For the past few weeks, my daughter has been watching Looney Tunes cartoons quite a bit…and I must admit that I've plopped down on the couch and joined her a few times. After all, who doesn't love the Looney Tunes ? Think of all the classic characters they created; Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweetie Bird, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Cat, the Tasmanian Devil, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, the list goes on and on. Sheesh, my co-workers and I have even been reminiscing [...]

Tu viens, on va brûler au soleil tous ensemble ? Ah, pas besoin de soleil, les militaires s'en chargent ? Cool ! Malcolm Sutherland The Tourists (2007) musique : Lord Invader - Out The Fire (195?) pour tout savoir sur un des rois du calypso, un Lord parmi les [...]

After the 2000 elections, a Democratic president left behind a budget surplus as the Republican Party came to Washington with a majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court. So much for being fiscally conservative, the Republican dominated government immediately ran up a big deficit every year since, doubling the national debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. The US government's $700-billion plan to bail out the banking system will give the US Treasury new powers to monetize private business failures and fraud. It will be encumbered with $5 trillion in new debt [...]

I'll be taking tomorrow off instead of Labor Day. Here are some songs to listen to while I max and relax, arranged in order of most to least favorite. Lord Invader ∞ Labor Day (calypso) Maddy Wyatt ∞ Labor Day (female singer-songwriter) Hudson Falcons ∞ Labor Day (gritty roots) Ripley Caine ∞ Labor Day (acoustic rock) David Massey ∞ Labor Day (nearly Cajun) Music For Pets ∞ Labor Day [...]

Hi kids, it's Evan again. I hope you all enjoyed my little APRIL FOOLS joke this morning. This website is not dead. I promise you. This morning while I was in the shower I hatched what I believed was a brilliant plan to fake the demise of my blog. I tried to make it sounds serious, but I was worried it would come off as obviously phony. I even called two lawyers (my father and Ian) to ask for legal jargon I could pepper my post with in the hopes that it'd appear legitimate. I even went so far as [...]
FIDEL CASTRO Lord Invader Calypso Travels Cook/Smithsonian Folkways : 1959 [Buy It] Bye-bye.
I'M STANDING IN THE SHADOWS The 5 Royals Todd 7" : 1963 [Criminally Out of Print] THAT'S HOW IT FEELS The Soul Clan (Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Ben E. King, Don Covay) Soul Meeting Atlantic : c. 1968 Available on: Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Brothers Atlantic : 2006 [Buy It] WHEN YOU TOUCH ME The [...]