For No Good Reason

I brought another few hundred songs in to work. I thought I'd play 'em a bunch just to listen to things I'd been ignoring and it turns out iTunes hates these ten the most.

Let It Be | The Beatles
Stop Breaking Down | The Rolling Stones
Diego Maradona | Alboth (Have an old Omoide Hatoba song instead.)
Found You In A Dream | Silver Sun (Only about a minute and a half long, here's a bunch of that.)
Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone | Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Riding You | Chrome
Miss Ann | Little Richard
Life's What You Make It | Rowland S. Howard
Ballad Of Sister Sue | Slowdive
Danse Espagnole | Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà (Everyone knows Danse Espagnole so here.)

Agreement

Kirsten Powers:

Michele Bachmann: Don't Call Her a Feminist

Okay then.

In late 2010, when conservative pundit S.E. Cupp told CNN’s Larry King that she thought Bachmann should run for president, the panel erupted in giggles. King was puzzled: “Are you kidding or do you mean that?”

Nobody should be laughing now.

Indeed. Though S.E. Cupp looked like a really big stupid idiot for asserting that, people now know that she is a scary idiot.

DIABOLIK

Nostalgia

Here is a now-abandoned blog written by Mel Andringa. When I was in Iowa he put on a show with The Drawing Legion (a droll logo read "NEW YORK - AMSTERDAM - IOWA CITY) called The Fall of Babylon that I liked a whole bunch. Now he does Legion Arts in the City of Five Smells.

The first link, though, starts at the start and follows his artistic life, from painting and acting to finding out nifty ways of mixing the two with the springboard of work with Robert Wilson. I have had nearly no acquaintance with his other performed paintings - The Fall of Babylon was essentially a series of stage-sized images composed over time via performance and staging plus entertaining moaning about the agonies of creation - but the writing at the blog is somehow naïve and knowing and it's interesting to me to watch him move through visual styles and on through performance styles. (You gotta click "NEXT" at the bottom of the page as the site's archiving mechanism is not the greatest.)

He gets points for figuring out the neat trick of buying different puzzles from the same manufacturer and mixing them.

Clicking the pic gets you Flickr sets.

Lovecraft Remixed

Computers eaten by invisible monsters in broad daylight:

It is with great trepidation and horror that I announce the Lovecraft Remixed chapbook, a collection of the “SciFi Gnoetry” that Matthew and I have interactively-generated over the last year or so.

An Apple Disaster

It's not actually intuitive or helpful to redesign an entire program that people use day in and day out in a working environment. Final Cut is complicated stuff. Also removing features is a fucking no-no. And hey, taking the old version off the market was pretty sharp!

Gurlz Ztuff

This is awesome. I would tell you something about it but I don't have anything funnier to say and excerpting ANY of the jokes would detract from the experience.

I even enjoyed these commenters detracting from the experience. Concern!

Tell Da Joke

The Speech Accent Archive

Hey, George Mason University has a neat thing!

Also crazy cranks.

World B. Free

News in names:

Ron Artest, a Lakers’ forward, is one step closer to changing his name. Artest has already filed the necessary paperwork with the Los Angeles County Superior Court so that he can change his name. Artest wants to change his name to “Metta World Peace” and he is serious about this.

Ron you silly Billy, I demand to know why I was not consulted. The JanusNode can do so much better:

Sergeant Lou Thuno Crevice-Outfit
Barbara
Knocker Shaved-Culminating
Docfernanda Interrogate
Honest Deceitfully
Recitation Sung
Rudyfub Deforestation
Rocketing-Crusher
Centennial Itineraries
Twombly-Inundate
Maryape Implicit
Collateral Beepree
Diachronic Burnes
Mitchell Prying-Target
Casualness
Clogs
Nobleman Antiquarians
Crouch Perpetrating
Auckland Sybil
Cackles Klooploocprothla
Osbert Repealer
Resynchronization Identically
Mister Thoodhaf
Tire Bulky
Edgar Defoe
Yopldek Manure
Va
Adducible Wade
Metaphorical Toledo
Meel
Art Upholsters
Wegibod
Stans Pranks
Tishpicayune Mortician-Patterning
Wesoundness Macarthur-Surmount

Yup

Proving the Point

Roger Kimball has questions:

I was away from my computer yesterday when I got the news that Conrad Black, former proprietor of the London Telegraph, The Spectator, and other plum media outlets, was sentenced by Judge Amy St. Eve in Chicago to another year in jail for . . . er, why was it that Conrad Black had been sent to jail? Back in 2007, federal prosecutors complied a laundry list of charges against Lord Black and spoke of seeking a sentence of “24 to 30” years for . . . again, what was it that Lord Black had done?

