January 2012
3 posts
Reblog if you legally purchased something BECAUSE...
watertightvines:
And without the so-called piracy, you would never have discovered or gotten into it to begin with.
Yup.
December 2011
9 posts
Brian's 2011 year end wrap up
2011 felt like a year where I spent most of my time dealing with the ongoing but dwindling after effects of previous years. Deaths, breakups, decisions, accidents, mistakes.
Mostly bad. There were some positive consequences, too, but they feel overwhelmed now, in the final waning hours of the year. I’d still like to acknowledge the good, though.
Debt: my debt, as I’ve said many...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Black Flag (6)
P!nk (5)
The Decemberists (4)
David Bowie (4)
Joni Mitchell (3)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Bad Religion (4)
Black Flag (3)
Sage Francis (3)
Amy Winehouse (3)
Cake (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Culture Club (8)
Social Distortion (5)
Black Flag (3)
Queen (2)
Sage Francis (2)
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November 2011
11 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Radiohead (24)
Cake (14)
The Decemberists (11)
The Blues Brothers (10)
Breaking Bad (10)
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Secret Fed Loans Gave... →
soupsoup:
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Radiohead (3)
Breaking Bad (3)
P!nk (3)
Blues Traveler (3)
Cort and Fatboy (3)
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I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Beck (13)
Radiohead (11)
Bad Religion (7)
Queen (3)
Electric Light Orchestra (3)
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#OccupyWallStreet has taught us that
-we have a time limit to practice our 1st...
– Posted on Twitter by @AntiSec_ and re-posted here for truth.
October 2011
42 posts
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Your hair more blonde than the auburn it was
I watched you approach as my friend was talking to me about something related to the labor union march we had both just participated in. I don’t know, I tuned him out. Your face and your bearing struck me and I could not take my eyes off your face. You walked up, stood next to us, your eyes intently on the screen, looking at the time or the schedule being displayed. Not once did your eyes...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The White Stripes (42)
Radiohead (15)
Queens Of The Stone Age (14)
Green Day (13)
Amy Winehouse (12)
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The key thing here is that critiques like Schoen’s are designed to get people to...
– Greg Sargent, “What Occupy Wall Street’s critics are really trying to accomplish”, 10/18/2011
Or as I like to translate critics: “Occupy Wall Street will never grow as a movement until they convince people like me to stop criticizing them.” Many of the people who claim...
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Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape... →
charnanigans:
oforganon:
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing something, that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never…
I will never ever be able to emphasize how important and dead-on this...
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Victoria Taft, the ball's in her court
Victoria Taft, local conservative radio host, tweeted the following this morning:
You couldn’t block the street for TParty w/o a permit but you can for this. http://tinyurl.com/4x5vpou
“This” being the OccupyPortland campsite in Chapman Square.
I couldn’t resist pointing out what I see as a difference between the Tea Party policies and the general sense (not really a...
Nothing less than spectacular
My friend Athena has been having some actual, successful dates lately, and part of it, I think, is that she’s realizing how hard it must be to actually date her, combined with finally finding men who are OK with that. I’m glad she’s having fun, and I’m glad that she’s having fun with someone who seems to “get” her, because she’s awesome. What...