Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Queen

Commentary By Ron Beasley



I must admit that when my teenage son started playing songs by Queen I hated it.  Not because it was bad but because it was being played by my teenage son.  My Bad:





As old age creeps up on me this aging hippie realizes that Freddie Mercury and Brian May were producing some of the finest music ever and the above is the best example.  Well I had a change of heart in time to morn the death of Freddie.  But what happened to Brian May?  He has his PhD in astrophysics and check out this great interview with Brian May by Terry Gross.

On 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

"This
is Freddie's great baby and, yes, we all contributed to the way it
developed in the studio, but really, it was so much constructed in his
head before he ever stopped in there. It's an amazing thing. ... An
amazing creation and quite unique."



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  1. hidflectAugust 4, 2010 at 12:24 AM

    Many people don't know Freddie was an Indian. He often claimed himself to be a "Persian" but that was smoke for the times that existed back then.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury

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  2. John BallardAugust 4, 2010 at 12:50 AM

    The interview was great. We don't appreciate how hard they worked to create sounds on a 24-track system we now take for granted with new technology. I learned a lot.
    Here is another link at 3Quarks that will bring back a flood of memories.
    http://bit.ly/c1OzRv

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  3. John BallardAugust 4, 2010 at 12:54 AM

    One more http://bit.ly/aAMt4z

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