“During the draft riots, crowds targeted places that represented the war effort, the Republican party, and/or social privilege. Brooks Brothers clothing store was known both as a purveyor of clothes to the upper classes and a government war contractor. In this illustration, the distant perspective makes the crowd of men and women seem industrious but not particularly menacing.”
I wonder if this is actually the guy who does those voiceovers.
Catchy Bollywood number which is apparently the opening music to Inside Man. (Which I have yet to see.) Supports Jeb’s “all music video dancing comes from Michael Jackson’s Thriller”theory.
ALTAI, Russia — Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2000. Environmentalists fear for the region’s future due to toxic rocket fuel.
Totally looks like a still from a sci-fi fantasy movie that I haven’t gotten around to yet. If I wait maybe it will be…
_Allan Siegal, the assistant managing editor who is the Times’ arbiter of usage and style, told me “we got dozens of angry messages from readers, as well as complaints from colleagues on the staff.”* Bloggers expressed their surprise and dismay. Why were people so upset?
The original meaning of scumbag is “condom.” The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to 1967, with 1971 as the first example of the “despicable person” sense, but current research has pushed the dates back to 1935 (based on the still earlier scum, “semen,” and bag, “a condom”) and 1950 respectively.
I liked this too:
the Times’ own style manual advises, “A larger concern is for the newspaper’s character. The Times differentiates itself by taking a stand for civility in public discourse, sometimes at an acknowledged cost in the vividness of an article or two, and sometimes at the price of submitting to gibes.”
“We’re targeting a younger demographic,” Shapiro’s memo said, “so if you could all please remind Bill that today’s 18- to 24-year-old viewer simply does not care that it’s the 13th anniversary of [Grateful Dead keyboardist] Brent Mydland’s death. They don’t care who Ron ‘Pigen’ McKernan was, and don’t understand why Bill is comparing Pigpen’s leadership abilities in the Dead’s formative Haight-Ashbury years to Jason Kidd’s ability to run the Nets offense.” More
Man, I have been listening to these mp3s on repeat for the last hour while working.
Composed and performed by Lubomyr Melnyk and utilizing his own creation: Continuous Music it just blows my mind. Like some Windham Hill record on speed. Check out his world records:
the FASTEST pianist in the world — sustaining speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, simultaneously, and the MOST NUMBER of NOTES in ONE HOUR — in exactly 60 minutes, Melnyk sustained an average speed of over 13 notes per second in each hand, yielding a remarkable total of 93,650 INDIVIDUAL notes.
What did you do to our precious directory of wonderful things?!~?!?!
“‘It’s officially against corporate policy for us to hand out oil barrels,’ the 37-year-old Mitchell frets. ‘We really don’t know what to do about all this.’
For many of the world’s estimated 35,000 panmen, the sweetest-sounding music comes from the 55-gallon, 20-gauge red steel oil barrels made in Shell’s lubricant mixing plant on Barracones Bay in Trinidad.”
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finally got around to reading this. so amazing. don’t let anyone say the Royal Dutch Corporation is completely evil anymore.
In general, a sealer will use a hakapik or club if at all possible. That’s because with these weapons, it’s much easier to aim a blow directly at the seal pup’s head. One swing from a hakapik will usually kill a pup right away. By law, you have to keep clubbing the seal in the forehead until you know for sure that it’s dead. Sealers are supposed to “palpate” a pup’s skull after they’ve clubbed it, to feel the caved-in bone beneath the skin and blubber. Or they can perform the “blink reflex” test, which consists of touching the seal’s eyeball—if it blinks, you’ve got to club it again. (Few sealers actually perform these tests, though; some say they can feel the skull collapse as they make contact with their clubs.)
this looks like a proof of concept costume design for a Terry Gilliam movie.
I suppose if novels were true to life, they’d all end with the characters dying, but if they did, we wouldn’t want to read them, would we?
I just wanted to record this quote, which I had seen and forgotten a month or two ago and then could not find again.
this is one of the best things you get in a google image search for warhog
this guy should exchange that spear for a poleaxe
this is one of the best things you get in a google image search for warhog
