Who Needs a wimpy 10-Day forecast?
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Weather | Leave a Comment
SF Gate gives us the big picture: “The rain did flood parts of the Highways 101 and 280, although they were not submerged, as Florida could be in 100 years.”
Read More..>>how you say? …. ah yes
Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
I think the word the AP is struggling for is “penis” One acrylic-on-canvas work titled “Tulip Butts” shows the red imprint of a backside representing the open petals of a tulip with an imprint between them from an adjacent body part that represents a flower’s stamen.
Read More..>>words on the march
Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Radio | Leave a Comment
“WBAI program director Bernard White fears that the FCC will fine the station $325,000 for every one of Ginsberg’s dirty-word bombs. If each Pacifica station that aired the poem – and possibly repeated it – were to be fined for airing “Howl,” it could mean millions of dollars in fines.” Anywho…it will be posted on [...]
Read More..>>If Bill O’Reilly were a rapper
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Politics | Leave a Comment
…you know he’d go by “B. Ill”. Jay gives us a sample of his hypothetical flow. Makes me want to listen [MP3] to The Coup doing the same1 with David Rockefeller, JP Getty and Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Davey D has David Banner, Master P., and Mike Dyson’s opening comments on the hill. powered by ODEO [...]
Read More..>>What are we talking bout?
Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics | 2 Comments
Frank Zappa’s talking about words. via (wordie:errata) cue the obligatory Allen Iverson.
Read More..>>Things I wish I wrote, episode 1
Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music | Leave a Comment
The Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 “Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant [...]
Read More..>>I never read that book before, but I still get the metaphor
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
To piggyback Dave, I point thee toward the sage Rake who posits: “perhaps the problem with Lennie Small is not that he failed in hugging Curley’s wife, but rather that he let go too soon.”
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Race, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Ahhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay. Other fun facts from the [...]
Read More..>>Trotsky on Baseball
Posted on April 5, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
Jon @ SFist coming correct with Leon Trotsky’s predictions for the 2007 baseball season: “You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!†Hey, it’s been almost seven years since the Yankees won the Series, all this despite [...]
Read More..>>you know who hectors
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Weather | Leave a Comment
Ted Leo, musician / media watchdog (you feel the rant): Man, where are the frigging editors out there? I’m talking about every possible publication, on-line and in print. I keep seeing contradictions and bad journalism that’s driving me crazy! In an op-ed in today’s NYTimes, Gregg Easterbrook pulls a classic Fox News “Obama went to [...]
Read More..>>it was written
Posted on February 23, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music | 1 Comment
Nirvana to soundtrack MLB video game, as was propehsied in Smells Like Teen Spirit (backwards) I’m scared you’re frightened
Read More..>>Believe That
Posted on January 10, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
It isn’t as if “reporters” haven’t long be regurgitating press releases in tech publications, but Ryan Faas earns his distinction as Today’s* BMK Jackass©: There truly is no better word than revolutionary to describe the device [iPhone], which is slated to ship in June pending Federal Communications Commission approval. – taken from his article at [...]
Read More..>>Now taking bets on…
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Death, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
… how long before Geraldo answers the call.
Read More..>>Ad Wizards
Posted on October 27, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Money, Music, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
From today’s Sports Guy column: George in Chicago: “What is your problem with the ‘This is Our Country‘ Chevy truck ads? Whoever thought that Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, Watergate, western wildfires, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 should be bunched together to sell a truck is a genius! When Chevy opens a new [...]
Read More..>>One Republican. One Democrat. A Fair and Balanced Love Story.
Posted on September 12, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Movies | Leave a Comment
Please see this movie if you happen to be in New York from October 20 through 22.
Read More..>>Two Worlds Collide // No Surrender
Posted on August 11, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
Does the thought of Common Culture make you scoff? Well lookey here, Proust in Time magazine. What’s next John Kruk in [uhhh, insert high-brow journal here]? Then again, maybe not: “Proust, genius as he may have been, was a bit of a whackjob”. Namby-Pamby Frenchy.
Read More..>>Today’s Conspiracy Theory
Posted on June 2, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Money, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
At first, I thought that the surprising increase of Homeland Security Cash to Omaha (and other urban areas) was a simple way to buy some vote-love in the Heartland. But then why lower the amount for obvious terrorist targets like NYC and DC? It’s not as if there is X amount of dollars — so [...]
Read More..>>Ready for Bush?
Posted on June 1, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I hear Bush is heading for the Big-O to preach to the not-as-unconverted. The topic? Supposedly his Immigration Reform. In unrelated news (a few minutes older in the RSS-Reader) I see that Homeland Security ponied up some big buxx for Omaha after earlier indications they’d get nada. Meanwhile NYC and DC see funding drop. Nobody [...]
Read More..>>yankee…hotel…foxtrot…
Posted on June 1, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Radio, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
“Numbers” stations move to VoIP.
Read More..>>Simpsons are Funny … but WHY?
Posted on May 26, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Television | Leave a Comment
Leave it to a philosopher to take up the tired yet seemingly tireless cause of explaining jokes. Read Julian Baggini’s debatable ideas* … or just take it from Homer: It’s funny because it’s true! I agree that the Simpsons is for awesome, but I couldn’t help but be a little amused when Baggini writes: But [...]
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