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Aug 27

3rdmartini:

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Plus, additional friends!

Like Bernadette Peters. Steve Lawrence. Michael J. Fox. Yakoff Smirnoff. Jay Thomas. Martin Van Buren. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Tom Waits. Jaromir Jagr. Erin Moran. Nelson Mandela. Orson Welles. Jerry Lewis. Avery Schreiber. Boog Powell. Madonna. Bernie Goetz & the Bernie Goetz Dancers. Vic Tayback. And Tony Shaloub.

James Caan. Telly Savalas. Burl Ives. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Before the Wheelchair. L.C. Greenwood. Rip Taylor. Anson Williams. Kool & The Gang. Albert Camus. Father Guido Sarducci. Ed Marinaro. Funk from Funk & Wagnall. Wagnall. Larry Bird. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. C3PO. Ghandi. And Mel Tillis.

Dylan McDermott. Harry Reasoner. The Beatles. Mary Lou Retton. Michael York. H.G. Wells. Festus. Edgar Bergen. Arnold Palmer. Twiki. Joyce DeWitt. Eric Bogosian. Charro. George McGovern. Danny Wuerffel. Jeff Conaway. Sir Edmund Hillary. Gays. The Louisiana Purchase. And Tonto.

Alan King. Tina Yothers…

The Captain and Tennille. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Foster Brooks. Jefferson Davis. Ken Burns and the Ken Burns Effect. The Waitresses. Eli Whitney and His Miraculous Cotton Gin. The Unknown Comic. Dorian Gray. Rich Little. May West. Lunchables. Colonel Mustard. And Elmo.

Ted Danson. Rodan. Bruce Wayne. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. John Larroquette. Melba Toast. Rickey Henderson. The Baja Boys. Ted Turner. Fred Flintstone. Alan Funt. Satan. Elizabeth Montgomery. Long Duc Dong. Kelsey Grammar. And Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Phil Collins. Elliot Ness. Dora the Explorer…

Kai Ryssdal, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jon Cryer, Mark Hamill, Paul Lynde, Lonnie Anderson, Scott Baio, Shields and Yarnell, Eric Estrada, Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, Charro again, Modesky, Martin and Wood, David Copperfield, Solomon Grundy, Kansas, Ronald Reagan, Bill Brasky, Harry Belefonte, A brand new COLOR TV, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell. And Liu Kang.

Glenn Campbell, Evel Knievel, Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, Ivar, Tex Winter, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Nellie Bly, O.J. Simpson, Bo Derek, Mario Lopez, Crystal Carrington, That cute black kid, Florence Henderson, Willie Tyler and Lester, Elmore Leonard or is it Leonard Elmore, Lynn Swan, Pete Cashmore, a young Susan Sarandon, a hot Kathleen Turner, a burnt out Shelly Winters, Burt Reynolds, Annie Oakley. And Gil Gerrard.

Tammy Wynette. Cindy Williams. Heathcliff Huxtable and Kenny (Bud). Christy McNichol. Robin Hood Prince of Men. Burl Ives. Merl Bives. Blurf Pives and Mr. Shantypanty. Alice from the Brady Bunch with Her Hair Down. Sam the Butcher with a Hard-on. Hamlet Prince of Thieves and his Pal Nugat. The Korean War. Wayne Newton. Andre the Giant (deceased). Jean-Paul Belmondo. Jean-Jacque Blieubeaublieux. And Gordon from Sesame Street with a Hard-on.

Jack Black. Mike White. Jim Brown. Timmy Purple. Wilson Phillips and the Fat One. Mackenzie Phillips and Baggage. A squirrel. Lady Diana. David Duke and the Racial Tension. Tenzin Gyatso (né Peter Fonda). Daryl Hannah and her Tree Band. D.A.R.Y.L. the Robot Boy Who Could Play Pole Position Real Good. Jon Landis. Martin Landau. Knots Landing. Knott’s Berry Farm. Berry Gordy. Marion Berry and the Marionberries with Special Appearance By Crack. Tiffany Brissette. Edie McClurg. Clurg McBlurg. And Burl Ives.

