Stewart Lee's Carpet Remnant World (2013) is one of my most favorite stand-up performances of the last decade. CRW is about a comedian who has tried to write and perform a high-brow comedy show about idealized notions of society but gets sidetracked and embittered by worries about aging and his obligations to his family as a working dad ( Read more... )

Timeline:

19 April 2007: The Daily Show's Jon Stewart interviews Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill on his new book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Stewart clearly pegs Scahill for a dirty hippie and rips into him and questions his work for five minutes. (The book Blackwater would go on to win the George ( Read more... )

(I posted this recently elsewhere and I'm bringing it here.)It really frustrates me that liberals outside Russia are still debating the merits of an Olympics boycott when LGBT activists/people in Russia have said that THEY DON’T WANT A BOYCOTT (or, if they do, what they want is want a POLITICAL boycott of Putin by world leaders at the Games but not ( Read more... )

FUCK YEAH CHELSEA MANNING

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That is all.

Thomas Drouet is so fucking gorgeous.


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God people on ONTD_P are so fucking stupid ( Read more... )

... of the folks whining and saying, "What did Manning even do for the LGBT community blah blah blah I am a concern troll no?"

Well, 'cause for one thing:


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"What we see here is how even many of the most liberal precincts in America are now the leading spokespeople for and loyalists to state power as a result of their loyalty to President Obama. Thus do we have the President of the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade sounding exactly like the Chairman of the Joints Chief, or Sarah Palin, or gay war-loving ( Read more... )

Love me some Jeremy. Gotta love a guy whose earnesty, honesty and firsthand reportage/analysis make other hired talking heads look like total pre-rehearsed, establishmentarian hacks.

Waiting with (mastur)bated breath for when his book tour brings him here to the Bay Area, fap fap fap lmao ( Read more... )

Sometimes all you need is a Natsukawa Rimi ballad. Because HOLY SHIT HER VOICE:

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And for some moar classic Okinawan pop goodness, 島唄 (Shima Uta) from THE BOOM:

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