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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
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Apr 7, 2008
FROM CREEDENCE TO REVIVAL: JOHN FOGERTY FINDS HIS SOUND, 10 CRAZY BUT TRUE CONSPIRACIES, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: THE RIDE!
Boston Beer Co., the Boston brewer of Samuel Adams craft beers, said it is recalling an undetermined amount of beer because of defective bottles that may contain glass particles.
The company said the defective bottles came from a glass company that provides Boston Beer with about a quarter of its glass bottles. The "small grains or bits of glass" were discovered during a quality control operation at the firm's Cincinnati brewery, Boston Beer said in a statement. The problem was confirmed Friday, and was traced to bottles coming from a single manufacturing plant.
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/04/glass_particles.html
35 years of photography on Tahiti! Amazing story of photographer Adolphe Sylvain. From Richard Crowe!
Some UK math students do the absolutely brilliant, not ok for work, ALGORITHM CHORES!
Death has been a godsend to Vidal Herrera, who runs 1800autopsy.com, providing private autopsies and forensic services; morgueproprentals.com, his morgue set and equipment appear on many TV shows; and coffincouches.com, high style macabre for the Goth and biker crowd!
Top 10 crazy conspiracy theories- that were true!
A DISGRUNTLED wife is suing her husband for a million dollars over the loss of her virginity and a demand that the marriage be null and void.
Patti Smith — visionary poet punk singer songwriter activist artist — has created a rich multi-layered installation at Fondation Cartier in Paris that reflects 40 years of her more personal visual art-making and creative expression. Drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007, the exhibition includes sketches, collages, films, audio installations, cherished objects, handwritten and typed poetry, drafts of song lyrics, and — at the center of it all — a lot of black-and-white Polaroid photographs http://www.lensculture.com/patti_smith.html
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was an amazing ride that once resided at Disney World. This site has terrific photos and everything you can think of about this lost ride.
These pics after the ride shut down are oddly moving
Here is the prank the employees at the ride pulled on the head of Disney to close the popular ride down ( the employees hated the maintenance work) http://www.20kride.com/history.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
John Fogerty  After Creedence broke up, the musician spent years searching for his own sound. With love, he found it.
My new album, "Revival,"comes by its title naturally—a return to making the kind of music I became known for early in my career. I get a real feeling of being back where I belong. But I didn't just decide to do that. I was in need of another kind of revival before that music could be created.
Twenty-one years ago I was a castaway—a drifter, floating along with the stream. Not plotting a course or even aiming for a destination point. I was filled with anger and hurt and at the same time, weirdly subdued; depressed. Just a year earlier I'd released a No. 1 solo album to wildly enthusiastic acclaim. How did things get so bad? http://www.newsweek.com/id/72019 Posted at 09:35 pm by Psychomike
Apr 6, 2008
SurfW/ Schlitz Beer Is Back!
NEW INTERNET IS COMING, WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH, EVA BRAUN'S LINGERIE, TOUCH OF EVIL TRAILER, RIC FLAIR'S GOODBYE SPEECH!
Schlitz beer, once the world's top-selling beer brand, has gone back to its original formula. Woodridge-based Pabst Brewing Co. relaunches the formula -- packaged in the long-neck bottles it abandoned in the 1990s -- this week in Chicago.
There is a company on the net that does DNA testing, Richard Crowe found a page on the site about when Scotland was Jewish, using DNA evidence!
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, "the grid" will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece
A Serb farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0317448420080404
Here is video of Ric Flair being defeated at Wrestlemania, and his goodbye speech.
Flair was not shy of "juice matches", wrestling matches that ended in blood.
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Charlton Heston has died. Here he is in the second version of I AM LEGEND, this trailer is for THE OMEGA MAN
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The Pirate Soul - a pirate museum in Key West. From Richard Crowe
Posted at 09:32 pm by Psychomike
Apr 5, 2008
Surf W/ Ric Flair Retires
REBECCA KNOX IRISH WRESTLER RETURNS, BAD ITALIAN WINE FLOODS ITALY, THE MOST EXCITING TRUE SPY THRILLER ABOUT STAMPS EVER, FINE ART PICS OF TATTOOS!
Ric Flair began wrestling in 1972 professionally. He retired after wrestling in the 2008 Wrestlemania.
Here is the biography and wrestling career of this legend.
