Category: Musicology

  • 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…

  • Superbowl ads – What you talkin' about, Willis?

    The next ad was for Tears of the Sun, a new Bruce Willis movie…

  • Superbowl ads – roadtrip / football fans

    First ad I tuned in for was a cute ad about a roadtrip, for Honda Element. Amusing, but no sale. Next up was an ad for watching football. Heartwarming.

  • Never explain a joke

    The usually impeccable attitude on display at The Gawker shows a slight crack today when editor/writer Elizabeth Spiers responds to an illiterate slam from some Tim Goodman groupie. The main response on the Gawker home page is just perfect, but the extended entry tries too hard: I was merely challenging his assumption that American audiences…

  • How much proof do you need?

    There’s no use denying it any longer. Elijah Wood is very, very gay.

  • Bashing SF/NY/LA getting tired

    Gawker has published another round of SF sucks/no it doesn’t. It’s kind of a weird obsession, and somehow it seems related to the dashed dreams of the dotcom crash. Growing up in New York, we never even thought about any other cities. We took for granted that we were at the center of the world.…

  • now playing:Sister Morphine, The Rolling

    now playing:Sister Morphine, The Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers)

  • You gotta hate those tag errors

    It wasn’t the first time I failed to close a tag correctly (in this case the STRONG tags surrounding the song same in the template for iTunes listings), and it won’t be the last time, but I’ve fixed it now, so here’s another example: Wicked Path Of Sin, Old And In The Way (That High…