Well, another weekend is almost upon us. And it’s my last weekend of being a bum and not having to get up and go to work every morning – at least for a couple of months. I guess today I’ll try and go out and get some decent clothes, so I don’t look like too much of a bum when I start on Tuesday morning. Siggy did a little too much running around yesterday, so hopefully he won’t mind (too much) if we take a day off today. Have a good Firday.
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Oops. Forgot to turn this one on. Oh well, that’s what happens when you get old and feeble minded.
I’m outa here!
yay, new thread. Don’t worry PJ, you’re almost perfect with putting up new blogs every morning, it wouldn’t have killed us to use the other one for awhile :doh:
The rest of you…come to where it’s cool! The new blahg calls! (My friend Megs has been calling a “blog” a “blahg” and I’ve been doing that a lot lately)
Ha, well this was easy to catch up on.
Looking from the inside you feel,
Nothing on the outside is real.
Does it really show?
All the other kid’s put you down,
No one ever wants you around. No one want’s an alien.
Never ever thought you could feel
Cuz everything around you stands still
But will they ever know?
Dreaming of a place far away
Know that you were born here a stray
Does it realy show?
Cant make it playing their games,
When everyone plays it all the same
No one wants an alien
Never ever thought you could feel.
Cuz everything around you stands still.
But will they ever know?
Looking from the inside you feel,
Nothing on the outside is real.
Does it really show?
The vision keeps coming at you still,
Cause somthing deep inside you is real.
But will they ever know?
Never ever thought you could feel.
cuz everything around you stands still.
No one want’s an alien.
Rachel had Al Gore on :banana::banana: Its good to see a democrat that not afraid of AAR :omg:
Nay called Rachel a crossdressing lesbian. Chris Matthews and Nay must be related.
That was the total of the morning news other than Hartlessman got punch drunk on Rhodes show yesterday..
I have yet to hear that song
Oh man, ok. I can usually get the Rachel stream on Radiopower later in the day sometime or over the weekend. Maybe I’ll be able to hear her with Gore at some point.
Grrrrrrrrrrr 😡 I hate when they attack people’s sexuality (Ney with the Rachel crossdressing comment)
MiniNova usually has a torrent of Rachels show
You’ll find Honey’s take on “No One Wants an Alien” to be a light semi-acoustic masterpiece with a beautifully sung rendition of Sage’s lyrics.
Kay then, I’ll look for it. Maybe I can even find it on MySpace.
Krugman is fantastic today…see it on RIPCoco….
suz, if youve got AOL instant messenger I can transfer Rachel to you right now.
If I could get into my grandpa page I could post it…but the ISP is not returning my emails and my password suddenly doesnt work!…PJ or anyone else…any suggestions on servers who are really good with tech help. My cable company is about to offer storage space along with a faster connection but its not here yet and I cant get to my himanbrown.com page…damn!!!!
yes, I’m SillySuzieJoy on AIM!
Portland is very trendy now. What was it like then?
Portland was considered a logger’s town. It was a very uncool place. In that era, if you weren’t from New York, L.A. or London, you didn’t exist. We had to move to New York for a year and a half to get our label off the ground because I’d talk to distributors, and they’d say, ‘Well, where’s your label from?’ I’d tell them we were in Portland, Oregon and they’d laugh and hang up. It was considered pre-historic, some place you just didn’t want to be. The funny thing was that the Seattle bands had to come to Portland to play because there wasn’t anything going on up in Seattle. There wasn’t a lot of prejudice against outsiders in Portland, unlike a lot of other places.”
I’ve heard that the Wipers really emphasized all-ages shows, even if you had to bend the rules at bars to make ‘em happen.
People were always having benefits and trying to rent out halls for all-ages shows, but the police would shut them down constantly. So we decided to use the system against itself. We’d do split shows at places like the Long Goodbye and the Earth–all-ages early in the evening, then 21-and-over later. The bars loved it after they tried it, of course, because the people who could drink would never show up until after 10 anyway. Long Goodbye, Earth Tavern both took to this scheme. Because of what that started, Portland always had a steady stream of constant, reliable music venues, which is something a lot of other places didn’t have. We had people from 11 years old to people in their mid-50s, every race, creed and color, all hanging out in the same room.
And, finally, you had something going.
