Jitterbugging for Jesus

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen made a single album, “The Nightfly,” that was one of the best music albums of the eighties, bar none. One of the best of the seventies for that matter, which was wayyyy too much disco and lightweight rock.
This is the title song from Fagen’s seminal record.
Now, some of you may remember [...]

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In keeping with our night-owl weekend, would it be complete without the greatest rock and roll band of all time doing the raunchiest, roughest, anti-authority rock song of all time, all about that midnight rambler?
Wait till you get into about the 5 minute mark when Mick shows all the pretenders to the rock throne what [...]

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Yes, ladies and germs of the Jitterbugginforjesus.com cult. As promised, we’re having a wingding weekend especially for night owls like yer Jitterbugger his self featuring great musicians who pretty much only come out at night (or did, as in the case of great night prowlers like the late and the great Ray Charles).
We kicked off [...]

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The Franciscan priest and prolific writer Richard Rohr always has something to say. And those who come here to jitterbuggingforjesus.com on a regular basis know that your worthy leader of the cult of Jitterbug insists on nothing less than writers, artists, musicians, journalists, politicians, preachers, actors, poets, filmmakers and candlestick makers who have something to [...]

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Yes, Jitterbuggers, as promised, we’re having a special weekend featuring night songs about night life by singers who’ve lived the night life and who understood exactly whereof The Who spoke when they spoke in that song, “And when it comes to all-night livin’, I know what I’m givin’.”
We’re talking about featuring great music from the [...]

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Yes, Jitterbuggers, we know how you feel on a Friday afternoon when you’z had all de boss you can stanz and like Popeye, you can’t stanz no more!
that’s why we’re always here to bring you relief, you poor working slug.
We work a 4-night work week you know, and can’t relate actually, since we’re off on [...]

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Poetry so powerful it’ll make you go, “Wow!”
by Ramón Chaparro of Portland (with capsule bio at the end):
“A Long Week”
I want to give the world a foot massage
“Take a load off,” I’d say
“You’ve had a long week”
I want to buy backpacks for crack babies
Teach them E=mc2
Sing them the theme to Fat Albert
Show them the correct [...]

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We talk here all the time about our criteria for all great art and writing and music and journalism and politics and even preachers and anybody in any creative pursuits and that criteria of course is: Does he or she have something to say.
And boy oh boy, did J.D. Salinger have something to say through [...]

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No one ever told me grief would feel so much like fear.”
– C.S. Lewis
Psalm 34
Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.
I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
2 My [...]

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Yes, jitterbuggers, it’s been quite a day here at blog central (Jitterbuggingforjesus.com), the blog that is saving the world with its wit, wisdom, provocations and all that, hasn’t it?
Those who viewed this blog site today saw us launch what will be a relentless campaign in the months and possibly years ahead against the so-called “social [...]

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