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May 22nd, 2008 — Entertainment, Humor, Music
I’m suddenly not too ashamed to admit that I used to do this before I knew it had a name: “Sleevefacing.” However, I did it with magazines instead of albums. (I wasn’t naked, either.)
Even today, every now and then, I stick a periodical in front of me piehole and strike a pose, just to be silly for the wife.
Aaah, memories.
May 22nd, 2008 — Dance, DVD, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture
Tell me I’m not dreaming: Shahrukh Khan’s mind’s about to be blown
Don’t let anybody lie to you: Indian sisters get down. Or, at least they do in Bollywood movies. I learned this the evening I walked into a screening of Shakti: The Power, literally by accident.
May 21st, 2008 — Controversy, Politics
Hope she can hit a low note. Illustration by Euan Mactavish
Come on. It’s starting to get embarrassing. It’s starting to get 3:07-a.m.-on-a-Sunday-night-we-were-just-having-drinks, when-will-they-ever-leave? embarrassing. Like, go home. Even the Fat Lady, above, is packing up to go home.
May 21st, 2008 — Controversy, Culture, Science, Technology, Work
Last ones out the lab, turn off the lights: Japanese engineers
You know the way Americans always talk about Japan as the epitome of engineering? Apparently, that illustration is about to be permanently outdated.
According to The New York Times, “Japan is running out of engineers”: Fewer and fewer young people are entering the field.
May 20th, 2008 — Children, Controversy, Health
Soon we’re gonna need a bigger couch: Eliza Robinson, 7, cozies up to mother, Veronica, for a tasty snack
Kids say the darndest things: The quote, above, comes from a 2005 UK documentary, Extraordinary Breastfeeding.
The 60-minute film features British women who’ve continued to suckle their young past the recommended age of 2 1/4, and some well into elementary school. Bethany Robinson, older daughter of Veronica, above, who prefers milk to melons, or even, as she says in one clip, mangoes, breastfed until age 5. Her sister, Eliza, above, is nearly 8.
May 20th, 2008 — Art, Entertainment, Humor, Satire
Talented caricaturist Donald Soffritti’s humorous “Decadence” series depicts superheroes, like Batman and Robin, Flash, and Spiderman, above, in their not-so-golden years. Plus, if you like the work of talented illustrators the way I do, the guy’s got a blogroll to die for.
May 19th, 2008 — Art, Culture, Design, Technology
From his Steampunk Workshop web site, Jake von Slatt not only talks the steampunk talk, but walks the steampunk walk. Here, he delivers step-by-step low-down on how he built this gorgeous Victorian desktop PC mod. You won’t believe your pince-nez as you eye the finely crafted detailing, below. Continue reading →
May 19th, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Politics, Race
I have a colleague who says that, if one were to sum up the relationship between white people and non-white people, from white people to non-white people, globally, the best way to describe it, in toto, would be with what he calls the Three T’s: Tacky, Trashy, and Terroristic.
I thought of his words when I saw this stylish little number, above on the web: A hoodie with the words, “WHO KILLED OBAMA?” emblazoned across the chest. Continue reading →
May 19th, 2008 — Crime, Drugs, Law, Religion
Feds raided the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse last week when, after a six-month probe, they established that a crystal meth lab was being operated out of the plant, and that employees were bringing weapons with them when they came to work.
At Agriprocessors, in Potsville IA,
a former plant supervisor told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. They included rabbis responsible for kosher supervision, who the source believed entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. The source did not provide evidence for his suspicion about the rabbis. …
At least 300 people were arrested Monday during the raid, for which federal authorities had rented an expansive fairground nearby to serve as a processing center for detainees.
May 16th, 2008 — Controversy, Culture, Politics, Race
They prefer Americans, not Muslims: W. Virginians Tracy and Janet
The Real News Network (Motto: “The Future Depends On Knowing”) describes itself as “a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.”
So, it was fitting, a little before this past Tuesday, that TRNN journalist Matthew Palevsky went down to West Virginia to cover what this traditionally blue collar, Democratic-voting bloc was saying about the then upcoming primary. (Huffington Post linked to this video, but TRNN‘s own page contains a transcript to the video, part of which is reproduced below.)
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