Sloppy Blogging

I would be remiss in my duties as a Blogger if I did not admit to forgetfulness on two recent occasions.

Let's begin with my round-up of the Cd's I bought in 2007. I completely forgot about the one and only Ian Hunter, he of Mott the Hoople fame. His solo CD Shrunken Heads was one of my favorites from last year. He's cantankerous in his old age (he calls his back-up musicians the Rant Band), commenting on the world about him and how things ain't wot they once wuz. I especially like the song "I Am What I Hated When I Was Young." The rebels of yesterday are apparently slightly put off by the youth of today. I can sympathize, brother. (Hunter is currently touring Great Britain and will appear in Dartford at a venue named the Mick Jagger Centre. How does Jagger rate a centre with his name on it? And why don't the English know how to spell "center"? They invented the language, they just don't know how to use it.)

As for my post on dead and dying presidential candidates, I forgot a Republican, who, while he's still running, can surely be considered amongst the dead: Alan Keyes, the carpetbagger from Maryland who invaded my fair state of Illinois in 2004 to run for the U.S. senate, only to be soundly defeated by someone named Barack Obama.

Keyes got what he deserved then, and he's getting what he deserves now, which is nothing. No press coverage, no media buzz whatsoever. His candidacies have been nothing more than ego driven exercises in vanity. Go back to Maryland, Al, have some crab cakes and save your voice. No one's listening.