The Undertaker says goodbye to Ric Flair, the greatest living wrestler, as do the fans. This footage was not aired and was shot from the crowd.
Ric Flair wrestling one of his best matches the 1992 Royal Rumble http://willbardwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-ric-flair-retirement-present.html
Harley Warrick, 76, who was among a dozen sign painters who advertised the joys of chewing tobacco on the side of thousands of Appalachian and Midwestern barns, died November 24 in Wheeling, WVA.
Mr. Warrick and other barn painters traveled America's heartland for months at a time to cover barns with black, white and yellow signs reading "CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO. TREAT YOURSELF TO THE BEST." Warrick spent 55 years painting or retouching more than 20,000 barns. From Richard Crowe: http://www.thebarnjournal.org/people/003/index.html
This collection of tattoos has one shot that I know I've never seen before- a picture of a Yakuza's mistress and her full back tat. "Alex Chadwick talks with National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier -- once a student of the famed Ansel Adams -- about his latest collection of photographs, Ancient Marks. Rainier travelled across the globe documenting a wide variety of cultures that apply tattoos and other markings to their bodies. Sent in by Richard Crowe
The Passenger Pigeon Society wants you as a member. Admission is free. It has been 100 years since the last Passenger Pigeon was seen in the wild. Now there is only one left! Sent in by Richard Crowe and I have no idea how he finds this stuff!
Rebecca Knox is one of the top 5 best women's wrestlers I have ever seen. I first saw her at a Shimmer Women's Wrestling event and she was terrific at acting and athleticism. She had the crowd in her hand and pulled off- well, I won't give it away, but the DVD of that event is on sale and available here: http://www.bigvisionentertainment.com/store/wrestling/shimmer3.php
Thanks to Jeff Borden In Chicago for the news she is returning.
She is from Ireland and she is also stunning in looks and moves. A head injury has kept her out of the ring, she is about to return.
I wanted you to see Rebecca in action and decided on this unusual Japanese match. Women wrestlers in Japan are the best women athletes in wrestling. You have to be really good to step into the ring in Japan. Jackie Chan used humor in his martial arts movie scenes and wrestling in Asia has matches that blend slapstick and humor as a result. Rebecca Knox handles the situation very well, and still gets to show her moves. We then to get to see her spanked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfcDl5gN3w&feature=related
Ireland's Rebecca Knox has been out of action since September of 2006 with an extremely unfortunate head injury that she suffered during a match in Germany. Since then, K-NOX has kept an unbelievably low-profile living somewhere in Florida. On Sunday, May 4, Rebecca Knox will return to ChickFight at a TV taping in Ipswich, Suffolk (UK) at The Caribbean Centre with a 5:30pm bell time!
http://combat-hooligans.com/2008/03/02/rebecca-knox-set-to-return-at-chickfight/
A fan does a music video tribute to Rebecca Knox:
Here is a bio on the Irish wrestling star
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Richard Crowe found this true life spy thriller about the counterfeiting stamps and money campaign spies used against Hitler. This is quite a site with a story I had never read before- and it's true!
Text is "Gehangt am 8 Aug 1944: und ihr habt doch gesiegt," ("Hanged on 8 August 1944: and despite all you were victorious."). The British product parodied an earlier genuine German stamp depicting a Storm Trooper.
Posted at 07:35 am by Psychomike
Apr 4, 2008
SurfW/St Christopher WEREWOLF
120 YEARS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, ABU GHRAIB: THE HOUSE OF HORROR, CHURCH OF ENGLAND DECLARES WAR ON ST GEORGE, STRANGE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH, ADS FROM 1960'S MONSTER MOVIE MAGAZINES!
A new Gallup poll is very startling. 20% dislikes ALL major candidates!
Psychologists are skilled at inventing unusual tests of human thought and behavior, but some research is pretty weird. Over the past few months I've been examining some of the weirdest studies around. There's research into psychic dogs, invasions from Mars, the antidepressant properties of semen, pigeon-guided missiles and men's urination.
One of the most unusual photos ever- a policeman fires a gun directly into a willing subject!
Quite often the antagonist of the werewolf belief (and of werewolves themselves), is the Catholic church and its larger outgrowth of christianity in general. Through the church's inquisitions, tortures, and writings, the church has taught western culture of the "inherent" evil of werewolves. The werewolf was commonly believed to be the descendant of Cain or a monstrocity created by selling one's soul to the devil. Even today, the church in it's many forms views werewolves as the incarnate of evil, but there is one whom they've forgot.
