planing lakesnews and links on books music artback up- June 29, 2008 some catching up: blogstudio has been a bit wonky lately: R.I.P. George Carlin the most important comic between Nichols & May and Richard Pryor Certainly one of the most influential comics of the last 60 years, unforgettable. Lately he was so bitter I didn't watch him much, but i understand the bitterness, and share it my self at times. Hopefully we'll learn from his work and wisdom. I tried out amazon's mp3 store today, since their daily deal is the Ramones' re-mastered Rocket to Russia...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... offshore oil fiasco.- June 20, 2008 it should surprise no one at this point that congress and shrubco are not only hopelessly deluded andor blithely corrupt, but dangerously incompetent -- but if you need another clue, try the offshore oil fiasco courtesy of the ever-trenchant undernewsAccording to the NYT, the Energy Information Agency estimates that the total amount of oil in the offshore zone in question is about 16 billion barrels. If we assume that it would take about ten years from the day of authorization to get to pe...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... major genreal convinced shrubco guilty of war crim- June 19, 2008 major general who investigated abu ghraib says there is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... real russert- June 19, 2008 just had to quote someone who isn't myopic about the real tim russertOkay, so Russert was an enabler of the neocons, who allowed his vastly influential program to function as the War Party's sounding board, but then again, so many were duped that it seems vindictive to emphasize this point so soon after his tragic death. Right Wrong. It wasn't just his sycophancy in the presence of power that motivates my little exercise in Russert revisionism &8211; it's what was clearly his vehement host...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... artist cleared of all charges in art is terrorism- June 15, 2008 and oh yeah, it's been a bad week for the nazis: of course the supreme court ruled that gitmo detainees can appeal to civilian courts, and artist steve kurtz's nightmare encounter with the jackboots in buffalo is over after 4 long years (that's what that "art is not terrorism" banner at the left was about, if you didn't click in)...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... overload- June 15, 2008 life just isn't allowing for much blogging these days, not that there isn't lots to talk about: 8th grade kids in the Bronx just saying "no" to endless standardized testing; thieving airport security mooks; the utter absurdity of the occupation; mega-ISPs planning to charge by the byte; canadians facing a medieval copyright law; and rising violence over food prices, among many issues i haven't had the whatever to post about lately but heather havrilesky cheered me up:America loves a whore. W...http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPos... |