12:27 am
Saturday
Jun 19
Had kind of a hectic week but I have a few links of interest. The good news is there’s only one more wedding to go this summer and it’s in town. Hopefully I can refrain from snide comments this time. It’ll be a challenge though - the next one has a disney aladdin theme or something. I totally didn’t mean that “Karaoke wedding” comment to be mean I swear but when the groom is handed a microphone and breaks into song during the ceremony he’s kinda asking for it. Anyway…
Art-
Ak47 - bimonthly online art photography magazine
The Magic of Images - Word and Picture in a Media Age by Camille Paglia
Insects in Album Art - Cody will love this
Suicide Girls - punk rock pinups - so now I feel both fat AND uncool.
Books / Language-
American Rhetoric - that powerful instrument of error and deceit.
Interesting English Language Trivia
The Occult - Rare books exhibition
The Web’s #1 Axe in my head page
Movies-
Counter-Culture programming - seeing political messages where they may or may not be. Twain wouldn’t approve. I have a vague theory myself about those lovey happy christmasy movies where the cynical businessperson becomes domesticated (like the new Stepford Wives, Family Man, or any Scroogish movie) are pushing the resigned-family-consumer agenda but I rarely take my own theories seriously.
Defamer - bitchy Hollywood
Music-
Score, Baby - your guide to cult soundtracks of the 60s, 70s, and beyond
Losing my Ramones - is it me or have they gotten more media attention since the deaths and illnesses than they ever did before?
Trunkload of Trouble - incomplete indie pop encyclopedia
Pets-
Animal Attraction and Date My Pet - no creepy bestiality jokes please. This is a new trend in online dating sites for people with pets. Lemme say this much - if I were single I could get TONS of dates hanging out at stores and coffee shops with my dog.
Politics-
some of these are old, sorry
The Living Room Candidate - compendium of presidential ads on television from 1952 - 2000
Making Hay Out of Straw Men - and my favorite philosophical fallacies reference
Nader on the cover of American Conservative magazine?
American torture, American porn - the success of “The Passion” and the fascination with Abu Ghraib are linked somewhere in a dark corner of the basement of American psyche? - Also, the Stanford Prison Experiment and Stanley Milgram’s studies.
In Other News-
I can have ketchup and fries and that’s considered two servings of vegetables?
I’ve had Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer song stuck in my head for DAYS now. What does this mean?
