Bring out the dead
The Jon Swift Memorial Roundup is up at Vagabond Scholar. You’ll have to scroll a while before you get to mine but you could spend a couple of days clicking on the all the good links so you might want to drag that link to your desktop.
I’m not sure what Al Wiesel would have thought of the Insane Clown Posse, but iTunes just cued up Juggalo Island and that’s setting the tone for the rest of this post.
You’ve been warned.
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News:
Maybe the Swedes should judge Favre (and the NFL can judge Assange?)
Everything’s OK when we do it [via PW]
Bad things happen when bad people are in charge
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Holiday spirit:
NYC blizzard video that has to be seen to be believed (seriously, how can a road grader with a bucket get stuck in the snow?)
Qwest execs gift selves with millions
Poisoned pen racists [and the inevitable consequences] [just another Holy Land Christmas]
Best Chinese in the Twin Cities (not the greatest decor or ambience, just the best food)
Wisconsin: the Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia of the North
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It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what Fox News would have said about William Lloyd Garrison in real time. More to the point, I wish Harry Turtledove would rewrite his books giving a 19th Century Roger Ailes credit for the Civil War.
Sundering profits the few while leaving ruinous debt for the many.
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Interesting. If you click on the link to get the L.A. Times’ L.A. Unheard Vol. 1 Mixtape, you are taken to a Rapidshare style page sponsored by Bloomberg. After you click for your download it loads a Bloomberg news page.
I’d say the music industry has barely enough half life left to light up a watch dial.
Still downloading the 100MB set so no review but I’m hoping for good things.
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Books:
Thomas De Quincey, O.B. (Original Blogger) (substitute a 22 oz. bottle of wet-hopped ale for the laudanum and he’d fit right in)
History quiz inspired by patriotically correct textbook
Kindlemania (Tild got one for Kindlemas!) [more]
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Tech/privacy:
Deconstructing bad Venn diagrams, junk touching edition
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Rest in Peace: Lynn Redgrave, Jimmy Dean, Kate McGarrigle, Alex Chilton, Robert Culp, Jean Simmons, J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, John Dankworth, Dick Francis, Kathryn Grayson, Michael Foot, Peter Graves, Herb Ellis, John Forsythe, Malcolm McClaren, Lech Kaczynski, Lena Horne, Frank Frazetta, Ronnie James Dio, Dennis Hopper, Rue McClanahan, Manute Bol, Robert Byrd, Harvey Pekar, Tony Judt, Patricia Neal, Kevin McCarthy, Eddie Fisher, Arthur Penn, Tony Curtis, Stephen J. Cannell, Norman Wisdom, Solomon Burke, Gregory Isaacs, Henryk Gorecki, Leslie Nielsen, Blake Edwards, & Don Van Vliet
Rot in Hell: George Steinbrenner, Charlie Wilson, Alexander Haig, & Eugene Terre’Blanche
The good ones die, the evil ones get organ transplants from China.
Bonus Dead: Jeff Goldblum (don’t tell him!)”
Still no correction from the ChiTrib.
A Merry Kindlemas to me too. Wife & son conspired to get me one. I’m liking it.
Thanks for participating and spreading the word. Have a Happy New Year – with our without lutefisk!