Jm J. Bullock, Chuck Baris, Chuck Berry, Harry Caray, Scary Larry, Enis the Roller-Skating Fairy. John Holmes, Linda Lovelace, girls with jizz all over their face. The entire cast of “Zoom!” accompanied by their parole officers. Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Charles Nelson Reilly, Edward R. Murrow, Flurm Bojangles, Emmanuel Lewis, The ghost of Dean Martin, a bucket of gin, a barrel of olives and your mom.

Tom T. Hall, Conway Twitty, the zombified cast of “Hee Haw”, Erin Grey, Loni Anderson, Chesty McHooters, Enlightenment, Abstract Thought, the feeling you get when you know someone you love is having a diarrhea fit, Lance Armstrong, Mikey from the Life cereal commercial, Peter Billingsley, Samus Aran, A hearty dose of ennui and the Christmas Yam.

Ike and Tina, Loggins and Messina, Skip Spence, Michael McDonald, Michael Landon, Martin Lawrence, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway. Andy Griffith, Don Knots, Buddy Epsen’s Eyebrows, Alfonso Ribeiro, Bernie Kopell, Tiffany Brissette, Tom Selleck’s moustache, and the cast of Alf.

Scott Baio, Nicole Eggert, Willie Aames, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Master of Kung Fu Shang Chi. Jackie Chan, Charlie Chan, Michael Chan. Bob Barker, Gnarls Barkley, Chuck U. Farley, Christian Slater, ‘Mater, Ron “Tater Salad” White. Vana White, Betty White, Band of Horses, Sofia Coppola, and the curse of the monkey’s paw.
Posted at 1:06pm 74 notes

“100%” by Sonic Youth

Guest stars Jason Lee with a special appearance by Jason Lee’s sideburns.

Skateboard footage shot by Spike Jonze who was responsible for filming Blind’s seminal skate video, Video Days, featuring a young Lee, a commanding Mark Gonzales, and then 14-year-old phenom Guy Mariano.
Posted at 11:27am 4 notes

“Kool Thing” by Sonic Youth

Lesser known musical fueds: Kim Gordon and LL Cool J.

Me neither!
Posted at 10:13am 3 notes

“Bull in the Heather” by Sonic Youth

If you have to sit through some Axe Secret Shit Show commercial, I apologize, even if you are 14 and immature. Perhaps then especially so.
Posted at 9:04am 3 notes

Aug 26

When we get our eggs from a single basket

Some quick thoughts on loose reporting and food safety.

Posted at 4:25pm 1 note

“Gainesville, FL is the biggest projected gainer, with a projected 17.7 percent increase in creative class jobs”

Where the Creative Class Jobs Will Be - Business - The Atlantic (via csessums)

This seems relevant to my interests.
Posted at 3:26pm 5 notes

tnkcmndr: crookedindifference: The fight over Mackerel Iceland, which landed practically no mackerel before 2006, has allocated itself a 130,000-tonne quota. The Faroes, a collection of islands 250 miles north of Scotland, has tripled its usual entitlement. The conflict led to a tense stand off at the port of Peterhead last week, when Scottish fishermen blockaded a Faroese trawler - preventing it from landing its £400,000 catch. Coupled with an EU warning to take “all necessary measures” to protect its fishing interests, it led to comparisons with the last “Cod War” of the 1970s which saw Icelandic gunboats clash with a Royal Navy frigate. We seem to never learn from our mistakes. Our incessant hunger seems to lead us to just take and take until there is nothing left for the future. Humans are tragic creatures. SOUNDS LIKE THE BC SOCKEYE SITUATION Everyone should lay off the fish for a while. Let the sushi houses close, the fisherman find other work. In ten or twenty years’ time, when the next generation of sushi chefs and fishermen and Long John Silver’s franchisees want to start up business, everything will be booming again.

tnkcmndr:

crookedindifference:

The fight over Mackerel

Iceland, which landed practically no mackerel before 2006, has allocated itself a 130,000-tonne quota. The Faroes, a collection of islands 250 miles north of Scotland, has tripled its usual entitlement.

The conflict led to a tense stand off at the port of Peterhead last week, when Scottish fishermen blockaded a Faroese trawler - preventing it from landing its £400,000 catch.

Coupled with an EU warning to take “all necessary measures” to protect its fishing interests, it led to comparisons with the last “Cod War” of the 1970s which saw Icelandic gunboats clash with a Royal Navy frigate.

