Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sick, Sad World
Cody Olmstead, a Nova Scotia man who was on the bus, said that the killer taunted the men who were blocking the door from the outside. "He cut (the victim's) head off and then walked up to the door holding it and just looked at them crazy-like and then dropped the head and walked back to the body and started cutting it some more," Olmstead told CTV News from outside a hotel in Brandon, Man., where he and other passengers were taken. The man was left alone with the body and witnesses say that he performed further indignities to the victim. "We have word from people on the scene . . . that when the killer was alone with the body . . . that there may have been some small acts of cannibalism on the body," Oliver said. - CTV
Labels: Sick Sad World
1905
Labels: Propaganda, Soviet Propaganda
Very Cool
NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.
The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 following a 3.5 billion-kilometer (2.2 billion miles) voyage. - AFPLabels: Astronomy, Science
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Mr & Mrs. Garganuta
Labels: Circus Art
She May Be A Bag of Trouble
Labels: Health and Hygiene Propaganda, Propaganda
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Never Knowingly....
"I have proudly served this nation and Alaska for over 50 years. My public service began when I served in World War II. It saddens me to learn that these charges have been brought against me. I have never knowingly submitted a false disclosure form required by law as a U.S. Senator." - Ted Stevens
Having grown up in Alaska, I've hated this prick since I first had and understanding of politics. Despite my happy dance in seeing another self-serving blow-hard go down in flames from their own greed, statements like this eat me alive. From now on, whenever confronted with once and future sins, I'm just going to drop, "I've never knowingly committed....."
C'ya Ted.....I just wish this would of happened twenty years earlier.Labels: Politics
Reichsparteitag de Friedens 1939
For the uninitiated, I'm not a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer. I'm a quarter Mexican so that more or less excludes me from having any delusions of a "master race." For a better explanation of why you are seeing these posters, click here.
Labels: German Propaganda, Propaganda
Monday, July 28, 2008
Blatz is Milwaukee's Finest Beer
Labels: Bowling
The Balcony is Closed
Very cool post by Roger Ebert re: walking away from Ebert & Roeper.
I was surprised how depressed I felt all day on July 21, when Richard and I announced we were leaving the "Ebert and Roeper" program. To be sure, our departures were voluntary. We hadn't been fired. And because of my health troubles, I hadn't appeared on the show for two years. But I advised on co-hosts, suggested movies, stayed in close communication with Don DuPree, our beloved producer-director. The show remained in my life. Now, after 33 years, it was gone--taken in a "new direction." And I was fully realizing what a large empty space it left behind. - More @ Chicago Sun Times
Labels: Movies
Uno Queen Supreme of the Serpent Kingdom
Labels: Circus Art
The Story of Isaac (The Non-Love Boat One)
The door it opened slowly,
My father he came in,was nine years old.
And he stood so tall above me,
His blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said, Ive had a vision
And you know Im strong and holy,
I must do what Ive been told.
So he started up the mountain,
I was running, he was walking,
And his axe was made of gold.
Well, the trees they got much smaller,
The lake a ladys mirror,
We stopped to drink some wine.
Then he threw the bottle over.
Broke a minute later
And he put his hand on mine.
Thought I saw an eagle
But it might have been a vulture,
I never could decide.
Then my father built an altar,
He looked once behind his shoulder,
He knew I would not hide.
You who build these altars now
To sacrifice these children,
You must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
And you never have been tempted
By a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now,
Your hatchets blunt and bloody,
You were not there before,
When I lay upon a mountain
And my fathers hand was trembling
With the beauty of the word.
And if you call me brother now,
Forgive me if I inquire,
Just according to whose plan?
When it all comes down to dust
I will kill you if I must,
I will help you if I can.
When it all comes down to dust
I will help you if I must,
I will kill you if I can.
And mercy on our uniform,
Man of peace or man of war,
The peacock spreads his fan. - Leonard Cohen
If you haven't already, pick yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the cover version of this song by Suzanne Vega - it's on the Tower of Song: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen album. Do it.
No, seriously....do it.
Labels: Lyrics, Music
Sunday, July 27, 2008
This Calls For Budweiser
Labels: Bowling
Let 'em Have It!
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Sign O'The Times
Labels: Lake Tahoe, Photography
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Attack Attack Attack
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
October 21, 2008.
