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My list of favorite websites and blogs was deleted today as I was using the new Blogger In Beta tools. I'll get them back eventually, but for now, why not go bare?
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Mike Judge's new movie Extract

Today on the interwebs (one of my very favorite blogs) posted this link yesterday.  I liked both Office Space and Idiocracy a lot.  In this one, it's the workers who are the bozos.   The movie will arrive next fall. 


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Barack Obama's Hair

Click to enlarge the BHO Chia
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Poem: "I contain multitudes"

We all have a platoon
Of partly-contained multiple personalities
Ready to burst from the confines of the clown car.
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Digital Art: Jerry Garcia in Seattle, 1995

Click Jed to enlarge

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poem: if we were us?

If I were me
What would I do?

Would I see you
And you see me?

If we were us,
Could we let it be?
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Painting: Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger

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Painting: Marilyn Monroe

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Drawing: More heads, part 89

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"We Are Not At War With Islam" - POTUS

By Jack Brummet

arts, paranormal, and poetry editor

In his first visit to a mostly Islamic country, President Obama in Turkey said that the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam."

Wow. We've been waiting eight years to hear someone say that, aloud. POTUS/VPOTUS Bush and Cheney could never actually bring themselves to say those words. . .because they didn't really, in their heart of hearts, believe them.

President BHO was working it hard to mend the frayed ties with our longtime NATO ally Turkey and to reach out to the larger Muslim world. I spent a lot of time in Turkey last summer, and the one thing I carried away was that they had no beef with America; their problem was with George Bush and Dick Cheney. Thanks, Mister President, for clearing this up, after all this time. They're glad to know it, I am most assuredly glad to know it, and I think the world needed to hear it from the horse's mouth.

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Video: Band of Horses "Is There A Ghost?" (with lyrics)

I have really been excited by some of the music coming out of Seattle these days. Particularly Band of Horses, The Moondoggies, Dusty 45s, and Throw Me The Statue. I saw Band of Horses last summer at Bumbershoot, and they put on a raucous and great show. Their new album Cease To Begin is an amazing leap ahead from their first (very good) album. The video is odd, no question, but this is a great song, and the more I listen to this album, the more I like it.

Lyrically, this song stunned me. As you can see from the lyrics below, it is really just the three lines repeated. Fourteen words! And yet, somehow, it comes across as a narrative. How do they do that?! As for the video. . .how can you not like a video themed around a pillow fight? And all colorful pillows, at that.




Is There A Ghost?
by Band of Horses

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...
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