A Hard Day's Blog
Jeanette DeMain
- Location
- Nashville, Tennessee,
- Birthday
- January 01
- Bio
- My bio, like my life, needs a lot of work.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Going to Great Lengths
May 11, 2012 06:32PM - Today in Doublespeak News
May 05, 2012 12:51PM - Breastaurants, Hypocrisy and
Sexual Kitsch
May 01, 2012 10:18PM - Moyers Does It Again
April 22, 2012 03:07PM - I Want To Hold Your Hand (But
Not If It Might Lead To Sex)
April 19, 2012 05:22PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “" things are not better
enough. Not yet. And not
soon
enough."
This is
v…”
1:38PM - “A suspension with pay is
most often the first step in
the
dismissal process.
Whi…”
12:38PM - “What a nice trip. Love
the photos and I love
those
signs!”
11:31AM - “::applause::”
11:28AM - “Ha, you're so right!
Just this past Friday on "Real
Time"
with Bill
Ma…”
May 22, 2012 12:35PM
Jeanette DeMain's Links
- Photo Essays
- *Alena, The Face of Joy
- *Tennessee's Teachers Marched in the Rain For Their Rights
- *Nashville Post-Flood: Honky Tonkin' on Lower Broad
- *Attack of the Great Southern Brood
- *Street Papers: The Homeless are Writing for Change
- *A Love Letter to St. George Island, Florida, Gulf Coast
- *After the Flood
- *A Bed For Every Head: Sweet Sleep in Transnistria
- *The City of Light in (Mostly) Black and White
- *Y'all Come See the Parthenon!
- *Nashville Tea Party
- Posts About Films
- *One of the Many Reasons I Love "A Hard Day's Night"
- *Orfeu Negro and the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
- *Flirting: A Little Movie that I Love
- *Favorite Opening Credits - Part 3 (More Viewer Requests!)
- *OK Daniel Day-Lewis, You've Twisted My Arm!
- *For Veterans Day, Bill Moyers Previews "The Good Soldier"
- *Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags (We Have Come Full Circle)
- *More Favorite Opening Credits (and Viewer Requests!)
- *The Recent Unpleasantness - A Perspective from a Favorite Film
- *Favorite Opening Credits (Part 1)
- *"The Passion of Joan of Arc" and the Futility of Torture
- Posts About Music
- *Making Peace with Disco (35 Years Later)
- *Some Nashville Sounds That Might Surprise You
- *The Bollywood Beatles (and a little Elvis too!)
- *Trent Reznor: The Cleveland Years
- *Is Lady Gaga Channeling Leigh Bowery?
- *I Was a Teenage Werewolf at the Zombie Dance
- *Surviving Nostalgia
- *Power Pop Nation
- *Stop the Vocal Tuning Madness!
- *The Bay City Rollers, Ann Margret, and Ear Trumpets
- *Good News Sunday - Music is a Healing Balm for the Soul
- *Do You Wanna Skank?
- *Some Favorite Female Voices from the Punk/New Wave Era
- *Guit With It!
- *Are You Ready for the Uruguayan Invasion?
- *Totally 80's! My Accidental Adventures as a New Wave Singer
- *Why I Think Christian Rock and Heavy Metal Are Cynical
- *Psycho Beach Party (w/Los Straitjackets)
- *Pop Gear!
- *In Praise of Indo-Rock
Going to Great Lengths
Every day at 6:00 a.m. when I check my email, I am greeted with a new bunch of spam, usually trying to sell me a drug for erectile dysfunction, a condition for whose sufferers I have the utmost sympathy. It is truly a scourge of epidemic portions, judging by the amount
… Read full post »Today in Doublespeak News
Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fight
By David Schwartz
PHOENIX | Sat May 5, 2012 3:19am EDT
(Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office… Read full post »
Breastaurants, Hypocrisy and Sexual Kitsch
What do you think of when you hear the words "twin peaks"? Until recently, I would have thought first of David Lynch's deliciously bizarre television show that had us all asking who killed Laura Palmer over twenty years ago. But now, instead of fond memories of damn good coffee (and hot!)
… Read full post »Moyers Does It Again
On Friday's edition of Moyers & Company, the conversation focused on "The Case For Old-School Faith and Politics". Moyers' first guest was Eric Alterman who, among other things, writes for The Nation, so it's probably pretty obvious where he stands on the issues.
However, it was his second guest,… Read full post »
Oh, Tennessee, you've done it again! You even made The Colbert Report.
Because our abstinence-only sex education curriculum hasn't been quite as successful as it should have been (we were still a top-10 state last year in the number of teen pregnancies, and gosh, I wonder why?) our l… Read full post »
Turn Off Your Marshall Stack
The news out of England is that Jim Marshall, inventor of the iconic Marshall amplifier and known as The Father of Loud, has died at the age of 88. Here is the obituary from The Guardian and two short bits of video from the BBC.
