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ArtsWeek: I ate your soul
on Oct 28, 2009 in Arts, Literature & Culture ArtsWeek art New technology brings new creative outlets. If you had told me ten years ago that I would be taking pictures and doing artistic manipulations on my PHONE I may not have believed you. Yes, this piece (posted in the spirit of Halloween) was shot an...
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”—even after all these years
on Oct 28, 2009 in Arts, Literature & Culture ArtsWeek Scholars & Rogues books film popular culture boris karloff Frankenstein Halloween Mary Shelley monster movies monsters Like a lot of kids, I could not get enough of monster movies. On Saturday afternoons, I would hunker down on my living room couch to watch Creature Double-Feature on our small black-and-white TV. I loved Godzilla, Gorgo, the giant ants of Them!, War...
Tournament of Rock – Legends: The Beatles pod
on Oct 28, 2009 in Tournament of Rock music Brian Wilson Elvis Costello Frank Zappa greatest band of all time Hollywood Bowl Liverpool The Beach Boys The Beatles The Ramones ZZ Top Results: Not only was this one of the tightest contests yet in terms of victory margin, it was also a case where the arguments to be made in favor of one artist or another were anything but definitive. In the end, Elvis nudges The Ramones. Hey, we as...
Dopeman
on Oct 28, 2009 in Afghanistan Obama administration corruption crime foreign policy Afghan drug trade Ahmed Wali Karzai bullshit CIA drug dealing drug trafficking Karzai New York Times Obama opium the Senate Well now, the paper of what, why didn’t anyone tell us? record has stumbled across information suggesting that Ahmed Wali Karzai is on the CIA’s payroll. Yeah, that Ahmed Karzai who had the Senate’s panties all in a bunch as recentl...
Horrors: Nota Bene for 27 October 2009
on Oct 28, 2009 in Nota Bene advertising Alan Greenspan analysis ayn rand bankruptcy baseball battlestar galactica Bear Stearns bill wyman Brooksley Born cartoons cats charlie watts climate change cocksucker blues cookbook corruption cosmic rays credit cards Dan Issel david smith death metal derivatives dunk exoplanets flags fracking funny video Geithner gene simmons George W. Bush Germany global warming GOP Gore Vidal Greed groupies Halloween Jamaica jay marvin jessica watson Jim Morrison Juliette Lewis Keith Richards kenny be Kevin Wallen KISS Lawrence Summers Lebron James Lehman Brothers links maldives marge simpson MAS mashup masks megadeth Mick Jagger Mike Sheehan military miniature music video mustaine news Obama onion opinion Pentagon Philadelphia Phillies Playboy poe poem poetry prejudice racism raven recycling Republicans reznor rob halford rob smoke robert frank Robert Rubin rock quotes Rolling Stones Secret Service seymour hersh Shahee Ilyas simpsons smart choices snark taibbi tiny train trebek trees Wall Street Weird Al World Series yankovic With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe… Once upon a midnight dreary, as you quaffed drinks brown and beery, Came a tapping amid the gloom, upon the closed door of your room. You spied with thin eyes the tenebrous hall, wond’ring who had the un...
NASA launches its first new rocket in three decades
on Oct 28, 2009 in news science Ares Ares 1-X Constellation rocket science STS-1, the first space shuttle mission, launched on April 12, 1981. At that point, the shuttle was already several years old, and the original designs stretch back to the early 1970’s. The shuttle then was designed using the same basic techno...
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