Yes. I didn’t take long before the scene created a furor in that the press got behind it, and that opened the doors to people you would never have imagined going to shows. It was completely and utterly beautiful. I don’t think Portland ever realized, until about 10 years after the fact, what it had created a furor in that the press got behind it, and that opened the doors to people you would never have imagined going to shows.
So, don’t you guys think that Kenny Boy Leigh will get a nice little pardon from the chimperor?
Suz- Im Luckymess MCB…give me a sec and Ill take the commercials out for you.
Interesting… who wrote that, Nicki?
I dont think that Bush would DARE pardon Kenny….but then nothing surprises me anymore!
Now you did it Melina, you used a form of “never” and now it will happen. :knit2::wink:
Nicki was quoting Greg Sage
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BTW Hi
Melina, thanks for the Krugman. I hope Will continues to improve.
WASHINGTON – After hearing assurances he will be independent of the Pentagon, the Senate on Friday easily confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden, a career Air Force man, to head the CIA.
Hayden, a four-star general, currently is the top deputy to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
Hayden, 61, would be the first active-duty or retired military officer to run the spy agency in 25 years. He was approved by a vote of 78-15.
Alphabetical by Senator Name:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Yea
Allen (R-VA), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burns (R-MT), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Not Voting
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Craig (R-ID), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Dayton (D-MN), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dole (R-NC), Not Voting
Domenici (R-NM), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Frist (R-TN), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Not Voting
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Jeffords (I-VT), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Martinez (R-FL), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Nay
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting
Salazar (D-CO), Not Voting
Santorum (R-PA), Yea
Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Sununu (R-NH), Yea
Talent (R-MO), Yea
Thomas (R-WY), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Not Voting
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (R-VA), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
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Well, after screwing around with my new Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 for hours last night, and then resorting to calling customer support and spending quite a bit of time with the tech support guy, we determined that they shipped me a bad device, so I have to return it. This means I won’t have it with me for dorm life, so I guess I’ll have to settle for dowloading TV from home over the Internet, which should be painfully slow, but at least doable. Sucks though, since I would at least have had access to CSPAN and Comedy Central and whatnot. Oh well.
Police sealed off the Capitol on Friday after receiving reports of gunfire in a House office building across the street.
Capitol police are investigating “the sound of gunfire in the garage level of the Rayburn House Office BHuilding,” said an announcement on the internal Capitol voice alarm system.
The Senate was in session at the time, but the House was not.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., conducting a House Intelligence Committee hearing, interrupted a witness to request those attending the meeting to remain in the room and said the doors must be closed.
“It’s a little unsettling to get a Blackberry message put in front of you that says there’s gunfire in the building,” he said.
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This is still developing.. Maybe Hastert exploded..
yeah…theyveloced down the house office building oacross fromt he capital but they dontknow anything so theyre just trying to find teens who are working there as pages or whatever….a funny kid just said that he only heard somethig like metal dropping and that he didnt think it was gunshots…the reporter on the ground quickly dismissed him….
I wonder whats going on there?
they will have a press conference at noon to say whats happening.
There is a capital police shooting range in one of the garage levels, and also some witnesses say it may have been a car backfiring…but its enough to shut down the entire capital….
Krista…did I say never? I try to never say never….I just siad that nothing surprises me anymore…
Concerning a possible pardon of Ken Lay, a caller on Stephanie Miller’s show today opined that Chimpy would never do it because it would kill any further political aspirations brother Jeb might have.
I agree with this theory only up to the point where I realize that it would require voters to remember (and still be pissed off about) the pardon at the time Jeb declared himself a candidate. Most people in this country are still so lost in space or distracted by crap like American Idol and Natalee Holloway that I’m not sure the national attention span would even be a factor.
No offense to Taylor Hicks or Katharine McPhee, who are talented and are probably both very nice people. I just have better things to do. Although I have to admit that I was pissed about missing Prince because I was watching Lost that hour. 😀
If anything, the chimp would pardon Kenny Boy on his (the chimp’s) way out the door in Jan 2009. It would probably cause a small harrumph, but since the bulkof the traditional media will no doubt continue to be in the pocket of corporations, it would be downplayed and quickly forgotten – particularly if a Democrat (especially if it’s Hillary) is elected in 2008. If that happens, I predict the traditional media will suddenly develop a tremendous desire to do hard-hitting merciless investigative reporting on everything the new administration does – no matter how seemingly insignificant when compared to the war, corruption, greed, and lying the Bush administration has put this country through. And that’s only if we survive to see a new administration.