The greatest werewolf sercret of them all.
The secret is much deeper in the church than mere converts and warriors. The secret is in the single name of Christopher.Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and seafarers. He is fairly well known in western tradition.But the greatest secret of all is that Saint Cristopher is a Cynocephali, a dog-head, a werewolf!
http://roswell.fortunecity.com/poltergeist/260/secret.htm
120 years of electronic music:
THE FOLLOWING POST SHOULD NOT BE READ BY SENSITIVE READERS: Before Abu Ghraib became known by Americans, it was a house of horror:
The notoriety of Abu Ghraib was enough to chill the fervor of even the most revolutionary citizens. It was said that thousands of men and women were crammed into tiny cells and that abuse, torture, and executions were daily occurrences. The regime tested chemicals and biological weapons on the inmates, and some prisoners were given nothing but scraps of shredded plastic to eat. Chunks of flesh were torn from the bodies of some prisoners and then force-fed to others. Gruesome tortures involving power tools and hungry dogs were routine, and thousands of people who entered the doors of that fearsome place were never heard from again. It was known that mass graves existed around the country, and it was known in general terms where they were situated; but of course nobody dared to hunt out the final resting places of those poor men and women who had become victims of the enthusiastic guards at Abu Ghraib, for fear of becoming one of their number. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/540/rumors_and_retribution/
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This is what The New Illustrated Rock Handbook wrote about Osibisa: "Introduced African rock music to British audiences and commanded large following from 1970 to 1976 when Sunshine Day gave them their first chart single." In those days, world music was a term yet to be coined but the polyrhythmic Afro rock of Osibisa is still as fresh today as it was invigorating then. Hear a radio performance of the band here:
http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities07/ARosilondon.html
From Richard Crowe: His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries. But the Church of England is considering rejecting England's patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.
Clergy have started a campaign to replace George with St Alban, a Christian martyr in Roman Britain. The scheme, to be considered by the Church's parliament, the General Synod, has met a cautious but sympathetic response from senior bishops.
But it clashes with the increasing popularity of the saint and his flag in England. The World Cup brought out millions of St George crosses as the symbol became increasingly mainstream.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=393651&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
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MojoPojo sends us the ultimate post of 2008. Using this device, women can now pee standing up. Science marches on!
Posted at 05:56 am by Psychomike
Apr 3, 2008
5 FAMOUS INVENTORS WHO STOLE THEIR IDEA, DISCRIMINATION BY WEIGHT NOW SURPASSES RACISM, SOUTH AFRICA THEN AND NOW, THE BACON BRA, BAGHDAD'S ONLY HEAVY METAL BAND, 16 THINGS THEY SHOULD TEACH IN SCHOOLS, HUMAN - COW EMBRYOS!
When comedy legend Del Close realized he was going to die, he decided to host a Birthday Party in the hospital. Here is the story and video of that party:
It always amazes the number of people who don't venture out of their home to take advantage of all Chicago has going for it. Joss Stone is going to be playing at Taste of Chicago this year- FREE. B.B. King and Johnny Winter at Blues Fest- FREE. (Chicagoans don't go to Taste for the food- we go for the music). Summerdance with outdoor dancing and the skyline as the backdrop- FREE. The secret to Chicago- is treat it like a tourist. If you can't, move to Ohio!
It's illegal to discriminate against someone because of race or gender, but our culture condones a bias against people who are overweight. There are no federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of weight, and only Michigan has such a law, according to a new study from Yale University.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4568813&page=1
5 Famous inventors who stole their idea. http://www.cracked.com/article_16072_5-famous-inventors-who-stole-their-big-idea.html
An exhibition of 160 photographs mounted in 5 venues at Duke University. South African photographer Paul Weinberg conceived and curated Then & Now which is comprised of black and white and color photographs from 8 South African documentary photographers. Twenty photographs were selected from each photographer, 10 made under apartheid and 10 photographs made after the historic democratic elections of 1994. http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/photos/
Attempting to promulgate Dada ideas throughout Europe, Tristan Tzara launched the art and literature review Dada. Appearing in July 1917, the first issue of Dada, subtitled Miscellany of Art and Literature, featured contributions from members of avant-garde groups throughout Europe, including Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky. Marking the magazine's debut, Tzara wrote in the Zurich Chronicle, 'Mysterious creation! Magic Revolver! The Dada Movement is Launched.'
