Our president is so cool. Swoon!

God, we have the coolest president ever.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE SHIT EATING GRIN OBAMA HAS AT THE END OF THAT VIDEO. YOU CAN TELL THAT SINGING WITH BB KING IS A PERSONAL HIGH POINT FOR HIM. I MEAN, SHIT. HE FUCKING SANG WITH BB KING AND MICK JAGGER; MAYBE HE WASN'T THE BEST SINGER, BUT HE GOT ENOUGH CHARISMA TO PULL ANOTEHR GAIUS JULIUS ON THE REPUBLIC.

Obama is the most show biz president since Reagan.

I can easily picture Mitt Romney doing that...

#ThoseDudesAreOld

@6 I think John Ashcroft takes the cake in that contest.

@7: so are you, fatass.

he doesn't look like he loves it, he looks bashful & embarassed. kept trying to hand the mike back to bb king.

poor guy, he knows he has to keep the funk buttoned so he doesn't scare the "independent" voters.

He is bashful and embarrassed AND HE LOVES IT. He is singing with the one and only Beale Street Blues Boy King. Breaks my goddamn heart to see him so happy for a few seconds.

Rick Santorum probably doesn't know who B.B. King is.

I didn't realize BB King sang Muslim hymns.

It may not be presidential, but it sure is cool. Sing out, Mr. President.

Jesus the Seattle PD is fucked up. I hope the Feds fuck them up.

From @16's fingers to the FSM's eyepods ...

The less than subtle ramblings of Scary Tyler Moore:

i see you are on teevee tonight, Dan. MTV and Logo. good thing you're not on at the same night and time as RuPaul's Drag Race.

sphagnum, honey. actually, that is a perfect description of supreme ruler of the universe!

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!???? teri is a friend of mine!

nature is ALWAYS bigger than we are. duh.

jeff gannon, phoebe. google him.

can't spell mendacity without "men".

bigoty bigoty bigoty amen.

If you see him at the SPL downtown branch.

Run.

Run fast.

@18, whatever you've been using for marbles appear to have been lost. Check under your chair.

@12, I'll bet he does. I'll bet he has the box set. Middle-aged white guys LOVE the blues. One of the great mysteries of American culture is how the blues became a music enjoyed almost exclusively by middle-aged white dudes in Tommy Bahama shirts and straw gambler hats.

Bailo, seriously. Folks have joked enough here about you being nutters.
Posts like #18 there make your alleged slide into crazytown easier and easier to believe. Time for you to lay off Slog?

I love the blues. It is heaps of fun to play along with.

@Fnarf: Maybe because mainstream white America was deaf to the blues until some long haired English men introduced them to music from their own backyard. Until British Blues arrived in the US our greatest artists supplemented their income by sharecropping in the off season, some even went over to the UK because the audience was more accepting. Cream could make Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues" a hit to white America and those same fans have expanded their knowledge and of the blues to include the styles of Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues, Texas Blues...

Kim @21 - The same thing could be said of Chicago House and Detroit Techno - Black musicians got more early cred by the British and that's how they earned their living until white guys in Britain brought the stuff back to the States.

NaFun @23: I don't disagree. The US is sometimes CT slow at recognizing its home grown treasures, and MRI slow when it comes to justice for all. We're a little too insulated it seems.

I wonder how those firehouses are zoned.

Is that firehouse up on the Hill (on 15th) still a stupid video store? It always killed me that it wasn't a bar when I lived there.

Anyone in my hometown of Evanston, IL, make sure to visit the Fire House Grill on Chicago Avenue.