January 20, 2009 • 3:35 pm 0
… and you know what that means! Inauguration Day specials for all of you Beltway “johns.” There’s no taxation without representation for these patriotic escorts.
[Read: "Washington, DC craigslist, erotic services, inauguration"]
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December 11, 2008 • 2:59 am 0
Agrippa is a poem and a work of art in its own right, the text being a semi-autobiographical poem by William Gibson and the artwork being its mode of transmission: most famously, the poem itself was included on a 3.5-inch floppy disk programmed to erase itself after the first playback. The book that the disk accompanied was printed with photosensitive chemicals that were meant to eventually fade away. This is not unlike Mémoires by the Situationists Debord and Jorn, which featured a sandpaper cover, designed to devour any books that were unlucky enough to share shelf space with it!
As Gibson himself put it, around the time that the poem came out: “It starts around 1919 and moves up to today, or possibly beyond. If it works, it makes the reader uncomfortably aware of how much we tend to accept the contemporary media version of the past. You can see it in Westerns, the way the ‘mise-en-scene’ and the collars on cowboys change through time. It’s never really the past; it’s always a version of your own time.”
UC Santa Barbara has compiled a tremendous online archive for Agrippa (a book of the dead), containing scans of both editions of the book, the poem itself, video of the poem running on an Apple IIe (rather, an Apple IIe emulator), and an insane amount of archival documentation (essays, interviews, source images, letters, press releases and more).
[check out the online archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead): here.]
[check out "Books of Warfare: The Collaboration between Guy Debord & Asger Jorn from 1957-1959": here.]
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November 7, 2007 • 10:38 pm 0
Max Blumenthal takes us on another shocking trip to the far shores of the Christian right, this time to the 2007 Value Voters Summit. Starring Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani (momentarily in drag), James Dobson, “Lucky Lou” Sheldon, Star Parker, Phyllis Schlafly, Frank Gaffney, and many more of the wingers we know and don’t necessarily love.
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May 29, 2007 • 3:52 am 1
While I am taking care of some stuff around the house, this seems appropriate. Hell, I might even print myself a copy tomorrow at work!
10 Ways to Do More by Focusing on the Essentials from lifehack.org.
These days our lives are busier than ever. We work more than ever. We are more stressed and exhausted than ever before. And yet we get less done and are not as happy.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
The problem is that we are overloaded with information and tasks, and we try to get everything done instead of just the most essential things. Solution: focus on only the essential, eliminate the rest, and allow yourself to get into that beautiful state known as “flow”.
And although it can be hard to give up all the busy-ness that we’ve grown accustomed to, the change will have tremendous benefits on our sanity, our stress levels, our happiness, and yes, our productivity.
Here are 10 simple ways to be more productive with less effort.
Filed under: I am going to Mad Mex after this post, note to self
May 8, 2007 • 2:10 am 0
I’m sorry, but this shit fascinates me.
From the Discovery Channel:
“La Gioconda,” as Italians call the Mona Lisa, has puzzled art lovers since the portrait was completed around 1506.
Attempts to solve the enigma surrounding her famous smile as well as her identity — the panel is unsigned, undated and bears nothing to indicate the sitter’s name — have included theories that she was the artist’s mother, a noblewoman, a courtesan, even a prostitute.
Theories also abound that the sitter was happily pregnant, or affected by various diseases ranging from facial paralysis to the compulsive gnashing of teeth.
“My research confirms that Lisa Gherardini and the Mona Lisa were one and the same. We might never solve the mystery behind her smile, but now we know that she had a modest childhood and a rather ordinardy life,” Pallanti said.
[read the whole damn thing: here.]
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May 3, 2007 • 7:06 pm 1
LJD-T: yeah
you sound like a real charmer, yourself!!!
she’s at home like “where’s my stalker?”
me: is that better?
LJD-T’s new status message – Lenny is hiding from you 3:00 PM
LJD-T: yeah
me: ah!!!
LJD-T: i’m bloggin about you right now!!
me: my greatest fear and my greatest thrill
LJD-T: you bet!
wait
how come so many people read your blog? i mean, i know it’s great
me: i dont understand… i thought that Black Flag was some sort of weird, avante garde fusion band when i was 14… what the hell was i on?
LJD-T: but how do they find it? you must have a better social network than i!
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
blog it!
me: on it.
done. and done.
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October 16, 2006 • 9:16 pm 1
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October 10, 2006 • 11:20 pm 0
- We have clearance, Clarence.
- Roger, Roger.
- What’s our vector, Hector?– Airplane!
Sure, things have been a little skimpy lately… but that’s ‘cos I have a lot of fun projects in the works, including some pitch letters for magazine gigs, an appearance at the next Encyclopedia Destructica party, a super secret special project with Jesse Hicks of JesseHicks.com fame, etc. etc.
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October 6, 2006 • 8:31 pm 1
We are sad to announce that Robert Anton Wilson’s health continues to deteriorate, and ongoing medical costs have depleted his resources. (For those of you who believe that being a “successful” author means that you make a lot of money from your work…well, that’s rarely the case.)
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