The quilt thing; red and white and enormous (now with photos)
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- Sunday 20th March 2011
If you’re not excited by quilts, then move along, move along. And if you’re not in New York between March 25 – 30, it doesn’t matter if you like quilts or not.
I’ll merely point out that the Museum Of American Folk Art will be taking over the Park Avenue Armory (an awesomely huge space) between the 25th and 30th of March, and is putting on a free free FREE show of 650 – yes, SIX HUNDRED…
I don’t know who did this…
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- Tuesday 8th March 2011
…but it’s right on target. Spotted on the web by Strictly Kev, ever on the…
A few examples of mass hysteria in US history (and a new addition)
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- Monday 28th February 2011
A few months ago, a friend asked me my opinion as to how the right-wing craziness we’re witnessing in this country came about. Unfortunately, I couldn’t marshal a coherent response at the time, and fell back into pounding on the table, hollering and cursing. It bothered me that I didn’t give him a decent rundown of what I consider the history of mob madness in the US, and I’ve finally…
Get up off of that thing, and give, and you’ll feel better
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- Saturday 26th February 2011
WFMU is entering its annual 14-day fundraising marathon, and needs your money as well as your ears. Give it up. For not a lot of money, you get to support the station, and also receive – depending on your generosity, sport – much excellent swag.
Truly the best radio station in the world, available over the air and online, with absolutely no support whatsoever from anyone except the…
A little bit of logrolling
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- Saturday 26th February 2011
Logrolling, defined as “pumping the stuff your friends do,” is this today’s theme.
1) My man Craig Bevan is a superfine recording engineer/musician/mastering engineer/composer/label head, and, as well, sells some exceptionally boss t-shirts and other items aimed at the media community from his multifaceted website. The meter visual above is one of many attractive designs that will – if it…
George Lakoff on “What Conservatives Really Want”
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- Monday 21st February 2011
Dr. Lakoff lays it out in this short piece.
Excerpt from the Huffington Post:
“In conservative family life, the strict father rules. Fathers and husbands should have control over reproduction; hence, parental and spousal notification laws and opposition to abortion. In conservative religion, God is seen as the strict father, the Lord, who rewards and punishes according to individual…
And don’t forget: less than half the people in the US believe in evolution
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- Tuesday 15th February 2011
The results of a recent Harris poll, as mentioned in the text of a long, excellent speech by Bill Moyers, called “Facts Still Matter”:
In a Harris survey last spring, 67 percent of Republicans said Obama is a socialist; 57 percent believed him to be a Muslim; 45 percent refused to believe he was born in America; and 24 percent said he “may be the…
Everything Is A Remix, part 2
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- Thursday 3rd February 2011
Thanks to Mr. Dog for the tip.
And don’t sleep on part 1 of this fine…
A few items of interest
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- Wednesday 2nd February 2011
These have been hanging around in my browser for more than a minute, time to shoo them outside to play.
1) Independent federal agency finds Bush White House routinely broke federal election laws
I’m shocked – shocked! – to find that Karl Rove and Dictator Cheney routinely broke federal laws, especially those pertaining to the Republican effort in the 2006 elections. I’m 100% sure that…
Rough Mix Podcast 1 (walkin’ and talkin’) download and track listings
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- Monday 31st January 2011
For the past year, I’ve been throwing selected audio files into a folder marked “walkin’ and talkin’,” with the idea of doing them up as a podcast for WFMU’s online stream.
I finally got it together, and it streamed a few weeks ago. It’s 3 hours of people talking over beats; not rap exactly, but around the neighborhood, with closely related Beat material, poetry, and whatever I wanted,…
