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Mark Frauenfelder reviews Rebel Visions, a history of the underground comics movement, in this week’s LA Weekly.
Mark Frauenfelder reviews Rebel Visions, a history of the underground comics movement, in this week’s LA Weekly.
The Club has chosen to invoke its internal policing power mainly against members who have pushed for the Club to adopt more robust environmental policies: ending livestock grazing, mining and logging on public lands; backing Ralph Nader and the Green Party; or opposing the sell-out of Yosemite National Park to a corrupt firm linked to Bruce Babbitt.Jeffrey St. Clair on the sad decline of the Sierra Club.
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I’ve been sleeping on wimminandminorities.com but it’s time to WAKE UP!
As a lighthearted reminder, Pashkow circulates around the admissions office a three-page memo called "Jews Clues." The first piece of advice is to spot names ending in "baum," "berg," "burg," "bloom," "man," "stein," "thal," "vitz" or "witz." Another dead giveaway mentioned in the memo: If applicants mention that they have had a bar or bat mitzvah.USC is looking for a few good Jews.
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(Basically) every day for the past 6 years I have painted with watercolor for an hour. This activity has proved to be one of the most important aspects of my process, I believe there is a lot to be said for a daily practice. Since the possibility of being able to observe cycles by keeping work in chronological order appeals to me AND since I feel dealing with process is about honoring the ugly as well as the beautiful, keeping a bound journal was the next step.NYC artist Nina Meledandri created a blog-like project inspired by "The House With the Ocean View". Thanks, Nina!
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In an edition of his Hop Hop Political Newsletter which is unfortunately not online, Davey D makes a crucial point about Trent Lott’s wildly offensive remarks at a birthday bash for Strom Thurmond.
It will be interesting to see how the media references his remarks when mentioning his name. In other words there’s a tendency to always make mention of past transgressions when speaking about African American leaders even if the events or remarks were made 20 years ago. I still read newspapers where Jesse Jackson’s off color 1984 ‘hymie town’ remarks are made mention. Al Sharpton and the Tawana Brawly case are seemingly always in the same sentence. The word ‘anti-Semite and NOI leader Louis Farrakhan are always made to go hand and hand. I’ve heard apologies and explanations from these individuals just like Lott and his folks are trying to explain his ‘poor choice’ of words. My question is will Trent Lott go back to simply being the Senate Majority Leader or will he be forever known as the Trent Lott the Senate Majority Leader the ‘Jim Crow Law Supporter’? Will we start referring to Trent Lott as a bigot or will he still be viewed as a distinguished United State’s Senator who leads the Senate?For chewy context, dig Howard Kurtz’ round up of recent media coverage: Lott’s ‘Sorry’ Doesn’t Cut It.
"Some people, some of the junior cadets, view it as a very personal thing," said Thomas. "They say, 'We are going to roll up in the desert,' 'We are going to go get those people,' 'We should have done it the first time.' But I think as they get closer to graduation, people have a much more balanced perspective on things. They are not only concerned about going to get Saddam, but the 25 million Iraqis he governs, the effect this is going to have on our allies, on world opinion. There is much more debate than there is rabid vilification of the enemy."VV: The New Long Gray Line: West Point Gets Set for Iraq.
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The Corrals’ attorney, Ben Rice, said "deputy" status would put WAMM under the provisions of a federal law stating a person can’t be sued for having a controlled substance if he or she is carrying it while "enforcing" local drug laws.Such a clever little lawyer! Santa Cruz pot club may get official status.
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‘Burning Bush’ comment draws prison term
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) – A man who made a remark about a “burning Bush” during the president’s March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.
Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.
Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a “burning Bush” and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.
“I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush,” Humphreys testified during his trial. “I had said that before and I thought it was funny.”
In one of Ram Dass' books, don't remember which, he told a story about his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, aka Maharaji. Ram Dass tried many times to give LSD to Maharaji. Nothing ever happenned. But he had some doubt that the old man was really swallowing the tabs. So the next time Ram Dass gave a tab to Maharaji, the guru made a show of placing it on his tongue and carefully swallowing. A short while later, Maharaji went wild, started acting crazy. Ram Dass was thinking, "What have I done to this poor old man?" Maharaji came immediately back to his senses and told Ram Dass, "They knew about this stuff a thousand years ago. If you take it in a meditative mood, you can visit Jesus. But after two hours, you have to come back. Wouldn't it be better to BE Jesus?"I'm shrooming today. "Have you got anything stronger?".
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FROM THE DESK OF EARL S. STONER, ESQ.:
We’ll probably have a presidential candidate forty years down the road, saying that as a kid in the Twin Cities she “experimented with BDSM” and it was “first-class training in the art of firm government.”Did you know there is a Girl Scout Gold Project in BDSM? Thanks to the dubiously named Alex. Cockburn for this vital info, accompanied for some reason by a eulogy for the late Phil Berrigan.
postscriptum: Uniforms for bad girls of all ages can be found at the Girl Scout Online Shopping Mall. Let’s see those cookies, baby!
