Month: January 2005

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Ali G!

Martin Luther King’s less-well-known speech, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.

Was that Ali G causing a near rodeo in Virginia? Representatives from the show could not confirm that.

It was only later – after the man riled up the audience with comments like “may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq” – that Rowe figured out he had been duped. The performer also told everyone to be seated before launching into a butchered version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that ended with the words: “your home in the grave.”
Bobby Rowe, rodeo producer, about a possible Ali G performance at his rodeo

Perhaps the Urban Dictionary can figure this one out.

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MFA the new MBA?

Fortune magazine wisely asks if an MFA is the new MBA. I’m not sure if this is one of those emails that gets passed around the email every couple of years, but if it’s not true, it’s an unbelievable bit of Photoshopping.

The actors who dub the Mexican version of Simpsons are involved in a labor dispute — management wants to replace them with cheaper actors.

A creepy and beautiful BBC advertisement about iPod market saturation.

The forces of sanity prevail: a conservative commentator fired after receiving payments from the White House to promote No Child Left Behind, and “evolution is a theory” textbook stickers are declared unconstitutional in suburban Atlanta.

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Spotted!

I heart sticky toffee pudding and other British desserts, as unfortunately-named as they may be. I’m not sure what treacle is, but I’m sure you can be inoculated for it, and I’m betting, the can next to that one.

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Elvis at 70

Sometimes it’s better just not to know: scientists have created a computer-based likeness of what Elvis might look like at the age of 70. And then Mississippi libraries banned Jon Stewart’s “America: The Book” because of one page: where one could place robes on nude Supreme Court justices to “restore their dignity”. Great publicity for the book, and again the next day, where the ban was rescinded. WalMart still refuses to carry the book.

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More, Springer

I remember watching MORE on CBC’s most-fantastic arts and music show, ZED. Another of my favorite sites, despair.com is selling the DVD of the movie (although it’s only a few minutes long, but hey, it’s capitalism) and the trailer can be watched here:

Jerry Springer: The Opera, starring David Soul of Starsky & Hutch… unfortunately, only in the UK right now, but if I play my cards right, could be timed with my first visit to NYC or my next visit to London.

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12-year-olds review video games from 1982

What happens when you get a 12-year olds playing video games you played when you were 12 (in 1982)? The equivalent when your parents tell you how much better their music was when they were a teenager (the Beatles better than REO Speedwagon? NOOOOOO!!!). 1up.com has the second of a two-part interview where the younguns are compelled to play old coin op and console systems from the early 1980’s. Be sure to check the original for their review of Pong.

This year I celebrate 16 years as a graphic designer, and if you’re ever worked on the corporate side, this website will be painfully familiar to you.

I get sent links to clever Flash animation all the time, but I defy you not to be humming this song for the rest of the day at this curiously-named site.

A freaky tidbit about this exercise video (for poodles?): the poodles who dance behind her are NOT computer animated.

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Champagne and marshmallow dreams

While there’s a silent and noble thing about watching Regis Philbin ring in the New Year, there’s an even more silent and noble thing: carrying a clawfoot bathtub filled with champagne and marshmallows from one New Year’s Eve party to another… if only the second party had been appreciative of such a gesture. Anyway, possibly the most memorable New Year’s Eve I’ve had in a few years, and a promising beginning to 2005. I’ve made the usual round of resolutions (maintaining vegequarianism not one of them, as I failed miserably at that in December about five times), including: learning guitar, becoming a volunteer DJ on KBCS, and pledging to visit New York City, Chicago, Charlotte, Vancouver, San Francisco, and London. There’s also this tribute CD I want to finish before what would have been my Dad’s 60th birthday on May 24th, and at the very least, that IS going to happen. And eating better — a delivery service that goes beyond Pioneer Organics, and actually takes the time to make the meals with all-organic and sustainably-sourced ingredients: Delicious Planet.