Crossroads of Civilization
Posted in Arts, Scott Lahti on Dec 30th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9lZ971YT8] The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts: Closing time at “Ye Olde China Shop” brings the china pieces to life in a series of formal and informal dances, until a china demon threatens to steal the show. “China Boy” A porcelin figure who comes to life to dance and fight demons. “China Girl” A porcelin [...]
Posted in Arts, Scott Lahti on Dec 30th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daa-a32wZ24] The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts: A confectionery Cinderella story in which a sad girl cookie is turned into the Queen of the Carnival by a wandering hobo cookie. The Rum Cookies…were cut out at one time because they were “always stewed!”…The hobo, as a reward for what he has brought about, receives a [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, Sport, Technology on Dec 30th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU] Tip: Dean S., email “Our kinda guy”: The terrible irony is that he’s Australian.
Posted in Ethics, Gods, Mind, Nation, Scott Lahti, War, World on Dec 30th, 2009
UK historian Simon Schama on the rain on man’s parade of Progress: All of which seems to put the nail in the coffin of a collective optimism born 200 years ago, when the Enlightenment envisioned a world illuminated by reason, banishing the afflictions of ignorance, poverty, war and disease. That the arch-prophet of this smiley-faced [...]
Posted in Humor, Nation, Scott Lahti, World on Dec 30th, 2009
What ‘chew talkin’ bout, World? From “Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009“: MARCH Businessman Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to bilking investors out of $65 billion in a Ponzi scheme, forcing the Obama administration to withdraw his nomination for secretary of commerce. The annual observance of Earth Hour is observed with one hour of symbolic energy [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Scott Lahti on Dec 29th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFG7gwZ4IM] Two grease-fingered, nappy-headed hostesses beat on the brat with not so much a baseball bat as an Aunt Jemima pancake batter, with the brat in this case being none other than – speaking of sisters, and “hoedowns” – Jessica Simpson’s sassy li’l sip-linking sis Ashlee. Favorite lines: Announcer: Brought to you by the The [...]
Posted in Culture, Scott Lahti on Dec 29th, 2009
Dan Winters Nick Paumgarten of The New Yorker profiles John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of the high-end supermarket behemoth Whole Foods Market, based in the Lone Star capital, and attempts to answer the question the Austin power-grocer asks Lady Liberty of her evolving market basket, “Do I make you organic, Lady?”: A year ago, Mackey [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Lifestyle, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman on Dec 29th, 2009
1. Rick Moody (The Ice Storm, &c.) reviews new Led Zeppelin bio in NYTBR. 2. Blogger is led to Google “Zeppelin” with “shark”, the better to discern the rather anodyne truth behind the notorious groupie-diddling story. 3. Blogger chuckles at result #4, “The 7 Most Gruesome Rock ‘N’ Roll Legends (And Whether They’re True)“, from [...]
Posted in Arts, Humor, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman on Dec 28th, 2009
Comic Lenny Marcus tries to imagine a woman who, unlike the faceless multitude of her sisters in internet personals who describe themselves as “fun-loving”, hates the very idea, in spades.
Posted in Arts, Scott Lahti on Dec 26th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owoYQazL9o] If the military had invented rap, this is what it would sound like.. – marbleflat at YouTube Although we were quite familiar with Vaughn Monroe (“Ghost Riders in the Sky”, “Ballerina”), aka The Voice with Hairs on Its Chest, aka Old Leather Tonsils, when first we heard “Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)” on The [...]
Posted in Arts, Scott Lahti on Dec 25th, 2009
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kUQWa3DrDU"] “Floppy Boot Stomp”, the opening track, followed [@ 3:50] by “Tropical Hot Dog Night”, from one of the great pop albums of the 1970s – as long as you don’t define pop in terms of sales – Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: “Tropical Hot Dog Night“ Tropical [...]
Posted in Humor, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, World on Dec 23rd, 2009
Forwarded conversation Subject: Hey, need to kick off the new year with a new panic? ———————— From: Jeff S. It’s hard to top this. *****2010 Food Crisis for Dummies***** by Eric deCarbonnel If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in [...]
Posted in Education, Law & Legislation, Man, Mind, Nation, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman on Dec 22nd, 2009
[tip: Kenneth Anderson] OPENING ARGUMENT The Rot At Duke — And Beyond Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males. by Stuart Taylor Jr. Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in [...]
