It's good to know that through the ages Japanese culture has had some constants -
Eros Blog: The Sex Blog -- By Bacchus:
"OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: All eigth legs (arms?) to interwine with!! How do you likeit htis way? Ah, look! The inside has swollen, moistened by the warm watersof lust. 'Nura nura doku doku doku...'"
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Where were the doctors at Abu Ghraib? :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch
Via Cursor:
Where were the doctors at Abu Ghraib? :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch:
"Miles argues that health professionals turned a blind eye, or worse, to the torture and deaths of some of their patients. 'These health professionals could have protested,' he said. Instead, 'the medical system here became one of the professional arms of a torturing society.'"
Where were the doctors at Abu Ghraib? :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch:
"Miles argues that health professionals turned a blind eye, or worse, to the torture and deaths of some of their patients. 'These health professionals could have protested,' he said. Instead, 'the medical system here became one of the professional arms of a torturing society.'"
Friday, June 24, 2005
TAPPED: June 2005 Archives --- File Under: Texas is the reason
TAPPED: June 2005 Archives
Several offices had no comment. Many transferred us into voicemail boxes, and we plan to call them back on Monday if they don’t respond. But we got two offices to react. While Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s staff told us she agrees with Rove’s remarks...
Several offices had no comment. Many transferred us into voicemail boxes, and we plan to call them back on Monday if they don’t respond. But we got two offices to react. While Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s staff told us she agrees with Rove’s remarks...
REAL ART (and politics and culture)
One of the many things I didn't post on yesterday that I was tempted to...
Ron gets it, and says it...
REAL ART (and politics and culture): "Okay, so we haven't reached the depravity of the Third Reich's 'Angel of Death,' Dr. Josef Mengele, just yet, but it sounds like we're on the way. The more I learn about what's going on in America's name at these 'detention centers,' the more I believe that 'Nazi' is the right word to use. I guarantee that if this was happening to American soldiers, the right wing would be screaming 'Nazi' at the top of their lungs, and, of course, they'd be justified in doing so. This use of doctors and POW medical records is really fucking creepy. Things are bad. Really bad."
The New Dr. Mengele.
Yes.
Really bad.
Ron gets it, and says it...
REAL ART (and politics and culture): "Okay, so we haven't reached the depravity of the Third Reich's 'Angel of Death,' Dr. Josef Mengele, just yet, but it sounds like we're on the way. The more I learn about what's going on in America's name at these 'detention centers,' the more I believe that 'Nazi' is the right word to use. I guarantee that if this was happening to American soldiers, the right wing would be screaming 'Nazi' at the top of their lungs, and, of course, they'd be justified in doing so. This use of doctors and POW medical records is really fucking creepy. Things are bad. Really bad."
The New Dr. Mengele.
Yes.
Really bad.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Texas - News
Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Texas - News:
"This controversy surfaced after the state Employment Security Department issued audits and fines to some theaters for classifying their artists as independent contractors rather than employees. The mid-size theater companies are fearful that they could be faced with similar audits and some have even cancelled productions requiring a cast of 15 and limiting it to a cast of 2. Could this potentially wipe out the mid-size Seattle theater scene? Does the enforcement of the law actually protect the artists? Could Houston ever face a similar problem?"
hopefully there will be a good conversation started over there based on this...
it's important stuff as laborers and artists that we need to think about...
"This controversy surfaced after the state Employment Security Department issued audits and fines to some theaters for classifying their artists as independent contractors rather than employees. The mid-size theater companies are fearful that they could be faced with similar audits and some have even cancelled productions requiring a cast of 15 and limiting it to a cast of 2. Could this potentially wipe out the mid-size Seattle theater scene? Does the enforcement of the law actually protect the artists? Could Houston ever face a similar problem?"
hopefully there will be a good conversation started over there based on this...
it's important stuff as laborers and artists that we need to think about...
The American Street � Blog Archive � It’s All About Controlling Our Adolescent Daughters
The American Street � Blog Archive � It’s All About Controlling Our Adolescent Daughters: "As I read the story, it looks like “any minors who seek contraception” would have to have their parents notified before they could get their degenerate mitts on the goods. That would include young men who wanted condoms. But Coburn’s Parent’s Right to Know posterchildren are our adolescent daughters. Whores. "
of course nobody has to write a prescription for condoms, so the boys escape...so far...
of course nobody has to write a prescription for condoms, so the boys escape...so far...
Burnt Orange Report
Burnt Orange Report:
"Nothing makes me sicker to my freaking stomach than hearing 'Christian' politicians bellyaching about how much Christians are persecuted in the US. You want to see persecution of Christians? Why not swing by East Timor where Henry Kissinger facilitated and supported the liquidation of 200,000 Christians by the Muslim government of Indonesia. Then take a stop in the Sudan where George W. Bush has been content to occasionally lob rhetoric at the government he should be dropping bombs on for slaughtering 2 million Christians. Maybe make a stop in to visit our 'ally' Saudi Arabia, whose leader the President holds hands with as the man continues to enforce laws that make it a crime to be a Christian. You could swing by the People's Republic of China after that, where the same government whose premier gets to cool his heels in Crawford breaks up house churches that seek to escape the stifling politics of official state churches. Not being able to threaten some underclassman cadet into joining your prayer group is hardly persecution."
I almost went and pasted this into a thread over at theatreport...
someone had posted an audition notice looking for born again actors, and damn near started a religious war (well, what do you call the agnostics/atheists vs. the christians?)...
and of course one of our conservative theatre folks started jabbering about liberals being intolerant of Christians...
what is it?
love the sinner and hate the sin?
well I love me some Christians...
it's just Christianity I ain't fond of...
like Islam, or Zoroastrianism, or Voodoo,
or any of that nonsense...
they all limit human potential by allowing folks to rely on/blame something else
for the state of the world, their actions, limits on their freedom, etc...
