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Friday, September 15, 2006
Education Friday: Conjuctions
Thursday, September 14, 2006
You better listen to Ann
Madame posted about Ann Richards' passing yesterday, and I agree with her. Ann Richards was one of a vanishing breed of pragmatic progressives who is able to both get elected and get programs and policy across that improve people's lives. Bernie Sanders is perhaps the only living counterpart that I can think of (and that's not to dis Al Gore or Russ Feingold). In my post at Neural Gourmet I included Ann Richard's Keynote Address to the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta, Georgia which is how I first came to be aware of this remarkable woman and thought all our Shithead friends would want to hear it too. You can read it at American Rhetoric (and download the MP3) or listen to it here. Seriously, give it a listen. I know you're going to enjoy it.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Well, crap
I'll admit, I didn't know that much about her, but I definitely respected her, and that doesn't happen too much with me and politicians. Even my staunchly republican family members liked her.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Grand theft pop
I post this here only for purposes of informing my fellow Shitheads about the kinds of treacherous tricks that unscrupulous individuals will pull just to rob an honest buck from the hard working vending machine owners. No Shithead would ever sink to this level of depravity. Oh no they wouldn't.
Home entertainment of the future
Actually this is a fun time killer.
Chill to the warp core
The worst dressed superheroes of all time
In this 2003 feature from retroCrush, Mr. Blackwell meets Stan Lee. You know that the second hardest thing to do in creating a new comic, right after coming up with an original superpower, is dressing the nascent hero appropriately. Let's just say there are a lot of failures.Brand awareness through the looking glass
This is old but maybe some of you Shitheads haven't seen it yet. If Microsoft designed the Apple iPod packaging. It's funny because it's true.
Monday, September 11, 2006
I Are Read
Mercifully stopping short of posting me-in-my-underwear pics, this is how revealing I'll ever get on Braindead Shithead. I may regret doing this, but here is my bookshelf.Click the picture for a large, painfully revealing version of the image. You should be able to read the titles if you so desire. If you can't read something, or have questions I'll answer the best I can.
Roughly: the left side is fiction (except for the text books, and parts of the "to read" pile,) and the right is non-fiction.
Color code:
Gray = I have never purchased a Stephen King book, but have read a few. Coming from the same state as the author, I guess makes his stuff a good gift.
Royal Blue = My favorites.
Olive Green = My "to read" stack. I get stressed looking at it and thinking how little time there is in the day.
Red = On loan from my Dad.
Magenta = Home to my camera.
Cyan = B-O-R-I-N-G.
Mint Green = There's a Bible lurking in the shadows down there.
Books not shown which I am currently reading are:
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon on the recommendation of my blog cohort, and most trusted advisor, Fehlleistungen;
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire by (Journey vocalist?!) Steve Perry, on the recommendation of a drinking buddy, and fellow S.W. Shithead (yes I am a nerd. But this one is for bathroom reading);
- The Sorting Machine Revisited: National Educational Policy Since 1945 by Joel H. Spring, (are you still awake?);
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney.
My progress on all four fronts has been sporadic at best lately. Probably because I find it so easy to burn an hour here-and-there composing posts like this.
Holy fucking balls! The new Bond looks good!
Anyway, November 17 can't come soon enough for me.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
The neuroses of puppets
Jiří Trnka - The Hands
I found this delightful short film over at the wonderful little sharity blog Prog Not Frog. I could waste your time inadequately describing it, but I'll let nahavanda do that instead.
"Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912 Plzeň - 30 December 1969 Prague) was Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director, renowned for his puppet animations.
He graduated from Prague School of Arts and Crafts. He created a puppet theater in 1936. This group was dissolved when World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets and illustrated books for children throughout the war. After the war ended, Trnka established an animation unit at the Prague film studio. Trnka soon became internationally recognized as the world's greatest puppet animator in the traditional Czech method, and he won several film festival awards. One animator called him "the Walt Disney of the East". He won an award at the Cannes Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working in film. His films were mostly made for an adult audience. Beginning in 1948, the communist Czech government began to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect the message or style of his work. He also created animated cartoons. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films. He died of heart trouble in 1969."
Anyway, this 40+ year old film seems a bit dated in this age of ultra-realistic CGI so it might be hard to appreciate the technical achievement represented. Hopefully you don't let that get in the way of enjoying it though. This is truly a lost treasure.
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