 Issue 2 appeared in December of 1918. Issue number 3 violated all the rules and conventions in typography and layout and undermined established notions of order and logic. Printed in newspaper format in both French and German editions, it embodies Dada's celebration of nonsense and chaos with an explosive mixture of manifestos, poetry, and advertisements - all typeset in randomly ordered lettering. Included is Tzara's 'Dada Manifesto of 1918,' which was read at Meise Hall in Zurich on July 23, 1918, and is perhaps the most important of the Dadaist manifestos. http://www.ubuweb.com/historical/dada/index.html
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The following are from Bryan Wendorf head of the Chicago Underground Film Festival:
The only heavy metal band in Baghdad
The last New York Underground Film Festival
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HZ Sends us this hilarious news report on dealing with paranoid schizophrenics
16 Things I wish they taught me in school- great article!
Thousands of college students are demanding the right to bear arms to school!
One of the reasons it's difficult to measure our economy is the huge blackmarket. The number one crop in America isn't even traded in the futures market, its profits remain uncounted. This 1938 article will remind you what that crop is: http://jackherer.com/popmech.html
Richard Crowe sends us:
Lets start with the basic story which is the background for all of the stories on the Lincoln Imp. It starts with Satan sending the imp to Lincoln Cathedral to cause trouble.
The imp was destroying the Angel Choir when an angel appeared but the imp jumped up onto a pillar and started throwing rocks at the angel. The angel then turned the imp to stone as he is today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2005/08/16/lincoln_imp_feature.shtml
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HUMAN-cow embryos have been created in a world first at Newcastle University in England, hailed by the scientific community, but labelled "monstrous" by opponents.
A team has grown hybrid embryos after injecting human DNA into eggs taken from cows' ovaries, which had most of their genetic material removed.
The embryos survived for three days and are intended to provide a limitless supply of stem cells to develop therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries, overcoming a worldwide shortfall in human embryos.
Dr Teija Peura, director of human embryonic stem cell laboratories at the Australian Stem Cell Centre, said somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) had been done between animal species, but the "99 per cent human" embryos could boost research.
Posted at 09:14 am by Psychomike
Apr 1, 2008
ASTEROID DESTROYED SODOM AND GOMORRAH, BEST BURLESQUE GROUP IN CHICAGO, NOT FOR PROFITS STEAL BILLIONS, THE NEW YORK TIMES PAYS TRIBUTE TO MAD MAGAZINE, THE MYTH OF SEX TRAFFICING, BJORK 3-D VIDEO, SVENGOOLIE IS GOING TO ROCK IN APRIL!
The astonishingly stunning Michelle L'Amour headlines at the best deal in town for burlesque- the first Wednesday of the month at The Motel Bar. No cover. 10pm prompt start time. Lot's of girls!
"The Motel Bar has the kitschy, oddly classy ambiance of a '70s roadside flophouse, but on the first Wednesday of every month, it plays host to the popular '20s art form of burlesque. The Star and Garter burlesque girls tease and seduce while shaking and jiggling their goodies to live music. For those who are intimidated by all that skin, Absolut drinks specials should offer some liquid courage."
Here is Michelle on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT!
The new exhibition includes several photo-realist paintings of carefully selected movie scenes in which a dramatically framed actress is central. The paintings are composed of two separate scenes from different movies, one black-and-white and one color, stacked horizontally so that one scene seems to bear weight upon the other and a new relationship or narrative is formed. The strong female protagonist of each frame conveys the scenes' emotional impact, and the inevitable nostalgia of McDermott & McGough's selected imagery lends a sense of cool introspection. The sensibility of the large scale, horizontally-composed paintings are echoed in a series of eight photo-realist paintings of 1960s era televisions, the distinctly boxy but individually unique exteriors framing single black-and-white scenes, the actresses' expressive faces filling the screen http://www.cheimread.com/exhibitions/2008-03-21_mcdermott-and-mcgough/
A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for 150 years has been identified as a witness's account of the asteroid suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Researchers who cracked the cuneiform symbols on the Planisphere tablet believe that it recorded an asteroid thought to have been more than half a mile across. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3649054.ece
The volunteer treasurer of the Madison County Humane Society in Indiana was charged this month with using $65,000 of the charity"s money to buy jewelry and makeup. In San Francisco, the chief financial officer of the Music Concourse Community Partnership was fired after he was accused of taking $3.6 million of the organization's money to play the stock market.
