There were times when I thought I couldn’t last for long But somehow I’m able to carry on It’s been a long time comin’ but I know A change is gonna come Oh, yes it is. –Sam Cooke Thank you, America, for giving me hope again.
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Random Thought Of The Day
It’s a terrible thing to watch Nathan Barley and feel all superior to those trendy new media assholes…and then suddenly realize that you’re watching Nathan Barley and feeling all superior to those trendy new media assholes whilst simultaneously editing together clips from the Prelinger archives to make videos for spoken word pieces about monsters. While […]
All Time Top Fives @ Daily Mojo
I’ve started a new feature over at the Daily Mojo: All Time Top Fives. Which is exactly what you think it would be. My first installment? Songs about the end of the world. Go check it out.
'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA – Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES – Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show “The Prisoner,” has died. He was 80. McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said. McGoohan won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama […]
Song: "Divine Intervention"
My new song “Divine Intervention” is up on the work blog. More info and credits there. It’s also up on Red State Soundsystem’s MySpace page.
Oakland cop shoots cuffed prone suspect…on video
I am not an anti-police sort of person. I have a couple of friends who are police and, by large, they and their colleagues do as best they can in a thankless, difficult and probably traumatizing job. I think 95% or more of policework happens within boundaries which are tolerable by society. But then you […]
Celebrity trauma
My RSS feed of entertainment news is full of variations on the same headline: “John Travolta is heartbroken over son’s death, sources say”. As opposed to…? “John Travolta dancing the fucking tarantella over son’s death”? “John Travolta staging massive party to celebrate death of child, hires Katy Perry and Perez Hilton to MC”? “Travolta’s son […]
The First Thought Of The Day, 2009
Fuck 2008.
I’m glad to see the last of this year. It has not been awesome for me, mostly. Hopefully 2009 will be better — for me, and you, and everybody. (If your year was awesome, well — 2009 will be awesomer.) I’m really sad today, but I’m hopeful that I can be a better human and […]
Chinese food in America
Great TED talk from Jennifer 8. Lee on the history and pervasiveness of Chinese food in America.