December 2011
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The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, butgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtial,...
I'll tell you why movie revenue is...
Box office revenue at movie theaters “lagged far behind 2010,” an article by the AP’s David Germain reports. Partly that was because the year lacked an “Avatar.” Partly because a solid summer slate fell off in the autumn. Germain talks to several Hollywood insiders who tried to account for the general decline of ticket sales; 2011 had “smallest movie audience...
Happy Christmas [War Is Over]
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Standing on infinity’s edge-
Twenty years of this and that,
A crushing vice grip of normalcy surrounds
On all sides a slowing pulse
Beating, beating to nothing but
A cadence, a lock step, a way of being…
Lost to everything.
SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until...
from the clock-ran-out dept
So this was a bit of a surprise. Lots of people expected Lamar Smith to keep the SOPA markup process going until he could get a vote out, even if it was late tonight. But it looks like he ran out of time. With Congress settling it’s other business and closing up shop, Smith abruptly ended the markup, saying they’ll resume at the next available date —...
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My Occupy LA Protest - Patrick Meighan
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed...
