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Easy access to the internet and simplified technology for recording songs and videos might do great things for the future of pop music. Or it might be like
this.
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Jan 21, 2009 -
109 comments
Here are some ways to shrink your unnatural water- and gas-guzzling lawn and plant something that is beautiful and requires
no water usage, no mowing, and is more likely to attract more interesting wildlife. With
this much lawn in the U.S., and
incessant water shortages, and
other water issues and
wars in our present and looming in the future, why not go native? Naturally, there are
objections, since local ordinances often don't allow for natural prairie lawns, and the neighborhood stick-up-butt committees are
quick to remove things they consider eyesores. What is your lawn worth to you?
posted by taursir
on Sep 9, 2007 -
64 comments
...Rembrandt's last self-portrait, for instance, shows an old man having a good laugh at the ways of the world, even as he is about to leave the stage. The Western world may be ageing, then, but, far from this amounting to a 'dying of the light', a case can be made for the very opposite, certainly where Bob Dylan's renaissance as an artist is concerned. Neither should age be confounded with a heavier tread. For while a perception and characterisation of the surreal nature of much of human life was a defining quality of Bob Dylan's first golden creative period in the 1960s, it's also a delightful characteristic of his artistic renaissance in the 'noughties' of the new millennium.
Bob Dylan and the ageing of the West
In other news, May 24th is
International Talk Like Bob Dylan DayOf course, he was 23 in 1965, the year when he recorded Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, but, gosh darn it, he's still writing songs and touring and he still isn't dead yet..."
posted by y2karl
on May 24, 2007 -
38 comments
Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another.
So goes the common wisdom but things in fact are more complex.
Say Everything
posted by y2karl
on Feb 17, 2007 -
94 comments
Don't they teach these kids anything in school ? History ? Punctuation ? And what's that smell ? - Conservative Adam Yoshida steps in it, inadvertently calls for reversal of
1965 Civil Rights bill, arguing for the disenfranchisement of
20% of the voting public through the reinstitution of poll tests (outlawed in 1965). Plus, his punctuation is awful ! :
" we should consider maintaining (or even increasing) their benefits while, at the exact same time, making it harder for them to vote (I recommend modern and simple literacy tests for this purpose.
From my extensive time spent examining present and future members of our underclass, I'mquite convinced that a series of simple language and math questions would be enough to discourage them from voting).
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posted by troutfishing
on Oct 21, 2004 -
23 comments