Labels: Music
Madame Yucca
Tags: Madame Yucca, strongwoman, circus poster, circusLabels: Circus Art
Friday, July 25, 2008
Self-Explanatory
Labels: Personal
Strange
So I went with Molliwogg to the Dr.'s office today. Our appointment was at 10:30 am, got there on time and waited the obligatory 45 minutes for the doctor. While we're waiting a woman comes in who was apparently 10 minutes late for her appointment. They turned her away.
WTF?
It would seem to me that all she was culpable of doing is cutting her wait down to a half hour or so. It just seems backwards to me that it's considered the accepted standard that you will wait for them, but on the other hand if you show up a few minutes late - which in actuality is still early - you're screwed.
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
Labels: Personal
Firebomb Fritz
Tags: Firebomb Fritz, British Propaganda, Propaganda ArtLabels: British Propaganda, Propaganda
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
King Black Acid
Stumbled on this article over at the hated Willamette Week. Bummed I didn't read it a month ago so I could have seen the show....sigh.
Daniel Riddle claims he isn't wearing any pants. Over the phone, he says he's more comfortable this way. Born on a hippie commune in the 1960s-he says he doesn't know the actual date-Riddle grew up in the company of rockers; his mother's boyfriend worked for the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Santana and the Allman Brothers. He moved to Portland from San Francisco in the late '80s, becoming a recognizable face in the local rock scene as both a nine-year employee of Satyricon and as a member of world-renowned alt-rock band Hitting Birth. But it was in the early '90s that he found his voice in King Black Acid. - WW
Labels: Music, Portland
One of my favorites...
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Happy Death, Inc. b/w Propaganda Art
If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you'll know I used to have a site (Happy Death, Inc.) devoted to propaganda posters (WWII, Chinese, Health, German, etc.). I took the site down recently in an attempt to simplify my life. Problem is, I really like those posters - as gross and racially inappropriate as some of them are. So I decided I'm going to reintroduce them to Comentario Loco as part of my regularly scheduled blogging (and the bowling art, and maybe some of the Roadside Chic entries as well....if I get a better scanner.) Happy Death, Inc., is going in the incubator for a while until I figure out what I want to do with it. So until then....Save Waste Fats
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Two articles that caught my eye.
Scholar Finds New Archaeological Sites by Googling
Indiana Jones's next adventure may well be in front of a computer if Hollywood scriptwriters decide to embrace a new approach to archaeological research in war-torn zones.
David Thomas, a Ph.D. student in La Trobe University's archaeological program in Melbourne, has used Google Earth to safely uncover historic sites in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan.
Using the free Internet resource, Thomas found up to 450 possible archaeological sites in Registan, which borders Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southern Afghanistan. The decision to use Google Earth was "partly born out of adversity", Thomas said, when a planned field trip was canceled because of security concerns. - Discovery
Relocation, relocation, relocation to save species
ANIMALS threatened with extinction because of climate change should be moved to parts of the world where they are more likely to survive, a team of scientists suggested today.
The controversial idea could be the only way to stop some species dying out, according to the authors of a report in the journal Science.
Species the scientists think could benefit from being moved include the possum in Australia, coral in the Great Barrier Reef and even giant pandas.
But some conservation groups have reacted with horror to the report – entitled Moving with the Times: Assisted Colonisation and Rapid Climate Change – because in the past introducing alien species has harmed native animals. - Scotsman
Labels: Environment, News
Monday, July 21, 2008
WM3
A Time for Truth
Labels: West Memphis Three, WM3
Friday, July 18, 2008
Emmet Otter
The Jim Henson Company has partnered with iTheatrics to develop a musical stage version of its classic holiday television special "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.' The announcement was made today by the show's producers, Brian Henson, co-CEO of The Jim Henson Company and Tim McDonald, CEO of iTheatrics. The show will feature a mix of stage actors and puppet characters and a toe-tapping score of new and original music by Paul Williams, who wrote the music for the award-winning original special. - Muppet Central
I say this all too often (Thanks Mike Judge), but I'm there dude.
Labels: Christmas, Muppets
Whiner
"It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Gramm said. - The Hill
Labels: Politics
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Shits
A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.
Local Republicans say the plan stinks and they will oppose it. - RGJ/AP
I'm technically a native Californian (09.20.71 - Los Angeles baby), and I work in California. If I smile real nice and bat my eyes, can I vote on this?
Pretty please?
Labels: Politics
Sunday, July 06, 2008
On Twitter Now...
Here.Labels: Web Stuff
Friday, July 04, 2008
Happy 4th!
Labels: Photography, Virginia City
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
My Bridge
Labels: Photography, St Johns
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