Heh. From the Rude Pundit:
Defender of Imperial Property Rights
Bush Targets Chavez and Morales
By ROGER BURBACH
George W. Bush has come out with harsh words for the governments of Bolivia and Venzeuela.“Let me just put it bluntly–I’m concerned about the erosion of democracy in the countries you mentioned,” Bush said in response to a question put to him about Venezuela and Bolivia. “I am going to continue to remind our hemisphere that respect for property rights and human rights is essential for all countries,” he added.
While Bush’s hostility towards Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is well known, his critical comments about Bolivia came as somewhat of a surprise, given that Evo Morales has served only four months as the country’s first Indian president and has done nothing to thwart the democratic process. As Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca noted: “We are creating a participatory democracy and the world knows it. I don’t understand how the United States can say democracy is eroding…”
Bush’s true agenda is reflected in his call for “respect for property rights.” A change is taking place in South America as Morales and Chavez move to exert greater control of their energy resources and challenge US plans for a hemispheric free trade zone. As the president of the Bolivian Senate, Santos Ramirez, noted: “Bolivia and Latin America are no longer the servile democracies that tolerate…poverty and the surrendering of sovereignty.” […]
http://www.counterpunch.org
The United States is currently home to over 12 million people without immigration documents, which makes them and their families subject to deportation, and vulnerable to exploitation at work. Nevertheless, the groups point to provisions of the Senate bill that they say will make immigrants much worse off than they are even at present. Those include:
* Under the Hagel-Martinez legalization plan, undocumented immigrants with less than two years in the US (about a million people) would be immediately subject to deportation. Those with two to five years would also have to leave the country, and could apply to reenter through some currently unknown process. The ability of border stations to handle the applications of the 3 to 4 million people involved is extremely doubtful, given the current years-long backlog in normal visa applications.
* S 2611, like HR 4437 passed by the House in December, would ramp up the enforcement of employer sanctions. This provision of current law makes it a crime for undocumented people to hold a job, and is used frequently by employers to retaliate against workers who try to enforce labor standards or join unions. The Social Security Administration would become immigration police, forcing all workers to carry a new national ID card, and would require employers to fire anyone whose documents they question. The current Basic Pilot program, which moves in this direction, has shown the SSA database to be rife with errors.
* The Senate bill expands current guest worker programs and establishes new ones, allowing employers to recruit workers outside the country on temporary visas. These new contract workers would be vulnerable to employer pressure, since their visa status would be dependent on their employment. Further, as the AFL-CIOs Ana Avendaño points out, “this turns jobs which are now held by permanent employees with rights and benefits into jobs filled by temporary, contract employees. It basically takes the jobs of millions of people out of the protections of the New Deal, won by workers decades ago.”
Eat shit and get sick, Tyger Thom, etal.!:fu:
The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is it Really?
by Stephen Zunes; Foreign Policy in Focus; May 25, 2006
Since its publication in the London Review of Books in March, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt’s article “The Israel Lobby” — and the longer version published as a working paper for Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government — has received widespread attention from across the political spectrum. These noted professors put forward two major arguments: the first is the very legitimate and widely acknowledged (outside of official Washington) concern that U.S. Middle East policy, particularly U.S. support for the more controversial policies of the Israeli government, is contrary to the long-term strategic interests of the United States. Their second, and far more questionable, argument is that most of the blame for this misguided policy rests with the ” Israel lobby” rather than with the more powerful interests that actually drive U.S. foreign policy.
The Mearsheimer/Walt article has been met by unreasonable criticism from a wide range of rightist apologists for U.S. support of the Israeli occupation, including Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel (who accused the authors of being “anti-Semites”), Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz (who falsely claimed that the authors gathered materials from websites of neo-Nazi hate groups), pundits like Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes, and publications like the New York Sun and the New Republic. The authors have also been unfairly criticized for supposedly distorting the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though their overview is generally quite accurate. The problem is in their analysis.
The article has garnered unreasonable praise from many in progressive circles, who have posted it on websites, circulated it on listservs, and lauded it as an example of speaking truth to power. Though critiques in establishment circles of the bipartisan U.S. support for the Israeli occupation are unusual and welcome, progressive promoters of this article have largely failed to assess the ideological agenda of its authors and the validity of their specific arguments.
