January 2010
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December 2009
“Rush Limbaugh was taken to the same hospital President Obama was born in.. I...”
– thepoliticalpartygirl via Sergio Tovar (via brooklynmutt) (via howidisappear)
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Watch Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith
The 9-minute micro-documentary, Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith is, broadly speaking, an investigation into the influence of cinema on New York City performance art and artists.
Featuring Reverend Jen Miller, Robert Prichard and Velocity Chyalld.
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“…and that’s really what people would refer to as magic. It is taking things from...”
– Genesis P-Orridge (via quotemachine)
“William Hochul, a twenty-year prosecutor with expertise in running...”
– Obama Promotes Prosecutor Mistreated By Bush DOJ For Wife’s Dem Ties | TPMMuckraker
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“I think maybe it’s time to stop, or more reasonably, curtail somewhat, state...”
– David Byrne’s Journal: 12.12.09: Art Funding or Arts Funding (via Jo Weldon)
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“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them...”
– Media consultant Alan Mutter. NYTimes: Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites http://s.nyt.com/u/AMx (via adamiss) (via thedeadline) (via mikehudack)
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RIchard Reid tried to blow up a plane with his shoes in 2001. He was tried in a civilian court. Do you remember hearing an uproar over that? Nope.
So why is the GOP, including people who held office in 2001, flipping out about AbdulMutallab being tried in a civilian court now? (via TPM)
Shut down the borders to radicalized rich...
suddenly:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said there should have been swift action after a prominent Nigerian alleged that his son was becoming radicalized.
“It seems to me that when this happens, the person should go automatically on the no-fly list,” she said. “I’d rather, in the interest of protecting people, overreact rather than...
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WatchThe L Magazine: 10 Years, 138 Movies, 29 Minutes: Part Two
Excellent overview, including plenty of movies I’ve forgotten about and a few I’ve never even heard of. Most pleasurable year-end/decade-end list I’ve seen so far.
(here’s part 1)
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WatchThe L Magazine: 10 Years, 138 Movies, 29 Minutes: Part One
Excellent overview, including plenty of movies I’ve forgotten about and a few I’ve never even heard of. Most pleasurable year-end/decade-end list I’ve seen so far.
(here’s part 2)
Who's running the TSA? No one, thanks to Sen. Jim... →
There’s a lot of sniping on both side of the isle right now. This is the only one that matters.
WatchLawrence Lessig’s video essay explaining both Senator Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) and Senator Evan Bay’s (D-IN) startling sellout to the health care industry.
Head over to change-congress.org and help fix this problem.
“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via squashed)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Beatles (20)
Zomby (7)
Rainbow Arabia (5)
Elton and Betty White (3)
Burial (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I love you and believe in you…If you want my ear/voice — e-mail.”
– Pete Sessions (R-TX and NRCC Chair) in a letter to Allen Stanford after Stanford was charged by the SEC with using a ponzi scheme to swindle investors out of $7 billion
(via TPMMuckraker)
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Best Albums of the Decade: Honorable Mentions:...
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Honorable Mentions: Paper Television by the Blow, 2006
Oh god, I love the Blow. I have for a long time and for a lot of albums but this one is perfect. It’s fun and sexy with some of the cleverest lyrics known to man. I hope you’d already be a fan of this one. The Big U, True Affection, Fists Up!, Parentheses. Not a blunder on this.
“In many photographs and videos in June, when the regime first cracked down, many...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Something remarkable is happening in Iran. Click through and watch the video.
Best Albums of the Decade: Honorable Mentions:...
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Honorable Mention: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips, 2002
Let me start off by saying that I once, during the epic charades game of summer ‘05, successfully acted out this fucking album title to my partner, winning the game. Yo! She. Me. Fighting motion. Points to someone’s shirt. Robot dance. WIN.
Anyways, this is often described as a concept album but it’s...
“Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot) (via jhnbrssndn)
Life is starting to resemble literature. And we’re a bunch of sheep. -M
(via mandalay)
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Burns, Baby Burns
Mr. Burns: Well, did you meet Larry?
Yale Official 1: Oh, yes. He made light of my weight problem, then suggested my motto should be "semper fudge." At that point, he told me to "relax".
Mr. Burns: How were his test scores?
Yale Official 2: Let's just say this -- he spelled "Yale" with a "6."
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“It’s the charge of the light brigade!”
– Michele Bachmann, referring to her teabagger folowers last week in DC (via citypages)
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a disastrous charge of British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. The brigade was not...
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nudawn:
“Over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist incidents on board a commercial airliner than landed in or departed from the United States: the four planes that were hijacked on 9/11, the shoe bomber incident in December 2001, and the NWA flight 253 incident on Christmas. Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been...
“Guitar Hero has a guitar to be played. DJ Hero has an interface to be learned.”
– The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett’s Journal - Why DJ Hero Failed
“Over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
If you take 9/11 out of the picture, which is when we got serious about this stuff, the U.S. has a near perfect record. Two attempts out of 16,553,385 filghts, both failures.
The system works.
“Al-Qa’ida is finding it difficult to recruit young people. And, interestingly,...”
– Dr. Sally Leivesley, CEO of international risk management firm NewRisk Limited, which specializes in counterterrorism strategies. (via spiegelman)
“You have to fiddle on the corner where the quarters are.”
– Robert Altman [via] (via bobulate) (via merlin)
“When exactly did your inner child and sense of wonder die? Maybe you can still...”
– part of spytap’s response* to langer’s ‘explination’ as to why Avatar is a bad film.
(*whoops! it’s hard to tell who’s who with those long grey lines. both spytap and writer-a have excellent points, go read it all!)
(via realrealsoft)
I agree with the sentiment here. I enjoy plenty of movies on...