“What happened to Sunday breakfast?”
Monday, July 23, 2012
THIS IS MORGAN FREEMAN – HE’S COOL
“Marijuana! Heavens, oh
yeah. It’s just the stupidest law possible, given history. You don’t stop
people from doing what they want to do, so forget about making it unlawful.
You’re just making criminals out of people who aren’t engaged in criminal
activity. And we’re spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can’t
win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
It’s stupid.”
Friday, July 20, 2012
WTF?
I imagine
the academics will soon be on TV with a whole slew of spurious theories and
explanations. Right now, I wouldn’t hazard a guess at the reality of the madness,
except to note that Aurora and Columbine are both suburbs of Denver,
The secret word is Insanity
Thursday, July 19, 2012
IT’S HAPPENING AND IT’S HAPPENING NOW
While the
oil industry continues to pump millions into climate change denial, our pals at
Common Dreams bring us this bit of scary intelligence.
“A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken
off one of Greenland's major glaciers -- a development which scientists say is due to alarming warming in the region.
The iceberg, measuring 46 square miles, is the second of its
nature to break from Greenland in just two years. In 2010 an iceberg twice its
size, one of the largest ever recorded in Greenland, broke free. "It's
dramatic. It's disturbing," said University of Delaware professor Andreas
Muenchow, one of the first researchers to notice the break. "We have data
for 150 years and we see changes that we have not seen before. It's one of the
manifestations that Greenland is changing very fast." "This is not
part of natural variations anymore," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot,
referring to the vast changes the glacier has seen in the past three years.
Scientists are concerned about rising sea levels due to melting ice in the
north. The Arctic had the largest sea ice loss on record for June, scientists
reported this week, and Northern Greenland and Canada are warming five times
faster than the average global temperature. "The Greenland ice sheet as a
whole is shrinking, melting and reducing in size as the result of globally
changing air and ocean temperatures and associated changes in circulation
patterns in both the ocean and atmosphere"
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The secret
word is Wet
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
WILL I SURVIVE THE OLYMPICS?
They
increasingly encroach on my TV. They delay traffic as their absurd torch passes
through the town. London public transport may collapse under the strain.
Helicopter gunships are promised, cruising overhead like we were still in
Saigon waiting for a mission. Warships are parked in the Thames. Residents’
protests are ignored as SAM missiles are mounted on the roofs of tower blocks. 3,500
squaddies have been recalled from leave to bail out G4S after the security
giant failed to complete a contract with the wholly inept Tory Home Office to
train and deploy the 10,000 security staff. But, on the other side of the
cluster-fuck, corporate goons
in purple uniforms – with the power to enter shops and offices near
Olympic sites and hand out $31,000
fines for the 'misuse' of words such as "gold", "silver"
and "bronze", "summer", "sponsors" and
"London." – will
prowl the streets of East London protecting
the sponsorship rights of McDonald's, Coca-Cola, BP Oil, General Electric,
Adidas, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and the rest. These manifestations
of the 2012 Olympic spirit seem just a tad too shamefully reminiscent of 1936 and the picture above. And maybe
I’ll be arrested for writing this under one of the new Olympic laws we don't know about.
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The
secret word is Run
Kitty Wells – RIP
Kitty Wells – RIP
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
THE END IS AT HAND ALL OVER AGAIN
A few
months ago archaeologists supposedly laid to rest the idea that time, the
universe, and everything would come to end when the Mayan calendar runs out on
December 21st of this year. Unfortunately we have another set of
researchers who now claim the end may be at hand after all. For my part I’m hoping some of us
might come together to stage some kind of event on the last day, either to go out all together, happy and loaded, or laugh at the stupidity of it all.
“Now, researchers
exploring the Maya ruins of La Corona in Guatemala have unearthed another
reference. On a stairway block carved with hieroglyphs, archaeologists found a
commemoration of a visit by Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul, the most
powerful Mayan ruler in his day. The king, also known as Jaguar Paw, suffered a
terrible defeat in battle by the Kingdom of Tikal in 695. [...] In an effort to
tie himself and his reign to the future, the king linked his reign with another
13th cycle — the 13th bak'tun ending on Dec. 21, 2012. David Stuart, a
professor of art history at the University of Texas at Austin, recognized the
reference to the date among 56 glyphs that were carved on the stone block.
"It was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region, and this
king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in
2012," Stuart said in a statement released by UT.”
Click here for Elvis’ opinion on the matter.
The secret words are That’s, All, and Folks
AND WHILE WE’RE WAITING FOR THE END LET’S NOT FORGET…
“The goal of the future is
full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present
politico-economic system.” This may sound like the pronouncement of some
bong-smoking anarchist, but it was actually Arthur C. Clarke, who found time
between scuba diving and pinball games to write “Childhood’s End” and think up
communications satellites.”
