Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Circus Circus
Worker
Labels: Chinese Propaganda, Propaganda
Monday, September 29, 2008
Someone Book Me A Flight to Dallas
Seated behind a folding table in the small lounge at Lee Harvey's, next to the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga arcade game, Mark Griffin is flipping through a book of CDs, trying to pick the next song when two 30-something guys walk in, halt in their tracks and stare at him for a moment. One looks at his friend, at the two other people in the room and then back at Griffin.
"Is this MC 900 Ft. Jesus?" he asks with a nervous smile.
That is a good question.
The fan, Matt Castrinos of Washington, D.C., had extended a business trip by a day just to see MC 900 Ft. Jesus after seeing his name on the Web site of his favorite Dallas bar. He was expecting a performance from one of the most innovative indie-rap MCs to ever have a video on MTV. The MC 900 Ft. Jesus that Castrinos expected to see was one of indie-rap's true innovators in the late '80s and early '90s, a funny, self-deprecating abstract philosopher whose beats combined turntablism and live music in an ever-evolving blend of hip-hop, pop, techno, jazz and industrial rock music.
Castrinos was not expecting to see a 51-year-old Borders clerk and amateur pilot playing jazz CDs. - Dallas Observer
Labels: Music
A Message From Michael Moore
Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they can on their way out the door.
No matter what they say, no matter how many scare words they use, they are up to their old tricks of creating fear and confusion in order to make and keep themselves and the upper one percent filthy rich. Just read the first four paragraphs of the lead story in last Monday's New York Times and you can see what the real deal is:
"Even as policy makers worked on details of a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, Wall Street began looking for ways to profit from it.
"Financial firms were lobbying to have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just those related to mortgages.
"At the same time, investment firms were jockeying to oversee all the assets that Treasury plans to take off the books of financial institutions, a role that could earn them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees.
"Nobody wants to be left out of Treasury's proposal to buy up bad assets of financial institutions."
Unbelievable. Wall Street and its backers created this mess and now they are going to clean up like bandits. Even Rudy Giuliani is lobbying for his firm to be hired (and paid) to "consult" in the bailout.
The problem is, nobody truly knows what this "collapse" is all about. Even Treasury Secretary Paulson admitted he doesn't know the exact amount that is needed (he just picked the $700 billion number out of his head!). The head of the congressional budget office said he can't figure it out nor can he explain it to anyone.
And yet, they are screeching about how the end is near! Panic! Recession! The Great Depression! Y2K! Bird flu! Killer bees! We must pass the bailout bill today!! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Falling for whom? NOTHING in this "bailout" package will lower the price of the gas you have to put in your car to get to work. NOTHING in this bill will protect you from losing your home. NOTHING in this bill will give you health insurance. - More
Labels: Politics
By the Balls
Tags: bowling, pulp fiction, by the ballsLabels: Bowling
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Greatest Comment Ever!
From an article re: Letteman/McCain on the NYPost website that fell victim to the Drudge effect...
"There you go again dem and libs, you just don't have the inteligence and the ignorince is all yours, to not understand it. You dems and libs just do not "get it", you have never.
Freedom is not free. It has never been free, it comes at a price and Sarah Palin (I dont care if shes a senator or not smart one) is a Vangard. My daughter is painting a picture of her atop a brilliant lighthouse, gun in hand, Russia is in the background because She is the Defender.
I wish you could see it, you dems and libs would proabbly crie because you are just not real men like John McCain and Sarah Palin,"
Whether sincere or finely crafted satire, this is the best thing I've read the entire political season. If it is sincere, allow me to offer 500 shares of WAMU stock (as of it's closing price on 09/26/08) for a copy....hell, even a jpg of that painting.
There seems to a theme on with the Drudge crowd that anything Palin says should be taken at face value, to them I'd suggest looking at a map. Wasilla is land-locked and offers no view of Russia. Trust me, I've been there numerous times and not once did I ever see Russia.
" . . . where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh -- it's got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that." - LA Times
It almost makes you want to crie.
Labels: Politics
1949
Tags: Propaganda, Soviet Propaganda, Propaganda posterLabels: Propaganda, Soviet Propaganda
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Campesino
Tags: Spanish Civil War, Propaganda, Propaganda posterLabels: Propaganda, Spanish Civil War Propaganda
Friday, September 26, 2008
1778/1943
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Calling OMC
A "most bizarre" strobe light star reported by European astronomers likely belongs to a long-sought family of compact "neutron" stars.
It initially showed up as a gamma-ray burst, leading astronomers to think it was the death of a star in the far-off universe. But after that first gamma-ray pulse, there was a three-day period of activity during which this odd celestial object emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again. Eleven days later, there was a brief near-infrared flaring episode recorded by ESO's Very Large Telescope. Then the weird object went visibly "silent" again.
