River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail and his buddy Gary re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1011:
Anthony Dail talks with Tony Danza, the son of a Brooklyn garbageman and a graduate of the University of Dubuque, about the great good fortune of his career, whose embers started glowing on Taxi (1978-1983), caught fire on Who’s the Boss? (1984-1993), lighted his way to teaching English for a year for a reality show (Teach: Tony Danza) and wrote about that (I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High), and continues to blaze his way across the nation, having played his alma mater 22 October 2022 and, most recently, Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center in Davenport, 23 May 2023. As assuredly as one can sustain a metaphor across an entire sentence, Danza works a room, reminding (or teaching) audiences about the days of variety TV, when a performer performed: If he could sing, dance, play a ukulele, tell jokes, and keep a steady patter going, then he might be ready for Prime Time. And Danza’s been ready for PT for the longest time. Respect!
Aaron Dail talks with Andrew Lehman about the big gets for this year’s John Deere Classic Tournament. Among them is West Des Moines’s Caitlin Clark, the celebrated Hawkeyes basketball guard, “the closest thing the state of Iowa has to The Beatles right now,” whose nine-hole club-off with Waterloo’s Zach Johnson will be well-attended. “We’ve seen such a positive response since we announced that [Clark is] coming,” Lehman said, Continue reading Aaron Dail Interview with Andrew Lehman, New John Deere Classic Tournament Director, June 20→
In the “Crows” segment Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film Dreams, Akira Terao portrays an art student. The student views the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh one minute, and the next he steps inside the canvas, into the worlds Van Gogh rendered. He finds the artist, played by Martin Scorsese, and learns from him his extreme dedication to his work: That he’s forever chasing the sun, that he drives himself “like a locomotive,” and that he had a problem with getting his left ear just so for his Self-Portrait, so he did what any reasonable person would do Continue reading Aaron Dail Interview w Fanny Curtat, June 21, re “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,”→
Cartoon: Teacher Leave Those Kids Alone, Ed Newman
Link: Noble Lies Are No Excuse for Ignoble Acts — Kathleen McCarthy marks the second anniversary of the January 6 debacle in Washington DC as an occasion in which Congressional committees have once again drawn and disseminated the wrong conclusions; observes the farcical House District 81 ballot-recount in Scott County; suggests the hand-counting of ballots may be worth the carpal-tunnel strain (if only to remove the suspicion of machine irregularities affecting electoral outcomes); and decries the ongoing degradation of the democratic dogmas — state and federal, personal and political — as a resistable phenomenon rather than the inevitable outcome of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Link: Petitioning for Redress of the Bamboozle— Todd McGreevy notes that January 6, 2021, was an historic moment, insofar as mass movements to petition the federal government for a redress of grievances have rarely been pitched in such numbers, and the one-tenth of the one-percent of potential bad actors on the scene that day shouldn’t have been the lede-line. (FYI: Did you know that, of the rights granted us in the Bill of Rights, the right to petition for a redress of grievances has never been adjudicated before the high courts?)
Link: Whiteside County Sheriff John F Booker’s Office Dispatch, January 11 — Sheriff Booker declares that he’s chosen to follow the Constitution rather than his state government’s recently-passed Protect Illinois Communities Act, which contravenes our Second-Amendment rights, and will therefore refuse to enforce PICA.
