August 2010
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Star Wars pin-ups, courtesy Morton Moeslund
Someone forwarded Perfect Crime this link and I sat on it for a day, haughtily wondering if it all seemed a bit clichéd, a bit obvious.
Then I remembered I had already posted a gallery of babes promoting the Galactic Empire. (“Whoops,” he was heard to exclaim from all the way up there on his High Horse of Imagined Blogging Standards). So here you go: Via (once again) Swedish Bed...
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The Strokes, “Reptilia,” 2003.
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NBC's radio play of Orwell's "1984"
Originally broadcast in August 1949, this is NBC Radio’s one-hour radio adaptation of Orwell’s beyond-classic novel 1984. Starring David Niven as Winston Smith. Click here to listen.
(Image courtesy Orwell’s Dreams.)
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Armchair Martian, “Crestfallen,”...
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Twisted Princesses
Jeffrey Thomas reinterprets some old friends. Found here.
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Watch“This here’s an allegory for homosexuality!”: True Blood explained in 60 seconds.
(Via Babelgum.)
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The Fall perform “Touch Sensitive”...
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“The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is...”
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Ludwig Von Mises, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis, 1940.
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Portishead, “Glory Box,” 1994.
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Duke Spirit, “Salt the Stings,”...
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Watch“How am I? I’m dying. Everybody is, but the process has accelerated upon me.”
Christopher Hitchens talks about his cancer, his friends, and why even an avowed atheist such as himself doesn’t mind people praying for him. Link via my friend Chris Myrick.
I found this genuinely moving. There’s a very real sadness to watching one of your heroes shaking hands with his...
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“When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, you will not be happy about...”
– Dave Eggers, via unicornology.
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Queen with David Bowie, “Under...
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