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In honor of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama recently putting lipstick back in it’s deserved spot at the forefront of American culture, I just could not resist this delightful video that is described thusly..

Workers at Boots Factory, Airdrie, shut down the lines for a while and have a wee dance and a sing song!

As always, purse your juicy red lips then, press pause on the music player, located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

I don’t know whose version of “Lipstick Powder And Paint” they are using here but, it’s really all about the wee dance.

This next item is from the Sun Sentinel via The Daily Swarm.

Here’s the scene; the city of Ft. Lauderdale is batting around the idea of putting on a beach concert to make some money and promote business. So naturally, they get with Live Nation because they are the biggest dog in concert promotion pack.

So, the city commissioners get together for a meeting and there is a rep from Live Nation there. They discuss things like ticket prices and what type of acts they do want, what type of acts they don’t want-don’t want to attract the wrong element at this kind of thing, you know? It’s like a preliminary meeting so, they’re tossing artist and band names around. Ooh…we like that one. Oooohhh….we don’t like that guy, sort of deal.

So then, this guy from Live Nation, Mike Luba talks; my guess is that this guy wants to let the city commissioners know that Live Nation will be able to suit their needs.

But Live Nation Artists officials are still speaking only in general terms about what acts they’ll go for. Except to say that there will be absolutely no jazz.

“We’re doing everything we can to eliminate jazz from American culture, so, no jazz!” Mike Luba of Live Nation Artists told commissioners”

Nice one there, you dough head. You don’t say stuff like that, moron. I know you are probably a little giddy and nervous because, after all, you are speaking to the esteemed Ft. Lauderdale City Commissioners and you want to impress them with your urbane wit. And, I realize that whatever business school you graduated from probably didn’t spend much time on the importance of art in a civilized society or, the influence of Jazz on American culture and that, your cognitive skills and attention span are far more suited to Death Cab For Cutie than Duke Ellington. But, you have to understand something Luba; you are small part of an industry that is parasitic in nature and that makes you an epiparasite. You were probably just trying to be funny. But, you weren’t. You were showing ignorance, insensitivity and disrespect.

The Swarm is now saying…

Luba said he was flooded with e-mails from people who read the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s report Wednesday about a proposed annual weekend concert festival that would start next spring. Jazz lovers were offended by Luba’s joke that, “We’re doing everything we can to eliminate jazz from American culture.”

Luba said he loves jazz and plans to include jazz music in the festivities.

“Our company does thousands of jazz shows a year,” he said, “and jazz is the foundation of everything we do.”

Luba said he made the comment “totally in the moment, to break the tension,” and that “it was 100 percent a joke.”

Pretty weak Luba. Perhaps, you should have taken a look at “The Eliot Spitzer Apology Statement Template” before banging your gums again. You know, I put things like “The Eliot Spitzer Apology Statement Template” up here, not out of profit but, as a public service so mindless yobs in the public eye, can use these valuable resources and avoid further embarrassment.

If you like baseball or you would be curious about things like Dock Ellis’ hair curlers, a flour tortilla with the likeness of Walter O’Malley or a case of baseballs “signed” by Mother Theresa then, you simply must take a look at the Baseball Reliquary.

The Baseball Reliquary was founded in 1996 by Terry Cannon as a nonprofit, educational organization. As described in the Articles of Incorporation, the Baseball Reliquary’s primary mission is “to foster an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its interaction with American culture by the preservation and exhibition of artifacts related to the National Pastime.” Its collections specialize in objects which more conservative, timid, or uninformed baseball museums have failed to bring to the public’s attention. In its concern for the significant and the trivial, the timeless and the ephemeral, the celebrated and the obscure, the Baseball Reliquary fills a void in the National Pastime’s community of museums and archives.

The Reliquary also has it’s own Shrine of the Eternals.

Similar to Cooperstown’s National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Shrine of the Eternals differs philosophically in that statistical accomplishment is not the principal criterion for election. It is believed that the election of individuals on merits other than statistics and playing ability will offer the opportunity for a deeper understanding and appreciation of baseball than has heretofore been provided by “Halls of Fame” in the more traditional and conservative institutions.

Criteria for election shall be: the distinctiveness of play (good or bad); the uniqueness of character and personality; and the imprint that the individual has made on the baseball landscape.