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We seem to have come full circle
February 12, 2010 – 3:46 pm
Last night I went to a World Music show featuring David Daniell, Mountains and Tim Hecker. I’ve seen Hecker before, when he was touring to promote his album Mirages, and this time he played (“played” – laptop plus a stack of other electronics) a shorter set of a variety of stuff, including pieces from my favorite album, Radio Amor. But the two opening acts were both supporting albums and had them for sale. In addition to CDs and CDRs, both bands were offering vinyl records. They were a little surprised when I said I hadn’t had a turntable since the 80s…. So, now I know what all the cool kids are doing these days.
(depending on how it came out, I may post some video later)
I was a punk before you were!
February 7, 2010 – 3:19 pm
Complaints that when Sarah Palin does a speaking engagement at a conference, she gives a Sarah Palin speech. I find this sort of “it was so much better when it was just us cool kids, now everyone’s into it” sort of thing to be juvenile.
For over a year the media has struggled to try and define just what exactly the movement was. Now they have a definition.
Sarah Palin.
I don’t know what planet Kleinheider lives on, but here on Earth the MSM hasn’t had to struggle at all to label the tea party movement the ugly expression of the angry, gun-toting, racist, ignorant, unwashed and despicable masses (ie, non-coastal whites). That particular classist depiction has been around for years, and as soon as folks started to get together and speak up, they were tarred with it. Read the whole thing for more crazy assertions and petulant left-wingish whining.
PS I’ll find my dog
February 5, 2010 – 2:01 am
Oh noes! Zeus has run away with the circus Pat Boone and PJTV!
(wtf is a miniature dachshund doing in that video?)
LOL!
January 22, 2010 – 1:17 am
Although born long after the Civil War, I have lived through this struggle before. In the 1960s, Pierre Trudeau took Canada, then a country of self-reliant, broad-shouldered, rugged individualists, and by sheer force of political magnetism, transformed it into a post-modern society, a European clone of overtaxed politically correct worrywarts subject to heavy taxes designed to redistribute wealth. For a long time, it was a winning formula that even conservatives found seductive. After all, as George Bernard Shaw observed, if you rob Peter to pay Paul you can most certainly count on Paul’s vote. It took almost a half a century for Stephen Harper to reawaken Canadians’ sense of self-respect and begin the first faltering steps toward dismantling the monstrosity that Trudeaupian liberals had created.
It appears the voters of Massachusetts required a mere 11 months and 28 days.
Rock on, Mr. Chetwynd! RTWT, it’s good.
Insert obligatory nuke-the-site-from-orbit joke here
January 11, 2010 – 12:37 am
I had no idea Berkeley had such a large performing arts department:
Last September, Friend reports, 5,000 Berkeley employees and students rallied in Sproul Plaza, scene of protests that ignited the 1960s and helped make Ronald Reagan governor. Some protesters, says Friend, were “naked except for signs that read ‘BUDGET TRANSPARENCY.’” At an indoor meeting, a “student facilitator” used a projection screen to summarize proposals, which included: “rolling strikes”; “nationalize all universities”; “socialist revolution”; “a tent city in Sacramento”; “create a shadow Board of Regents”; “occupy Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Oakland”; “worker-student control of the university”; “strike in March”; “act now, f— March”; “capitalism is bad.” Toward the end of the seven-hour meeting, participants shouted “General strike! General strike!”
I’d say it sounds like California could stand to have someone invade it, try and hang the leadership, and engage in a little nation building to put things back on the right track, except that I wouldn’t want to rob anyone of the fun of watching its eventual total collapse.
Thy name is Lebowski
January 8, 2010 – 12:25 am
This befalleth when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks, Laurence! Understand’st thou? Dost thou attend me? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence, when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks?!
I love the internets.
“Elegant, Responsive, Smart. A new mode of transport” …for hipster douchebags
January 2, 2010 – 8:14 pm
Reminding me how much I hate (well, some) people:
Utterly unsurprising: footage of the People’s Republic of Cambridge masquerading as Copenhagen.
Anybody remember just getting on a bike and fucking going somewhere?
I’ve got a nice Intel Inside-type tag line for all efforts like this: “Powered by Pretension”.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
(via @GreatDismal, whom I – sadly – imagine enthusiastically approves)
A cure for self-importance
December 21, 2009 – 12:28 am
If you’ve got a large monitor & a good net connection, definitely play this in HD, fullscreen.
Perfidy
December 16, 2009 – 8:15 pm
Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference. Given the amount of money these guys want diverted to non-productive uses (“graft”), and the likely impact on people living on the margin in various places, I think being put on trial for crimes against humanity isn’t entirely out of order.
What’s better than blowing up sandcastles?
December 16, 2009 – 4:23 pm
Running the footage backwards, of course.
I pledge allegance to the flag and to the bannana republic for which it stands
December 14, 2009 – 7:00 pm
Krauthammer, on the latest from the Failed Obama Adminitration™ :
The reason that there is this huge increase in the debt ceiling today is that it gets us past Election Day next year, so you won’t have to have another raise of the limit until after Election Day. … Better to take the political hit now [rather] than later.
But as an index of how serious the debt issue is, economist Irwin Stelzer points out that Moody’s has been issuing ratings since 1917. The United States has had a Triple A since 1917 — [through] world wars, depressions – unchanged, uninterrupted. In eleven months, Obama has driven Moody’s to the point where it has issued a warning that it might have to reduce it to Double A, which is what you get for banana republics or places like Greece.
Nice.
Teacher hot for hot teacher
December 12, 2009 – 6:58 pm
Students react to the news that their French and Spanish teachers were caught by a janitor having lesbian sex in an empty classroom:
It’s great that this school has French and Spanish teachers, but in my opinion they might want to think about laying out some bucks for an English teacher. I mean, it could be worse, but there’s some room for improvement, there.
(woot! First palindrome at this blog!)