Nonprofit leaders tend to shrug off such cases as evidence of "just a few bad apples." But a new report, trying to identify the scope of such thefts for the first time, suggests otherwise. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/us/29fraud.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=strom+light&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Svengoolie is showing some great flicks:
WCIU 9pm Sat/MeTV 1 am-
4/5- "Son of Dracula"
4/12- "Wolf Man"
HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN IS THE MOST INSANE OF THE CLASSIC FRANKENSTEIN FILMS!
4/19- "House of Frankenstein"
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is my favorite of all the Frankenstein films!
4/26- "Bride of Frankenstein"
"Classic Sven" on MeToo- Fri. overnight 3 am-
4/4- "Women of the Prehistoric Planet"
BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER is nuts. And total fun! POPCORN!
4/11- "Beach Girls and the Monster"
4/18- "Gallery of Horror"
Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not "passive victims" in need of "saving" or sending back by western campaigners.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200803270046
I love Bjork. I figure all the angels in SubGenius Heaven sound like her ( second choice, Carla Bruni). But even if you don't care for her, this video will blow you away.
This is one amazing music video. Breathtaking. Watch it full screen (click the Esc button to leave full screen).
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Posted at 05:39 pm by Psychomike
Mar 31, 2008
Surf W/Kent State Massacre
KENT STATE VIDEO NEVER SHOWN IN U.S. MEDIA, SECRET COMMUNIST PORN, HILLARY DUFF IN ANTI- WAR FILM, OBAMA AND THE JFK STORY, SATIRE OF ANONYMOUS VIDEOS, PHILOSOPHER ACTION FIGURES!
The Kent State shooting that left 4 students dead- with footage never shown to U.S. audiences (see the second video)
Here is an accurate description of what led up to the shootings. The last paragraph explains why some feel the case should be re-opened.
War, Inc. (Trailer and Info) War, Inc. is a dark political satire film starring John Cusack and Hilary Duff and directed by Joshua Seftel. Cusack also wrote and produced the film. A working title of the film was "Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens." The story is partly inspired by Naomi Klein's article "Baghdad Year Zero."
http://thelastmovement.blogspot.com/2008/03/war-inc-trailer-and-info.html
Someone has just done a really funny satire of the Anonymous videos against Scientology! (By the way, too bad these kids weren't protesting oh I don't know, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT KILLING TIBETANS! Priorities people....)
Carla Bruni takes off her jacket and the press goes nuts ooohing and ahhing her outfit!
 Aristotle384-322 B.C.E. Nationality: Greek Philosophy action figures!
If all of John Steinbeck is in print 40 years after his death and is still force-fed to school kids, why is he so decisively off the literary map?
Canada is loved and trusted world wide, even though it was made up of people fleeing our Revolutionary War, Civil War and VietNam. Hmmmmmm.
The story Obama tells of JFK helping his family leave Kenya isn't, ummmm, accurate.
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In Communist propaganda, women were fully equal and integrated into the military. In reality however....
Western pornography was banned under communism, but the armed forces of the former East Germany made their own sex films featuring bare-breasted female soldiers that were enjoyed by senior officers and outwardly prudish hard-line politicians.
Evidence of the former communist state's secret porn industry surfaced yesterday in a documentary made by eastern Germany's MDR television channel. It showed original film clips of nude subalterns kissing, and female army privates in helmets posing semi-naked on parade.
The programme, Pornography made in the German Democratic Republic, revealed that the East German army, which at the time was one of the most feared in the Warsaw Pact, ran a 160-man film unit devoted to making porn. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/stasis-official-pornography-department-finally-exposed-801774.html Posted at 07:13 am by Psychomike
Mar 30, 2008
DINNER WITH HENRY MILLER, LSD COMICBOOK, 10 UNREASONABLE PARKING TICKETS, TOPLESS VICTORY IN COPENHAGEN!
A novel co-written by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, two giants of the "Beat Generation" of poets, writers and drug-takers, is to be published for the first time more than 60 years after it was written. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, written in 1945, was inspired by an actual killing which led to the arrest of both authors.
