September 2010
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“That’s because the Tea Party doesn’t really care about issues —...”
– Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
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“There’s still a lot of Stevie Wonder, a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Rolling...”
– President Barack Obama, Rolling Stone
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Explaining →
Re: Unicorns love America
America do the soundtrack for that terrible 1982 film The Last Unicorn starring Jeff “The Dude” Bridges.
Re: iPad secretly hates America
It’s no secret. No one likes America.
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I’m rich; tax me more. →
Remember, paying slightly more in personal income taxes won’t change my investment choices at all, and I don’t think a higher tax rate will change the investment decisions of most other high earners.
What will change my investment decisions is if I see an economy doing better, one in which there is demand for the goods and services my investments produce. I am far more likely to invest if I see...
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The Official Manufacturing Company present The...
The Official Mfg. Company (OMFGCO) is Mathew Foster, Fritz Mesenbrink, and Jeremy Pelley. They are thing makers. Very, very good thing makers. You’ve seen their branding finess adorn each of the Ace Hotels, as well as Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Olympic Provisions, Property Of, Frances May, and Clyde Common. And, of course, they’re the same crew who dropped the brilliantly simple “Fuck...
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“Americans thought the richest 20 percent of our society controlled about 59...”
– Americans Vastly Underestimate Wealth Inequality, Support ‘More Equal Distribution Of Wealth’: Study
When Americans were asked to choose between America’s wealth distribution and Sweden’s, 92% picked Sweden’s.
(via nickdouglas)
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NPR: The Birth of a Monarch Butterfly →
Artist Julie Zickenfoose shares her story about the beauty of watching monarch butterflies emerging from their chrysalis at her wildlife sanctuary in Ohio. There’s also an extraordinary time-lapse video of a caterpillar metamorphosing into a monarch.
(via npr)
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Marriage
If you knew an airplane is likely to crash 50% of the time, would you get on it?
(via thiswaage)
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Oregon resident? Register to vote here. →
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America Is a Joke →
The New Yorker’s profile of Jon Stewart. He just keeps getting better in my mind.
“Even if you’re eating delicious chocolate cake, there are moments you feel like, ‘I’ve had too much,’ ” Stewart says. “Now replace ‘chocolate cake’ with ‘shit taco’ and you know what our day is like every day. But this is not a fragile country. I’m not suggesting we couldn’t find ourselves in deep conflict....
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“Don’t Confess (This Thing That Breaks My...
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New York Is Full of Jerks. Beautiful, Awful Jerks. →
by Sara Benincasa
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“The richest one-tenth of 1 percent, representing... →
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“Too Long” by The Byker Dykes
This one’s mine. At...
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“Carot Ass” by The Byker Dykes
The bad-ass lick...
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“Balm in Gilead” by The Byker Dykes
The story...
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BM 2010: Building Bliss, the Belle of the Burn
The Burning Man blog has a post about the construction of Bliss Dance, the 40-foot woman who stole the show this year.
And there’s a piece on art arriving to the playa in which she is featured.
My sunrise photos of the pretty lady may be forthcoming.
Official site: blissdance.org (Flash)
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BM 2010: Double Rainbow
The ride down was a lot to handle.
Upon arrival, we found our camp and set up tents as quickly as we could. I took a nap because naps are awesome. Then I woke up to rain at Burning Man, which is apparently just a few notches away from hell freezing over.
The playa dust that shut my right eye for 12 hours didn’t keep my left eye from witnessing the brightest rainbow — a double rainbow, no...
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WatchMFNW
Hilarious work from Aaron James at Math Dept!
(via omfgco)
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William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops I-IV →
Originally, he just wanted to transfer the loops from analog reel-to-reel tape to digital hard disk. However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and they were disintegrating as they played and as he recorded. As he notes in the liner notes, “The music was dying.” But he kept recording, documenting the death of these loops.
These recordings were...