And here is arguably the b… Read full post »
The Second Chance
He was in a brightly-lit room with gleaming surfaces and the smell of disinfectant. Machines were humming and beeping, and there were many people concentrating on the task at hand. He could feel their intensity. Then he realized that he was hovering, weightless, looking down on this scene, and he saw… Read full post »
Not content to sit idly by while states like Virginia, Georgia and Texas grab all the headlines about abortion, and since attacking teachers is so last year, the nice folks in the Tennessee legislature have decided to make a splash with the "Life Defense Act of 2012". As I'm… Read full post »
Birth Control's Greatest Hits (Or, Should I Say, Misses?)
It has become abundantly clear in the last few days how painfully out of touch certain older, white, and in some cases, celibate men are with middle American culture and the unwashed, fornicating masses. Out of touch with reality, actually.
But if they're looking for some clues about what's goi… Read full post »
Is it Too Late For '80s Hair? 'Cuz I Haz Some.
1980s hair. The final frontier.
Being a failure at most everything in the 70s, especially the Farrah Fawcett look, I was more than happy to usher in the next decade with some hair styles that were a bit more "cutting edge". Of course, looking back on it now, it's completely dated… Read full post »
We Are Women (And Men!),Hear Us Roar-Komen Reverses Decision
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has just issued a statement from Nancy Brinker reversing its decision to defund breast cancer health grants to Planned Parenthood. This statement was published, among other places, at DallasNews.com, and reads as follows:
We want to apologize to the American public
… Read full post »
Shaming Teachers
On top of the state legislature's decimation of tenure and bargaining rights for teachers last year, the Tennessee State Board of Education is trying to do its part to demonize and demoralize public educators as well.
The State Board of Education is the governi… Read full post »
2011 TEC Awards: Update!
UPDATE (1/21/12): The winners were announced last night in Anaheim, California, and Jim has won the award for Outstanding Creative Achievement on the single "Angel Dance" from the album "Band of Joy" by Robert Plant! Woo hoo!
2011 TEC Awards: Bragging on My Amazing Husband
The TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio, Inc., has announced its list of 2011 nominees for Outstanding Creative Achievement in audio technology and production. These awards recognize those who work "behind the scenes" in creating music for film, television, video games, live broadcasts… Read full post »
Bill's Coming Back!
It was almost two years ago that I wrote my farewell blog to Bill Moyers, who retired from his weekly television series, Bill Moyers Journal, on April 30, 2010. Since then, Friday nights at our house have often involved the following conversation:
Jim: What do you want to watch?
Me: … Read full post »
Intercourse With Spirits
Well that's certainly a tawdry and misleading headline, isn't it? I should be ashamed of myself! No, this post isn't about sex with ghosts. I'll leave that to American Horror Story.
This post is about Christmas and the struggle to feel the Christmas spirit when so many things, inter… Read full post »
Help Wanted: Male, Bra Model
Although it has been nearly forty years since the Supreme Court banned sex segregation in "Help Wanted" ads, there might still be a very few jobs that one could consider to be the provenance of only one gender or, at least, performed better by a particular gender. Up until to… Read full post »
Michelle Duggar's Miscarriage. What to Feel, What to Feel...
Reading the news that Michelle Duggar has suffered a second-trimester miscarriage, ending her 20th pregnancy, has left me wondering just how to react.
I guess my first impulses were somewhat less than charitable, and I settled on, "Hey, I've finally got something in common with her." Because I think… Read full post »
In 1976, I was a painfully shy, clumsy, skinny, glasses-wearing high school freshman, occupying that no man's land between Tiger Beat and Seventeen, trying desperately to find some place, any place, to fit in. It was a time of satin bomber jackets, Love's Baby Soft, Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, feat… Read full post »
A La Claire Fontaine
A wistful and melancholy song from the soundtrack of The Painted Veil, a 2006 film based on the book by W. Somerset Maugham. Set amidst an outbreak of cholera in China in the early 20th century, it depicts the troubled relationship of Walter and Kitty Fane. Although the movie ends… Read full post »
Marcel's Seaside Holiday
Several months ago, I was introduced to, and then had to introduce all of you to, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, a delightfuly surreal video featuring a very outspoken one-eyed talking seashell.
After I told my sister about the video, she went a little cuckoo for Marcel, so much so… Read full post »
Yard-Salers Can Bite Me (A Re-Post)
I was inspired to dust this one off after reading Frank Michels' yard sale post from yesterday.
Before you jump all over me, let me start off by saying that I'm not talking about all yard-salers.
Single moms and stay-at-home moms on tight budgets, no problem. (Unfortunately, tho… Read full post »
Cowboys of London
When my husband and I went to London in 1985, it was at the height of the "Dark Cowboy" craze in Britain. I remember shopping at this tangled maze of shops in a big building on Kensington High Street. You could buy all kinds of "western" themed apparel. Decorative silver tips… Read full post »
Occupy Nashville Updates and Links
(Photo by John Partipilo, The Tennessean)
The stormtroopers arrived in the middle of the night, as they so often do, in order to take advantage of the vulnerability and disorientation of the sleeping Occupy Nashville protestors. An incredible series of photos by… Read full post »
The Ballad of the 53%
(In case it's not clear, the photo below is a parody of this website. I admit that the site is almost a parody of itself, so my attempt may seem redundant, but I thought it was worth a try.)
Salon.com