I'm beginning to think it's a movie that exists only in Francis's head
A pause that discourages in the development of the On the Road movie.
A pause that discourages in the development of the On the Road movie.
The Slack Album is a mostly tongue-in-cheek project fusing Jay-Z’s The Black Album to Pavement’s classic lo-fi album Slanted and Enchanted, combining the songs track-by-track in order of the original album sequences. Some of the resultant music is hip-hop-ish; some is not.
The New Yorker Profiles Aaron McGruder
There is, at first, something disappointing in this vision of America’s most radical cartoonist at work: slouched on the sofa, armed with a remote and TiVo, not a pencil or a drawing board—or even a snarl—in sight. McGruder is not yet thirty, and already he is jaded, content to settle for the kind of perfectly passable work he so often eviscerates others for. Or maybe this is the point: he is not yet thirty. He has aspirations to raise hell for a whole new audience, in a whole different way, and he is afraid of blowing the opportunity on a stupid youthful mistake.
With that in mind, he has decided to lay off Condoleezza Rice—seemingly a prime target these days, in the wake of Richard Clarke’s allegations—for the near future. ‘Having that show on the air just opens up a whole new realm in terms of power and influence,’ he said. ‘I want to say the things no one else can say, but it’s a tightrope walk. Up till now it has always paid off for me. I’m waiting for the moment when it will not pay off.’
Via leuschke.org:
- Grab the nearest book
- Open the book to page 23
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence [on your website] along with these instructions
From Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? by Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D.:
When patients are kept on ventilators despite being dead, their hearts stop within hours to days.
Whilst strolling down Hawthorne Blvd. recently, we noticed a rope with a basket tied onto it had been hung out of someone's second story apartment window, coming down just shy of street level. There was a sign attached: "PB & J Sandwiches - $1".
If you put your dollar in the basket, rang a bell attached to a second rope, the basket would go up, and come back down with, presumably, a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich inside.
Aljazeera.Net - Falluja siege in pictures (warning: photos of children killed by US)
MAPS A/V archive: Ecstasy Rising
Peter Jennings Reporting: 'Ecstasy Rising' takes viewers through the seminal events in this story and introduces all the major players -- from Alexander Shulgin, the famous chemist who was the first person to report the effects of Ecstasy, to Michael Clegg, the Dallas businessman who gave Ecstasy its name and turned it into a recreational drug, to the drug enforcement officer who led the fight to make Ecstasy illegal, to the DJ who brought Rave to America.
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LVX23 reminds me what can be so great about weblogs — it’s like he’s blogging just for me.
I just think it transcends what you normally get to do on TV. It's funny, sad, heartbreaking … I love the heartbreaking stuff, which is another reason we probably got canceled.
The firing of the mellifluous Edwards, my morning companion through all these years, portends bad things. The telling sign was not just that he was axed as the program's host but that no one can tell you why.Richard Cohen: Empty Talk at NPR (washingtonpost.com).
Poynter Online - “USA Today Scandal A Threat To White Privilege, Mediocrity” in which Dr. Ink asks will Jack Kelley’s sins be visited upon other white journalists?
In the 21st century, having leaders who don't really think the Earth is warming is a little like having leaders who don't really think the Earth is round.The Seattle Times: Opinion: Americans have yet to learn the hard political lessons of the Arab oil embargo.
<a title=“Boing Boing: Send-up of “Respect Copyright” PSAs” href=“http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/18/sendup_of_respect_co.html">Boing Boing: Send-up of “Respect Copyright” PSAs
I don't know why anyone would ever steal a movie. Unless of course it's to avoid this commercial which we now play in front of every single movie you could possibly go to, telling you you're bad for stealing even though you just spent $11 to see some movie and instead you have to sit there and listen to me whine at you and accuse you of being a thief.Fantastic. These moralizing ads just enrage me every time I go to the movie theater these days.
Rocks Can Help Create a Natural, Low-Maintenance Garden (washingtonpost.com)
This is the perfect time to design and place landscape stones. Plants are just breaking out of dormancy, so you can see the bones of the landscape. Early bulbs are just appearing, so you can arrange rocks around them.
The main focus of my art is currently the exploration of the infinite ever-changing worlds contained within the subconscious mind. In Heaven and Hell Aldous Huxley wrote:
"Like the giraffe and the duckbilled platypus, the creatures inhabiting [the] remoter regions of the mind are exceedingly improbable. Nevertheless they exist, they are facts of observation; and as such, they cannot be ignored by anyone trying to understand the world in which he lives."
The worlds inside the mind are just as real as the world outside, but describing and documenting the inner worlds can only be done by using similes and symbols from the outside world. I see my work as symbolic representations of subconscious landscapes, creatures or events. Each work is a piece of an infinite puzzle representing my subconscious mind.
Update 2023/04/22: Link above just goes to the homepage now, but Ben Tolman is on Instagram
The Fog of War is currently playing at AMC Courthouse; AMC Hoffman Center; Bethesda Row Cinema; Visions Bar Noir.
As far as I'm concerned, music is not a commodity. It's something that people have earned by being human. They have a right to hear it, and a right to share it, as they always have in churches and parties. That's how music happens.Kristin Hersh to Judith Lewis.
Why do both WeatherPop and iPhoto display dates in the form “9:30 AMAM”?
Chicago Tribune | Jack Kerouac in Orlando
I want people, especially young people, to embrace the idea of history in the suburbs. I call it suburban archaeology. This idea of Kerouac as the precursor of the hippies — he was Catholic, he was conservative, and he lived with his mother in the suburbs.
So says Bob Kealing, a reporter for WESH-TV and the author of a new book, Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends. Read an excerpt in Orlando Magazine.
Cancer Anxiety Study - Easing the Anxiety of Death: “The Research & Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is conducting a study designed to measure the effectiveness of the novel psychoactive medication psilocybin on the reduction of anxiety, depression, and physical pain.”
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies: “This is the first study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy ever approved in the 18 1/2 years since MDMA was criminalized.”
originally posted by daiichi
The picture of him playing soldier suit on an aircraft carrier, the helmet under his arm like he just got back from a run over Baghdad, marks him as exceedingly dangerous. He believes he is a warrior president. He is not. He is a war dodger. Therefore, it is preposterous for George Bush to be a commander of anything. He doesn't have the right to send people to war.
originally posted by xowie