The Jump Blog

This is the first of a three part series that advocates socialism in three specific sectors: the arts, health care, and education. This first installment deals with the arts. These are pretty in-depth discussions and more than a little lengthy.
I’m a reluctant capitalist. Not because I have any particular idealogical objections to capitalism, […]

Editorial Note: I like profanity and find it very useful (as I often demonstrate on this blog). There are times when no other word will do. I also hate governmental intrusion, artistic insincerity, and the criminalization of thought. All of those feelings, and not any specific animosity toward the author of the comments, lead me […]

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This is just a fantastically poignant song. I’d love it even if it weren’t for the video. I understand that this is old news to those in the UK (and that some are even burnt on the song over there) but most over here haven’t heard or seen this.
The video was […]

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I’ve talked about sharks before on this blog. To me they are the embodiment of everything that is both wonderful and terrible about nature. But they are also used as pawns in the neo-environmentalist fight and any attempt to characterize them as what they truly are –dispassionate eating machine […]

I’m writing this in response to an Op/Ed up (for more than a few days now –give me a break, I’m just getting back on the bike) over at The Storytellers Blog entitled Why Are Most Artists Liberal?.
Go ahead and click out, I’ll wait.
Back? Good.
Now, I have no bone to pick with author Guy […]

Once, when I was a bit of a teenage boy, my mother told me I was an enigma. I was only peripherally aware of what that meant, but I suppose she was right. I am a conservative folk singer after all.
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton and T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost and e.e. […]

I lost a lot of my “work in progress” computer art in my PC crash a few months ago, so I have been working on re-doing alot of the military themed 3D-CG art, but it is slow going. Finding a lot of the meshes, models and textures or making the ones that I can’t find […]

Looks like Rolling Rock is throwing a party. They’ve invited a few bands like Live, The Bloodhound Gang, The Clarks, Rusted Root, and The Julliana Theory. They’ve also invited the entire military free of charge (all active duty and reserve members is what the invite says, but I’m guessing a Retired ID card would get […]

I’ve long contended that Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” (both the album and the movie) have been done an incredible disservice by the druggie reputation of their fanbase. Admittedly there is no doubt that Floyd attracted psychedelic stoners as fans (and with good reasons), and –in the interest of full disclosure– I was more than a […]

The GoldFalcon-in-laws are wonderful people. My mother-in-law is well aquainted with my disdain for popular Holywood crap. Knowing this she lent me a wonderful little Scottish film called “Dear Frankie”. I happen to love small, independant films like this and I gotta tell you this is no exception. It’s a darker, more complex “Chocolate”, but […]

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Trackedback at Mudville’s Open Post

Several hours ago I was making preparations for my parents arrival tommorrow when Mrs. Falcon tapped on the door frame.
“Did you hear?” she asked.
“Hear what?”
“Shelby Foote died.”

There are many reasons not to believe anything this joker says (aside: can anyone imagine a US news outlet publishing allegations from a former German POW who was back in Germany, while we were still fighting the war?). But I really got a kick outta this:
one of those former detainees said naked women sat on […]

The Jayhawks and Gillian Welch are going to be on Austin City Limits this week (that airs today in a lot of markets). You might remember The Jayhawks from their tune “Wating for the Sun” from the album “Hollywood Town Hall”. This jangly little number defied classification in the grunge/country soaked airwaves of 1992, […]

View this This slideshow. Look for the endless repetition of the following three phrases:
“growing and evolving”
“to protect the city of the living”
“fighting for her survival against a pair of zombies”
If you can make it to photo 30 without wanting to punch the monitor I’ll buy you a cookie.

The lady blogger section has turned into finishing the redesign that I have been working on for a couple of months. I’m breaking up my “blogroll” buttons into two sections. My current crop of Milblogs that are primarily male will have a section called “Manifest”. It’s icon is a paratrooper in a good tight body […]

I have been a storyteller all of my life. It’s why I blog. Storytelling, while not peculiar to the Southern United States certainly has an active home there (thus the prominence of Southern writers in American literature), but the South has –mostly– a verbal tradition. Storytelling is done at kitchen tables, over camp fires, on […]