It should be noted that Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent figures in the realist school of international relations, which discounts international law, human rights, and other legal and moral concerns in foreign policy. The realist tradition downplays diplomacy not backed by military force, belittles the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, and dismisses the growing role of international nongovernmental organizations and popular movements.
With some notable exceptions, Mearsheimer and Walt have been largely supportive of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War and subsequently. For example, during the 1980s, Mearsheimer — a graduate of West Point — opposed both a nuclear weapons freeze and a no-first-use nuclear policy. A critic of nonproliferation efforts, Mearsheimer has defended India’s atomic weapons arsenal and has even called for the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states such as Germany and Ukraine. He was also an outspoken supporter of the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf War…
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10328§ionID=107
The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, confronts how the slur of “anti-semite” has been used to intimidate critics of Israel’s abuse of Palestinians. It includes essays by Uri Avnery, Edward Said, Michael Neumann and Bill and Kathy Christison.
The Case Against Israel by Michael Neumann, professor of philosophy at Trent University, systematically dismantles the rationales for Israel put forward by Alan Dershowitz and other defenders of the Zionist state.
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For the past few weeks a sometimes comic debate has simmering in the American press, focused on the question of whether there is an Israeli lobby, and if so, just how powerful is it?
I would have thought that to ask whether there’s an Israeli lobby here is a bit like asking whether there’s a Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and a White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. For the past sixty years the Lobby has been as fixed a part of the American scene as either of the other two monuments, and not infrequently exercising as much if not more influence on the onward march of history.
The late Steve Smith, brother in law of Teddy Kennedy, and a powerful figure in the Democratic Party for several decades, liked to tell the story of how a group of four Jewish businessmen got together two million dollars in cash and gave it to Harry Truman when he was in desperate need of money amidst his presidential campaign in 1948. Truman went on to become president and to express his gratitude to his Zionist backers.
Since those days the Democratic Party has long been hospitable to, and supported by rich Zionists. In 2002, for example, Haim Saban, the Israel-American who funds the Saban Center at the Brooking Institute and is a big contributor to AIPAC, gave $12.3 million to the Democratic Party. In 2001, the magazine Mother Jones listed on its web site the 400 leading contributors to the 2000 national elections. Seven of the first 10 were Jewish, as were 12 of the top 20 and 125 of the top 250. Given this, all prudent candidates have gone to amazing lengths to satisfy their demands. There have been famous disputes, as between President Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin, and famous vendettas, as when the Lobby destroyed the political careers of Representative Paul Findley and of Senator Charles Percy because they were deemed to be anti-Israel.
None of this history is particularly controversial, and there have been plenty of well-documented accounts of the activities of the Israel Lobby down the years, from Alfred Lilienthal’s 1978 study, The Zionist Connection, to former US Rep Paul Findley’s 1985 book They Dare To Speak Out to Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the US-Israeli Covert Relationship, written by my brother and sister-in-law, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn and published in 1991.
Three years ago the present writer and Jeffrey St Clair published a collection of 18 essays called The Politics of Anti-Semitism, no less than four of which were incisive discussions of the Israel lobby. Jeffrey St Clair described how the Lobby had successfully stifled any public uproar after Israeli planes attacked a US Navy ship in the Mediterranean in 1967 and killed many US sailors. Kathy and Bill Christison, former CIA analysts, reviewed the matter of dual loyalty, with particular reference to the so-called Neo-Cons, alternately advising an Israeli prime minister and an American president. Jeffrey Blankfort offered a detailed historical chronology of the occasions on which the Lobby had thwarted the plans of US presidents including Carter, Reagan, Ford, and Bush Sr.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/05/12/471/
Most vividly of all in our book, a congressional aide, writing pseudonymously under the name George Sutherland, contributed a savagely funny essay called “Our Vichy Congress”. Some extracts:
“For expressions of sheer groveling subservience to a foreign power, the pronouncements of Laval and Petain pale in comparison to the rhetorical devotion with which certain Congressmen have bathed the Israel of Ariel Sharon…
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Anti-semitism. The race card, the religion card, blah. They keep playing those cards, I’d like to reshuffle the whole deck 🙁
Freud and the non-EuropeanEdward Said
Introduced by Christopher Bollas
Afterword by Jacqueline Rose
Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said’s abiding interest in Freud’s work and its important influence on his own.
