It fires my heart with the flame extreme
Via Tom Christensen’s Rightreading, which is always chock-full of goodness.
Escalator Mishap Makes a Mess of Makeup
Forgive me for laughing at this.
Tao Lin: reading
Picked up from his blog.
From the Chicago Tribune Archives
Set Trial Date for Lenny Bruce, 2 Others
Judge Daniel J. Ryan set trial in Jury court yesterday for Lenny Bruce, comedian, and two other men arrested Dec. 5 in a police raid on the Gate of Horn night club, 1036 N. State st., for Jan. 14. Bruce is charged with obscenity and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and the others with charges of keeping or being inmates in a disorderly house. Charges of disorderly conduct against Roger Pittman, 21, of 2147 78th av., Elmwood Park, and George Carlin, 25, of 20 E. Delaware pl., who were spectators in the club, were dismissed by Judge Ryan. The others charged are Alan Ribback, 34, of 59 E. Bellevue pl., the club owner, and Herbert O’Brien, 33, of 1. E. Oak st., a bartender.
December 1962 item reproduced on page 21 of Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2008.
ATTN: Smiths
Re: clusterflockstock (May 2009; Fannin County, Texas). While clusterflockstock promoters attempt to negotiate with Bill Callahan’s people in the hopes of bringing both Callahan and Jandek to the clusterflock Main Stage, is there a chance we might persuade any or all incarnations of The Smiths to perform?
Otherwise, people, I’m afraid we may be stuck with me and Cooper Renner doing “The Ivor Cutler Songbook”.
Crying Men
Sam Taylor-Wood took photos of crying actors. Or asked actors to cry and took photos of them. Either way, photos and tears.
(via coudal)
The Anger Release Vending Machine
(via marginal revolution)
confession
I kind of like So You Think You Can Dance.
Let me ride on the Wall of Death one more time . . .
From the Printable Activity Pages offered by the Saferparks Kids Club.
David Lynch Puts Fan’s Panties In His Mouth
Scrambler MUST GO!
Ital International LLC sells all types of new and used amusement rides for amusement parks, carnivals, family entertainment centers and amusement equipment for location based entertainment venues.
There are currently 368 used rides for sale.
A woman watches a short movie.
“A woman watches a short movie about Jack the Ripper at the Museum in Docklands, London,” read the caption accompanying this photo from the Telegraph’s Week in Pictures feature. Quite naturally, I thought of Our India and wondered how she is getting on.
Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara Promote Husbands on The Dick Cavett Show
Ten-minute segment from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara; other chunks available on YouTube. Start here. Plus or minus (depending on your point of view): Inclusion of the original commercial breaks offers cultural context.
(P.S. The subdued brilliance of Dick Cavett still shines. See his NYT blog.)
Weekly Picture 117
Bounce House Window, Austin, TX, 5.10.2008
Charlie the Unicorn 2
The Collins Kids
Anyone else like this as much as I do?
Socks Video Star
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are looking for help to get them to Edinburgh for The Fringe Festival in August. For $200 they will create a custom video for you and upload it to YouTube. I’m thinking a clusterflock socks video could be brilliant. Anyone interested?
Man Stabbed in Queue for Grand Theft Auto IV
Onlookers thought initially that the stabbing was part of a stunt by the store to whip up excitement about the release of the 18-certificate title.
The victim is thought to have struggled home to fetch his own knife for a revenge attack but collapsed in the street and was taken to hospital.
“Where do people find the time?”
My mom has often asked me, in a tone of disdain, how people find the time to do so much stuff on the Internet—stuff that she thinks is, with a few tiny exceptions, worthless—and I’ve been saying to her for years, “They spend less time than you do slackjawed in front of the TV.”
In this short talk, Clay Shirky puts a number on that amount of “found” time. And then he explains how what people are now starting to do with that time is fundamentally different from watching television.
I think it’s fair to say that if you’re interested in Clusterflock, you’ll be fascinated by this talk.
Here’s a transcript, for those who are distracted by Mr. Shirky’s fidgeting around next to the podium: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus.
“Dude! Santa Cruz Scores Dead Archive!”
The archives of the Bay Area rock band the Grateful Dead - a treasure trove of more than 30 years of memorabilia that includes the band’s first recording contract, life-size skeletons of band members and artwork hand-made by its fans - are headed to UC Santa Cruz, where they will be displayed at McHenry Library.
Saturday Night Live has always been like this.
Jesse Thorn, host of radio program/podcast The Sound of Young America, making a defense of SNL:
Saturday Night Live is a wonderful phenomenon. On a Tuesday, a team of spectacularly talented people get together with someone who’s famous but probably not funny. On Saturday, they put on a 90-minute variety-comedy show. That show showcases their talent, even when the sketches run on a bit long or are unfocused. It runs live on television, the only fictional program that does so in the United States. The stakes are high, and even when something falls flat, as it often does, it’s a great ride, buoyed by the best performers of their kind.
Confessions
- I sort of like the Travelocity gnome.
- I’ve only seen a few Coen Bros. films.
- I wonder if there is any advertising entity to which The Postal Service has not sold rights for “Such Great Heights”.
Acting…
You know … acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it…. And that’s … so beautiful, because you can say that about anything: It’s not difficult, once you know how.
Guess Who Might Star in the Magnum P.I. Movie
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