Category Archives: Culture

An open letter to BP’s PR department

By admin | Published: June 4, 2010
Dear BP’s PR department: First of all, let’s get one thing very, very clear before we go any further: your company has fucked up. Not “made a regrettable error” or “inadvertently” anything. You have caused a massive unnatural disaster. Right now, pretty much everybody on the planet hates your guts. There are guys in caves in [...]
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120 Minutes and the value of curatorship

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
I was delighted to find on Metafilter a link to The 120 Minutes Archive, a site dedicated to preserving the history of MTV’s long-defunct underground music show 120 Minutes, which was, back in the early 1990s, my gateway to the world of alternative music. (For example, I recorded this show from the summer of 1992 [...]
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Help Support Laurenn McCubbin's Sex Work Project On Kickstarter

By admin | Published: December 1, 2009
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…In Which Our Author Realizes Something That Ought To Have Been Obvious Before.

By admin | Published: September 30, 2009
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John Hughes RIP

By admin | Published: August 6, 2009
John Hughes, director of films such as Pretty In Pink, 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has died at age 59 of a heart attack. Thanks for teaching me how to be cool, guy.
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Helping Wolfram Alpha, pt. 1.

By admin | Published: May 20, 2009
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Get a rope.

By admin | Published: May 1, 2009
This made me sick to my stomach this morning (go to about 2:42 on the timeline): In this clip, Representative Virginia Foxx (R – North Carolina) is arguing against H.R. 1913, a proposed bill that would expand the legal definition of hate crimes to include crimes based upon someone’s gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity or disability. [...]
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This is how you deal with smarmy local TV news reporters.

By admin | Published: April 9, 2009
Via BoingBoing. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I love this woman.
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Thanks, Marty.

By admin | Published: April 4, 2009
Early morning, April 4th A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride –U2 A toast, to one of the best of us.
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Vids from the show

By admin | Published: March 15, 2009
“Just Like Honey” (Jesus & Mary Chain cover) “Heroin” (Velvet Underground cover) These were the last two tracks I did. “Just Like Honey” was going to be the final song, but as you can see in the second video, an audience member asked me to do an encore. For these, I had a random audience member named Joe [...]
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