I have a small yard which also serves as my cat, Scratchy's, jungle hunting preserve. There's a large bush in the middle of the yard and it's something to watch her go airborne and plunge into it to catch a bird (so far she hasn't landed any, thank god ( Read more... )

...What an asshole George W. Bush is. The banality of evil, personified.

Bush pays price for 'Mission Accomplished' sign
White House admits fault on banner seen to declare Iraq victory 5 years ago

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The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were
repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that
began, "The rich are very different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they
have more money."
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One of the hardest lessons I had to learn in the many hard lessons of boxing, was how to hit soft. Young fighters always try to throw every punch as hard as they can. The problem with this is that they leave themselves open, and they put their opponents into a defensive shell. For me, it was almost impossible to pull the second punch in a ( Read more... )

My two favorite Russian proverbs about love.

"Love isn't a potato. You can't throw it out the window."

"Love is an ugly thing: you'll even love a goat."

This was the first Velvets record I owned after I figured out that they were much cooler than The Grateful Dead. I think I got it when I was fifteen. I downloaded it a few months ago and was struck by how it holds up. I wore those vinyl sides out. While I'm not quite as enamoured by 'Heroin' as I was at fifteen but for the rest. ... The cryptic ( Read more... )

This piece from the Times is interesting, especially for what it says - unintentionally - about how the world economy functions.

G.E. Earnings Drop, Raising Broader Fears

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/business/12electric.html?hp

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In the early 90s in San Francisco, I would sometimes go to Chinatown movie theaters with my friend Ying Guo, the ultra hetero Chinese transvestite. We would watch the latest Hong Kong action and fantasy films together, with Ying providing commentary on the cultural background for the films. Seeing 'Swordsman II' completely blew me away. The budget ( Read more... )

Listening to an Archie Shepp cover of ‘Sophisticated Lady’ from ‘The Way Ahead.’ A trio - drums, bass and Archie. The drums and bass in separate speakers and Archie floating over them. All three musicians incredibly expressive - I didn’t think a cymbal could have so much emotion in it. It isn’t a particularly big mp3 file but the sound incredibly ( Read more... )

This is almost as good as the one where the child molester's defense was that he'd been previously molested by Sasquatch.

(racier British link: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3003_nazi_orgy.shtml)
Mosley involved in Nazi sex scandal
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