January 2011
17 posts
"The least of eloquence...": This is terrorism,... →
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who Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old California resident, was arrested last week in Michigan on felony charges over a “bias-motivated attack.”
what Stockman reportedly was arrested outside of a mosque with a very large…
Hateful assholes: please stay away from Dearborn. We here in Michigan rather like it.
In...
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Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. →
From Roger Ebert’s blog, Walter Murch explains why the human brain won’t allow for true success in 3D. According to Ebert, Murch is “the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema,” receiving Academy Award nominations using 4 different editing systems for movies like Apocalypse Now, Ghost, The English Patient, and Cold Mountain.
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To kick off the week, went with a James Brown pandora station. First four songs:
“Super Bad” by the Godfather of Soul (Brown)
“I Got a Woman” by the Father of Soul (Charles)
“Hard to Handle” by the Crown Prince of Soul (Redding)
“Superfly” by the Gentle Genius (Mayfield)
Yes, this week will be special.
Tommy this is for you. Happy Birthday old roommate.
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Brady Hoke named Michigan coach →
Lost in all of the rhetoric today was the fact that a nine year old girl was...
– meanmrmustard
(via thetart)
Christina Taylor Green was her name. We should all know that.
(via apsies)
update: it has been tweeted by Peter Sanders at the WSJ that she was born on 9/11/2001
(via think4yourself)
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an...
– Jonathan Franzen “Freedom”
Every now and then, one of Franzen’s lines just beckons to be highlighted for its simple brilliance. Totally worth the hand surgery I’ll need after this reading of a 562 page hardcover novel.
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No man has ever put his hand up a woman’s dress looking for a library card.
– Joan Rivers to Johnny Carson’s comment, “Don’t you think men are attracted to intelligence?”
Just watched Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. Never realized how funny she is.