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Deadheads, a notoriously finicky bunch, are enamored of Herring. Having played with the Allman Brothers, his technique is sometimes described as a cross between Duane Allman's and Garcia's. On Thursday, he hinted at Garcia's quicksilver style but also carved out his own distinct airspace. More often than not, his tone was something very different: echoing, yowling, distant yet a key piece of the puzzle.The Other Ones at Kaiser Aud.
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Mike Gray’s Busted, reviewed by Judith Lewis.
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During the first days of Ocean View, Abramovic seemed restless, moving around, no doubt, so she would not drift mentally. She had to stay "present." She knew she would face this. First the boredom, then the pain. She had turned her most banal activities into rituals: showering, peeing, drinking water. By day three, she had taken to standing for long periods at the edge of the center platform, right behind the knife ladder. She looked shaky, vulnerable, like a person on a tightrope.The knife ladder? VV covers the latest work from extraordinary artist Marina Abramovic.
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"We recognize Filipinos, but this is a step backwards," said one of the more moderate voices at the microphone. "I think this would segregate the Filipinos . . . This is just starting a trend."Meet the village idiots of Eagle Rock, California.
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Blood - the most intense and powerful Biblical symbol - causes two realities in disarmament. First, it reaffirms the covenant with the nonviolent Jesus, a covenant sealed in his blood. Second, it stresses again the prohibition against killing. There will be no justice, no peace, no relief for the poor, no restoration of the ecology until we stop killing one another.So long and thanks, Phil Berrigan.
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Mtv News: Roots' ?uestlove, Black Thought Delve Into Phrenology
“For the most part, none of us were in the studio at the same time for most of the recording,” he said. “It just came to be in the process of layering. Everybody came in and did their thing, and we just layered it up. Ahmir will come in the studio and lay three or five joints in a one- or two-session period, then the next time I’ll come through the studio it will be like, ‘Yo, put the joints on Ahmir was working on a couple of days ago.’ It might be two to three that I’m feeling that I wanna build upon. I might wanna drop that or ask him to come and add more to the foundation.” During a soundcheck a few months ago, the Roots came up with Phrenology’s first single, “Break You Off.” “We were doing a pilot for some TV show and we were jamming with Musiq,” Black Thought remembered. “We just came up with it and it felt real smooth. … It was sexy from the start. We couldn’t really take it nowhere else but keep it for the ladies. In a nutshell, the tune is about me meeting a young lady who’s already involved and she’s in a relationship. I’m coming to break her off, basically giving her what’s missing.” " ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’ for the new millennium," ?uest interjected. “The basic direction the album was going was so far to the left — it wasn’t like anything out there — we kind of needed a balance. We are smart businessmen and we know medicine tastes better with a little sugar in it. This seemed like a logical choice because it was something easy to get into."There are a couple of neat Behind the Scenes videos worth watching. Has anybody seen an insightful review? Where is intelligent hip hop criticism these days? (Besides Boondocks of course.)
What’s wrong with Ronald McDonald? Ronald lies to children. (I hit the Jackpot.)
Pop Culture Junk Mail (Dec. 1) sez:
If you enjoyed the film, you’ve got to watch the DVD with the commentary turned on. Not only are director Chris Smith and producer Sarah Price on the commentary, but Mark and his familiar buddy, the perennially out-of-it Mike Schank, comment right along with them. Mark and Mike are just as goofy as they were in the first go-round, and really, watching the commentary is like getting a whole new “American Movie” sequel.
Users are not actually moving the CD against the laser; rather, using a touch-sensitive "jog dial" that imitates the spinning platter of a turntable, they are "scratching" a copy of the song stored in the machine's memory.The New York Times: Scratching Without Vinyl: A Hip-Hop Revolution.
D.J.'s can come to a club armed with beats and songs they put together hours or even minutes before. "I used to have to get samples and new beats cut onto a temporary acetate, which costs $50, doesn't sound very good or last very long," said DJ Swamp. "Now I just burn the music onto a CD. My laptop burns CD's internally, so I can be backstage putting stuff together right before I go onstage."
Cut Chemist of Jurassic 5 takes the process even further; at recent shows he has ventured into the crowd to record audience members talking, quickly burned a CD onstage and then immediately scratched up the vocals using the CDJ-1000. "It's something that you could never do with vinyl or a traditional turntable," Cut Chemist said. "And the audience just freaks out when they hear it."
David Rees of mnftiu spoke to a crowded house at the doomed Midnight Special bookstore last night, along with cartoon bad boys Robbie Conal and Lalo Alcaraz.
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Visitors to the exhibit will be encouraged to make their own cow poetry by taking a tiny cardboard cow, writing a word on it and setting it down on the vibrating board from an old electric football game so it can wander and interact with other cows.This art mooooves you, via fark, dude.
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Thriftdeluxe is another crafty DIY site, this one based in London. For the record, a few other good craft sites I’ve found are: digs, get crafty, not martha, rebecca’s domestic, and unique projects. (Now to click and see who’s still active.) Full disclosure: I’m not at all crafty and haven’t tried any of these projects. I do generally try to keep a dying plant nearby to remind me what color my thumb is not.
The good folks at Eatonweb might want to tweak their portal a bit; it’s less than accurate to suggest that the Aryan Revolutionary Digest is a weblog similar to randomWalks.
