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Grateful Dead Donate Archives to UC Santa Cruz

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The Grateful Dead Archive will be at UC Santa Cruz:

Band members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart made the announcement this morning at a press conference held in the poster room of San Francisco’s historic Fillmore auditorium.
Documenting the history of the band from 1965 to the present, The Grateful Dead Archive will reside in the University Library’s Special Collections at UC Santa Cruz. The focal point of the collection will be a dedicated room named “Dead Central,” where both academic researchers and the general public will have access to the archive.

Here is a stream of the announcement…fairly entertaining for Deadheads…Bob, Mickey, Eileen Law and others answer questions.

And, yes, at least one pair of Bob’s cutoffs will be in the archive.

spitzer: More Do As I Say Not As I Do

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eliot spitzer, governor of New York, likes to pretend that prostitution is naughty:

Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. “It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”

It seems, though, that dear eliot is a user:

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.

Of course, innocent until proven guilty.

However, I suspect the court of family and public opinion have already made their rulings.