Michael: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill anybody..
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Friday, September 28, 2012
"If history has taught us anything..."
Michael: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill anybody..
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Search.xxx debuts today—the first dedicated pornography search engine
By Mona Goldwater,
Social Mores Editor
Porn fans, as of today, have their own search engine on the Internet. And there is nothing anyone can really do about it. In fact, however, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the other search engines already execute millions of searches for porn every day.
ICM Registry, which runs .xxx, launched its own search engine — Search.xxx — today. “There’s enough porn for anyone who wants to find it,” said Stuart Lawley, ICM’s chief executive and president. “If people hate porn, they can keep away from it.”
Sure, there's that.
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The botched Ecce Homo restoration now on trash and trinkets
By Jack Brummet, Art Editor
The disastrous Ecce Homo painting restoration, also known as “Potato Jesus”, refers to the botched restoration of a century-old Spanish devotional fresco. An elderly woman named Cecilia Jiménez, acted as the amateur art restorer. The result of the botched restoration spawned a highly viral internet meme, where the trashed painting was edited in to other famous works of art, movie scenes and probably into a bunch of cat and FAIL images.
Jiménez wanted to restore a damaged fresco created by Spanish painter Elías García Martínez named Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”), in the Santuario de Misericordia Church in the Spanish town Borja. According to the church, Jiménez restored the painting without permission.
The original, and Jiménez's "fixed" version:
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Shots from the Seattle Furthur show at the WaMu Theater
Shots from the Furthur show at WaMu Theater (a decidedly strange venue) and pre-func tailgater in the shadow of the Pinoeer Square sports stadiums. It was a good show, with the band playing for 3+ hours. . .
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Procrastination Station - from Coloring for Grown-ups
Welcome to the working week! Here is another coloring template from Coloring For Grown-Ups
click to enlarge (and print)
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Eat carp, America
By Jack Brummet, Culinary Editor
This is a scan of a 1911 Bureau of Fisheries poster encouraging Americans to eat carp. This fish was introduced to American waters in 1877 and quickly proliferated to the point where the government needed us to eat as much as we could ("It can be cooked in such a way as to remove the muddy taste.") I have to admit, compared to salmon, trout, cod, or snapper, they are truly ugly suckers. I'm thinking that if our government worked the same way in Century 21, we would be getting handouts and recipe books for raccoon, opossum, bedbugs, and pigeon.
This is a scan of a 1911 Bureau of Fisheries poster encouraging Americans to eat carp. This fish was introduced to American waters in 1877 and quickly proliferated to the point where the government needed us to eat as much as we could ("It can be cooked in such a way as to remove the muddy taste.") I have to admit, compared to salmon, trout, cod, or snapper, they are truly ugly suckers. I'm thinking that if our government worked the same way in Century 21, we would be getting handouts and recipe books for raccoon, opossum, bedbugs, and pigeon.
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
The Museum of Endangered Sounds
By Jack Brummet, Ephemera Editor
This is a cool site with a lot of sounds (and a lot of potential) we don't hear often, or never hear anymore--modems screeching, dot matrix printers, Pac Man, Nintendo Game Boys, rotary dial phones, and more and more.
They have a limited number of sounds right now, but I heard someone on the radio yesterday say that they have a lot more sounds to put up as times goes on. Definitely worth a look and a listen. . .
Brendan Chilcutt, the alleged site owner, is a nom de plume for the creators, Marybeth Ledesma, Phil Hadad and Greg Elwood, all students in their mid-20s who met at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Brandcenter .
You can visit the museum here.
This is a cool site with a lot of sounds (and a lot of potential) we don't hear often, or never hear anymore--modems screeching, dot matrix printers, Pac Man, Nintendo Game Boys, rotary dial phones, and more and more.
They have a limited number of sounds right now, but I heard someone on the radio yesterday say that they have a lot more sounds to put up as times goes on. Definitely worth a look and a listen. . .
Brendan Chilcutt, the alleged site owner, is a nom de plume for the creators, Marybeth Ledesma, Phil Hadad and Greg Elwood, all students in their mid-20s who met at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Brandcenter .
You can visit the museum here.
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Friday, September 21, 2012
The Ink Spots "video" of Shout Brother Shout, with some amazing dancing
By Jack Brummet, American Music Editor
The Ink Spots music is, as always, great, but this clip is really about the dancing. I don't know a lot about dance (other than having attended a couple of modern and ballet performances), but this video must be some of the inspiration of Michael Jackson's moonwalking. Or maybe dancers have always done this...because it always just looks so cool.
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The Ink Spots music is, as always, great, but this clip is really about the dancing. I don't know a lot about dance (other than having attended a couple of modern and ballet performances), but this video must be some of the inspiration of Michael Jackson's moonwalking. Or maybe dancers have always done this...because it always just looks so cool.
Copyright (C) 2012 by All This Is That. All This Is That contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make these materials available to advance the understanding of political, economic, literary, artistic, and social issues. In some cases we satirize, parody, or lampoon materials from other sources. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for by section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for research, educational, and entertainment purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', please read and follow our Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and attribute the work to All This Is That, along with our URL (http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com).
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