He proposes that Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel’s relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.
“Quite differently from the spirit of Freud’s deliberately provocative reminders that Judaism’s founder was a non-Jew, and that Judaism begins in the realm of Egyptian, non-Jewish monotheism, Israeli legislation countervenes, represses, and even cancels Freud’s carefully maintained opening out of Jewish identity toward its non-Jewish background.”
“I heard … Edward Said give Freud and the Non-European as a lecture at the Freud Museum in London … now it stands in gried and memory of that dear, good and great man as my pre-eminent book of the year.” — Tom Paulin, Guardian, Books of the Year 2003
“His reading of Freud‘s reading of the history of the Jewish people is undeniably brilliant, and persuades the reader yet further that the attempts by the Likudniks and fundamentalist Zionists to harden Judaism into one particular model of Zionism tied to one particular plot of land is both intellectually flawed and a betrayal of Judaism‘s pluralist history.” — Times Literary Supplement
“The voice of the late Edward Said can still be heard in all its trenchant vitality.” — Marina Warner, Irish Times, Books of the Year 2003
“An intriguing critique of Freud’s work that is complemented by Rose’s commentary.” — Multicultural Review
Piss off, SensiBrenner!:fu:
I’ll burn your motherfucking senses. Welcome to the Wild West. Plenty of RoundUps. Mexicans on the run!
All new info on the topic, just shows how ignorant I am on Judaism
Better to Burn the Whole Fucking Deck!
Give me Tarot Cards, Baby!:nixon:
God I had the most frustrating BRAT to teach today, I soooo need to wind down :omg:
I’ll take the Fool, that’s my card 🙂
put on the Ramones’ “Beat on the Brat” Ahahahaha yesss. Now I feel better
So how was your day?
I got a postcard in the mail with cool painting
I am glad that Bruce Cherry and Johnny K Street are still doing comedy on AAR. They make a great team, along with Barry Lank.
I’m aa BRAT!:nixon:
A painting of What?:omg:
I’m a BRAT!:rofl2:
Yeah but you’re a different kind! :wink:-
It seems to be a man wearing glasses
Any packages?
It’s pretty cool. I don’t know who he is though
That one! Who is it?
no, just checked my mail (Postcard came yesterday). Somebody from Portland keeps sending me stuff!!!
Guess? Who does it look like?
Valuable stuff in a package. Hope it’s not lost in the mail. Postage due? If so, I’ll re-imburse.
hold on, let me get it
Best of the Majority Report!:omg:
Why does Janeane keep blowing off the show?
She says that she does not draw a salary. My hunch is that she owns a portion of AAR.
Oh, I guess I should know but my head feels doped up today. And you’re not the type to give hints, right?
very well, I will contemplate this along with a select number of tarot cards while playing suitable Hindu music and try to meditate my way to an answer…
ha, these shows are never the “best of,” they’re always any rerun they dig up at the last minute, mostly the most recent shows
Maybe it is a bad painting.
Any hints would give the answer right away, New Jersey.:rofl2:
no…maybe I’m just not very sharp today. All the art I’ve seen of yours is very good
:::makes incomprehensible sounds::::smack:
As a performer, she owes much to both the incantory rhythms of—:rabbi:
is it…noooooooo
author. poet. um, I don’t want to sound like ajerk if I guess wrong
Nicki, this is not someone I’ve seen a lot of pictures of, but I did figure it out, I think
If you’re wrong, it only means that the painting is bad.:rabbi::rofl2:
it can’t possibly mean that I don’t recognize the person because I don’t know what they look like??? :omg:
It is of someone you’ve seen. Probably many times. More times than you can remember.
:bow::rabbi::nixon:
What is the subject’s ethnicity?
http://www.macioce.org/photos/alanginsberg01.jpg
right??? And I followed up on your hint using google, so I’m not a genius
How the fuck did you do that?:rofl2::rabbi::nixon::jesus:
the quote you gave me, I just googled it and it mentioned him
Goddamn google!:omg::fu:
I’m a master at google. Quite likely the best in the world at seraching for anything 😉
Well, does the painting look like your guess?:rabbi:
And it DOES LOOK LIKE HIM!