My dear Mr. Kimball, if you follow the link Mr. Kimball supplies you will find out that Black is still in jail for one count of fraud (two were reversed!) and you will also find a handy videotape of Mr. Black trying to hide evidence, which resulted in the obstruction charge.

You're welcome Roger Kimball. Thanks for the assist Roger Kimball.

The biographical information below could use some updating:



Et cetera:

Filed For Later Use

Someone's face will fit in there one day. MAYBE MINE. I guess there's a post beneath that could use it too. Had I but world enough and time I'd commit the photoshopic crime. Later.

I Owe the Gods

Sure would be terrible if her head hit the floor hard:

Barbara Amiel fainted after a judge ruled Friday afternoon that her husband, Conrad Black, will return to prison after he was resentenced in a Chicago courtroom.

Barbara Amiel link added by me, just to be mean. Well done, Lady Shitbag!

A Murder

Via a comment at LGM I'll just pass this along.

The details are thin but they sure don’t smell right. The short form is that Sunny Sheu had his house stolen from him by fictive buyers who used forged documents. Judge Golia of Queens engaged in what appears to be highly questionable behavior in failing to reverse the sale. Sheu started investigating the judge, was told by policeman who specifically referred to information he had provided about Golia, and that if he didn’t drop it, he’d wind up dead. Sheu disregarded their warning and did wind up dead. The authorities are also refusing to honor requests for information regarding Sheu’s death made under New York’s Freedom of Information Act. This story has been publicized by Foreclosure Fraud and The Daily Bail and I hope it gets more traction.

Worth reading. Comments fill out details (a rare thing).

Behaviour

What is that other crap in the way when there could be MORE BABY ARMADILLOS?

Words

For no special reason other than that I'm reading it - and all right-thinking people do what I do - here's a PDF of the constitution of Afghanistan in English.

Articles 22 through 59 are the supposed rights of the citizenry.

Freedom is awesome.

At Some Future Point Sarah Palin May Be Involved In Some Voting-Related Activity According to an Article at Another Outlet Based on a Press Release

Good thing we have this important news:

And the Emmy winner is… Sarah Palin?

Don’t rule it out: The former Alaska governor just might score an Emmy nomination next month. Palin was an executive producer for her reality series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” and according to the Los Angeles Times, TLC has entered the show “for consideration in four categories: cinematography, picture editing, music composition and best reality program.”

Exactly how many shows has TLC entered "for consideration"? Also I enter everyone on my blogroll for a Nobel prize.

And oh, hey, didn't she quit that show?



Brent Bozell says the new Palin documentary is "more than a documentary, it's an event" BUT:

Most conservatives are Palin fans, but it she runs for president, will they favor her over other candidates? This is where the film begins to grate, suggesting Palin is a better, more conservative alternative than all the male GOP presidential contenders. Andrew Breitbart, Mark Levin, and Tammy Bruce suggest Palin is Ronald Reagan's natural heir. The governing experience of other conservatives is somehow translated into a negative.

Is Sarah Palin that much better? Breitbart steps on a more than a few toes by insisting that conservative men inside the Washington Beltway are all "eunuchs who have run as men but aren't men" for failing to be aggressive enough against Obama and allowing Palin to be criticized. That's not exactly a page from "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

Rest easy Brent, your party is not about to get PWNED BY A GURL.

Good Talk

Now really, is that good talk?

That Leech

That leech really needs an ophthalmologist. Also a mousetache.



What the heck, have a badly reorganized set of Captain Beefheart sounds.