Friday is the tunesblogging time, and this week it’s one of the great Kim Mitchell’s last hits, “America.” Which drew a lot of hubbub at the time for being an anti-American screed, when it really isn’t – it’s anti-corruption and definitely a very proletarian song (and video), but it’s not anti-American. “Born In the USA” […]

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A lengthy and well-written apology to/celebration of Michael Turner. It’s good to know that Michael Turner has succeeded in overcoming serious adversity, maintained his personal integrity and remained a decent human being, and become genuinely successful by creating art which I think completely sucks.

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Old news to some of you, no doubt, but there’s a preview of the New Frontier animated movie, for those who care about such things.

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James Joyner’s take on Rudy Guiliani’s foreign policy essay has to be read. (The essay itself is perhaps some of the most amazingly stupid claptrap ever written by any presidential candidate ever. Yes, including Dan Quayle.) EDIT TO ADD: Also, Jim Henley, whose take left me gasping for breath.

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Hannah Llewellyn very kindly emailed me the American Seeds ‘shop after I mentioned yesterday that I’d lost it in the great Livejournal burnup, so I felt it only proper to present it here again. Now, I’d also like to point out that when I lost my Livejournal, with it I lost an Infiniti FX convertible. […]

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Came across somebody on the blogotubes complaining (“No!” you exclaim, “people complain on the Internet?”) about this post, specifically the part where the author rants about stupid made-up fancy-dancy fantasy names like Silvuirielalala Tinyhands and the like. The complaint? “Well, Tolkien did it.” People. J.R.R. Tolkien was a actual honest to god linguist. He invented […]

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Kevin Drum quotes from the Atlantic Monthly‘s current bio-piece on Karl Rove – but it’s really a George Bush anecdote from Dick Armey (no latte-sipping liberal, to say the least): “For all the years he was president,” Armey told me, “Bill Clinton and I had a little thing we’d do where every time I went […]

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I had honestly thought this lost along with many of the other parody images previously shown on the old Livejournal (the loss of the American Seeds advertisement in particular stings), but it’s amazing what turns up sometimes in an anonymous email, so thanks to whoever saved it. (Click for larger version where the small text […]

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It’s only fair to suggest reading Checkerboard Nightmare.

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Whatever happened to Cheri Oteri, anyway?

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(NOTE: This was the very last post to appear on my Livejournal before it got nuked – it was up for a grand total of perhaps four hours, so I feel perfectly justified in reproducing it here.) I’m not planning to do another thirty days of I Should Write The Legion any time soon, but […]

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…I give you sexual harassment happening on-air. Disgusting, yes, but all the moreso for the sheer nerve.

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One of the greats. Vaya con dios, Ringo.

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You know how you hear certain individuals complain, every so often, that “kids these days don’t care about history?” If more history books were like Warren Ellis’ and Raulo Caceres’ Crêcy, this would not be a problem. At all.

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