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via Tyler Cowen.
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my mom will be proud
(I’m about a minute in)
(And for the record, I think the tweet preceding mine is about 100x funnier.)
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Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight.
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) May 15, 2012
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Axe Body Spray sets off fire alarm at Middletown High School
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With Dicks in, all 6 WA congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban
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Coroner: Artist Kinkade death an accident, from overdose of alcohol, Valium
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how do I feel about…
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A group that raised more than $5,000 to fight a $30 million bond referendum for a new Franklin library gave those on the other side a reason to snicker. “Citizens Apposed to the Library Project” filed their official financial disclosure documents April 20 with the Johnson County clerk.
Daffy’s Elixir
Bryan Scary, my favorite currently-active musical artist, has just released his fourth album, Daffy’s Elixir. I’ve been listening to it for the past week, and it’s easily some of his best work yet. I’m apparently not very good at writing album reviews, but you should totally check it out anyway.
A few weeks ago, he brought his band to do a live show for BreakThru Radio’s Live Studio:
(Definitely stick around for the piano solo at the end of the first song.)
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Forest Service may blow up frozen cows
UPDATE: Gruber agrees.
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Taliban commander turns self in… for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster
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Honesty
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Forget Retina, forget HD, forget April Fool’s. Let’s talk about what’s important. Let’s talk about what’s *real*.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
Let’s talk about The Sad and Haunting Narrative of John Banvard, Artíste. Born in New York in 1815, he became a portrait painter…
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
In the 1840s, in an effort to “falsify the assertion, that America had no artists commensurate with the grandeur and extent of her scenery”
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
…(his words), created a painting of one entire coast of the Mississippi River, all 1200 miles of it, to scale.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
The resulting painting was 3 miles long (some claim it was “merely” half a mile).
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
He toured with it on spools, winding behind him: one show upstream, left to right, the next downstream, right to left,…
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
…accompanied by music and a lecture. His assistants took over two hours to move the entire panorama behind him as he spoke.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
He later coined the term “georama” to describe his proto-multi-media presentation.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
He toured America, he toured Europe, and for a time was one of the most celebrated artists of his day.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
He followed up the Mississippi with the Missouri and Ohio rivers. He dined with kings, queens, and prime ministers.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
And yet, he faded into obscurity before he died in 1891, having lost his fortune on bad investments,…
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
…his great canvases cut up and sold as scrap to be painted over, none surviving to this day.
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
I try to remind myself of John Banvard whenever I catch myself saying “2 hours to backup a hard drive? That’s bullshit!”
— James Baker (@GrumpusNation) April 1, 2012
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If these guys hate their jobs, then it says something about how we should look at work. Your job doesn’t suck because you’re a failure at it, and your job doesn’t suck because you’re a victim, and your job doesn’t suck because you’re not paid enough—so don’t waste so much energy feeling like a failure, or like a victim, or like you’re poor. Work just sucks because work sucks. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t pay us.
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…does the Pope wear a funny hat?
Dan Wineman on Mike Daisey
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“I make up a lot of shit”
Tell Them Anything You Want is an intriguing documentary focusing on Maurice Sendak, the curmudgeonly children’s author who wrote Where the Wild Things Are.
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Feisty Girl Scouts try to fight off cookie money bandit outside Walmart