I went through a phase where I painted :rabbi: a lot.
thank you. It’s wonderful. 🙂
well some of us are enticing :tongue:
Who did you think it was prior to the google? First guess? Be Beat about it, Kerouac.
I honestly had no idea
It had been exhibited at an art show.
Shit!:omg:
Wow, I’d love to see more of your art
Did you ever see him in Manhattan?
New Jersey?
Not that I recall. Famous artists I’ve known: Keith Haring (went to school with him), Art spiegelman, and Will Eisner. I met author Tama Janowitz. And I saw Dr. Ruth and Jon Stewart on the street. That’s about it, I think, Oh yes, Eric Idle from Monty Python…
I haven’t painted in a while. I am lazy. In need of motivation.
Were you ever interested in him?
No, but I’ll look for him if you want… 😮 except that we’re trying to find this rock star that disappeared you see and that might take up some time first…
I have a novel by Tama Janowitz.
Rock Star is more important.
Can you draw comic strips?
You should paint something. I need to do some artwork also. I need to buy art supplies first, theyre’ expensive. I read “On the Road” a long time ago, that’s about my experience with “beat” stuff…
Yep, comic strips and children’s book type illustrations is my specialty. I also do portraits, there’s one I have up on my blog right now. I rescued a few journals from the fire and I’ve been scanning stuff rom it.
“Hey. Where are you girls going?”
“We are driving through the Pine Barrens to New Jersey.”
“Oh. Are you trying to pick up the Jersey Devil.”
“We are searching for the Electric Warrior.”
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I have enough art supplies. Just fucking unmotivated.
are you using that in the Zine? I like that whole thing about the Pine Barrens. Maybe I should look for our rock star there too, a lot of strange and interesting people come from that area 😉
A fire. That is a TRAGEDY! I have no excuse for my inactivity.
I want you to do the graphic for a text of that sort.
I love your drawings also. Are you putting any new ones into the new issue? I can’t wait…
about looking the pine barrens? I’ll see what I can come up with. I need to get some pencils and some ink, I have literally nothing in the house right now to draw with
I can’t do comic strips, Spiegelman.
Okay. What supplies do you need?
I wish I could inspire you! Draw something for me, LOL
oh I’ll get them, don’t worry. I just need to get off my ass and do it. I don’t paint a lot, so it’s mostly drawing supplies and paper, prismacolor pencils, rapidograph ink, stuff like that
Spiegelman was my teacher in SVA. as was Will Eisner. Speigelman taught history of sequential art, Eisner taught technique.
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Are you hearing Eric from New Jersey. The guy blew it! Good critique, if Eric would have been explicit. Sam is one host who would put on a lefty like Cockburn.
Good stuff!
no, was looking through my closet for art supplies….I found a few things but I’m going to have to go down to the art store sometime soon…
Eric kept hammering Sam about his championing liberals like Atrios, but not having as guests people who are critical of the Democratic Party, like Alexander Cockburn. The caller did not do the cause well, though. As i said, The Majority Report is one AAR show where a radical lefty like Cockburn would be invited. Can you think of any more?
Sam is commenting on the caller now.
I’m listening now…no, most shows have strictly democratic or “centrist” types
There have been some radicals on. Malloy is one good host. Laura Flanders is quite likely a radical lefty. Pap. Peter Werbe…….:omg::omg:
Auto-da-fe!:omg:
Yep, Peter Werbe, I heard him a couple of times. As for Malloy, I guess it doesn’t surprise me. He pretty much rocks
The anti-Gore, anti-Clinton sliming has begun, starting with Chris “I wish I could quit you” Matthews, and Maureen Dowd. We simply have got to start getting nasty with these bastards, or they’ll hand the election to the CrytoFascist party again. And if you back Feingold or anyone else, don’t worry, the mediawhores will parrot the GOP line against your guy too. I jumped ugly with that Dickerson guy in Slate yesterday for repeating, yet again, that phony “earth tones” story about Gore and the poor boy acted all shocked. You know, i think i hurt his feelings! Its the so-called liberals who are the worst ones! The next asshole who repeats the ‘invented the internet’ story, or the love canal story, should get the total Dan Rather treatment. We have got to start squashing these bugs at every opportunity, and by the way, someone should start guardianship proceedings for that senile David Broder. And I’m sorry Dr. Dean, no Democrat should ever go on Matthews or Russert again except to abuse the host and confront them with their own lies. Enough with the pansy ass stuff. John Stewart showed how its done.
