Tom Moroney of Bloomberg News tells this tragic, compelling story about one outcome of the current state of mental health services, in an age of reduced social services funding. Tom was on The Takeaway radio program Tuesday morning.
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022812h.mp3|titles=The Takeaway – Mental health service reductions]Author: DOuG pRATt
Passenger redux
I used this cool video a year ago yesterday, when it had 5.2 million hits. It’s now up to almost 7.8 million hits.
http://youtu.be/QEY6_jcrzI8
A no-skip commercial
The first brand-new car I ever bought was a 1988 Mazda 323. It was okay for the first few years, but then it started having problems. I kept if for ten years, sold it with 125,000 miles on it, and I haven’t bought a Mazda since then. With gas prices headed back over four bucks per gallon, I don’t see performance as being a big selling point, but I sure do like Mazda’s new commercial with Bo Diddley doing Road Runner.
http://youtu.be/aAwnN8n2_-E
Here’s the complete original performance by Diddley. I don’t know where this was filmed, but I’d say it was in England or Europe.
http://youtu.be/WOOFx9c6qyA
Art depreciation
After sixteen years of sitting in the same spot at work, I have to move to another floor in the building, at least temporarily, because of remodeling. The building has a lot of original art, and some of it is very good, but I won’t be appreciating what I will see every time I look up from my desk. I’ve heard several different interpretations of this picture and a similar one next to it, and none of them are very positive, including my own.
Impacted love
Here’s another public domain gem from Archive.org. Impact is a tight, little flick in the noir genre. It’s not quite in the same league with the superb Gun Crazy, but I can almost promise that if you start watching you’ll keep watching. Impact is also available online from Netflix.
Emitt’s Merry-Go-Round
On my Logitech Media Server network I’m listening to Barnes Newberry’s online radio show, My Back Pages. Barnes played a couple of songs by Emitt Rhodes, who’s one of those musicians that seemed to have all of the ingredients needed to be a big name, and yet superstardom eluded him. Rhodes did some excellent stuff, and I remember alternative FM station WBCN in Boston playing his solo album, with the song Fresh As a Daisy.
Emitt was only seventeen when his band The Merry-Go-Round had a minor hit with She’s a Very Lovely Woman, and it holds up very well today.