December 2011
“Now a particularly ironic fact has come to light — it appears that IP addresses...”
– DailyTech - Congress Plugs Anti-Piracy Legislation By Day, Pirates Porn by Night (via robot-heart-politics)
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WatchSo I need a new pair of jeans on account of I’ve worn a hole in these, you know, down there, and Trophy Wife has instructed me not to buy a replacement online, but to go into an actual shop - unsupervised - and ask for advice on getting a decent pair. And now I’ve watched this Put This On video, and I’ve got lots of fancy ideas about something called “raw denim”, and...
Homelessness and Occupy
awesome-everyday:
I have a lot of emotions about homelessness, and just as many feelings about the occupy movement. I’ve been very involved in Occupy Louisville for my own reasons, but I stay involved for reasons important to the people I have befriended there.
My mom was homeless for a few days with me when I was a little kid. We slept in a car. If my mom wasn’t living in Kentucky, I would...
“Far be it from me to suggest that a few more hit songs like this will have us...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Military Wives and the sickening sentimentality of the serial killer
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iTunes Ping could not find matches for your...
No, because iTunes Ping is as hip as arthritis.
feastingonroadkill:
The Cramps: ‘Let’s Get...
2011: The year in band names →
It gets good with ‘Unicorn Hardon’ and just gets better.
Donald Pleasence - Uncyclopedia, the content-free... →
Dr. Donald Pleasence (Born Donald Henry Samuel McGregor Puppleworth Blofeld Colin Blythe Loomis; October 5, 1843 - February 2, 2904) was a famous child psychiatrist, U.S. President, failed actor, World War II forger and flight lieutenant, priest, and lunatic bent on world domination. He is best known for the 17 years he spent hunting down his murderous patients whenever they escaped on Halloween...
“Like Sennett, Marazzi recognizes that the new conditions both required and...”
– Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (via littlejoeii)
Anhedonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
SUCH A PRETTY NAME
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
theoreticalgirl:
The Ventures (7)
Frank Sinatra (6)
James Brown (5)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (5)
Traditional Chinese Music (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I THINK YOU MIGHT BE ME, IN A DRESS.
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In 2011, I've been on a journey of self-discovery.
pieto asked: Hi John. I enjoyed your piece on copyright. The new media ecology of the digital makes copyright obsolete. Copyright is about industrial processes that produced discrete objects. That mode of cultural production is now a nostalgic curiosity (albeit one with power). Louis CK gets it. The digital mode retrieves performance based forms of culture, the "product" is secondary. As I...
On copyright, and being groovy
Over the past few weeks I have observed two episodes, for want of a better word, which may be revealing in terms of ongoing struggles over copyright.
First, some background. In the first episode, I am an educator. I teach an undergraduate module on media economics, designed as an introduction, for students in advertising, marketing and public relations, to the dynamics of the movie, music,...
It's so mellow round here
Twitter’s spazzing out about Kim Jong-Ill. Think I’ll hide here.
“Had Hitchens been wrong about the Soviet Union, say, in the way he was wrong...”
– Corey Robin
“Yes, but”: More on Hitchens and Hagiography «... →
“The British are probably the world champions of euphemism. The best of these are...”
– The Economist
“There’s one other aspect to the adulation of Hitchens that’s quite revealing....”
– Glenn Greenwald
Christopher Hitchens' Unforgivable Mistake →
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