Category: Music

  • Once more, from the top

    Sing along with the vocal stylings of the spongmonkeys as they regale you with their acoustic guitar rave-up We Like the Moon.

  • Gulf War II simulation

    Posing as an interactive game (there’s really only one choice, about halfway through, and I suspect it’s a Hobson’s choice), this Flash animation projects a worst-case scenario for the upcoming (ongoing?) Gulf War. [via Nick Denton]

  • Homeland security specialist

    Watching late-night TV (Ask Rita), I saw an add for a Homeland security specialist program at NIT schools’ San Jose campus. It started with an American flag and a voice over talking about how 9/11 changed everything. Quick cut to a man in a suit introducing himself and calling himself the “Director of Homeland Security.”…

  • xian's 115th dream

    I think I can safely file this under “blogging too much lately.” I had one of those long, convoluted dreams last night, much of which I can still remember even as the internal dream logic has started to tatter. Near the end, I was in a motel room with Mark Pilgrim. We were discussing Shirky’s…

  • While you were out (protesting)

    The war has already started. The Pentagon was leaking all over the place yesterday that we already have special forces inside Iraq. For example, the Washington Post reported: U.S. Special Operations troops are already operating in various parts of Iraq, hunting for weapons sites, establishing a communications network and seeking potential defectors from Iraqi military…

  • Just can't leave it alone

    I’ve already overcommented on the Burningbird: Boys with Toys thread (and related) at BurningBird, but I went back and read the three entries and their tails of comments again and I still feel that the various points of view are largely talking past each other, partly because they (we) are also having a metaconversation. The…

  • InstaOnion

    The Onion creeps closer to reality with its headlines today, including North Korea Wondering What It Has to Do to Attract U.S. Military Attention and this brief item: Saddam Enrages Bush With Full ComplianceWASHINGTON, DC—President Bush expressed frustration and anger Monday over a U.N. report stating that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is now fully complying…

  • Bloggers fact-check Howard Coble's ass

    Check out the excellent work at Is That Legal? covering the Howard Coble story. Coble, who you may recall was opposed for reelection by blogger Tara Sue Grubb recently stated that the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II was done for their own good. This is the man in charge of Homeland Security…

  • Like father, like son. This

    Like father, like son. This graphic published in Yahoo! News – Politics yesterday speaks volumes:

  • Meticulous paranoia

    From MZ comes this link to the Elite Network that controls our lives… uh, yeah. So how come the EU shows up in two different parts of the org chart?

  • Off the wagon

    Since late last year I’ve been meeting once a week with a good friend in a bar or café to do some writing. We encourage each other. It’s a bit like having an “exercise buddy.” If either of us don’t feel like doing it, we can use the fact that the other guy is depending…

  • A (Maginot) line in the sand

    I’m no fan of the Nation Review, but this Jonah Goldberg image cracked me up: (In case you want to test the query, yes, it’s fake, but it’s still hilarious.)

  • A (Maginot) line in the sand

    I’m no fan of the Nation Review, but this Jonah Goldberg image cracked me up: (In case you want to test the query, yes, it’s fake, but it’s still hilarious.)

  • Sit back and enjoy the rest of the flight

    Hello, this is your captain speaking.

  • Radically reinterpreting the pornographic soundtrack

    Today in artsflow: A musician friend told me over lunch at LMNOP in Oakland the other day that PornOrchestra had launched. The project involves composing and improvising new soundtracks for existing porn films. I interviewed PornOrchestra spokesmodel Shannon Mariemont to find out more about where this idea comes from and where it’s going. Here are…

  • Altered State of the Union

    San Francisco based film maker and photographer Bijan Yashar will be projecting George W. Bush’s State of the Union address in real time onto the wall of the Shell Station at Market and Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme and shifting angles to “reveal implicit perspectives and points of…

  • My country right or left

    Matthew Riemer, writing in YellowTimes.org, debunks the notion that criticism of American foreign policy is inherently anti-American.

  • IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:

    HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR…

  • IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:

    When I get memejoke mail from both my merry punsters list and my antiweb list, I figure it’s circulating pretty widely. This one in fact has already made it to the mass media so I’m probably a good few weeks late on this at least: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM,

  • Superbowl ads – tbd

    Well, I only made it to half-time before real life intruded. I will annotate these images (and there’s one more “roll” to follow) on the next go ’round:

  • Superbowl ads – McDonald's / Gameday

    Then there was an amusing McDonald’s ad in which a father and son compare their hectic days: Mom suggests McD’s and the punchline is the son saying, “That’s what I love about that woman.” This was followed by an ad for the premier of the Jimmy Kimmel show and one for the Al Bundy version…