Image via WikipediaIt's great to see this work on DailyKos-where all talk of election fraud has long been scored, by founder Markos Moulitsas, as "conspiracy theory," and banned from the main page. (It may still be, in fact, as Cieran's updates are running on the Daily Kos Community Site.)Clearly, … [Read more...]

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Image via WikipediaLate last week, at a talk he gave at West Point, Secretary of Defense Gates made the most remarkable statement. After underlining "the strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces" in the future, he added, "But in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises … [Read more...]

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Image by Miguel Ramirez via Flickrfrom Publisher's Marketplace (12/15/10): Music historian and journalist Tim Riley's JOHN ONO LENNON: THE LIFE AND THE MUSIC, an examination of John Lennon's life and creative legacy, covering everything from the widely misunderstood origins of "Working Class Hero" … [Read more...]

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...Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that rock album art gave generations of suburban adolescents in the 1970s and '80s their first exposure to surrealism and open-ended narrative? The cover of Hejira presented the lightly cultured teenager I was then with a visual puzzle that absorbed me in a … [Read more...]

Image via WikipediaOne last time: The thing about Pavement isn't that they chose diffidence, or irony, or aloof distance (or whatever other residual Gen-X cliché you're compelled to recycle) as an aesthetic posture. It's that they seemed to find themselves, like lots of us, inherently diffident, and … [Read more...]

ETCH-A-SKETCH, BOSTON Image by lumierefl via FlickrRelated articles by ZemantaPop Culture Classic Etch-A-Sketch Toy 50th Anniversary and Contest (connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com)July 12, 1960: Etch a Sketch? Let Us Draw You a Picture (wired.com)Etch A Sketch turns 50: amazing art created with the … [Read more...]

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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Ben Stiller from Between Two FernsRelated articles by ZemantaSaturday Night Live Recap: Zach Galifianakis Does His Part (nymag.com)Daily Link Roundup (manolith.com)Watch Zach Galifianakis, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter and Andy Dick on Between Two Ferns … [Read more...]

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Image via Wikipedia...To me the question of whether or not he continued to write strikes at the heart of the nature of writing itself. If he indeed wrote volumes and volumes about the Glass family, as has been claimed, it would be such a curious thing, given that the nature of written communication … [Read more...]

Michael Jackson via last.fm"...in 1979, with Off The Wall, he invented modern pop as we know it. He'd been around for years, making the occasional solo record, but for literally millions of us, it was a de facto debut album from a kid -- a kid! Like us! -- we were hearing for the first time. It was … [Read more...]