"We are dealing with an object that has been hibernating for decades before entering a brief period of activity," said Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, lead author of a paper in this week's issue of Nature. - USA Today
Labels: Astronomy
Muppets
POOR Miss Piggy. Like most aging stars in Hollywood, that prima donna pig, along with most of her Muppet pals, has struggled to find substantial roles. Almost nobody under the age of 30 remembers "Pigs in Space." All everyone wants to talk about is this Hannah Montana person. What’s a down-on-her-luck puppet to do?
The Walt Disney Company feels her pain. Since it bought Miss Piggy, Kermit and crew in 2004, executives have struggled to figure out how to put them to work. Efforts in 2005 to rejuvenate the furry creatures created by Jim Henson sputtered as the Muppets got lobbed between corporate divisions, and a new television series - a parody of "America’s Next Top Model" called "America’s Next Muppet" - died in the planning stages.
Now Disney is giving it another go by revving up the full power of its culture-creating engines. Instead of the take-it-slow approach, this time the Muppets are getting the "Hannah Montana" treatment, being blasted into every pop-culture nook and cranny that the company owns or can dream up. The balcony blowhards Statler and Waldorf would be impressed with the ambitiousness of the plan - even if it does come with equally outsize challenges.
"We think there is a Muppet gene in everybody," said Lylle Breier, a Disney executive who is the new general manager of Muppets Studio. - NY Times
Labels: Muppets
For Higher Scores....ACE
Labels: Bowling
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sick, Sad World
BROOKLYN (CBS) ― Racquel McDonald was standing on Tomkins Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, unknowingly recording the last moments of Iam Morales' life on her cell phone.
Dozens of people witnessed it, too. Some were taking photos of Morales as he jumped up and down on top of a 10-foot high roll-down gate, swinging a florescent light bulb around and poking officers standing on a nearby fire escape.
An officer on the ground then raised his Taser gun and fired a 50,000-volt shock, immobilizing him.
"He wasn't hurting anybody. They could have just grabbed him and bring him down but they Tasered him instead and he fell to his death and it was real wrong," McDonald said.
Added a witness named "Kyle:" "The man was isolated for minute … and then he just fell to the floor. They had about eight cops that could've break the fall. They just moved back." - WCBSTV
Labels: Current Events, Sick Sad World
Isn't she pretty?
Labels: Personal, Photography
Government Bailouts
Barney "Big Un" Baumgartner of Windblown, Wyo., invited the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department to take over his business, The Big Un 24 Hour Tow Service and Trophy Taxidermy. In a handwritten press release, Mr. Baumgartner explained that with winter and hunting season coming on, the good citizens of Windblown would be without his vital services unless he found a way to deal with his escalating debts, fast. "This is not just about me or my neighbors in Windblown. Heck, we get three or four tourists and out-of-state hunters here every 10 days or so. What if they need a tow or a trophy mount? The consequences are too great to contemplate," Mr. Baumgartner explained. He'd be willing to let the government have 80% of his business for a quick cash infusion. He thought something in the neighborhood of $1.8 million should do the trick. That would be enough to gas up his two tow trucks, get some new taxidermy stuffing and clean up that overdue account at the Number 10 Saloon and Casino over in Deadwood, S.D. Treasury Department officials had no comment on Mr. Baumgartner's request, but a source familiar with the response to the bailout of American International Group said Treasury has been inundated with similar requests. - A pawn shop in Reno, Nev., has an excess supply of eight-track cassette players, flower print shirts, broad white belts and Wayne Newton tapes, having gambled that the '70s would come roaring back. The owner pleaded for a Treasury take-over, arguing, "How can the government stand by and let such a rich part of our American culture simply fade away?" - Tom Browkaw @ WSJ
Labels: Politics
Keep Mum
Labels: British Propaganda, Propaganda
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Et tu George Will?
The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain's party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The New Deal never acted so precipitously on such a scale. Treasury Secretary Paulson, asked about conservative complaints that his rescue program amounts to socialism, said, essentially: This is not socialism, this is necessary. That non sequitur might be politically necessary, but remember that government control of capital is government control of capitalism. Does McCain have qualms about this, or only quarrels?
...
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? - Jewish World Review
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz.....ha ha!
Labels: Politics
Bayer (1949)
 Labels: Bowling
Monday, September 22, 2008
1937
Tags: Propaganda, Spanish Civil War Propaganda, Propaganda ArtLabels: Propaganda, Spanish Civil War Propaganda
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Another Birthday Present...
Vice President Dick Cheney has a passion for secrecy.
He went to court to protect details about the role of energy executives in private meetings he led to develop the Bush administration's national energy strategy.
He went to Capitol Hill to argue for an exemption to a proposed ban on torture of terror suspects. He wanted to make sure the president had the flexibility to order water boarding or other horrific techniques to prevent a terrorist attack.