AND LET’S ALSO NOT FORGET…
The UK Nation Health Service may not be perfect and is also being
constantly strangled by Conservatives but in comparison to the USA – where socialized
medicine is treated like an abomination of Satan – it’s a near miracle and the
only reason I’m still alive. In the US I would have died along with over
100,000 others without health coverage. Check these figures…
“Just this year, Families USA's report, “Dying for
Coverage,” found that…
26,100 people between the ages of 25 and 64 died prematurely
due to a lack of health coverage in 2010
2,175 people died prematurely every month in 2010
Between 2005 and 2010, the number of people who died
prematurely each year due to a lack of health coverage rose from 20,350 to
26,100
Between 2005 and 2010, the total number of people who died
prematurely due to a lack of health coverage was 134,120.”
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
ART ON THE BARRICADES
As
the fabric of capitalism disintegrates before our very eyes we may have to
move and fast. We have often posted the apt and timely rants of our comrade
Chris Hedges. Here’s another one…
“Cultures that endure carve
out a protected space for those who question and challenge national myths. Artists,
writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians,
actors, directors and renegades must be tolerated if a culture is to be pulled
back from disaster. Members of this intellectual and artistic class, who are
usually not welcome in the stultifying halls of academia where mediocrity is
triumphant, serve as prophets. They are dismissed, or labeled by the power
elites as subversive, because they do not embrace collective self-worship. They
force us to confront unexamined assumptions, ones that, if not challenged, lead
to destruction. They expose the ruling elites as hollow and corrupt. They
articulate the senselessness of a system built on the ideology of endless
growth, ceaseless exploitation and constant expansion. They warn us about the
poison of careerism and the futility of the search for happiness in the
accumulation of wealth. They make us face ourselves, from the bitter reality of
slavery and Jim Crow to the genocidal slaughter of Native Americans to the
repression of working-class movements to the atrocities carried out in imperial
wars to the assault on the ecosystem. They make us unsure of our virtue. They
challenge the easy clichés we use to describe the nation—the land of the free,
the greatest country on earth, the beacon of liberty—to expose our darkness,
crimes and ignorance. They offer the possibility of a life of meaning and the
capacity for transformation.” (Click here for the rest)
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for Third World War
The secret word is Act
Monday, July 09, 2012
THE CRO MAG GOT A KNIFE
While
Russian punks challenge the system and go to jail, in New York they just stab
each other. (This is from the ever-reliable New York Post.)
“A former
member of the hard-core punk band the Cro-Mags attacked two of the group’s
current members with a hunting knife in a dressing room before a show at
Webster Hall yesterday— biting one and slashing both The band was about to take
the stage about 8:15 p.m. when tattooed rocker Harley Flanagan, 42, barreled
through the East Village venue’s VIP section toward the Cro-Mags’ dressing
room, sending nearly 30 guests on the balcony into a frenzy, law enforcement
sources and witnesses said.
“Someone
was yelling, ‘Get his hands, get his hands, he’s got a knife!’ ” witness Dave
Gustav said. “Everything went nuts.” Several beefy security guards rushed to
contain Flanagan, who seemed about to boil over before he entered the East
Village venue. “I talked to him outside minutes before it happened and I knew
something was going to go down,” a witness said, according to the Horns Up
Rocks website. “He was like a lunatic outside. Next thing I know he’s in the
VIP area stabbing people!” Flanagan, the band’s former bassist and founder,
suffered a broken leg by the time security finally pinned him down, witnesses
said. Cops handcuffed him to a chair and took him out. “People started booing
him and throwing stuff at him,” eyewitness Justin Brannan said. “His hands were
handcuffed but he still gave everyone the finger.”
A comment
adds extra insight...
“The Cro-Mags are a true group of psychopaths founded upon
the principles of the Hare Krishna movement (LOL, it's true... Both Flanagan
and Joseph will tell you about how they're all for Krishna and Vishnu). John
Joseph and Harley Flanagan have hated each other for years. Harley has always
talked a bunch of trash on his Myspace and Facebook accounts about how he wants
to fight certain ex-members of the Cro-Mags in MMA style matches. John Jospeh
is a conspiracy theorist who believes The Illuminati are out to get him and all
this other crap. Harley needs a trip to the insane asylum and John Joseph needs
to quit buying that nasty weed at the ISKCON center.”
Click here for the noise of the nasty bastards
The secret word is Pointless
Ernest Borgnine – RIP
THE FROZDICK FAMILY
Buzz
Frozdick believed most things could be achieved with a bottle of Jack Daniels
and a gun.
Saturday, July 07, 2012
PUSSY RIOT (It’s not only rock and roll)
While our
own rockers either luxuriate in their own narcissism, sell their tunes for TV
commercials, or complain all the way to the bank, in Russia punks are still
right there seriously risking life and liberty on the barricades.
“Three members of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk-rock
band, began a hunger strike
Wednesday after a Moscow court suddenly told them they must prepare their
defense for trial by Monday. Maria Alyokhina, Yakaterina Samutsevich and
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were taken into custody in March, after the group's
February performance of “Virgin Mary Put Putin Away,” an anti-Putin song,
inside the Russian Orthodox Church's main cathedral, asking the Virgin Mary to
chase President Vladimir Putin out of power. The three women were arrested over
four months ago and have been held without bail on charges of criminal
hooliganism — which carry a possible seven-year prison sentence. Two
other female members of the band have avoided arrest thus far.