Here, on a notorious drug trafficking corner on the South Side of Chicago, Google shows what looks very much like a transaction between a black man in long shorts and a baseball cap, and a sedan, numberplate clearly visible. And, because the map-makers take panoramic photographs as they drive around, one can see the exchange from at least half a dozen angles, as the van approaches, and then looks back. Amazing. http://gawker.com/5004469/a-drug-deal-caught-from-every-angle
Silent disco event- people show up with their iPods on and don't listen to each other.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys, but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small business circles.
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html Posted at 10:52 am by Psychomike
Mar 29, 2008
FORBIDDEN CITY: THE ALL ASIAN BURLESQUE HOUSE, STALIN VS HITLER, LENIN'S 1920 FAILED CONQUEST OF EUROPE, THE DAY THE BLITZ BEGAN, LIFE ON MARS, HANK WILLIAMS AS LUKE THE DRIFTER!
You won't believe this! A Karate teacher who is confined to his wheelchair!
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KAWANO Yoshiichi Sensei started Gojuryu karate at age of 16.
He trained hard and participated in world championships at age of 22.
12 years ago, he injured his spinal cord in a car accident and became a paraplegic. He was pessimistic about his future.
One day, when he played with his grandchildren, it occurred to him that he could teach karate to children because his height in a wheelchair was almost as tall as children.
He established his dojo 9 years ago, and started teaching children karate. Children makes him feel the joy of being alive.
To show his thanks to children, he participated in All Japan Karate Championships for handicapped people, which he won. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKfLzqYE244
There are lot's of books and high priced classes on winning at craps with all kinds of systems- this system is free and looks good. http://www.upforanything.net/poker/archives/how-to-win-at-c.html
Lollapalooza may get the press, but The Pitchfork Music Fest has inventive and exciting programming. Here's the new schedule, from Bryan Wendorf at the Chicago Underground Film Festival http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/
If humans land on Mars by 2037 as NASA hopes, they'll need cities modeled on ones that already exist in extreme climates on Earth. Here are six high-tech (and a few low-tech) cities that would have a passing shot at survival in the Martian climate.
The Interactive Vietnam Vets Memorial http://go.footnote.com/thewall
One womans quest for the Holy Grail!
Top 5 Worst ways to die in a video game! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20752572/Forbidden City, on the second floor of 363 Sutter street, below Stockton, was one of several "Chinese nightclubs" in San Francisco at the beginning of World War II, and certainly one of the most successful.  From Richard Crowe
From Chicago Underground Film Festival head Bryan Wendorf: The Los Angeles Times' Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin and
reporter Chuck Phillips have apologized to readers for a March 17 story which used fabricated FBI documents to allege Sean "Diddy" Combs
and Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace had advanced knowledge about the assault of rapper Tupac Shakur in 1994. The article, titled
"Blood Feud," alleged that Combs and Wallace were warned that Shakur would be assaulted at the Quad Recoding Studios the behest of Jimmy
"Henchmen" Rosemond and a convicted con man named James Sabatino. "In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my
job," Philips said in a statement. "I'm sorry. I now believe the truth here is that I got duped. For this, I take full responsibility and I
apologize." For the full story log on:
http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/03/27/19539012.aspxEddie the Road Manager sends us this invasion of privacy- search all states and view the drivers licenses of you and your pals! http://www.license.homeland.us/data BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
I recently was listening to an X-M radio station show hosted by Bob Dylan (my favorite 'folk singer') and he talked about a song by Hank Williams entitled "No No Joe", which was a song directed at Joseph Stalin.
Here are the lyrics:
Now look her Joe quit acting smart
Stop being that old brazen sort
Don't you go sellin' this country short?
No, no, Joe
Just because you think you've found
The system that we know ain't sound
Don't you go throwin' your weight around?
No, no Joe
Coz the Kaiser tried and Hitler tried it
Mussolini tried it too
Now they're all sittin' around a fire and did you know
They're saving place for you
Now Joe you ought to get it clear
You can't push folks around with fear
Coz we don't scare easy over here
No, no Joe
What makes you do the things you do?
You gettin' folks mad at you
Don't bite off more than you can chew?
No, no Joe
Coz you want a scrap that you can't win
You don't know what you're getting in
Don't you go around leading with your chin?
