"Are you talking about the horses?"

As Lou Dobbs sinks (deeper) into self-parody with the countdown ticking toward his first broadcast from the Yucatán, here's someone showing real cojones: ex-FEMA chair Michael Brown, who braved the Colbert Report for a hilarious, surreal interview.


FMFM: Kenny Burrell's God Bless The Child. I can't quite explain the disconnect between the AMG's rating (two and a half stars) and their review ("[A]n underheard masterpiece... Magnificent"), but I'm siding with the latter. An unusually subdued Billy Cobham glides along with Ron Carter in the rhythm section, contrasting the over-the-top, explosive kick-and-snare stuff Cobham is known for. (Which, I must acknowledge, is some sick shit, although I sure can't listen to it all the time.) And is that a chopper descending over a burned-out Vietnamese forest on the cover? It's not hard to see where Kenny's mind was when he made this one.