This was sent to me today, I've abbreviated it ( Read more... )

First, this comment on misleading reporting by a retired, pulitzer-prize winning journalist in The New Republic ( Read more... )

If you like This Ascension, Strange Boutique, Sara McLachlan, Moon Seven Times, etc ( Read more... )

Bedivere: I am sure Blake is ecstatic, but I bet he also wishes he beat a Federer in top form: http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/8436138/Federer-upset-by-Blake-in-Olympic-tennisRead more... )

Was complete, thanks to ominous rumblings and spooky clouds. Awesome food, people . . . and pool. Thanks to H and E, our hosts!

So candidate Obama will not speak at Brandenburg Gate. He has acceded to the concerns of many that Brandenburg Gate isn't an appropriate location for his campaign speech. So he's moved down the street to the Victory Column. This column is featured in Wim Wender's Faraway So Close. In that movie angels sit atop the column and watch us ( Read more... )

It occurs to me (or has been made entirely obvious) that ( Read more... )

A vhs machine ate my copy in 1986. I copied it as part of the early, cool MTV 120 Minutes. Now, for the first time in 22 years I've found the videoagain, the one that cursed me to a lifetime on the fringe of rocknroll:

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This video has cursed me for 22 years. I've looked, googled, searched. I tracked down the album several years ago and found ( Read more... )

. . . or the truth about St. Sardonicist's students? Actually . . . about us all?

The REAL brain drain: Modern technology - including violent video games - is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist: Leave a comment  3 

Hats off to Pleroma for putting together this list of movie releases:

http://pleroma.livejournal.com/275715.html