Tag Archives: Culture
And as usual…
Thanks, Uncle Bill. (Yes, I do this every year.)
Quote Of The Day
2) Sampling – This pseudo-art makes shooting heroin and doing pushups look like composing The Rite of Spring. To make matters worse, sampling has the unique value-add of being able to ruin the original genius of the source material. It’s like music AIDS that songs can randomly catch after you know and love them. Heh. […]
45 Years Ago Today…
…John F. Kennedy was shot in my home town of Dallas. In the absence of full disclosure, I’ll simply post this XTC video, which sort of bears, but not really.
Yes, We Can.
[From Marc Ambinder’s blog on The Atlantic‘s website, this is the full text of Obama’s victory speech last night.] If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions […]
Pimpin' Lost A Hero
Rudy Ray Moore, better known as “Dolemite”, died today. Sigh. Way down in the jungle deep, The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin monkey’s feet. The monkey said, “Muthafucka, can’t you see? Why, you standin on my goddamn feet!” The lion said, “I ain’t heard a word you said.” Said, “If you say three […]
This May Be Useful Someday
Am I the only person who thinks it might be useful to print out this step-by-step guide to landing a 747 and keep it in your carry-on, just in case? (Yeah. ‘Cause that wouldn’t make security nervous at the airport. I mean, after all, it’s a guide to landing the plane, not flying it into […]
I Weep For These People.
Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) on the horror of tech conference panels: My first reaction was that in the greater scheme of things (economy in free fall, war in Iraq, global warming, energy crisis, not to mention the old reliables like cancer and poverty and AIDS, etc.) this challenge of finding a good restaurant seems […]