Just started reading Paine's The Age of Reason last night...
he's always been my favorite founding father, but I've actually never read this...
and it is pretty brilliant...
gonna go up there with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in my list of essential humanist works...
look, believe what you want...
really...
but don't expect me not to think it's silly.
What there is is what there is.
I'm smart enough to know I don't know all the whats what is,
but I don't feel that postulating imaginary whats helps the situation at all...
just accept we don't know it all...
what could be more awe inspiring than accepting mystery?
"Nothing makes me sicker to my freaking stomach than hearing 'Christian' politicians bellyaching about how much Christians are persecuted in the US. You want to see persecution of Christians? Why not swing by East Timor where Henry Kissinger facilitated and supported the liquidation of 200,000 Christians by the Muslim government of Indonesia. Then take a stop in the Sudan where George W. Bush has been content to occasionally lob rhetoric at the government he should be dropping bombs on for slaughtering 2 million Christians. Maybe make a stop in to visit our 'ally' Saudi Arabia, whose leader the President holds hands with as the man continues to enforce laws that make it a crime to be a Christian. You could swing by the People's Republic of China after that, where the same government whose premier gets to cool his heels in Crawford breaks up house churches that seek to escape the stifling politics of official state churches. Not being able to threaten some underclassman cadet into joining your prayer group is hardly persecution."
I almost went and pasted this into a thread over at theatreport...
someone had posted an audition notice looking for born again actors, and damn near started a religious war (well, what do you call the agnostics/atheists vs. the christians?)...
and of course one of our conservative theatre folks started jabbering about liberals being intolerant of Christians...
what is it?
love the sinner and hate the sin?
well I love me some Christians...
it's just Christianity I ain't fond of...
like Islam, or Zoroastrianism, or Voodoo,
or any of that nonsense...
they all limit human potential by allowing folks to rely on/blame something else
for the state of the world, their actions, limits on their freedom, etc...
Just started reading Paine's The Age of Reason last night...
he's always been my favorite founding father, but I've actually never read this...
and it is pretty brilliant...
gonna go up there with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in my list of essential humanist works...
look, believe what you want...
really...
but don't expect me not to think it's silly.
What there is is what there is.
I'm smart enough to know I don't know all the whats what is,
but I don't feel that postulating imaginary whats helps the situation at all...
just accept we don't know it all...
what could be more awe inspiring than accepting mystery?
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Mastermix dot org old school pirate bootleg mp3s
Mastermix dot org old school pirate bootleg mp3s
via gutterbreakz
go get some free music...
old school radio mixes (U.K.) at Mastermix and brand new Dub step and more at Gutterbreakz...
and maybe you should stop by and read what Kid Kameleon has to say and grab a mix or two there...
Right now he's engaged in a discussion on homophobia in dance hall and ragga-jungle...
via gutterbreakz
go get some free music...
old school radio mixes (U.K.) at Mastermix and brand new Dub step and more at Gutterbreakz...
and maybe you should stop by and read what Kid Kameleon has to say and grab a mix or two there...
Right now he's engaged in a discussion on homophobia in dance hall and ragga-jungle...
The Defenestration Unit - Sunday at Super Happy Fun Land
That's right, this Sunday, June 26th, starting at, oh I don't know,
let's say around 7:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter, THE DEFENESTRATION
UNIT will be going it alone, live and fully clothed, performing our
unique mixture of free jazz, krautrock, psychedelic music, and
early-70s-style fusion sounds... and not the crappy kind of fusion
sounds either, so don't even go there!
Anyway, the show starts on or around 7:00 p.m. at Super Happy Fun Land,
at 2610 Ashland Street, the corner of Ashland and W 27th street in the
Heights, Houston, TX... come on out and hear some of the interesting
music that Houston has to offer!
-TDU
featuring members of the linus pauling quartet, the mathletes, and uh,
the defenestration unit...
and maybe some special guests?
Hawthorne Improvisation Collective
www.hichouston.org
Blogway Baby | Blue Man Boycott Picket June 19, 5pm, Panasonic Theatre on Yonge (south of Bloor at St. Mary)
Blogway Baby | Blue Man Boycott Picket June 19, 5pm, Panasonic Theatre on Yonge (south of Bloor at St. Mary)
"So besides this event being about the growing boycott of this rogue production, it is now also a celebration of the Charter, which turns 23 this year. It's great to be Canadian." (emphasis mine)
Yes, yes,
I'm sure it is.
life and work related stresses are keeping me from sleeping (went to bed around 9 and woke up an hour ago...
about to try to see if I can get another hour or two in before work...)
So, I'm pro-union...
but I want to make a special case for the arts...
but not for the blue man group.
I am too out of it start writing about this now,
but I'm filing it away in the box where I put all
the things I say I'm going to write about some day
and then never do.
"So besides this event being about the growing boycott of this rogue production, it is now also a celebration of the Charter, which turns 23 this year. It's great to be Canadian." (emphasis mine)
Yes, yes,
I'm sure it is.
life and work related stresses are keeping me from sleeping (went to bed around 9 and woke up an hour ago...
about to try to see if I can get another hour or two in before work...)
So, I'm pro-union...
but I want to make a special case for the arts...
but not for the blue man group.
I am too out of it start writing about this now,
but I'm filing it away in the box where I put all
the things I say I'm going to write about some day
and then never do.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
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