Now he's gone to court again to argue that a vice president need only preserve records central to his job as the official who presides over the U.S. Senate or relating to specific tasks assigned by the president. That would narrow the pile considerably.
Saturday, a judge from the U.S. District Court in D.C. rejected that idea, giving a first-round victory to a group of historians and others at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who had sued him in court, concerned about their eventual access to the records.
In her ruling, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly cast doubt on the vice president's argument, given that the Presidential Records Act was specifically amended to prevent former President Richard Nixon from destroying any of the tapes or documents that led to his resignation.
And here's the kicker: Any violation by the preliminary injunction is punishable by immediate contempt -- including the power to jail the offender. - LA Times
Labels: Politics
Hemo!
Labels: Bowling
37
37.
One kid down, one kid on the way.
Laura Palmer's quote rings in my head...."Broccoli for dinner again, I hate broccoli...does this mean I'll never grow up?"
For the record, I like broccoli - preferably raw and not cooked.
I have no interest in growing up.
I'm as old as my parents when I thought they we're old and unlike them I like my teenage child - moody pangs of growing pains, warts and all.
I love my friends, I love my wife. I love the fact I got a telescope for my birthday.
There's no point to this post, only......sage words.......
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid......
Labels: Personal
He's Watching You
 As of yet, the only propaganda poster hanging in my house.
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Friday, September 19, 2008
A Careless Word
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Somebody get me a doctor....
I must be out of my head, marbles scattered across the floor and all that jive. My birthday is tomorrow and the plan was to head up to P-Town for some fun, frolic and friends. Last night we changed our minds.
After over a month of staying in hotels waiting for our condo to freaking close, the prospect of a huge road trip followed by the confines of yet another hotel room just became too much to bear. Too much work to be done on the place - we only moved in last week or thereabouts. The new plan is to spend a long four day weekend, getting our shit together and the cardboard boxes out of the line of sight....maybe a trip up to Virginia City and a little gambling to enter in 37.
Still, if anyone told me I would willingly pass up a trip to PDX to stay in Reno, I would have slapped them.
......crazy.....toys in the attic....I am crazy.....Labels: Personal
Paul Heyman: An Audience of One
This article pretty much how I feel about the state of wrestling right now...
There is going to come a time, and it needs to be sooner rather than later, when the professional wrestling industry realises we've reached that dreaded recurring period in history.
That time when one generation is moving on to other forms of entertainment and a new generation needs to be enticed to sign on and join the "sports entertainment fan" culture.
When the era of the territorial local stars gave way to the Hulkamaniacs, a new generation of fans replaced the older ones.
When the Hulkamaniacs started chasing girls or went off to college, the new era of Attitude and nWo and ECW came into vogue. - Sun UK
Labels: Wrestling
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Stuck in Me Noggin'
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide...
Gonna find you and take it slowly....
Labels: Lyrics, Music
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
She May Look Clean
 Labels: Health and Hygiene Propaganda, Propaganda
Monday, September 15, 2008
Al Fronte
Labels: Spanish Civil War Propaganda
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Coca-Cola
Labels: Bowling
Setback
A circuit court judge Wednesday rejected claims that new DNA evidence proves the innocence of three men convicted of killing three boys 15 years ago, and denied their requests for a new trial.
Circuit Court Judge David Burnett issued a 10-page order Wednesday denying requests for a new trial. Lawyers for Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley -- known by supporters as the "West Memphis Three" -- had requested a new trial, arguing that new DNA evidence clears their clients.
Both Baldwin and Misskelley claim their lawyers failed to adequately represent them during their separate trials. Their lawyers also say DNA evidence provided by Echols' defense team shows the men did not kill Steven Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore.
"The court finds that (Echols's) DNA-testing results are inconclusive because they do not raise a reasonable probability that he did not commit the offenses; that is, they are inconclusive as to his claim of actual innocence," Burnett wrote in the order.
In his appeal, Echols argued that newly analyzed DNA found no trace of him, Misskelley or Baldwin at the crime scene. But Burnett said he agreed with prosecutors' arguments that the absence of DNA didn't equal innocence.
"Proof of actual innocence requires more than his exclusion as the source of a handful of biological material that is not dispositive of the identity of a killer," Burnett wrote.
Burnett also said that even if he agreed that the new DNA evidence should be heard in court, he would deny Echols' request for a trial because there was "not compelling evidence that he would be acquitted." - WM3.org
Labels: West Memphis Three, WM3
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Dancing (1946)
Labels: Propaganda, Soviet Propaganda
Monday, September 08, 2008
VC Angel
Labels: Photography, Virginia City
Sunday, September 07, 2008
VC Angel
Labels: Photography, Virginia City
Avenge Dec. 7
 3 months early....get those bastards!
