Calling All Celebrities

By hugh | Published: July 31, 2008

Fall through the cracks On billmon’s return to bloggity blogging, he sez McSame is doomed because the media is finally catching on to what an ultimately shallow codger he is for being the self-serving flip-flopper non-maverick he is and also incapable of thinking outside the Bush policy box. (A great read I might add.) At [...]

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Bartering with Satan’s Lattes

By hugh | Published: July 30, 2008

The Longshortsmen of South Street Seaport The Bush administration has learned a creative accounting trick or two from The Smartest Guys in the Room™ [Enron]. Like Enron’s PR douchebags, we’ve got waterboys like Ben Stein and Phil Gramm telling us everything is fine. Recall that some of Enron’s shenanigans ultimately led to California’s rolling blackouts [...]

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Meditating in Places

By hugh | Published: July 29, 2008

Apple bag in a Muslim prayer room A hospital has this room next to their chapel and I meditated there.

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Harriman State Park Escape Valve

By hugh | Published: July 29, 2008

It’s Saturday at noon. (Dateline!) Somehow we managed to stuff two backpacks with a change of clothes, some gourmet provender from West Side Market, a tent and the rest, and drive up to Harriman State Park which is a 45 minute drive from Manhattan. Bear Mountain is there and a couple of crowded car-camping sites [...]

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Throwing a Party? Fascist!

By hugh | Published: July 25, 2008

Pandagon and Digby confront the growing meme that Obama and his fans represent a rising onslaught of American fascism. We have to recognize this and understand it. There is a very concerted and completely ahistorical effort to make “fascism” synonymous with “popularity.” As Jesse Taylor notes: On the one hand, it’s an awful abuse of [...]

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The Urge to Define Surge Success

By hugh | Published: July 24, 2008

This video at TPM prompted me to haul out one of my old DJ flyers. (Yes, that’s from 2007.) Over at Kos, there are a couple of posts spelling out the conflicting accounts citing the recent GAO report and other sources on whether the surge has really succeeded or not. Even as the White House [...]

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Summer’s Falls Almost Come & Gone

By admin | Published: July 24, 2008

Been there done that

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Robots and Sunglasses

By admin | Published: July 23, 2008

In which I shamelessly post in the style of This Recording…. I was watching Westworld (1973) a few weeks ago and a couple of images at the beginning of the movie struck me. Obviously, they’re the same guy/robot and the implication is that they’re both robot pilots guiding the unsuspecting tourists to their doom at [...]

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Someday Jails

By admin | Published: July 21, 2008
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For a Good Time, Twirl Your Camera

By admin | Published: July 18, 2008

I split my time between the moon and the water I dream of a method of curing all diseases. In any case, the psychological ones. – Salvador Dali’s diary

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Just Passing Through

By admin | Published: July 17, 2008

wake up and see blue Pull the race car drivers out before they can throw the first pitch. OH HEY. This Recording nails Françoise Hardy.

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Anchors Aweigh On That Magazine Cover

By admin | Published: July 16, 2008

Somehow the Peking appears to be sinking After hmm, 3 days of fallout from the New Yorker cover, Dowd today uses the opportunity to yet again call Obama an elitist for not having the required sense of humor to “get it.” Sure they could’ve reacted with a lighter touch but I’m mostly on the “what’s [...]

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