliners in Iran and the GOP don’t want to shake hands with the devil.
