Archive for October, 2007

On our vested freedoms

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
-Dante Alighieri

Sunshine Empire Midnight Music Madness: Ben Folds Five


On the weekend and waterboarding

I noticed during the Democratic Presidential debate that former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel was not in attendance.  I don’t think that Senator Gravel has a chance in hell of winning the nomination, but I think he will be sorely missed in these debates.  Sure he was bat shit insane, but he actually called out many […]

Happy Halloween from The Sunshine Empire

Lewis Black on Halloween and candy corn.

Sunshine Empire Midnight Swing Supreme: Benny Goodman

Bennie Goodman and his Orchestra Sing Sing Sing from the Hollywood Hotel.  If you’ve never heard this, listen up!  This is damn good music and The Sunshine Empire misses that brief fad in the ’90’s when swing was back in.  So enjoy.

The latest debate, it’s like Groundhog day.

I watched a great deal of the Democratic Presidential debate with TSE’s chief political advisor and it was interesting for a myriad of reasons.  Hillary is the front runner in a way that Howard Dean could have only imagined of in 2004, and she is the sole focus of the Republican candidates, but she seemed […]

Pardon our dust during our technological failure

I had been saying some week or so ago that I had never had a catastrophic failure of my computer system ever.  That was then and this is now.  The mothership of The Sunshine Empire went down on Sunday morning and we are now operating on a second hand lappy, but we are still in […]

On Massive Drinking in Duval on the cusp of greatness.

I attended the first portion of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party tonight, and I have to say it was a rousing success. Women where coming into The Starlite dressed as Strawberry Shortcake and Poison groupies, and that made the night a success. The ladies where fine young women, at least the Georgia […]

Time for a cocktail party

and I’m going to the world’s largest this weekend.