Somerby at Dailyhowler.com is on the case, and Alterman sometimes, but this has to become a blogger crusade or it really won’t matter who gets nominated.
And speaking of ineffectual defiance, does anybody know what happened to Pendejo?
I usually don’t post this late, especially when Nicki and Suzie are bonding so strongly 😆
but if you want a take on the immigration issue that you may not have thought about before, check out NOW on PBS. It already ran on the east coast, but you may be able to catch a repeat later tonight. West Coasters, it’s new to you.
The first segment is about Latino immigrants who are here LEGALLY ALREADY as guest workers and are getting screwed out of pay, benefits, job security and pretty much human dignity in general.
And Bush wants to EXPAND this shit? And leave these people with NO HOPE of ever becoming legal citizens?
Anybody else remember when the Americans were the good guys? The rest of the world is forgetting too.
Sorry to sound preachy going into a holiday weekend, but shit like this really pisses me off. Idiots like Senselessbrenner need to be made aware of this.
I think I just assigned myself a project!
But not tonight. There’s already a project in progress that I need to get back to.
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Smedley Butler
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill…
War is a Racket
Smedley Butler
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Smedley.
Damn, everybody sure copped out early tonight. Either that, or there is a nationwide general strike going on that I am not aware of.
ohhh overslept again :omg:
bird poop 🙁
I am going to Powells tomorrow and buy that Smedley Butler book. Can you imagine a general writing such a book today?
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I am soooo out of the loop
Smedley you da man :nixon:damn my body clock is so mixed up
Malloy is on on KTLK. But only for an hour.
I’ll try to stream him, maybe somebody’s voice will help 😮
Not political, but homey, Whatd’ya know? is what I’m listening to. It gives me a bit of Wisconson over here.
“at least 25 dems will confirm this thug” Yep Mike. I love the way he phrases things
what kind of show is it, Kong? (good afternoon to you)
Mike Malloy is a classic case “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you” 😕
The live show is done in an auditorium (Often in Madison WI) where host talks with audience members, there’s a jazz number, a ‘news’ part, and a quiz where someone at the show partners with someone on the phone. The host helps A LOT to help them win. It’s folksy and scattered with WI references.
It makes a great background when I’m busy doing house chores.
I guess listening to that is not anything like being in Hong Kong. When I was in HK (was there twice) I craved a couple of American things toward the end of the trip, but mostly food…I don’t think I’d ever want a taste of the midwest :omg:
Susan, funny you mention craving things from home. Yesterday I noted I hadn’t eaten anything Western (including bread or potatoes) since Sunday. I quckly made a tuna sandwich.
LOL I understand. I was staying with my brother and on the last day of the trip he found us a kosher deli 🙂 I think that was the weirdest part of the whole trip
Hoping Butcher (and the only place I can find in my 17 years here) does a brisket, oh.
Long time away from home changes many things, but the occasional food choice is old.
When were you in Hong Kong? (ie Before 1997?)
I went to HK just after they transferred it back to Chinese hands, and once again two years after that. When was that exactly? I think it was 1990-something (97? 98? I honestly can’t remember). My brother was living there at the time. We also saw Macau and on the second trip went up to Beijing for a couple of days, saw the Great Wall, etc.
HK has changed DRAMATICLY from 1990 to now. Even the COASTline has changed. Read “TaiPan” to get a feel for prehandover (97) HK.
I was there (and was rained on) for the handover.
Yeah, you could see that things were in transition over there, but when I went you could still see the “British” over there because the change had just happened. Im sure it’s incredibly different now
I just ordered Smedley Butler’s classic book. Also an obscure Brecht play, and a tribute album for a Portland band.
NickiRose, IS #1 :banana:Yea
:omg::banana::wink::banana::omg:
Changes from stores, language (more Putongwha), crossing the street, bars, and news.
I am wurkin’ and lurkin’ here:hubba:
Hi Druid! Those suckers are making me work today from 9 to 3 🙁 Eh, I’m the sucker I guess. So no back to sleep for me.
That’s Mandarin, right? I guess that was inevitable. I need to go back and visit sometime. I want to see the Botanical Garden/zoo there again 🙂