March 2011
“Is there a way to report inappropriate content?
Yes. If you come across...”
– Color - FAQ
Which is a shame, because the only good use of Color would be at an orgy, one imagines.
“The more sex work is integrated into mainstream Australian society, the less...”
– i grow giant pumpkins - ”Sex workers are marginalised less by their clients than they are by anti-sex work legislation”
Kindy kids get gun licences →
*sigh*
Things I learned from the strident.
It is never ok to say ‘raped’ as a metaphor.
‘Murdered’, ‘slaughtered’, and so forth, are however completely AOK.
“We should have no illusions about him: he is a man who often writes outrageous...”
– Michael Brull, I will defend to the death Bolt’s right to wallow in the mire
Sloan have released a new track for free on their...
Sloan have been around for 20 years. They’re still effortless masters of power pop. Get their new thing now.
Cycles.
In the same way that we look at Ancient Rome and marvel that a society could both love gladiators and hope to witness their brutal deaths, our descendants will try to understand how we could at once adore and seek to destroy our celebrities.
“If Bolt had urged violence or discrimination against self-identified Aboriginal...”
– In defence of Andrew Bolt - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Merkel’s opening remarks constituted a savage assault on Bolt. He was directly...”
– Bolt case: Genocide comparisons amount to an assault on free speech | Crikey
The fact that so many otherwise intelligent people are hoping Bolt loses this case is absolutely chilling.
The Big Friendly Giant
Let’s play ‘guess that meme’!
“The statement that had sounded like a bold doctrine—that what guides a U.S....”
– Obama’s Libya speech: How the president’s grand talk about American interests conflicts with his military strategy. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
I love Dickerson.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
Beck (70)
Billy Bragg (57)
Those Darlins (36)
The Strokes (30)
Public Enemy (28)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
two question survey - should we change our name? →
The guys at AnalTech want your views.
How Analtech Got Its Name:
The company was founded in 1961 as Custom Service Chemicals. In 1964, the company paid a marketing firm (that shall remain nameless) to come up with a different name. They said, “Well, you guys do Analytical Technology - why don’t you put the two words together and call it ‘Analtech’!” And, here we...
My Billy Bragg kick is going to be the death of Erin. I’m running around the house singing like the big-nosed boy from Barking, and answering all her questions with lyrics from the ‘Back to Basics’ collection.
It’s a war of attrition.
dailybez asked: GONNA MAKE THAT BACHELOR OF THE YEAR HOMIE MY BOIF. just fyi.
sokeri asked: ugh I hate being reminded that I'm older than you, even though you live in the future. oh wait I'm older than everyone. never mind.
thistumblerhasane asked: Sorry, my daughters are making me vote for Ant Simpson. Is your pal the same Paul Verhoeven who made RoboCop? He must be like... eighty.
Authenticity
If all rock criticism is essentially about the search for authenticity*, then Lester Bangs would have masturbated himself to death if he had ever got to hear Billy Bragg .
*See Chuck Klosterman “Eating The Dinosaur”, (The Passion of The Garth)
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vainglorious: "What Guys Hate For You To Wear To... →
sarahchristine:
I bought a Cosmo mag a couple days ago. It was my first that I had purchased in 6 months or so. And a couple articles in, I’m incensed.
Somehow, younger women think as long as a nightgown doesn’t have ruffles down the front, it’s perfectly acceptable. I’m telling you it’s not. All my friends…
Buying Cosmo and then complaining that it’s idiotic is like going to...
What I can only assume happens at the daschund...
Arsehole: Hi, I'd like to buy a daschund.
Daschund guy: Of course you would. You look like a total cunt.
Arsehole: And how! Do you like my houndstooth blazer?
Daschund guy: Absolutely. I'm assuming the smell of piss and cigarettes is real.
Arsehole: Of course. I wouldn't let someone else piss on this blazer. It's from Rodd and Gunn!
Daschund guy: So, you'll be wanting one of these preposterous dogs then. I've got a few questions for you.
Arsehole: I bet I have answers.
Daschund guy: Do you promise to never make any effort to socialise this dog, and to foster in it a hatred and fear of all people who aren't you?
Arsehole: And how!
Daschund guy: Do you promise to kick it, and then feed it immediately afterwards, so that it begins to associate pain with reward, and the biting of feet with impending food?
Arsehole: Yes I do. In fact, I'm kicking one of your other dogs right now!
Daschund guy: Here's your fucking dog. Don't let it out of the hessian sack until you get home.
Newt Gingrich Completely Changes Position on Libya... →
Keep an eye on this arsehole.
“As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is ‘more money...”
– Manhattan Federal Judge Kimba Wood
“The PBS now costs the Commonwealth approximately $6.5 billion a year to operate,...”
– Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It costs only $6.5 billion dollars per annum to provide all of Australia with equitable access to prescription medication. Scale that up to a population the size of the US, and we’re only talking about $90 billion. Which is...
jimray:
“Police in Scranton say they found over 50 bags of heroin, cash and loose change in a woman’s vagina during a cavity search.”
— It’s the “loose change” that really did it for me. Like she was just curious to see what else she could [fit in there](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20045765-504083.html).
I’ve been saying for years that I want to put a box or...
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Bodoni
If you’re a good enough designer, you don’t need any other typeface ever. I’m not saying this as some kind of Brodovitchian purist, but merely to suggest that the fetishisation of typefaces and purity is a crutch like any other.
FIGHT!
Just hafta' say...
anomienow:
I really wish that people would forego using the term “steampunk” any time something old is mentioned. Steampunk is pretending the industrial revolution was about form over function by gluing cardboard gears to flat surfaces, cramming white masses of fat into corsets and really, really terrible sub-genre fiction.