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Aug 27, 2008
Surf W/ SF May Ban Bikes!

SAN FRANCISCO: BIKES CAUSE TOO MUCH POLLUTION, HOOTERS IN CHINA?, SUNDOWN TOWNS, BUCK ROGERS FROM THE CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR, JACKIE CHAN'S BIGGEST INFLUENCE: BUSTER KEATON!
 
The Velvet Underground and Nico on Italian TV, 1966!
 
In "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers have taken some of cinema's top and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=11546
 
Sundown Towns. Many are in Illinois. They are towns that did not allow Blacks after dark! The Illinois towns still set off their warning siren, one hopes they don't remember why!
 
 
Jackie Chan credits Buster Keaton as a huge influence: here's why (really amazing footage):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xh108cLbo
The Buster Keaton Museum!
http://busterkeatonmuseum.happywebsite.biz/
 
New York is wooing cyclists with chartreuse bike lanes. Chicago is spending nearly $1 million for double-decker bicycle parking.

San Francisco can't even install new bike racks.

[Rob Anderson]

 

 

 

 

Blame Rob Anderson. At a time when most other cities are encouraging biking as green transport, the 65-year-old local gadfly has stymied cycling-support efforts here by arguing that urban bicycle boosting could actually be bad for the environment.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121919354756955249.html
 
Now this is cool, from the Chicago World's Fair, BUCK ROGERS short film!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1AHjN27xU&e
 
Now you can buy your own Preying Mantis eggs! From Surfer Richard Crowe whose other links follow in the same color
 
 Did you know that Beijing has a HOOTERS??
 
Hooters is in fact creating quite a stir in Asia!
 
What was the Chicago police riot in 1968 and subsequent trial really about?
 
Two records about the Chicago 7 and the riots! MP3's
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/the-chicago-sev.html
 

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

U.S. 11 as it runs between Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, is an outdoor vernacular art gallery that gives even my beloved Western Avenue in Chicago a run for its money. This page merely samples the great handmade typography on the stretch I traversed, while showing the best of the graphical images there.

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Posted at 01:01 pm by Psychomike



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