From Barbarous to EvilI did my best to keep my spirits up on Tuesday while guest-hosting America's Number One radio show, but actually I was near overwhelmed by an awful sickening sadness, which is not the best disposition for broadcast entertainment. I woke up to the news that, during the night, in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest monument to Christopher Columbus in the United States had been destroyed by someone called "Ty" and his chum:
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Notwithstanding the North Korean EMP attack halfway through the broadcast plunging the nation into darkness, I did my best to illuminate the scene while guest-hosting America's Number One radio show and providing play-by-play coverage of Total Eclipse Monday. Sample: Don't forget to keep your special glasses to hand. People think that because the sun has gone all dark it's safe to look directly at it, but it's not. Bill Clinton was told this morning, "Don't stare at the black sun." And he said, "That's just an Internet rumor from the Nineties." More here: Mark Steyn said a cute intern complained 2 minutes isn't very long so he told her to get out of the broom closet and go watch the eclipse. Etc. Congressman Louie Gohmert joined me live in ... Looking at the World through Total Eclipse Glasses
Programming note: Today, Total Eclipse Monday, Mark will guest-host America's Number One radio show today, live across the Path of Totality for three hours at 12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific. We hope you can join him, either on one of 600 radio stations in the United States or via iHeartMedia livestream. On Sunday Mark started the day with "Fox & Friends" and, after some initial banter about needing special glasses for the guest hosts, turned to a state senator's call to assassinate the President, whether powerful Democrats in Congress were being blackmailed by their Pakistani IT staffers, and a disturbing trend to shrink speech and boost violence: Author Mark Steyn called for more exercise of free speech through debates than through protests. ... On the AirByrds of a FeatherLast night Mark made a rare Friday appearance with Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss two burning topics - the removal of Steve Bannon from the Trump White House, and Chelsea Clinton's comparison of the Confederacy to "Lucifer". Steyn was not persuaded by the former First Daughter's argument:
We think it sounded funnier when Mark said it, but you can decide for yourself by clicking below to watch: Also on screen this weekend at SteynOnline, don't... Steyn on CanadaDieppe 75 Years On
Mark talks to Lionel Chetwynd, Hollywood screenwriter and former soldier of the Queen, about the Dieppe Raid and what happened when he pitched it to Hollywood... Mark's MailboxOf Swamps and RuinsThe latest video edition of Mark's Mailbox, covering everything from Trump in the swamp to Isis amid the ruins with a Tunku and a Mandy on the side: Mark's Mailbox, SteynPosts and The Mark Steyn Show are made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club... Steyn on EuropeUmbrellas in the Rain
Mark revisits the last big terrorist outrage in Spain - the Madrid train bombings On the AirLess Speech Leads to More ViolenceOn Wednesday night Mark joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss the post-Charlottesville decisions by Google, Facebook, PayPal and other de facto global monopolies to kick off so-called "haters" and narrow the bounds of acceptable discourse. Steyn did not find this an encouraging trend: On a related theme, here's Steyn from... On the AirWhat's in a George?On Wednesday afternoon Steyn checked in with the great John Oakley on Toronto's AM640, and discussed some of the fallout of Charlottesville: Mark's MailboxWhen Statues Fall...
An hour of audio from Mark on everything from the weekend's events in Charlottesville to "Jeeves & Wooster", with special attention to statuary, in Virginia, North Carolina, Trafalgar Square, Baghdad, Hong Kong and Quebec City... |
Steyn's Song of the WeekLove Me Tender
To round out our Elvis Week, I thought we'd celebrate the biggest hit song supposedly written by Elvis: These days more or less every pop star is expected to come up with his own songs. It wasn't always that way: Once upon a time, songwriters wrote songs, and singers sang them. Very occasionally, a singer ventured onto the writer's turf: Frank Sinatra genuinely wrote a handful of songs, including the much covered... Mark at the MoviesCatch Me If You Can
Today, August 19th, is National Aviation Day in the United States, so I thought for our movie date we'd have an airy confection, about flight in both the aviation and criminal sense: Catch Catch Me If You Can if you can. It's a lovely movie and all the more surprising considering the Hollywood muscle powering it: Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio. These people have all made such terrible choices in recent years that you forget what it's like to see them in anything other than earnest pompous plonkers. Even John Williams dispenses with the big orchestral bombast and turns in his breeziest score in decades. It's almost groovy. Plus Christopher Walken gets to dance - not for long, alas - to "Embraceable You", with Nathalie Baye. ... Steyn on CultureAll Shook Up
Forty years ago Elvis Presley passed ...into a stunningly successful new phase of his career. All this week at SteynOnline, we've been marking the anniversary, starting starting with the man who invented Elvis, and moving on to the guy who wrote more Elvis songs than anybody else. This essay on death as a career move is from my book Mark Steyn From Head to Toe: August 16th marks exactly four decades since a 911 call from 3765 Elvis Presley Boulevard sent the paramedics scrambling for the ambulance. And we're still no nearer knowing the truth... Steyn's Song of the WeekRock-a-Hula Baby
The composer who wrote more Elvis songs than anybody else Topical TakeThe Man Who Invented Elvis
All this week at SteynOnline, we'll be marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley Steyn's Song of the WeekThe Glory of LoveIf you saw singer/pianist Carol Welsman do "As Time Goes By" as our Sunday song a few weeks back, you'll know that she can freshen up the most familiar standard. So we're thrilled to have Carol back live, accompanied by the Steyn house band: The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowSteyn on Dover Beach
The first of a brand new series: Steyn on lines (of poetry) Steyn's Song of the WeekAt Long Last LoveAnother live-performance edition, with Robert Davi singing Cole Porter: The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowBig Mac en roseMichael Keaton's biopic of the man behind McDonald's; a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore; and Canada's disco diva Patsy Gallant recalls Édith Piaf: Defend Free Speech!The Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
In a couple of months, Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me will enter its sixth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice... Mann vs SteynFootball and HockeyThe Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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