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Saturday, September 06, 2008
VC Angel
Labels: Photography, Virginia City
An Interview with Gene Simmons
Great interview...
Business has never been easy, and the delusion that musicians and writers and artists and people like that, who aspire to this thing called show, actually never really paid much attention. In the spirit of full disclosure before the fact, and truth in advertising, it is actually called the music business and show business. It's not called music or show—it really isn't. And it isn't called film, it's called the film business. You know? And art, it really is the art business. They call it the art "world," they don't want to use the word business, and words like inspiration and all that stuff is nonsense. The classic musicians and artists of the past, during the Renaissance period, these were commercial artists. These were commercial writers. Chamber music was based on the premise that the lord of the manor walked up to the guy, and said, "I want a three-minute piano concerto, put it in my chamber, there's going to be just a few guests and royalty"—that's why it's called chamber music, by the way. And that's why Mozart sometimes had three-minute piano concertos. You know why? Because that's what he was paid to do. [What] they were all paid for, and that includes the Sistine Chapel. The pope shows up and says, "I don't like that." They're commercial artists. - Portfolio
Labels: Music
Last thing we need now is a great leader
John sent me this.....great read.
Everyone I talk to seems to think the president of the United States right now is stupid. The Bush presidency is stupid speeches, stupid high gas prices, stupid bad economy, stupid war on terrorism, stupid war on drugs, stupid hurricane fixing, stupid global warming, stupid war -- stupid, stupid, stupid. They all seem to think we need to get a smarter guy in the White House fast, and Bush is so stupid, that task shouldn't be too hard. Not me. I'd like to say that I believe every president in United States history, including the stupid one we have now, is smarter than me. My alma mater is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Clown College, so I'm damning with faint praise, but I'm stupider than this here stupid president. Maybe I'm less stupider than Bush than I'm stupider than Jefferson. But I'm stupider than all the stupid in both of them put together. The idea, especially from the Democrats that I know, is, we just get a smarter guy in the White House, and all the problems will go away. We'll have smart speeches, smart high gas prices, smart bad economy, smart war on terrorism, smart war on drugs, smart hurricanes, smart global warming, smart war in Georgia -- smart, smart, smart. - CNN
Labels: Politics
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Walter 'Killer' Kowalski
Walter "Killer" Kowalski, who died on Saturday aged 81, was a self-proclaimed bad boy of professional wrestling, enjoying a notoriety as synthetic as the grimaces, grunts and groans that riveted television audiences across America in the 1950s.
In the sweaty, heaving toils of the wrestling ring, Kowalski – at 6ft 7in and 19½ stone – loomed extremely large as one of its most hated stars, having made his name in 1952 during a bout in Montreal.
After accidentally tearing off the cauliflower ear of his opponent, known as Yukon Eric, Kowalski made a carefully-publicised visit to the vanquished fighter's hospital bed, where Kowalski took one look at his bandaged head and burst out laughing. "I swear, the first thing I thought of was Humpty Dumpty," Kowalski recalled. "Yukon Eric looked at me, shook his head and smiled. I started laughing and he laughed too." - Telegraph UKLabels: Wrestling
Careless Talk Costs Lives
 Labels: British Propaganda, Propaganda
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Motley Crew
Bunch of winners @ the KISS concert...
Tim Raposa, 40, of Davis, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after refusing to leave the property following several warnings by casino security.
Cherae Cozzi, 23, of Reno was reportedly involved in a fight with another woman. She was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after refusing to leave the property following warnings by casino security.
Glenn Johnston, 33, of Reno, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing a peace officer after he allegedly tried to free his girlfriend (Cherae Cozzi) from the custody of two officers.
Samuel Revers, 22, of Marina, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after he allegedly refused to leave the property following warnings by casino security. Revers was asked to leave the concert after he apparently spat on a KISS band member who did not request to file charges. (This would be the guy Paul Stanely was ripping a new one on from stage.)
Phillip Bowman, 23, of Stateline, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after he refused to leave the property.
Janette Bak, 22, of Stateline, was arrested on suspicion of battery committed against a casino security officer after she reportedly tried to free her boyfriend (Phillip Bowman) from custody.
Ken Danielson, 35, of San Mateo, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after refusing to leave the property. Security officers reported Danielson for allegedly urinating on other concert patrons. (Urinating on other patrons? C'mon dude.) - RGJLabels: Music
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Bummer
Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71.
His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday.
"He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said.
Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante called Reed a larger-than-life personality.
"Everything about Jerry was distinctive: his guitar playing, writing, voice and especially his sense of humor," Galante said. "I was honored to have worked with him." - Yahoo
Labels: Music
Kiss
Labels: Music, Photography
America Calling
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Monday, September 01, 2008
Kiss
Labels: Music, Photography
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