July 2011
28 posts
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I hope it goes to a librarian... →
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The original Batgirl costume from the TV show is up for sale. Being that Barbara Gordon is perhaps the world’s most famous fictional librarian, I hope that the costume (or better yet, some proceeds from the sale) goes to a library.
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Fearing 'Carmageddon,' Los Angeles Police Ask Celebs To Tweet : The Two-Way →
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npr:
From the evening of July 15 through the early hours of the 17th, 10 miles of the 405 Freeway will be closed. Officials hope Lady Gaga, Ashton Kutcher and others will help urge folks to stay away from the area.
There is a reason why I am fleeing Los Angeles during the weekend of the July 15-17th. There is nothing worse than LA traffic during the middle of summer. Gross.
June 2011
17 posts
Crystalline
Björk
MUTHAFUCKIN’ BJORK, BITCHES.
We already saw Björk driving a car whilst listening to her forthcoming single Crystalline, but here is a better quality snippet of that new song. The single should be out later this month (June 30, apparently); can’t wait to hear this in full.
UPDATEAudio replaced with the full song. Björk reclaims whatever throne she used to have.
NY Times Love Turns Stalker-ish
The NY Times is always writing things about Portland, Oregon and how great it is. This obsession sometimes turns creepy. In “Soccer Sets Portland Abuzz (a Chain Saw Helps)” while the Grey Lady does not go so far as to say that Portland hipsters invented soccer, she does suggest that Portland has perfected the formula for adoption of European-style soccer in the U.S. As goes PDX, she argues, so goes the rest of the nation.
Only later in this piece full of glowing references to Portland’s unique superiority (“a counterculture sense,” “a healthy mix of men and women in their 20s and 30s,” stadium design “hailed as a model of urban planning”) do the countours of this perfect formula emerge: the ironically named Merritt Paulson, son of the former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, jiggered a deal that cost Portland money to host the team.
Critics also felt that Merritt Paulson was heavy-handed in his dealings with the financially strapped city, which ultimately agreed to pay for about a third of the cost of the renovating the stadium, using money from ticket taxes and parking receipts at entertainment facilities, like the Rose Garden, home to the N.B.A. Trail Blazers, in Portland.
“Why the Paulson family needed public money is beside me,” said Jack Bogdanski, a professor of tax law at Lewis and Clark College. “He came into town highly suspect in my book.”
I love the NY Times and I love my hometown, but a fluff article about a wealthy team owner raiding the treasury for a vanity project could have been framed very differently.
Homophobic Bullying Illustrated →
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Rise Against’s video for “Make It Stop” is cheesy, but it totally made me tear up. Maybe it was the realistic portrayal of bullying from the three kids’ point of view. PTSD…Go figure. Anyway, the music is potentially cloying and the hopeful message at the end is unrealistically hopeful, but it moved me for whatever reason. This from the guy who can’t pass a candlelight vigil without stopping to cry.
Really feeling Per Square Mile →
persquaremile.com
Per Square Mile: a great blog about urban planning. Pithy articles about raptors in the city, mass transit, and water shortage. Thoroughly researched, plainly spoken, pleasingly wonk-ish.
Attention Angelenos:
Pseudo-scientists have confirmed what has long been suspected: We’re all whores. Dirty, dirty whores. Citing work by unknown and probably fictional researchers, LA Weekly confirms your sluttiness:
It should be no surprise that the city that’s home to the porn industry, Hugh Hefner and Charlie Sheen is also the place where people have the most sex in America.
The latest Trojan “U.S. Sex Census” puts L.A. at the top of the horn-dog heap:
We have it 135 times a year, beating out runner up Houston (125).
You disgust me. Also, call me; I thought we had a nice time.
HOMO Magazine: FORTY-TWO YEARS SINCE THE STONEWALL REBELLION →
homo-online.com
that marked the beginning of the liberationist march, thirty years since the first cases of AIDS announced the beginning of a cataclysm, and at a time when homosexuals are quickly assimilating in many societies, we would like to briefly leave the parade route and and ask a few important and…
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