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Full-Circle 360° at once panoramic camera lens w/‘aha!’ diagram
Full-Circle 360° at once panoramic camera lens w/‘aha!’ diagram
Wiggers and Wannabes: White Ethnicity in Contemporary Youth Culture.The poet rode waves that peaked on accusation and explanation:
you weren't there when whips cracked the backs
I was there I didn't see youThe crowd was shouting back to Roger as he voiced its feeling, gave air to black peoples' grievance at the commercial success of white bands imitating black bands. "The Music Man" continued. Locating himself as the heir to a culture formed from the experiences of Afrikans in enslavement. Black music is his birthright and we white people who play this music and sell it out by selling it off in watered down forms were being called to task. He said that he was there on the slave ships, that he had sung the songs of slaves, that he was those people and they were him, in him now, calling his poem, inflecting his voice with its Trinian accent, fuelling that fire that gave birth to his passion. The last verse fell off of a crescendo and he slowed down easing us to the close:
i am the music man/ i am the music man/i am the music man
and you're a t'ief.He left the stage to acclaim from his peers. The MC came on and all he said was "Yo Red," which was my poetry call sign. Speaking to me in poetry. The whole poem was addressed to white people working with black forms. People like me. In fact, the poem was addressed directly to me. I stood there dealing with my feelings of disorientation. I was being called out, again. Twice in one night. Something was happening. Something I couldn't deny. A challenge to what I was doing surrounding myself with the signs of black cultural forms.
Photographs, it has often been said, both objectify and subjectify what they depict. They atomize time, disconnecting past from present. A picture may tell a thousand words, but words have ultimate power over photographs because each photograph is just a fragment: it needs words to assign it a context, and this context may change along with the message of the image.NYTM: Photographs That Cry Out for Meaning
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Baltimore City Paper: Funny Paper, November 24-30, 2003
The cavemen have a strange and halting conversation about how thankful they are for freedom of speech. The last B.C. was this clunky was on Nov. 10, when Johnny Hart ran a gag about a crescent-moon-adorned outhouse that some observers took to be a veiled slur against Islam. At the time, Funny Paper wasn't sure if Hart was guilty or not, but the very awkwardness of the strip made us suspicious. Plus it wasn't funny. Not that that proves anything about B.C. But we're going to have to add this Thanksgiving strip to the court file. If Hart wasn't insulting Islam, why's he taking the First Amendment now? His defense two weeks ago was that he hadn't said anything offensive in the strip. Now he appears to be saying that he had the right to say what he didn't say. Which is it, Johnny? Victim or martyr?
It is not about getting back in touch with my masculine side. It is not about getting in touch with my feminine side or my social side or my college side or my macho grunting drunken hangover side. I am not in a frat. It's about, very simply, the human side.
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How the White House Fooled NPR by NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin.
They had four different varieties. I asked them what the mildest one was and they recommended the Mexicans. Within 15 minutes I started to get this warm, tingly feeling. Within half an hour the market had become this vibrant and colourful place.
The Guardian: High times in magic mushroom business - and it's perfectly legal. Mycology in the U.K.
Please watch the Where’d The Cheese Go fan video.
Am I Infected? A Complete Guide to Testing for HIV.
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New York Times: Frank Rich: America Tunes In for the Money Shot
People are turned on by the Jackson story because it's about sex, specifically pedophilia, at a time when the sexual fetishization of children is not limited to whatever may or may not have happened at Mr. Jackson's ranch. If a mass audience can fixate on whether or not Britney Spears, a singer first marketed as a devoutly Baptist schoolgirl, has lost her virginity, it is no wonder that the Jackson sideshow would move to the center ring and become a main event.
So if anything of value is to come from this circus, let's drop the pretense that it is about something as lofty as the American system of justice or even the lure of fame. The public, while purporting to be outraged by the crime of child abuse, is hypocritically slobbering over every last speculative pornographic detail used to fill in the supposed contours of that abuse; cable news ratings immediately shot up by double digits. And those who are now taking to the public stage to intone gravely about pedophilia in the Jackson show are often trading in titillation themselves; you haven't lived until you've heard Larry King bandy about the word "penetration."