We seem to never learn from our mistakes. Our incessant hunger seems to lead us to just take and take until there is nothing left for the future.

Humans are tragic creatures.

SOUNDS LIKE THE BC SOCKEYE SITUATION

Everyone should lay off the fish for a while. Let the sushi houses close, the fisherman find other work. In ten or twenty years’ time, when the next generation of sushi chefs and fishermen and Long John Silver’s franchisees want to start up business, everything will be booming again.
Posted at 1:12pm 30 notes

damndanm: eeb: This article from the New York Times has officially scared the shit out of me. How do people like this actually exist?! How do they successfully live to adulthood with this much hate in them? I truly believe that hateful people like this don’t successfully live out their adulthood. Bill Hicks used to joke that when Jesse Helms finally died we’d find the skins of young children drying in his attic. (Sadly, that didn’t come true. Maybe it was simply because Mr. Hicks wasn’t around to investigate.) Yes, he was being hyperbolic—he was a comedian, it was a sizable part of his job—and this was at least twenty years ago, but his point that anyone so far to the right has to be hiding something dark still stands. Ditto anyone equally far left. Unlike faith or belief, fervent, black-and-white, hard-nosed zealotry almost universally stems from darkness. One can try to replace it or tamp it down, but it’s there. This man’s ignorance and fear, and the ignorance and fear of the (too) many like him, are no doubt a product of something else. And they likely manifest themselves in other areas of his life, too. I bet his kids could tell you some stories. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go make generalizations about some other subset of humanity. This dude lives in my town. 1.  Mr. Jones, 58, a former hotel manager with a red face and a white handlebar mustache, argues that as an American Christian he has a right to burn Islam’s sacred book because “it’s full of lies.” And in another era, he might have been easily ignored, as he was last year when he posted a sign at his church declaring “Islam is of the devil.” Mr. Jones does not have the right to burn the Koran because it’s “full of lies.” He has the right to burn it because he lives in America and the act of burning of the Koran is most likely considered an act of free speech. 2. How much longer are we going to let the smallest groups of fringe society members dictate the public record?  3. The NYT failed to mention Mr. Jones’ church ran into so much financial difficulty not because of the Koran burning, but because he and and his wife failed to keep the church separate from their for-profit vintage furniture company. 

damndanm:

eeb:

This article from the New York Times has officially scared the shit out of me. How do people like this actually exist?! How do they successfully live to adulthood with this much hate in them?


I truly believe that hateful people like this don’t successfully live out their adulthood. Bill Hicks used to joke that when Jesse Helms finally died we’d find the skins of young children drying in his attic. (Sadly, that didn’t come true. Maybe it was simply because Mr. Hicks wasn’t around to investigate.) Yes, he was being hyperbolic—he was a comedian, it was a sizable part of his job—and this was at least twenty years ago, but his point that anyone so far to the right has to be hiding something dark still stands. Ditto anyone equally far left. Unlike faith or belief, fervent, black-and-white, hard-nosed zealotry almost universally stems from darkness. One can try to replace it or tamp it down, but it’s there. This man’s ignorance and fear, and the ignorance and fear of the (too) many like him, are no doubt a product of something else. And they likely manifest themselves in other areas of his life, too. I bet his kids could tell you some stories.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go make generalizations about some other subset of humanity.

This dude lives in my town.

1. 

Mr. Jones, 58, a former hotel manager with a red face and a white handlebar mustache, argues that as an American Christian he has a right to burn Islam’s sacred book because “it’s full of lies.” And in another era, he might have been easily ignored, as he was last year when he posted a sign at his church declaring “Islam is of the devil.”

Mr. Jones does not have the right to burn the Koran because it’s “full of lies.” He has the right to burn it because he lives in America and the act of burning of the Koran is most likely considered an act of free speech.

2. How much longer are we going to let the smallest groups of fringe society members dictate the public record? 

3. The NYT failed to mention Mr. Jones’ church ran into so much financial difficulty not because of the Koran burning, but because he and and his wife failed to keep the church separate from their for-profit vintage furniture company. 
Posted at 11:09am 11 notes

RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment

(via BoingBoing)
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Aug 25
GPOYW - stomach virus edition

GPOYW - stomach virus edition
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