"I announce a hunger strike because it is
unlawful," said Tolokonnikova, wearing a T-shirt with the famous slogan of
the Spanish Civil War, "No pasaran!" ("They shall not
pass"), emblazoned across it. "Until July 9 is not enough (time) for
me. I think it is absolutely unlawful," she said in the Tagansky district
court. "I am categorically against it and I announce a hunger
strike," Alekhina also said after the court delivered a separate ruling on
her and another one on Samutsevich. As the case generates media attention,
activists all over the world are advocating for Pussy Riot’s release. Over 100
Russian cultural figures, including some known for pro-government views, have
signed a letter calling for the release of the trio. "We see no legal
basis or practical reason for the further isolation of these young women, who
do not pose any real danger to society," the letter said.”
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for the video.
The secret
word is Courage
NOT EVERYTHING IN TEXAS IS BAD
A couple of
days ago I was slagging off Texans, but, to be fair, they all not all vicious Republican bumpkins. Check this anonymous mural of Charlie Bukowski in Austin. And
don’t forget what Charlie told us. “Some people never go crazy, what truly
horrible lives they must live.”
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
ALL HAIL THE GOD PARTICLE!
While the
very essence of the universe is revealed, not a million miles from Cern,
benighted oafs angrily assert that the universe was made just six thousand
years ago by their implausible skygod.
The secret
word is Hopeless
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS
This is
maybe less than kind but, when I saw reprint of Nick Kent’s 1975 review of
Motorhead’s debut at Hammersmith Odeon on the Rock’s Back Pages weekly
newsletter, I just couldn’t resist. A comrade from the trenches of the NME slagging
off three of my old mates, one of whom would become his own action figure, it was too fine to pass up. What you might call a witness to history. But what is
the historical outcome of all this? Was the critic wrong or did Lemmy take
Kent’s advice, rethink his battle plan and repopulate the combo? Don’t you miss
the 20th century?
“In fact, Sunday night at the Hammersmith Odeon was very
much yer connoisseur's guide to rampantly uninspired heavy metal thunder,
kicking off with Motorhead's shocking performance which promptly prefaced the
slickness to come with one of the most horrendous displays of H. Metal Savage
incompetence possibly ever performed.
Of course, it didn't exactly help that guitarist Larry
Wall-lace's bank of amplifiers quickly developed severe feed-back problems
rendering most of his playing inaudible beneath a plethora of teeth-grinding
electronic incontinence, but aside from that, the fact that Lemmy's consortium
raging through the likes of 'Bye Bye Johnny' and 'I'm Waiting for the Man'
ultimately comes on like nothing so much as Budgie on methedrine can't exactly
gladden the soul of the more discerning metal aficionado. Forced exile camping
it up at the Roundhouse should keep them from harm until such time as they see
their way to approaching their craft with something other than all the panache
of a butcher stripping meat from an overripe carcass. Interestingly enough,
Motorhead were given an immensely hard time from the crowd. They turned quite
nasty in fact towards the end, displaying all the earmarks of that rarest of
commodities in London – an uncompromisingly ballsy audience.”
Click here for Laz with Motorhead
The secret word is Afterbirth
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
THE DUMB OF TEXAS ARE UPON US
Those
mindless bumpkin zombies of Christian values also known as the Texas Republican
Party have published their 2012 platform online. It calls for just about every kind
of nasty, vicious, and backward legislation short of reinstating slavery. The
Texas GOP are just heading out for the 15th century and damn the
last vestiges of civilization which – in the modern conservative world – is
strictly for the rich anyway. Some of the most horrific proposals are in the
section titled Educating Our Children which – in addition to calls for a wider
use of corporal punishment – seem designed to keep the youth of Texas ignorant,
dumbed down, fearful, and hag-ridden by religion. Here are a couple of examples….
“We oppose the
teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification),
critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior
modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs
and undermining parental authority.
“We
recognize parental responsibility and authority regarding sex education. We
believe that parents must be given an opportunity to review the material prior
to giving their consent. We oppose any sex education other than abstinence
until marriage.”
Click here
for the whole depressing document.
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for George Strait
The secret
word is Imbecile
Andy Griffith -- RIP
Andy Griffith -- RIP
A FEAST OF BOB
It all started with a link on Dangerous Minds to a Bob Dylan clip from a
1984 Letterman show on which Bob played blinding versions of "Jokerman", and "License To
Kill" backed by a
rocking combination of members of the Plugz/Cruzados. (And, according to the
late Willy DeVille, Bob called him to ask where he could buy a sharp suit on 14th
Street for the show). After that, I can across a whole bunch of Bob and figured I should post
a few before Sony or someone rips them down.
OUR PAL HCB WRITES FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA...
“The weather is
reminding me more and more of the kind of devastation I used to see in the
first chapters of Flash Gordon serials, when Ming the Merciless was shooting
the world with the Purple Death ray.”
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