Posted in Family, Nation, Scott Lahti on Dec 22nd, 2009
One of the pleasures of reading THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT regularly during the 1990s came in the regular contributions by American University law professor Kenneth Anderson, a specialist in international law, NGOs, and human rights more recently affiliated with the Hoover Institution and the roster of bloggers at The Volokh Conspiracy. Broadly cosmopolitan in outlook, [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Technology, Woman on Dec 22nd, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBP6AfQ58f0] Sullivan’s movie plans include a robot revolution as well as sex scenes. “I’m thinking of an Eisenstein like revolution of robot babies, who are kept in robot baby gulags where they walk around in circles and bash into things.” “I’ve been collecting robot babies for years,” he adds. “And now I have enough for [...]
Posted in Family, Law & Legislation, Nation, Scott Lahti on Dec 22nd, 2009
Chattanooga tot, 4, wanders neighborhood in middle of night, steals neighbors’ Christmas presents: In a police reports, officers said he was wearing a little girl’s dress and drinking a beer. [tip: Harper's]
Posted in Humor, Language, Nature, Scott Lahti, Self, Technology on Dec 20th, 2009
Dean Speir In the wake of this weekend’s epic blizzard, a gun-dealer friend of ours from the Hamptons, on the south shore of Suffolk County on eastern Lon Guyland writes: And what to our wondrous eyes did appear this morning? More snow! We’re so completely under here on East Main, that failing a drastic temperature [...]
Posted in Commerce, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, Self on Dec 18th, 2009
When your attempt to leave the house to run errands begins with your Camry doing a 180 in the ice in your housemate”s long dirt driveway, then hard two feet offroad into the snowcapped scrub, requiring the latter to finish his breakfast the better to pull you out with his truck, before you almost run [...]
Posted in Man, Nature, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman on Dec 18th, 2009
Whatever its signature brief in the precincts of policy wonkery, the capacious webzine Slate has also afforded us a handy primer on Polly-see wankery, self-fellatio after Ron Jeremy not excepted, among the fur, fish and fowl of farm, field and forest – it’s not just the well-named macaques getting l’Afrique on with a little help [...]
Posted in Arts, Lifestyle, Man, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman, World on Dec 18th, 2009
The village of Anstruther, Scotland, home of the strangest sex club in 18th-century Britain. To the left are the ruins of Castle Dreel, the legendary first home of the masturbation society. *After Edmund Wilson, of course Continuing in Slate his multi-year Cock’s Tour of the prime set-piece locales up and down the Lists of Venus [...]
Posted in Arts, Gods, Health & Health Care, Humor, Language, Law & Legislation, Lifestyle, Man, Media, Nature, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman, World on Dec 17th, 2009
Though we’re happy to report we’ve cut back on our habit of scanning the NYT Most E-Mailed stories lists from daily to monthly, we may have to replace them on the daily front with those from the Daily Telegraph from across the pond, if the headers there scanned just now, each its own Onion lookalike, [...]
Posted in Arts, Health & Health Care, Humor, Lifestyle, Man, Scott Lahti, Self, Sex, Technology, Woman on Dec 17th, 2009
Odd to see a video shop apparently lumping its westerns, crime dramas and war movies under the omnibus tag “Gunshots”, wot? One or another of our sovereign masters in the standup-comedy guild said recently, apropos of what Rabelais, per Albert Jay Nock, called “the act of androgynation and the culbatising exercise”, that it is unique [...]
Posted in Law & Legislation, Scott Lahti, World on Dec 17th, 2009
Alejandra Maria Torres sits bloodied on a street after being beaten, doused with petrol and set on fire during a lynching in Guatemala City Female armed robber stripped, beaten and set alight by angry lynch mob Passengers of a public bus accused Torres and three men, who escaped on foot, of participating in an armed [...]
Posted in Nature, Science, Scott Lahti on Dec 17th, 2009
Giant rat-eating nepenthes plant named after David Attenborough …Sir David told The Times that it was a great honour to have the species named after him. He said that the nepenthes family were “very dramatic plants. I’ve always thought they are remarkable things, very elegant and charming.” Mr McPherson said it was likely that the [...]
Posted in Arts, Education, Humor, Language, Scott Lahti, Technology on Dec 17th, 2009
In 2004 the museum encountered problems receiving emails due to the modern connotations of its name confusing pornography filters. – Wikipedia on the Horniman Museum. Porn filters have a field day on Horniman Museum Ooooh, matron! By Lester Haines Regular readers will know that we at El Reg studiously avoid reporting the sort of linguistic [...]