Month: June 2014
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Best Damned Quotes: Thomas Love Peacock On Poets
“A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts, feelings, associations, are all with barbarous manners, obsolete customs, and exploded superstitions. The march of his intellect is like that of a crab, backward. … The highest inspirations of poetry are resolvable […]
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Confliciting Information
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/cute-kid-note-of-the-day-no-toking_n_3606177.html A “modern day spiritual” as Lawrence Welk’s singers rhapsodize about a romantic pothead loitering in a railroad station–in what kind of parallel universe did this occur? Somebody should have looked up the word “toke.”
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“Don’t Sneak”–a great story from NPR
The entire StoryCorps program is pretty damned awesome. http://www.npr.org/2014/06/27/325917505/dont-sneak-dads-unexpected-advice-to-his-gay-son-in-the-50s
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Welcome To Night Vale on Poetry Genius
Here’s something fun. Something weird and cool and fun… http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Welcome-to-night-vale-pilot-annotated#note-2515385
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Old Road Apples Goes Political: Save The Bees!
Thus far, I’ve ranted a lot, poked some fun, and expressed a fair deal of pointed revulsion, but I’ve avoided specific advocacy of social and political causes. A friend of mine says this is “tepid,” but he’s a sandal-wearing brown-bread chewing bicycle-zealot who’s always talking about his footprint. I tell him his footprint would be […]
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Irradiated Babes: Ms. TSA Pin-Up Calendar?
X-Ray Porn! This was apparently a short-lived interwebs sensation in 2010, but I missed it and I bet many of you missed it too. I know! Smokin’ hot, right? I mean, damn! Are you as turned on as I am right now? Or not. I’m struck by how titillating these images are not. There’s […]
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Gyllenhaal & Southpaw Still Chugging Along
Somehow Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, and the rest of the cast and crew of the movie Southpaw are still carrying on locally, despite my sudden retirement from a brief, and by all accounts meteoric (burning out and falling uncontrollably to earth) week-long career in the film industry. The stars were roaming around town last night, […]
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Found Photo: Another Summer Photo
I’ve decided we’ll be throwing these summer shots at you until the leaves start to turn–or until I get bored. Looks like this one is a shot from an old surfer flick.
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Eli Wallach 1915-2014
One of the greatest character actors of all time, Emmy and Tony Award winner Eli Wallach is best remembered as Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, or “The Ugly” in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. Close attention to the credits of […]