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Bravus is getting there, but the material itself remains so stubbornly leaden that I can understand his impulse to moon the camera.
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
The frontispiece of Frog Raising For Pleasure and Profit, by Albert "Originator of Canned Frog Legs" Broel, Marlboro House, 1954 (orig. late 1930s).
Also, the greatest photograph of the twentieth century.
The frontispiece of Frog Raising For Pleasure and Profit, by Albert "Originator of Canned Frog Legs" Broel, Marlboro House, 1954 (orig. late 1930s).
Also, the greatest photograph of the twentieth century.
[Guest-posted by Jack Womack:]
There was one thing Soviets and Americans agreed upon.
First let's have a big round of applause for Free World Democracies:
"The music is loud, primitive, insistent, strongly rhythmic, and releases in a disguised way (can it be called sublimation?) the all too tenuously controlled, newly acquired physical impulses of the teenager. Mix this up with the phenomena of mass hypnosis, contagious hysteria, and the blissful feeling of being mixed up in an all-embracing orgias
There was one thing Soviets and Americans agreed upon.
First let's have a big round of applause for Free World Democracies:
"The music is loud, primitive, insistent, strongly rhythmic, and releases in a disguised way (can it be called sublimation?) the all too tenuously controlled, newly acquired physical impulses of the teenager. Mix this up with the phenomena of mass hypnosis, contagious hysteria, and the blissful feeling of being mixed up in an all-embracing orgias
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
From the Earth where Superman's uniform is itchy, baggy, and gray.
From the Earth where Superman's uniform is itchy, baggy, and gray.
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
This is the blacklist. As in, The Blacklist.
In 1950, when this was published, copies would have been found in at least one executive office in every radio and TV broadcast network, and every Hollywood studio, in the US.
Among the lepers are Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles. They are notable among the rest for not having had their careers destroyed as a result of having been listed.
In Red Chan
This is the blacklist. As in, The Blacklist.
In 1950, when this was published, copies would have been found in at least one executive office in every radio and TV broadcast network, and every Hollywood studio, in the US.
Among the lepers are Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles. They are notable among the rest for not having had their careers destroyed as a result of having been listed.
In Red Chan
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
They don't have to be Commies, of course. Early on they were Illuminati, Freemasons, the wave of immigrants in the 1840s, the Copperheads, the Carpetbaggers, the Papists, the Romanists, the tramps, the Eastern Bankers, the Jews, the African-Americans, the students; since then they've been Arabs, the French, and Democrats.
Would-be Rwandan disk jockeys are always very happy to tell you who should be added to the hit list. Update most of the faces depicted on this co
They don't have to be Commies, of course. Early on they were Illuminati, Freemasons, the wave of immigrants in the 1840s, the Copperheads, the Carpetbaggers, the Papists, the Romanists, the tramps, the Eastern Bankers, the Jews, the African-Americans, the students; since then they've been Arabs, the French, and Democrats.
Would-be Rwandan disk jockeys are always very happy to tell you who should be added to the hit list. Update most of the faces depicted on this co
March 18, 2009
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
Growing up, we all heard on a daily basis that the Soviets were forever on the verge of overwhelming us with masterful strategy, superior technology, and brute force. Luckily, as we finally discovered, the Soviets were in fact most preoccupied with making it to the next drink.
As luckily, this message of our impending doom via our precious fluids was passed from one American generation to the next through calm, reasonable discourse.
Growing up, we all heard on a daily basis that the Soviets were forever on the verge of overwhelming us with masterful strategy, superior technology, and brute force. Luckily, as we finally discovered, the Soviets were in fact most preoccupied with making it to the next drink.
As luckily, this message of our impending doom via our precious fluids was passed from one American generation to the next through calm, reasonable discourse.
I didn't mean I wanted to be mashed up with that guy. Ick. Burroughsian foulness of the first water. (Burroughs believed the tape recorder to be "God's little toy", and a potent fulcrum of magic. Best be careful what you mash together.) But props to poster Bravus for stepping up.
I now suspect that there's some deep fractal essence in play, with that material. Probably fundamentally impossible to rock it. And perhaps just as well.
I now suspect that there's some deep fractal essence in play, with that material. Probably fundamentally impossible to rock it. And perhaps just as well.
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