December 2008
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Contemporary Psych 101 →
My brother asked for this mix, since his tastes don’t skew too far from the Okayplayer message boards and he wanted some freaky jams. It’s 2008-centric (or at least mostly from this side of the millennium), but time occasionally slips, as it is known to do. In short, this is an hour’s worth of what New Year’s Eve sounds like to me. In fact, I wish I were seeing any of...
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All I Want For Christmas
Justice After Bush: Prosecuting An Outlaw Administration
Avoiding The Ax
Convincing the rest of the staff that you are too dangerous and crazy to be laid off is usually a sound long-term strategy but the seeds must be planted long in advance. Don’t try to pull it off this week if you haven’t planted these seeds or you’ll look even more expendable. The real crazy is always there, not just when things go bad. Be steady, like the river. The flow...
“I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling...”
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Dock Ellis, the only pitcher in baseball history to throw a no-hitter while taking LSD, died this morning at the age of 63. I think someone tossing a no-hitter on acid is one of the 10 most amazing things that have ever happened in baseball, or on earth. (via leitch)
RIP Dock Ellis.
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Johns DJ Mix →
thealiens:
Free download from John!
If you ever got to experience the The Beta Band live you know they used to DJ before their set. Not just plugging an iPod in, either, full-on wax on turntables and cutting that shit up like a pro. The Aliens are a newer band featuring pretty much the same members (- Steve Mason and + original Beta Bandito and Lone Pigeon Gordon Anderson) and they’ve...
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The Madoff Economy →
Krugman hits another home-run. The guy is like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire in their primes, combined, only he does it without mind steroids. At least, I hope so.
WaMu Files for ChapLev
SEATTS—Citing fallout from the sub-p mortgage disast, WaMu was forced to file for ChapLev this past Septems. “We tried to negosh our way out of total insolves, but we’re in a pretty bad resesh,” WaMu spokesperson William “Dubs” McClough said. “This could turn into full-on economic depresh. It’s totes ridic.” Dubs went on to add that all of the...
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Our Gentle Gentry
The NY Times is trying to sell you on Caroline Kennedy. As they acknowledge, “some columnists, bloggers and even potential colleagues in Congress have begun asking if she would be taken seriously if not for her surname.” Well you don’t have to worry about a Senate seat just being handed over from one political dynasty to another. The New York Times, proud defenders of...
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Culture Vultures Everywhere
“damn mr. leitch!! why are u shitting on me and dick riding kanye. seems like its an assignment you didnt want to do so why do it? you should have done a DL4 assignment or better yet a ‘whatever happened to fallout shelters in a Mc Carthy era new york?’ piece!!! i’m good… you??? JADED!! yes this is qtip.” And one minute later: “oh i forgot…...
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This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
Sylvester Giustino, director of legislative affairs for the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater New York, raised yet more concerns.
“How to screen bicycles and bicyclists for terrorist activity,” he said, is one of the “practical aspects” the proposed legislation does not address. Among the others: regulating the use of bicycles in or near freight elevators and loading docks;...
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Theory
The MTA is purposefully making service worse on the L line now so that when they do cut service and raise prices at the same time, it will only seem like they are raising prices. The coincidence is too great that the service, which was on a 6 month streak of dependability, suddenly has the bottom drop out the second a fare increase is proposed and service cuts threatened.
Can we finally get...
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Everybody is a tsar. →
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A few of us started a movement to have Vermont secede from the U.S. and join a country that believed in tolerance and progressivism. That was 2004, but the midterms of 2006 marked a turning point, and many of us felt that the USA still could be saved from the forces of right-wing extremism. Today, we feel that it’s probably more important to work for change in the U.S.
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WatchEPMD, Listen Up
Keeping it real with the vocoder.
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We crave inspiration, and it’s a bleak life to always be dissecting things. But the main feeling that Obama creates in me is fear, because I see people fooling themselves. If you actually look at his policies, what they reflect is the triumph of the right-wing political paradigm since Reagan, and I think he could set things back dramatically, because for young people who are getting engaged in...