Tabloid Eaten by Aliens! Fake Columnist Loses His Job! – New York Times In Ed Anger’s America, Vanna White is the perfect role model for Sarah Lee, Mr. Anger’s overweight daughter. Latino immigrants speak “chili-pepperese” and the obese of America…
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WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Goobers (MP3s) You know a compilation of children’s songs has to be good if it features Foetus and Tiny Tim. And honestly, the compilation “Goobers – A Collection of Kid’s Songs”, released in 1993 on…
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WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Goobers (MP3s) You know a compilation of children’s songs has to be good if it features Foetus and Tiny Tim. And honestly, the compilation “Goobers – A Collection of Kid’s Songs”, released in 1993 on…
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Mr. Gonzales’s Never-Ending Story – New York Times Americans have been waiting months for Mr. Bush to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who long ago proved that he was incompetent and more recently has proved that he can’t tell the…
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Ishkabibble: Back to Salt Creek A flattened Cat was the most interesting photo I took the entire day. We waited for hours in our fire gear, for the TV crews to do their stand up shots, miles from the actual…
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Product: Iron Maiden Slip-on The first of four limited edition art pieces honoring one of the most successful and influential bands of the heavy metal genre – Iron Maiden. The legendary “Killers” cover artwork is available on both Vans classic…
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PDNPulse Some Flickr members are furious that the company used the photos without asking first. (tags: photography) KQED Arts: Profile – Henry Wessel “In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the…
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The Simpsons Movie – Movie – Review – New York Times “The Simpsons Movie” is, well, a movie. (tags: Film) Arkitip™ | Printed Matter | Evan Hecox LA Blacksun Print Version II Evan Hecox LA Blacksun Print Version II (If…
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moore conceptualness at uncommons Matt Niebuhr writes about Brad Moore on his noteworthy blog Intersecting Images. Take a close look at Moore’s fine-art work on shrubbery, which accents his building pictorals but converges in his artist statement: (tags: photography) American…
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Apple – Trailers – September Dawn – Trailer ”September Dawn” graphically dramatizes the controversial real-life massacre of 120 men, women and children traveling through Utah in the nineteenth century. The Mountain Meadows Massacre (tags: Film) Apple – Trailers – The…
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden. [rating:5/5] This is a long book, but well worth finishing. An in-depth account of the Iran Hostage Crisis, an understanding…
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PDNPulse Then the photographers are put in a car and driven up to the Post printing plant in the Bronx. Once there, they must complete three mock assignments: * Photograph someone through the window of a car. * Photograph someone…
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Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “We were struck by how an Iraqi reacts to the sight of the bloody or decapitated corpse of a family member in a…
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Beyond Shock and Awe: Warfare in the 21st Century, edited by Eric L. Haney. [rating:5/5] Haney, a former operator who wrote Inside Delta Force, puts together a collection of essays on the future of warfighting. The first essay on the…
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APME Hits NFL Policy on Photog Vests — With Ads The letter, to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, says editors oppose the mandate because it goes against “our desire not to have our working press photographers become unwilling participants in any…
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Funny, that was my joke – Los Angeles Times “You have a better chance of stopping a serial killer than a serial thief in comedy,” said comedian David Brenner. “If we could protect our jokes, I’d be a retired billionaire…
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First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, by Gary Schroen. [rating:5/5] Schroen was in the first team to link up with the Northern Alliance after 9/11. The account often reads like…
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Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict, edited by Stuart A. Wright. [rating:4/5] A series of essays that illustrate the conflagration of events at Mt. Carmel. Not to equate the FLDS with the Branch Davidians and Peoples…
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The Book of Revenge, by Dragan Todorovic. [rating:4/5] Todorovic tells the story of growing up in Yugoslavia. Most of the book takes place amidst the communist and post-Tito bureaucracy. The Book of Revenge, by Dragan Todorovic. [rating:4/5]
Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, by Pete Jordan. [rating:5/5] Pete Jordan, creator of the Dishwasher zine, tells the whole story in this amazing book. The idea had only just come to me, but within…
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