Just For The Funk of It
Posted on February 26, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m a sucker for the Universal Newsreels youtube channel. Always amusing to get my daily dose of propoganda 50+ years ex post facto. So it’s with a smidgen of curmudgeonly delight that I revel in viewing this recitation of the pledge of allegiance in 1941 before the “under God” clause was added1 in 1954. Which [...]
Read More..>>be good (or: the plague of snark)
Posted on February 26, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Pain | Leave a Comment
I think Roger Ebert’s blog may be the best thing going these days. Now another typically excellent essay in which he writes now is the time “to put away childish things” and “inspire more appreciation than ridicule”.
Snarking has been part of the air we breathe for a long time. It is said to have entered [...]
post, memory
Posted on February 24, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
random links, etc….
Roger Ebert remembers Gene Siskel, who died February 20, 1999:“We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.”
Facebook 25 things note win
Lucero concert MP3s (Feb. 6, 2009) at nyctaper.
Jonathan Baumbach at The New You Project: “It’s always hard to like books that you’re compelled [...]
le Café
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Caffeine | Leave a Comment
Behold the power of le Café
le Café – Oldelaf (english subtitles)by Boebis
Speechifyin’
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
Haruki Murakami, in his acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize.
I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it.
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Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no [...]
20 Albums That Changed* My Life
Posted on February 16, 2009 - Filed Under About Me, Facebook, Music | 2 Comments
I’m pretty sure I don’t accept the premise that there are 20 albums that changed my life. But I am a sucker for these facebook lists, so I’ll put down 20 (or so) that I think are capital “I” important to me. Some are old standbys; some are newer additions; the reasons they are included [...]
Read More..>>Press/Record Label Subscriptions
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
A voice from the twitterverse (or is it twittersphere?) cries out.
Also, worth noting that www.twodollarradio.com has 2008 and 2009 subscriptions to all of their books for $50. I am obsessed with this model.
Smart. But got me thinking … why don’t record labels do this? Or maybe they do and I don’t know about. For smaller [...]
Valentine’s Day Walk Photo Log
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Photographs | Leave a Comment
Today Monica and I took a walk from the Inner Richmond in San Francisco to the Mission. Here’s a few photos from the way
Times are tough, so naturally budget beef is appealing:
(If you’re not sure, that is me on the left and the budget beef on the right)
Came across this collection of Shakespearean sonnets on [...]
In honor of Friday the 13th
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
A strong De La/Redman collab, with a very nice Pharoahe Monche “Ghost Weed” rap at the end. The only time I’ve heard triskaidekaphobia dropped in a rhyme. Not too shabby.
De La Soul – Oooh
You Can’t Copyright No Beat
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Music | Leave a Comment
QOTD:
While Muxtape was technically breaking the law by streaming unlicensed music online, it was not, as CD Baby founder Derek Sivers comically put it, “clearly illegal, immoral and harmful, like Auto-Tune“.
On a minor PE kick lately. So, yeah…
Caught Can We Get A Witness?
Sometimes You Got To Roll A Hard Six To Make Your Dreams Come True
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Television, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
…Sometimes you have to strike a superior asshole to hear what your heart is telling you….
If Battlestar Was an 80s Sitcom
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Read More..>>My Inner Joan Crawford Vehicle
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
As I count down the days to John Darnielle with Tobias Wolff, there is this video taken from a nice trove of recordings form some sort of singer/songwriter cruise?
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Read More..>>Evil Birthday
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Deformities, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
“This is a grand celebration for a man whose Theory of Evolution promoted atheism, inspired Hitler’s genocides, and thinks your grandfather was a monkey.” – Roger Ebert on the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Darwin
Read More..>>it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Facebook, Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
As with all things, Facebook is the Prime Mover. You know how it is. By fiat, I’ll put all my chain-notes on this blog & link back from there, so that all y’all aren’t required to go to FB for scoops on me if you don’t want to/can’t. I’m talking to you China and Ticha [...]
Read More..>>You Got Served
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Music, Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
I feel compelled to post items in the case of Ernie Chambers v God as they continue to trickle through the Omaha World-Herald’s RSS feed. In today’s installment, former Senator Chambers’ response to a judge’s dismissal of the suit on the technicality that God had never been served properly.
A God who is “all-knowing” would realize [...]
Yo, I got to hear that one more time, man
Posted on February 8, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
If nothing else, at least I get an annual reminder to fire up Nation of Millions.
“Who gives a fuck about a goddam grammy?”
Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
Yes We Can Haz Soundboard?
Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Stickin' It To The Man, remixed | Leave a Comment
Dear Internet,
Please make a soundboard of these Obama MP3’s which I found over here via over there.
obama_blam
obama_complicated
obama_fries
obama_ignorant
obama_number
obama_that_guy
UPDATE: And boom goes the proverbial dynamite: http://obamasoundoff.com/
Read More..>>Flannery O’Connor Audio
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under Writers | 4 Comments
Twitter saves the Monday, with this tweet from girlswritenow.
RT @jaycolle: Audio file of Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find. Download this gem here: http://tinyurl.com/cdyxhp
Some quick googling found a likely source, that had some more notes. Apparently this reading was recorded off a radio broadcast from Notre Dame not too long [...]
