CBC.ca Arts – Dances with Wolves actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman dies Floyd Red Crow Westerman, a U.S. aboriginal activist, actor and folksinger who appeared in the movie Dances with Wolves and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, has died. He was 71. Westerman died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of […]
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The Islam Problem
In an essay for the Guardian UK, writer Ronan Bennett takes novelist Martin Amis to task for his alleged racism towards Muslims. We can dispense with Amis’s polite fiction that he is talking about “Islamism”; there are just too many generalisations (“The impulse towards rational inquiry,” Amis wrote elsewhere, “is by now very weak in […]
Christ.
There are dudes out front of my hotel here in Frankfurt that appear to be neo-Nazi skinheads — shaved heads, leather jackets with ‘DEMONIC PROBE’ written on them. I’m fighting the urge to put on my leather jacket and my stomping boots and roll down there, singing “Right In Der Fuhrer’s Face” by Spike Jones […]
You Don't Use Words Like That, St. Louise Is Listening
via Coilhouse: happy birthday, Lulu. On this day 101 years ago, Louise Brooks, patron saint of unrepentant flappers, was born. By all accounts, she was a fiercely intelligent and complicated woman who would not suffer fools in an industry that consists of nearly nothing but. She made only 25 films before being blacklisted walking away […]
Coilhouse » Blog Archive » What made you weird?
The lovely ladies over at Coilhouse ask the question: what made you weird? What made me weird? Being a prodigy nerd child. Douglas Adams. Stephen Hawking. Reflex magazine. Mondo 2000. The movie Pump Up The Volume. Nine Inch Nails. Clive Barker. (Specifically, seeing Hellraiser when I was about eleven or twelve.) Stephen King. Psychedelics. Growing […]
Random C-List Celebrity Sighting
Weirdest “celebrity” sighting I’ve ever had: tonight, in the parking lot of the Coffee Bean, I was talking to my friend Jennifer when a car drove through the parking lot driven by Michael J. Anderson, whom you probably know as either the backwards-talking dwarf from Twin Peaks or Samson from HBO’s series Carnivale. I recognized […]
Biographer: Norman Mailer dead at age 84 – Yahoo! News
Biographer: Norman Mailer dead at age 84 – Yahoo! News We’ll be hoisting one for you tonight, you crazy old fucker.
David Bowie Mug Shot
David Bowie: Mug Shot Oddity – November 8, 2007 Dude, I don’t look that good on my best days.
You, Alright? I Learned It By Watching You!
Tod Goldberg drops the old school: I think that kid’s probably in Rilo Kiley now, or some shit.
Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb dies – Yahoo! News
Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb dies – Yahoo! News COLUMBUS, Ohio – Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at […]