Blame It On Steinski

NWA vs. PTA

How does a parent resolve a love of gangsta rap with the responsibility of raising a child?

Thanks to Strictly Kev, who will be facing this dilemma as soon as his twins figure out what their parents are listening…

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The best radio station in the world

If you’ve checked my links page (bottom right of the blog), you know what I think of WFMU . I may be prejudiced because they carried a show of mine for a few years, but I listened before that, and I listen now. The DJ’s are excellent, and the station itself is an institution unique in the world: it is actually listener sposored. Not “Supported by listeners like you” and by a big grant from the…

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The third world, 10 miles from Manhattan

I can make this short, because the story is told very well in several places: The New York Times covered it, as well as NJ.Com, and a local bulletin board for Kearny, NJ.

Briefly: student in public high school is horrified that his teacher prosyletizes in class about “unsaved” people going to Hell, Creationism is more fact-based than evolution, and Noah carried dinosaurs on the Ark.

Student…

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Ralphie’s Bop City, Pt. 2

So there I was, running this sort-of-art project. It started with a single answering machine on my regular phone line, using an endless loop cassette answering tape, and eventually became a dedicated phone line using 3 rotating answering machines, each using regular tape.

One machine was always in the shop, one was in use, and one was on deck. I changed the message, on average, every 2 or 3…

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Frank Zappa: Young, and on Television

In 1963, Steve Allen – the precursor to Carson, Letterman, Leno, etc. – hosted a fresh-faced Frank Zappa in a session of experimental improv on national…

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An exceptional blog

Make sure you check out Spocko’s Brain. It’s a good blog in a general sense, but absolutely stellar in a particular way, because of the course Spocko has charted in relation to the ravings of the scum currrently hosting ABC/Disney’s right-wing talk radio station KSFO in San Francisco.

Who is Spocko dealing with? Listen while neocon harpy Anne Coulter has a good chuckle with her fellow…

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From the same unimpeachable sources that brought us the war in Iraq

More utter nonsense presented to the UN as “top secret intelligence” by Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the thugs.

I wonder if this isn’t all part of a Republican attempt to leave the next president (undoubtedly a Dem) with the largest tragic mess possible, so that they can stage another coup in…

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Alec Baldwin, David Mamet, and me

In an article in today’s Salon.com , Stephanie Zacharek gives Alec Baldwin an honorary Oscar for his roles in The Departed, The Good Shepherd, and Running With Scissors.

Ms. Zacharek goes on to give a general appreciation of Baldwin, which (of course) mentions his killer monologue in Glengarry, Glen Ross, topping off her appreciation of that performance with these kind words:

The lines from…

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You be the judge

Today, the defense in the Jose Padilla trial said that after 3 years and some months in custody (no habeas corpus in the US anymore, remember), he’s out of his mind with torture, and incompetent to stand trial. The list of interrogation techniques (which is in no way complete) includes: hooding, stress positions, assaults, threats of imminent execution and the administration of “truth…

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High-tech graffiti in the Netherlands

No muss, no fuss, just one big booty laser.

From justin via the blackcrack…

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