Happy Birthday to the late great Frank Zappa. Today is known in the blogosphere as Day Zero of Zappadan, the annual blogswarm honoring Frank. The blogswarm started several years ago, but this year we've added Alicia Policia's "Yellow Snow Cupcakes" (edible) as a Zero Day tradition.
What songs accompany your holiday sweets this evening?
Country legend June Carter Cash, the woman responsible for stealing Johnny Cash's heart and for living Reese Witherspoon's Oscar-winning role, would have turned 80 today. Lets all pick up an acoustic guitar and strum a few chords of "Jackson," in memory.
Let's hear it for the cultural heroes who always speak the truth as they know it, no matter what the cost to themselves:
NEW YORK — Three months after Bruce Springsteen persuaded Pete Seeger to sing This Land Is Your Land with him at President Obama's inaugural concert, they'll be back together on stage Sunday — on Seeger's 90th birthday.
A sold-out benefit concert at Madison Square Garden will celebrate Seeger, the folk singer/songwriter who was banished from commercial TV for 17 years.
Seeger says a party for 15,000 isn't his idea of a birthday celebration, even with more than 40 musicians, including Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Arlo Guthrie, whose dad, Woody, taught Seeger how to jump freight trains 60 years ago.