Grooming an ELF: How Tre Arrow turned Jake Sherman into an “eco-terrorist” by Carlton Smith.
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What’s up with Trader Joe’s selling (what appears beyond doubt to be) re-branded Amy’s frozen pizzas? And then marking the box “sold and distributed exclusively by…”? I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that I suspect TJ’s just rebrands generic packaged foods. I’m sure it’s tasty and I’m glad it’s cheap – I just wonder why people who turn their noses up at Sun Glory brand canned corn are thrilled to give Trader Joe’s the same .59 for the same can.
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Once slaughtered, the turkeys have to suffer one more indignity before arriving in your grocer's meat case. Because of their monotonous diet, their flesh is so bland that processors inject them with saline solution and vegetable oils, improving "mouthfeel" while at the same time increasing shelf life and adding weight.
The New York Times Op-Ed: About a Turkey. The author wants to persuade you to seek out a turkey which didn't suffer the indignities of a factory farm for your Thanksgiving meal, if only because it may actually taste like turkey. Regardless of your intent, the accompanying graphic alone is worth your click.
Sam's most recent profile is directed toward men and women both and states that she's interested only in friendship. ''My intention was to meet girls -- because I know basically no women in New York at all,'' she said. She received only two responses from women, one of whom, Katherine, she met. ''Katherine proceeded to buy me far more drinks than was sensible and then insisted that I come and hang out at her apartment,'' Sam recalled. ''So the one time I went on an Internet date and was drunkenly taken advantage of, it was by a woman.''
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A life where TiVo has always existed
She gets quite confused when we are watching a non-TiVo TV, and she asks to watch ''a kids show'', and we have to explain that this TV won't do what ours at home does. We've sometimes shortened this explanation to ''This TV is broken'', which she seems to accept, and will wait until we get home to watch our ''fixed'' TV.
My son, too, expects every TV he sees to be able to deliver him a choice of episodes of Dora, Little Bill, or Blue's Clues on his command.
What part of No do ya still not understand? Date rape in the time of Kobe, roofies and Girls Gone Wild by Judith Lewis, with bonus ‘toon by Ellen Forney.
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Forest fires and the fire threat of conifers killed by beetles have been in the news. Earlier this year, when Colorado had a number of forest fires, a newscast said that of all the thousands of acres Colorado has lost to fires this year, 10 times as many have been lost to bark beetles, for which there is no control. What are bark beetles, should we care, and are they a problem here?
The ravages of these insects in the West are a problem of our own creation. Fire is a constant in the ecosystems of these pine woodlands, and for decades fires have been suppressed. Before fire suppression, Western forests were naturally very thin stands of trees that were widely spaced. The trees in them represented a great variety of age categories because they were really the few survivors of one or more fires.
Fire suppression changed all that. Now many of the forests are dominated by trees of a very narrow age range. They grow much closer together. They compete with each other for water.
When drought is a factor, as it has been for the past several years, trees are stressed beyond their limits. Enter the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae. It attacks many species of pine under stress but is particularly fond of ponderosa pine, which happens to be the most widespread and adaptable pine in the West. The result is widespread death of huge areas of pine forest.
Horticulturist Scott Aker answers your gardening questions.
"The new group is called the Groonies, because they happen to live in a town where [Data], the Chinese kid, lives ... and he's got an electronics repair shop and all the kids hang out at his shop. He has this Chinese accent and he calls the Goonies the Groonies, and so the new kids call themselves the Groonies, until they get into a situation where the old Goonies have to save the new Groonies, or vice versa."
The 'Goonies' sequel is certainly off on the wrong foot.
We were sitting around the table, adults yapping and ignoring the kids and out of the corner of my eye I see Zoe, my 4-year-old,take a handful of hot rice from her plate and, in slow motion, throw it at her 6-year-old sister Ruby. But instead of jumping up to squash the thing, I sat there mesmerized, watching. "She's never thrown food before," I thought to myself. "This is a rite of passage, the primal launch."
Okay, I get all that — but what was on that mini-disc?
