January 2012
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Not only do I not miss my youth, I am pleased to be rid of it.
Jan 27th
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“I [was] serious about turning little churchgoing Jamesetta into a tough bitch called Etta James…. I wanted to look like a great big high-yellow ho’. I wanted to be nasty.” Etta James’s life was more interesting than you may have thought.
Jan 27th
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Well, you know, minority politics has been a lot easier to sell than to just say, “Being human ought to get you human dignity,” full stop. If you can pin down the difference, if you can make the difference the salient issue, it somehow makes it easier for people to stomach the fact that they can’t go out and just beat people over the head.  I don’t know why that is.  I find it intensely...
Jan 25th
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Man, Ariel and Kevin need to invade more things.
Jan 23rd
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Weedmaster P is wearing the best shirt ever.
Jan 23rd
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I’m glad someone finally pointed out the racial upfuckédness of R. Crumb’s “Patton”. Most of the time Crumb’s blues material is presented as an antidote to his earlier embarrassing blackface material. Instead I see the blues stuff as a more subtle continuation of it. The thrust of Crumb’s late-60s “Whiteman” pieces was that whites are uptight,...
Jan 23rd
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Anna, Illinois, is likely still a sundown town. Elwood, Indiana, almost surely is.
Jan 23rd
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John Cheese talks about how you eat, and do other things, when you’re poor— Fresh food is expensive and takes forever to prepare. It goes bad quickly, so it requires multiple trips to the grocery store per week, which is something most impoverished people can’t do. —and how those things stay with you “after you escape.” Being poor is a mindset. And it’s one...
Jan 23rd
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Some inneresting talk here about the possible futures of publishing. (Check th comments, patickally th back n forth between B and bridgett.)
Jan 22nd
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(Why am I linking to evry comment on this post?)
Yeah, exactly.
Jan 21st
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Facets, if you will, of some ideal, multi-dimensional object. Something which is never fully made phenomenal. Hence, in most typical strips, there is no aging, no death. The moving hand is there only to turn the object, or to re-orient the view-finder.
Jan 21st
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The effect is diminished rather than reinforced.
Jan 21st
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matthen. Freakin #KILLIN IT. Witness ‡ and ‡. Seriously.
Jan 21st
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R.I.P.
Jan 20th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Jan 19th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Jan 19th
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R.I.P.
Jan 19th
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Freddie: (who I hope will forgive the extended quotation) For far too long, mainstream progressives have signaled their “seriousness” precisely by denying the validity of people like Kucinich or Sanders, so taken with some bizarre definition of the reasonable that they effectively silence the leftist non-interventionists they say they want. [ … ] The notion that there is...
Jan 19th
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Mike Doughty making an inordinate amount of sense about piracy and the music business and the internet business. I’ve never unerstood why a radio-type licensing system wasnt worked out a long time ago. Isnt the fight they’re having with the internet right now the same fight they had with radio a zillion years ago? Once they made peace, evryone made tons of money. The current situation...
Jan 19th
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#style
Jan 19th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
“Weird Summer”* / “Vegetable”
Jan 19th
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*Weird Summer was or is also the name of a Nice Guy* Rock band from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (the capitol of Nice Guy Rock), fronted by Bob Kimbell who is most famous to me for collaborating with Jack Logan on one of my favorite albums. Just after they made that album I saw the two of them, and maybe Jamie Rouch on drums? perform at Mabel’s, the Champaign-area rawk club I miss the very...
Jan 19th
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* in the non-ironic sense
Jan 14th
Jan 9th
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This is me. Profuse apologies to Sarah Becan.
Jan 9th
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Still looking at things from beyond the grave Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things It’s creepy.
Jan 9th
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"Harry Lucey Harry Lucey Harry Lucey"—Los Bros...
Being a Forsythe P. fan, I dug on Samm Schwartz since I was a little tot. Growing up a bit and becoming a Betty & Veronica fan, Dan DeCarlo’s appeal was obvious. But it took me a while to recognize the greatness of Harry Lucey.
Jan 9th
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Lakhdar Boumediene and Murat Kurnaz speak in the New York Times. Mr. Obama, please do what you promised regarding the detained persons in Guantánamo Bay.
Jan 9th
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I'm going to try to remember to do that.
Open your air vent, and aim it so it passes just in front of your face. Filtered airplane air can help direct airborne contagions away from you. The Wall Street Journal via Austin Kleon
Jan 9th
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This is some sad shit right here. Bittersweet tribute to dead rockers. Buzz Feed → Austin Kleon
Jan 8th
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Kim Deal: restraint
Jan 8th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Jan 5th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Jan 4th
Jan 4th
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“In the days when printing used raised bits of metal, “.” and “,” were the most delicate, and were in danger of damage (the face of the piece of type might break off from the body, or be bent or dented from above) if they had a ‘”’ on one side and a blank space on the other. Hence the convention arose of always using ‘.”’ and...
Jan 4th
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arrows!
Jan 2nd
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Glenn Greenwald: [President Obama] has sought to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs. He has institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for assassination-by-CIA, far from any battlefield. He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth. He rendered permanently irrelevant...
Jan 2nd
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(The great) Eddie Campbell on Persepolis: Satrapi’s Persepolis, when it opens, is the first person narrative of a ten year old girl. The drawing is perfectly right for the story; it expresses the world view of a ten year old girl living anywhere. Characters are simplified in a way that is charmingly naive and perspective is nearly non-existent. Whether Satrapi is capable of a different kind of...
Jan 2nd
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Jan 1st
Eighth Day of Christmas
Inexplicably happy at the arrival of 2012. Am toasting it with Bundaberg Lemon Lime & Bitters in a wine glass. It is blush colored and has strings of champagne bubbles. Got off work at eleven. Arriving home I heard firecrackers just as I got out of the car. Stood in the driveway and listend for awhile.
Jan 1st
December 2011
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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What else did the baby and I dance to today?
“Sweet Potato Gravy” by Maurice Simon and the Pie Men
Dec 27th
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Movember Flashback
The Gallagher look All the moustache I can grow in 30 days: Thank God it’s gone.
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Wild Kingdom
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th