No, no Joe
Now you got tanks some fair size tanks
But you're acting like a clown
Cause man we got Yanks don't mess with Yanks
And you might get caught with your tanks down
Don't go throwin' out your chest
You'll pop the buttons off you vest
You're playing with a hornet's nest
No, no Joe
You know you think you're somebody we should dread
Just because you're seeing red
You better get that foolishness out of your head
No, no Joe
And you might be itching for a fight
Quit braggin' about how your bear can bite
Coz you're sitting on a keg of dynamite
No, no Joe
I love the line "Just because you think you've found the system that we know ain't sound".
The song has a somewhat fascinating history, as Hank Williams didn't record it under his name, but instead under the name "Luke the Drifter" for fear of a counter-reaction against it that would impact his popularity. His more religious, moral and political songs were recorded under this name. What does this tell us about the biases in popular culture circa 1950s?
You can hear the song here: http://www.lulu.tv/?p=14420. Click on "No, No Joe".
Posted by Peter Boettke Posted at 10:52 am by Psychomike
Mar 27, 2008
DR. PEPPER BEGS AXL ROSE TO RELEASE CHINESE DEMOCRACY, HILLARY CLINTON'S WHACKY RELIGION, FREE MISS TIBET, THE WORST HEADLINE OF ALL TIME (SEE BEST OF), HELLO KITTY RECTAL THERMOMITOR!
Dr Pepper is encouraging (ok, begging) Axl Rose to finally release his 17-year-in-the-making belabored masterpiece, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if the album ships some time -- anytime! -- in 2008.
New global warming movement says adapting to global warming is cheaper than taxing and spending billions to prevent potential problems
There's a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that "through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as "The "Fellowship," also known as The Family. But it won't be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet's shocking exposé The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955108.shtml
Richard Widmark, a great actor, has died. Here he is as psycho Tommy Udo in KISS OF DEATH:
Great films he was in include: HOW THE WEST WAS WON, PANIC IN THE STREETS, KISS OF DEATH, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, WARLOCK, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, The unreal THE LONG SHIPS, THE BEDFORD INCIDENT, the first film to have the director's credit ALAN SMITHEE DEATH OF A GUNFIGHTER, and the should be a classic John Ford's CHEYENNE AUTUMN. Hey, start hitting NETFLIX!
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. Richard Widmark
This scene from THE LONG SHIPS has a Viking rape scene that takes place in a harem! But that isn't what shocked critics of the day- look and see how many gay jokes you find in the scene! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM05LAffHJ0
Here Richard Widmark does this 1956 school howler of an educational film about juvenile delinquency- pretty cool!
Carla Bruni, a terrific singer I have highlighted here more than once, has just conquered the UK. You go girl!
Are you ready for the HELLO KITTY RECTAL THERMOMITOR? YEEECH!
5 Women vie for the title of Miss Tibet! From Richard Crowe
Even if you are anti-gun, this can't be any good-
Boston police officials, surprised by intense opposition from residents, have significantly scaled back and delayed the start of a program that would allow officers to "go into people 's homes and search for guns without a warrant," reports the Boston Globe. "The program, dubbed Safe Homes, was supposed to start in December http://blog4paul.blogspot.com/2008/03/2nd-amendment-boston-and-dc-gun.html
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: BIG PARTY COMING UP:
Established in 1976 by Pete Collurafici, the Tattoo Factory, located at 4441 North Broadway in Chicago's notorious Uptown, is Chicagoland's oldest continually run tattoo studio.
Our grand opening will be held on Friday, March 28th and Saturday the 29th from 7pm-midnight. Participating in this month's grand opening are tattoo artists Dawn Grace, Alex Higgins, "Philthy" Cisco, Casey Sass, Jay Lee Redden, Bobby Sox, Jeremy "Creamy", Chris Wagman, and including well known artists, and our friends, Mitch O'Connell and GiGi Deluxe.
You can expect to see some truly amazing paintings, prints, and mosaics.. The showcase will include the musical talents of The Billys and Ilsabe O'Connell. Don't miss the opportunity to bring a friend and say you were there!
Tattoo Factory Gallery
4443 N Broadway
Friday, March 28th and Saturday the 29th
7pm-midnight
Scientists are one step closer to understanding how new planets form, thanks to research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and carried out by a team of astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. http://www.eyedoctornewsletter.com/planet
The alphabet pop up book- one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen! Great music, too!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
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